Development Info Trolls and Treasures climbs to 0.70alpha

[Fez]

Tags: Tales of Trolls and Treasures

The indie modular RPG game and editor <A href="http://www.rpg-project.com">Trolls and Treasures</a> has reached <A href="http://www.rpg-project.com/pages/down.htm">version 0.70alpha</a>. Here are some of the new features listed for this version:
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<blockquote><b>Main features (Game):</b>
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<ul><li>21 different monsters (completely animated)
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<li>equipment depending character appearance
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<li>more than 60 items
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<li>sound engine with effects, background music and player character voices
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<li>quest generator
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<li>ranged combat with bows and arrows
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<li>none-player characters</ul>
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<b>Main features (Quest Generator):</b>
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<ul><li>Creature none-player characters (NPCs)</ul>
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<b>New in this version:</b>
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<ul><li>improved quest features (name, description, time handling...)
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<li>none-player characters (NPCs)
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<li>dialogs with monsters
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<li>player character voices
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<li>new monsters</ul></blockquote>
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It's an impressive piece of work considering the nature of the project and well worth a <A href="http://www.rpg-project.com/pages/shots.htm">look</a>.

 

[Shagnak]

Well, tried to have a look.
Alas, the new alpha is corrupt every time I download it. Even if I use a download manager it stops at exactly the same point, which has me thinking that it was only a partial upload.

The 0.66 alpha downloads correctly, but even the 0.66->0.77 patch is consistently corrupted.
I'll try again some other day. Or post a query about the status of the files. Or something.

I could try the "ICE-archive" version I guess...(wtf?)

Of interest to CS (or ex-CS) students is that they have implemented an A* ("A-Star") search algorithm to get the best path for creatures and characters.

For the Tales of Trolls and Treasures rpg-project the A*-algorithm was implemented in a very special, tailored way. Because A* is very slow in general, a lot of optimations and improvements were made due to the execution speed.

Having implemented the same algorith myself (in two diff languages), I am aware that it is computationally expensive, so I wonder what they did to 'optimise' it?

Edit:
"ICE Archive" = Interface de Compression Ergonomique archvive
You can get it here: http://www.iceows.com/HomePageUS.html
Unfortunately, the new alpha ICE Archives are also truncated :-(