Vapourware Project X: early tech demo - feedback needed

[potatojohn]

Changelog:

AI's can now have encounters
encounters have a range (or distance)
Characters now have a default weapon (fist) when nothing is equipped
Warmth is computed based on equipped clothing
Burden is computed based on carried weight

 

[potatojohn]

Added ranged weapons, visibility in encounters, item condition

 

[potatojohn]

I implemented location loot tables.

Also I made a quick project web sight:

https://dvolk.github.io/project_x/

 

[potatojohn]

Nice, two games on http://www.reddit.com/r/freegaming/ by Codexers!

Not free enough apparently

Meanwhile someone made some clothing sprites

 

[potatojohn]

I made an attempt at making logo.

Also, saner code that led to new features previously impossible, like clothing with offset storage, water only being stored in bottles and the ground, etc

 

[potatojohn]

I took a bit of a break, but now I'm back.

Project X now has a state of the art... CYOA engine

 

[potatojohn]

I added the main menu

 

[potatojohn]

I added saving and loading. Pretty pleased with how that went.

 

[jcd]

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[Piety]

Lookin' pretty classy.

 

[potatojohn]

I made a tech demo release for Windows.

Please try it to see if and how it works, if it crashes, if you get bad fps, if there are logical errors etc.

http://www.megafileupload.com/1Pct/project_x-0.02.zip

 

[toro]

Did not read the entire thread but I have one question: What development platform are you using?

 

[potatojohn]

Did not read the entire thread but I have one question: What development platform are you using?

What do you mean? I'm using:

C++ (language)
gcc ((cross-)compiler)
Allegro 5 (cross-platform library for graphics, input, sounds, etc)
Emacs (editor)
git (version control)
github (vc hosting)

 

[toro]

Did not read the entire thread but I have one question: What development platform are you using?

What do you mean? I'm using:

C++ (language)
gcc ((cross-)compiler)
Allegro 5 (cross-platform library for graphics, input, sounds, etc)
Emacs (editor)
git (version control)
github (vc hosting)

Yep. That's basically your development platform.

 

[potatojohn]

I fixed the issue I had with uploading to github, so now it has a more respectable host:

https://github.com/dvolk/project_x/releases

I added random events on moving and scavenging

Also added the ability to make "text items" on runtime. I seriously dislike making bitmaps so this will be helpful.

Yep. That's basically your development platform.

The best development platform

 

[potatojohn]

Update: added wounds, bleeding, character faction & reputation, map labels, a little intro story, better tilemap and character positions, player death in combat and resource exaustion, a help screen and more loot tables

 

[potatojohn]

Added diseases, map item markers, switched fonts to TTF

 

[potatojohn]

Added fullscreen mode and smooth map scrolling

 

[potatojohn]

Progress: Project X has its first quest! The CYOA interface is now general enough to support that kind of thing easily

I added a config file game.conf where various settings can be changed

I implemented an alternative optional item movement system where you click to begin holding an item and then click again to release it and it's only released if it's successfully placed.

Some tile drawing fixes wrt tile highlighting.

 

[potatojohn]

I fixed some minor bugs that only happen in Windows and created a new release win32:

https://github.com/dvolk/project_x/releases/tag/0.07

 

[Piety]

Looking pretty good, no crashes thus far for me!

How do I drink water? My dude's dying of thirst, I got some water from the lake, but all I can do with it is impotently shift it around my inventory.

 

[potatojohn]

Cool!

Middle mouse button to unstack and use items.

 

[Piety]

Ahh, yes!

Is there an inventory beyond what I'm carrying on my body? I can put objects in the little squares surrounding the paper doll and carry them around that way, but I can't seem to identify anywhere else to stash things. I wore the water bottle on my head. Later, I will figure out how to get the lake water into it, right now it's bedtime.

I'm intrigued by your funky interface convention where you move a button from one box to another to signify which action you're taking. Is that just 'cause you wanted to get creative, or are you planning to do something unusual with that? Some kind of system where certain actions/choices can be combined, maybe?

 

[potatojohn]

If you put an item with storage capacity on your body it'll show its grid in the inventory

Accepting the quest will spawn a bunch of stuff on the ground, including a backpack and a shopping trolley (which goes in the vehicle slot that's on its own screen).

You can store items by holding an item and clicking on the item you want to store it in.

Choices could be combined yeah. Like maybe JUMP + KICK in combat if you have a certain skill. Although clicking twice as much seems kind of tedious.

 

[Piety]

Aha, I missed all that stuff on the ground on the first tile.

Is any kind of healing implemented? I keep dying, sometimes without having been in combat, and I'm not sure why. I think it's from when I randomly fall down, which seems to happen pretty frequently... I found a first aid kit, but it's got nothing in it. I feel like maybe I should be able to use these rags I find everywhere to bandage my wounds when I'm bleeding, but that didn't seem to work (or I can't figure out how to do it).

One note: I'm sure you're getting around to this, among a million other things, but it would be really helpful for all the paperdoll inventory slots to be labeled. I ventured into combat with the backpack equipped as a weapon and it did not go well.