Out of town until the 3rd

[Karl G.]

I'm going out of town until after New Years, so it's unlikely that I will be able to get online again before then. So...happy 2009!

I am waking up early tomorrow to see if I can post some screenies and whatnot before I leave. It probably won't be much; it's almost midnight now and I just got monster spawn working, so there is probably something I forgot already :/

On the plus side, the new system is so flexible that this is the only time that I'll have to implement it ^.^

[Rabit561]

Well its the 3rd..

[Sankt Pauli]

And now you know why i said it might be a bit early to go into full-pay in january. :J
Progress is allways slower than expected (now where is this ut2004 map i still haven't finished for 3 years, tehe).

Anyways, happy new year karlito. And a evidyonish good 2009. :]

[Karl G.]

I'm baaack :D

I've been typing up some loose ends the last few days--you know, applying to grad school, making sure I'm registered for classes, trying to figure out how to pay for my education :o)

I am devoting the next two weeks to nothing but Evidyon. As much time as I can, every day, is being spent working on this game (with intermittent exercise so that I stay energized!) My plan is still to get the open version out when I get back to school.

Things are coming along very smoothly--I found more awesome monster meshes to put into the game, have tested many different spell types, and have planned a lot of the mapping utilities. Everything seems to be coming together, but I need to get a feel for what you guys want to see.

As it stands right now, this version of the game just got monsters spawning in it yesterday. They don't do anything yet--that's what I'm working on today. This was a bigger challenge than I had initially anticipated, since I wanted to do it right and make sure it was suitable for planning large maps (which takes a ridiculously long time in the old version) and for handling many different types of monsters (there is only 1 type currently)

If there is enough demand, I hope to release the next version with a single adept-like class as soon as I get the melee monsters spawning correctly and attacking characters. After that, I intend to continue work fixing the bazaar, adding the geosids (since these are absolutely essential to the beta) and fleshing out the classes with more spells.

So--let me know what you want to see :D

[Joe M.]

As it stands right now, this version of the game just got monsters spawning in it yesterday. They don't do anything yet--that's what I'm working on today. This was a bigger challenge than I had initially anticipated, since I wanted to do it right and make sure it was suitable for planning large maps (which takes a ridiculously long time in the old version) and for handling many different types of monsters (there is only 1 type currently).

I'm a little confused: you wanted to make sure that what was suitable for planning large maps and handling different types of monsters: the game or a mapping utility?

If there is enough demand, I hope to release the next version with a single adept-like class as soon as I get the melee monsters spawning correctly and attacking characters. After that, I intend to continue work fixing the bazaar, adding the geosids (since these are absolutely essential to the beta) and fleshing out the classes with more spells.

On the one hand, this could be good so that we could all get used to the new feel and test the different abilities easily; on the other hand, fixing the inevitable bugs might bog you down and distract from finishing the other stuff. I would say go ahead and release, though, so we can make sure the bare essentials are working before we add in the other (less necessary) stuff. And I'm just impatient.

Looking forward to it!

[Karl G.]

I'm a little confused: you wanted to make sure that what was suitable for planning large maps and handling different types of monsters: the game or a mapping utility?

Ah! I meant the editor (mapping utility).


As you mentioned, if anything I'm worried about this version being incomplete when I release it. It's kinda anticlimactic to have an update that's less functional than the current version (even if what functions is tons better!)

Anyway, today I managed to get melee combat working (woot!), fixed a bunch of animation bugs (double woot!) and you can do battle with three new kinds of monsters! Things are looking good for a pre-release to nail down bugs in all this new code. I'm thinking I'll get monsters spawning automatically--I'm just testing with an admin command right now--then re-add items before I send this thing out.

It's looking good! Something to toy with is imminent!!!

[Sankt Pauli]

Let me add another woot here, stuff sounds cool. :J