Spyroforum Fan Game - Week of June 23rd

Sheep · Jun 29, 2014 10:51 AM

RadSpyro wrote:

Still no ideas for the homeworld? Perhaps a few ideas to help get the creative juices flowing?
-Artisans themed
-Dragon Shores themed
-Gnorc Gnexus themed

Artisans themed castle, maybe? Mostly inside, with a couple of outside areas.

Anyway, I'm working on a polygon level editor, and I think I'll be ready to share it(push to GitHub) tomorrow:

(I've only barely implemented "details", so they aren't transformed yet)

I'm making it mainly to be able to make structures to test if polygon based collision/gameplay will even work, but since I then was making an editor anyway, I decided to include the visual part(textures, colors and "details") instead of having to make the editor another time if we ultimately decide to go with polygons.

If we do polygons, I imagine it could work with a painting-ish graphics style for the polygons and details, and pixel art characters and objects to make them stand out.

Last edited by Sheep (Jun 29, 2014 10:53 AM)

Breaking Bad · Jun 29, 2014 7:35 PM

Sorry guys, I'm still unactive until the 2nd. I've been busy with school!

Breaking Bad · Jun 30, 2014 12:35 AM

Sheep, I noticed a bug with the terrain collision. If I jump really high, like at least 50 hits, and then I fall, I can go through the terrain.

Sheep · Jun 30, 2014 8:27 AM

Yes, I've noticed that too. It happens because he's moving at a greater speed per frame than the height of a block, and his movement isn't broken into two steps. But he will have a speed limit anyway, so it doesn't matter.

Edit:
Looks like I won't be able to share my editor just yet. Some unrelated stuff came up, so I didn't get as much time with it as I planned, but here's another screenshot:

I'm pretty much done with the polygon and detail editing, it only lacks depth rearranging, and then there's adding support for other objects( I think I'll stick to just Spyro and the enemy for now), and export & import level data. At the moment, it's at 850 lines of messy code, so I have to clean that up as well :S

Last edited by Sheep (Jun 30, 2014 6:04 PM)

RadSpyro · Jul 03, 2014 3:16 PM

Looking good Sheep. And I also second the Artisans castle idea if we can't come up with anything better. Something nice and simple smile

Stormy · Jul 06, 2014 10:25 PM

(Quick note: since it looks like the tasks in the first post of this thread aren't done yet, I'm not going to make another thread for this week. Please keep talking in this one!)

CuttingEdge · Jul 07, 2014 6:23 AM

Allright, just to recap - what have we done so far? I don't want to miss out on something wink

Sheep · Jul 07, 2014 8:00 PM

Finally done with my commision yikes
Sorry for taking so long hmm

For those without access to the gitHub repository:
http://host-a.net/u/Greenblizzard/spyrogamePolygons.zip

Gekoncze · Jul 08, 2014 11:11 AM

Excelent big_smile You did very good job. Now I just need to study the code a bit and maybe add something.

RadSpyro · Jul 08, 2014 8:17 PM

Fantastic! It looks like it's coming along nicely smile

Has there been any progress on the homeworld choice yet?

Gekoncze · Jul 08, 2014 8:29 PM

I didn't see any discussion about it much. You (writer), NeoReaper and masterscorp (level designers) should discuss it together.

RadSpyro · Jul 08, 2014 8:42 PM

I was in contact with masterscorp for a bit, but I haven't heard from them lately. I'll shoot them another message smile

masterscorp · Jul 09, 2014 11:48 AM

For the homeworld i might have an idea.
Maybe a dragon village surrounded with energy/magic poles for safety.

If there is going to be a carnival level,
Maybe a ferris wheel where you can hop on to and get on top of the stalls for maybe a secret object.
For the background id love a dark sky with stars and fireworks.
For the stalls and the road lots of colours and bright flickering lights.

Gekoncze · Jul 14, 2014 4:26 PM

I made a few changes to the code.

Also, how are art's doing with the spyro design? :3
And what about the home world theme?

RangerOfIthilien · Jul 15, 2014 12:03 AM

I'll get it reviewed within the next couple days. I'm pretty burned out code-wise from work today, so don't expect it within the next 24 hours.

RadSpyro · Jul 17, 2014 10:32 PM

Gekoncze wrote:

And what about the home world theme?

The last bit of progress on that was masterscorp's post on 9th July. I haven't heard anything about Spyro's design yet!

Stormy · Jul 17, 2014 10:50 PM

Breaking Bad has been talking about that a bit on Spyrochat. He keeps saying he means to start on it "soon." Maybe he needs a little push. tongue

Breaking Bad · Jul 18, 2014 12:18 AM

Stormy wrote:

Breaking Bad has been talking about that a bit on Spyrochat. He keeps saying he means to start on it "soon." Maybe he needs a little push.

Sorry I'm working 2 jobs tongue

I'm gonna do it right now, I promise.

Sheep · Jul 24, 2014 10:08 AM

I've finally gotten around to look at your code, Geko... ._.(first five days away without internet, and then several more days being lazy)
That object.js collection of functions was a good idea smile
Today I'm going to try to make those optimizations to the polygon level I mentioned earlier somewhere(breaking it into smaller pieces in a grid of cells), and perhaps do some more work on Spyro's controls.

Stormy · Jul 24, 2014 5:14 PM

Alright, looks like we're at a bit of a standstill with this project.

First of all, is there anything I can do to help things along?

Secondly, I am going to start removing members from positions if they're not getting stuff done. This mostly means Breaking Bad right now. I understand you don't have much time with your two jobs, but if you're not going to have time I think it might be best if we left this to people who do. I'm going to consider you inactive in this if you can't have the sprite done by the end of the week.

RadSpyro · Jul 24, 2014 6:14 PM

If it would help, I could compile all the homeworld ideas thus far and allow people to choose which one would be best. I just don't want the level designers to feel that I'm taking over their position :x

Stormy · Jul 24, 2014 6:33 PM

I think that would be helpful. I haven't heard anything from them lately; maybe it would help to get a conversation going.

Sheep · Jul 24, 2014 9:37 PM

Yes, do that, RadSpyro smile

The collision grid works successfully, after a day of coding, so I'm going to submit it tomorrow when I've tidied up the code a bit.

I guess the sprites for things like gems and baskets/vases/chests could be made at this point, as they're "vital" to a Spyro game, yet relatively simple game objects(so adding them to the game shouldn't be very difficult).

After tomorrow, I'll be gone for a week again.

RadSpyro · Jul 24, 2014 10:02 PM

Okay then! Here were the homeworld proposed ideas:

- An Artisans themed homeworld

- A village surrounded with energy-poles

...And apparently that was it. I suggested a Gnorc Gnexus homeworld and a Dragon Shores level as an example, but that's all we have so far for homeworld suggestions.

Also, Sheep - What sizes would you prefer those sprites to be? I could take a shot at a couple smile

Sheep · Jul 24, 2014 11:42 PM

RadSpyro wrote:

Also, Sheep - What sizes would you prefer those sprites to be? I could take a shot at a couple

Great smile You could try to make them with the same size ratio as in the Ps1 games, compared to an approximately 64x64 Spyro.

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