Shiny Sword - The Shining Source

December 28th, 2004 Tags: Project News · Shiny Sword

BABS2 Screenshots :)

Considering that the topic considering the BABS 2 alpha release was completely ignored, I thought that perhaps posting some screenshots will help wake the community up a bit.

Time will tell .

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December 22nd, 2004 Tags: Project News · Shiny Sword

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Progress goes faster than lightning these days. Here’s a small overview of what’s been added (forgive any omissions):

Overall:

Configurable settings file for game options (called settings.cfg).
Configurable settings files for map entities (called (mapname).entityfile: With this file you’re now easily able to program your own entities on the map and have a limited degree of control over their statistics.

SMEE:

A few interface tweaks
Transparent color in the color selection
Added land effect editor. It is disguised as the ‘land type’ option to improve intuitivity . Land effect does not do anything yet, but that will change soon.
Left the map format unedited. In the very least the new SMEE will be backwards compatible, and perhaps the old SMEE 1.0 is even forwards compatible. Haven’t tried yet really .

Game / BABS 2:

Added a real entity system, where you can put multiple sprites on a single map.
Added a turn sequence, along with very simple battle menu’s and attack animation placeholders.
Set up and implemented a statistics system. Characters deal damage, receive damage, gain exp, gain levels (yes, monsters too!) and die honorably in combat .
Improved the controls to make them a bit more faithful to regular emulators.
No AI yet. The intention is to make BABS 2 hot seat multiplayer only .
Added a few extra sprites and tiles. Most came from Ty & Newt’s Shining Online project (thanks guys!).

Technically I *could* release a demo, but if anyone could help out with an attack animation or two, I’d be very happy! A demo is so much cooler with graphics .

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December 18th, 2004 Tags: Project News · Shiny Sword

Well, with all the disappointing news on the SEGA front I felt it was time to get started on some serious work. Most of the entity stuff is going pretty well and today I set up most of the statistics system that I’ll be using.

The whole code is still a mess but I figure that it’ll clean itself up over time . Still, adding functionality is still do-able, and that’s what matters most.

I updated the progress page, so feel free to take a look at it here.

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December 15th, 2004 Tags: Project News · Shiny Sword

SSC Update

It’s been a fatally bloody while, but finally I can report _some_ amount of progress on SSC again .

The past bunch of days I’ve largely busy with setting up an entity and sprite system, and basically the turn based movement -in its simplest form- is done. Instead of making a full game right away, my first intention is to set up a hot seat multiplayer battle engine. Of course it’s bloody easy, but I’m missing it a little in existing projects.

I might call it BABS 2, I might not. Heck, I might die tomorrow!

On a more inviting note: if there are any severely bored souls out there, feel free to contribute the project with a few tiles and sprites. You can easily use the existing SMEE 1.0 (and the PNG export option inside it) for the tiles, and a sprite template should be in that distribution as well .

And if you’re truly lazy: send your old crap over! I’m sure I’ll find a useful purpose for it .