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[CrazyGuyGames]

Hello! how is your day going, I hope is good anyway...
*drums start playing*
Welcome to BELUAS AND CASTLES, a game I'm currently working on for the 64 digits competition.
The game is about:
-Surviving
-Building
-Fighting
-Exploring
-Slimes
and much more!

Screenies




Play in browser!
http://friday13games.com/play.php?game=354
or downlaod it here!
http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/games/197601-beluas-and-castles

Latest version is 0.14 see what is new

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-You can now equip two items at time! Theres a nother slot in inventory, and you can switch the items at any time you want, good for carrying a axe and a sword at time.
-You can pick up string and use they as a medium ranged weapon! Yup, and deal good damage too
-Added level skills! Now when you level up you will feel the diference, your atack, speed and defence will increase, and if your level is high enough you will be able to defeat a slime with one hit!
-Added a spell! Lighting spell, you can summon thunders and hurt monsters nearby, is one of the new treasures you can get by going far in the game!

Full list of features

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-A big map to explore
-More than 10 monsters to fight
-1 boss
-Various weapons such as swords, spears, bows
-A big variety of items
-Building
-Forging
-Armors
-Night, day cycle
-Weather
-Basic multiplayer support (requieres internet connection and port forwarding [for the hoster])
-Scores
-Custom music
-Allies
-Achievements
-More stuf I can't remember right now
-Spells

Cooming soon

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-Lagfix
-A jungle
-Riding monsters (maybe)
-Dolphins or sea creatures (maybe)
-More achievements
-Better help
-More tutorial messages

Bugs

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-When entering the cave, most of your status are reverted to 0
-Menu doesn't stay in the view if you move in multiplayer

If you want to know when the next version is out, or the latest news about my game you can follow me on twiter https://twitter.com/#!/Nehemek or tumblr http://nehemek.tumblr.com/

Products

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Stickers!
http://i.imgur.com/kQ2FV.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/cH6LJ.jpg
available soon.

Frequently Asked Questions

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-What means Belua?
Belua means monster in Latin.
-For what is the blue arrow?
Bring wood to it something will hapen, also check the help in the game, is usefull.

Edited by CrazyGuyGames, 12 June 2012 - 05:18 AM.

[Slady01]

A major improvement control wise and general gameplay wise since the first version Of that game I played. It's getting pretty good. If I may though, Xbox360 controller support would be awesome.
Otherwise it's looking pretty good. I like the music and the time passing. The monsters can become too crowded here and there. Perhaps some sort of flood control is in order or maybe that's by design. I don't know.

Good work. Keep it up.

[CrazyGuyGames]

A major improvement control wise and general gameplay wise since the first version Of that game I played. It's getting pretty good. If I may though, Xbox360 controller support would be awesome.
Otherwise it's looking pretty good. I like the music and the time passing. The monsters can become too crowded here and there. Perhaps some sort of flood control is in order or maybe that's by design. I don't know.

Good work. Keep it up.

Thanks slady, about the Xbox controller part, how can I add it? A dll? extension? just setting the joystick options?

[Slady01]

Thanks slady, about the Xbox controller part, how can I add it? A dll? extension? just setting the joystick options?

If you have a corded xbox 360 controller it will hook up to a usb port and you can map it like you would a joystick or other game pad.
I've played around with it before but never finished a game I started with it.

[mn_beta]

SLIME!
I was not able to play much of it, mainly because it lagged horrifically. One frame per second.

[CrazyGuyGames]

SLIME!
I was not able to play much of it, mainly because it lagged horrifically. One frame per second.

Yeah the game really requieres a lot of memory, try closing other programs while playing the game.

[mn_beta]

I have, all of them. What on earth are you using for it to take so much memory? Even running Source with 379385 ragdolls doesnt take that much memory.

[CrazyGuyGames]

Maybe your computer is old, well runing more than 1 million instances isn't easy, I have improved the game (compared to the lag it had in previoous versions), Im also deactivating instances. Any tip to fix this?

[tecno40]

Great game

There is less lag in this version, but still some room for improvement. The graphics and game play are awesome, but it needs a storyline to go with the game.

[CrazyGuyGames]

Updated!, added:
-Usernames
-Fixed lag 25-40% less now
-Added some online multiplayer support.
if someone wants to play with me just pm me, host the server and sure I will do,
WARNING Multiplayer is buggy, and can overwrite your save data, so backup your savefile before playing.

[djk164]

pretty sick game. Once you get multiplayer in, it will be even more awesome.

[mn_beta]

How on earth do you have 1 million instances at a time? This would not be such a problem in any other language, but this game maker. It is slow. So if you try and load it, it makes things extremely inefficient. You might need to find some way to optimize it.

To reinforce my point, I ran it on my other sSDK i5, and got 10 frames per second.

[CrazyGuyGames]

How on earth do you have 1 million instances at a time? This would not be such a problem in any other language, but this game maker. It is slow. So if you try and load it, it makes things extremely inefficient. You might need to find some way to optimize it.

To reinforce my point, I ran it on my other sSDK i5, and got 10 frames per second.

Did you downloaded the newest version? (and yeah I maybe over counted, but is a pretty high number of instances.

[mn_beta]

Yeah, newest version.

[CrazyGuyGames]

I will try to do something, instead of having a big amount of floor instances, I will make 1 floor instance, te problem is that it image will be extremely big.

Edited by CrazyGuyGames, 01 June 2012 - 01:28 AM.

[mn_beta]

Try tile collisions, or an array for types. This is a much better method than flooding floor and wall objects.

[sub]

yeah i was curious about how you were doing the floor... get rid of the instances, use an array method, it'll run sweet.. there's a few demo's here at GMC that'll show you how to do this (start with the 'water' demo's)

[CrazyGuyGames]

Arrays? Im sure that would work for a terraria blocky game, but you can see this game uses terrain style nad not block, Im going to do something that will make the game file increase some mbs, but will get rid of the lag.

[creators124]

I've been wanting to play this!
I was on my sucky laptop so no chance, but now I am on my home computer!
I'll tell you after I play!
EDIT:
I keep on dying.

I seem not being able to get to level 2.

EDIT2:
please tell me is there any other armor except the slime one? also level 14!
PRETTY NICE GAME

I got HTML in my post some how

Edited by creators124, 01 June 2012 - 08:12 PM.

[CrazyGuyGames]

Yes there are 3 more armors (Well one isn't real a armor, but you need it for something)
They are:

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-Leather Armor
-Spectral Cloak
-Quiver (must be equiped as armor, in order to use a bow)

Thanks for playing it , good you like it, there are weekly updates