I like the way you think, cause I was going to do the same thing. I guess now have to I'll take out all the nudity and drugs and submit a real entry. Bah.
Umm, Phissy, those sprites in your game doesnt even seem to be bound to any kind of grid.... maybe, they are all moving between positions in the screens, but it sure looks strange...
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18th November, 2006 at 06:40:12 -
...They don't have to be bound by a grid?
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Its grid based in exactly the same way Diablo was. In fact, its a bit of a spoof off of diablo... the last couple levels are a little *interesting*. So its not very apparent, but the entire thing IS actually taking place on a grid; every 64 pixels you move in each direction, the entire screen is refreshed and all the tiles reload their animations, ect ect. So as far as the game is concerned, everything takes place on a 128x64 grid, lol.
I might end up posting it open source, just since my coding was particulary awesome on this; I'm making the entire thing in TGF, without any scrolling and without ever changing frames.
I need to come up with a better explanation of "Grid based" games it seems. Pixelthief, your game doesn't qualify as it stands right now. Now, if you made it like Fallout (Non "free" movement) it would.
You said it played like diablo, which doesn't fit into the "grid based games" theme. The map was certainly Grid based, but the game and movement was not. As a general rule, your character must be locked into a cell while not "transitioning" to another cell.
Basically, if I hit up, the character should move to the next cell up; no stopping "in-between" cells etc.
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