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[running_couger]

Truely amazing, I've played the game before (which seemed ahead of its time for NES) and it comes pretty close to it, all it needs is the doors, enemys, and the elevators. Great Job!

[Rybo5000]

I was wondering why I recognised the name, I own this game on NES!

[jikaru]

I've made a short mini-game to collect eggs so far and I was just wondering how one of you made the elevators...I was also wondering about objects that rotate around the tower like in Castelian. Those are elements I would put in my game and ill release source after those are implemented if someone would be kind enough to help out.

[Rybo5000]

I was wondering why I recognised the name, I own this game on NES!

Oh I've already posted here

Also: its a great game on NES and quite fun, I might add some better graphics and make a cool game out of this.

Glad its open source!

Thanks,

Rybo.

[jikaru]

Castelian Platform Engine vJ.1
Do not use the character sprite in this file for your own use, its only partially mine.
All the sprites contained in this file were redone by me, if you use them credit me.
If you want to help implement things with this code you may contact me via PM or IM

Finished:
-Updated Sprites
-Character Animation
-Tutorials/Messages
-Switches and Reactionary Blocks.
-7 New Levels to Play In.
-Death by Spikes and Falling off Tower
-Objective: Collecting object to move to next level.
-Ledge Catching *wink*


Not Finished/Wishlist:
-Objects that rotate around tower and collide with the walls and cause death.
-Castelian-style Doors
-Lives/Health System
-Elevators
-Enemies
-A form of Attack

Edited by jikaru, 20 October 2008 - 08:21 PM.

[rayman]

Pretty cool! Say, can anyone create an EXE file for me? I do not have PRO, so I cannot run it.

[Aertcz]

Pretty impressive, I enjoyed this. I haven't really seen anything like this before.

[coolist]

Very original engine, I don't have a use for it tho. 9/10

[Discursion]

Hey sunstroke. Very nice stuff you posted here. I'm trying to add doors just like in that old game. Could you give me a hand? I'm just not able to do it. Since you made all these code, I'm guessing you'd be able to. Like... make a door that just moves like the bricks, without copying itself (surface), not like the "blocks". It has to be like a texture for the tower that you could place anywhere.

[Pacninja]

Wow! I thought this was something completely different!
I must say this is quite a nice visual effect, good job!

[jikaru]

Hey sunstroke. Very nice stuff you posted here. I'm trying to add doors just like in that old game. Could you give me a hand? I'm just not able to do it. Since you made all these code, I'm guessing you'd be able to. Like... make a door that just moves like the bricks, without copying itself (surface), not like the "blocks". It has to be like a texture for the tower that you could place anywhere.

The tower is not 3D so you can't use a texture. Im not sure how you would do a door in this case. You would have to change the sprite depending on the position of the door on the tower as it is rotating around.

[sunstroke]

I realize now that my method for drawing the tower isn't very flexible.

However, it would be completely possible to draw everything you want on the tower to be drawn on a surface and then have that surface distorted to look like a cylinder. Right now though, I'm too lazy to do that.

[Discursion]

I realize now that my method for drawing the tower isn't very flexible.

However, it would be completely possible to draw everything you want on the tower to be drawn on a surface and then have that surface distorted to look like a cylinder. Right now though, I'm too lazy to do that.

Aww come on! Anyway, if you ever have time to help the poor guy I am... I tried to do what the other guy said, but like you said, it's not very flexible and I'm not getting every aspects of the code. What's I've done, is half done. But I know there's a way to make a "texture".

[rumpel]

Castelian Platform Engine vJ.1
Do not use the character sprite in this file for your own use, its only partially mine.
All the sprites contained in this file were redone by me, if you use them credit me.
If you want to help implement things with this code you may contact me via PM or IM

Finished:
-Updated Sprites
-Character Animation
-Tutorials/Messages
-Switches and Reactionary Blocks.
-7 New Levels to Play In.
-Death by Spikes and Falling off Tower
-Objective: Collecting object to move to next level.
-Ledge Catching *wink*


Not Finished/Wishlist:
-Objects that rotate around tower and collide with the walls and cause death.
-Castelian-style Doors
-Lives/Health System
-Elevators
-Enemies
-A form of Attack

yeah plz make enemies and elevator and those doors
i would love you for this

[jikaru]

I have a moving platform but it doesn't collide with the other walls. It just kinda goes through them, and the player won't go with it. The player just stays in place as the floor moves beneath it. As for the wishlist, if anyone makes any of the things on that list, I will add it to the unofficially-official release of VJ.2 lol. I'll be adding an interface, life/health system, and i'll be trying to fix the moving platforms and objects that are potentially hazardous soon, The elevator will be tricky for me to do, so if someone can get an elevator and enemies working that would be great.

[sunstroke]

I have a moving platform but it doesn't collide with the other walls. It just kinda goes through them, and the player won't go with it. The player just stays in place as the floor moves beneath it. As for the wishlist, if anyone makes any of the things on that list, I will add it to the unofficially-official release of VJ.2 lol. I'll be adding an interface, life/health system, and i'll be trying to fix the moving platforms and objects that are potentially hazardous soon, The elevator will be tricky for me to do, so if someone can get an elevator and enemies working that would be great.

Well, well, well, it looks as though someone has taken over this project

I'll leave you to it, although I'll make a better way to draw the tower real quick and post it here for you to add to your engine...

[Edit] Alright, here you go. You'll have to put it into the engine yourself though, cause that's boring and I don't want to do it

Edited by sunstroke, 29 October 2008 - 12:55 AM.

[jikaru]

I have a moving platform but it doesn't collide with the other walls. It just kinda goes through them, and the player won't go with it. The player just stays in place as the floor moves beneath it. As for the wishlist, if anyone makes any of the things on that list, I will add it to the unofficially-official release of VJ.2 lol. I'll be adding an interface, life/health system, and i'll be trying to fix the moving platforms and objects that are potentially hazardous soon, The elevator will be tricky for me to do, so if someone can get an elevator and enemies working that would be great.

Well, well, well, it looks as though someone has taken over this project

I'll leave you to it, although I'll make a better way to draw the tower real quick and post it here for you to add to your engine...

[Edit] Alright, here you go. You'll have to put it into the engine yourself though, cause that's boring and I don't want to do it

I didn't mean to take it over I just started messing with it to improve on it so you wouldn't have to do some of the boring stuff. I would still appreciate your help with things on the list since you seem experienced.

As per your new tower work-up, Im highly confused by the room setup. Im not sure whats going on. cause when I test it the block moves and the tower moves and so does your test sign. I understand the tower but I don't understand why there is a block there and I don't understand how the room works So I can't really implement it into the old engine to work with the rooms I currently have setup. So if you could try to setup the tower to work off a single point like you did with the old one, and to add onto that do you think you could have the player spawn and stay underneath the tower creation point. So that when you move the tower the player will always spawn on the tower in the game. If you not sure what I mean I could try a mock-up in photoshop of what Im thinking.

Edited by jikaru, 01 November 2008 - 06:26 PM.

[jikaru]

Picking this back up and starting some of the things left behind more than a year ago

Any help would be greatly appreciated at the moment I'm having an issue where the horizontally moving platforms only register collision properly in one 16 pixel height row.

[Kold Monster]

Nice game! It was possible and simple to use and edit. I like it! Just got Game Maker 7 Pro.
9/10

[jikaru]

So uh yea, Wow, 2 years later I found the engine again. I fixed some of the issues I was plagued with in the past. Ended up adding things like Coins to collect, my platforms are fixed for up and down and side to side moving platforms, there are 10 levels currently, I fixed some of the collision issues that enabled me to be able to have my triggered blocks conceal and reveal spikes. Currently still trying to figure out how to get a door to react like the tower towards the edges of the tower in the old engine 2.5D tower. Monsters are next on my list after doorways are fully implemented. After monsters I will put in some form of attacking (probably a gun) and power ups like shields and higher jumping and speed etc etc. I'm also planning after all this is done, to start an update in a space setting as well as more obstacles. But seriously if anyone would like to help out in completing any of these feats drop me a message and I'll get back to you.

[Edit:]
- Got the doors to work and act appropriately visually.
- First monster sprites are done, working on implementing simple function like walking towards the player.
- Coins being updated to have purpose, perhaps a level completion task.
- Health will be next, then Armor, and the rest of the power ups.

Edited by jikaru, 09 April 2012 - 07:03 AM.