...The zombies are, not the game :p
I'm a bit busy and Alpha 5.0 looks way too far for my taste so I had this brilliant idea.
Let's release the work done on 5.0 and call it 4.2.
You will be able to start toying with stats modding for instance... and I'm sure you guys will find enough bugs anyway.
I'll release it soon, hopefully in a few days.
End of post.
Showing posts with label 5.0. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 5.0. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Alpha 5.0 - Stuff & modding clarification
DIE PARROT ADVISOR!
In 4.11 after the first couple of games the advisor is a pain in the ass. He keeps repeating all that you already know. So you likely end up disabling it alltogether....
It will now give you a hint only once, and won't give it again unless you reset it.
You can now also read all the hints at anytime.
THREAT INDICATOR
(Feature name might change. I'm not happy with it, if you guys have a better name for it...).
Players can have a hard time predicting when that zombie with speed 0.66 will move or not, and is safe to engage in melee or not.
There is now an option that does that for you. Off by default, since it makes the melee subgame much easier.
The game will display a colored indicator next to your enemies:
- green is safe : you will move again before the enemy does (unless you loose speed obviously).
- yellow is a dangerous: the enemy can act just after you do.
Here I'm next to the ZM and the light is green. It means I can hit him now and evade the next turn.
So I hit him...
The light is now yellow, he will move after I do. So I evade...
Most player already do that, the indicator just makes it easier (is that what you guys call "kiting"?).
As a nice side effect, I used this feature to improve civilians AI melee combat tactics. They are now much more effective at killing slow targets in melee, hitting and evading properly like you do.
FRAGILE MELEE WEAPONS
Melee weapons can now be tagged as "Fragile". They have x2 more chances to break.
ITEMS VARIANTS
Now that the basic items are working, I'm starting to add more items variations to give the player more choices in gear. Start with the existing items and create variants from them, with slight stats differences, giving other advantages and drawbacks.
4.11 had already the Kolt Revolver (more damage but less ammo than the pistol).
I've already added the Short Shovel (based on the Shovel; no STA penalty, but weaker and fragile) and the Iron Golf Club (based on the Golf Club; more damage and not fragile but STA penalty).
If you have any ideas of item variants, feel free to share!
TOTAL CONVERSION MODDING...
...Is not supported and will not be supported.
TC needs a game engine that is a completly moddable engine.
RS engine is NOT designed that way.
You can change stats and graphics, that's it.
Sorry, but that's the way this game works and was planned. It allows me to work much faster, focusing on gameplay and getting stuff done.
4.11 DOWNLOAD HOSTING
Mediafire did not work yesterday, so I added Rapidshare.
End of post.
In 4.11 after the first couple of games the advisor is a pain in the ass. He keeps repeating all that you already know. So you likely end up disabling it alltogether....
It will now give you a hint only once, and won't give it again unless you reset it.
You can now also read all the hints at anytime.
THREAT INDICATOR
(Feature name might change. I'm not happy with it, if you guys have a better name for it...).
Players can have a hard time predicting when that zombie with speed 0.66 will move or not, and is safe to engage in melee or not.
There is now an option that does that for you. Off by default, since it makes the melee subgame much easier.
The game will display a colored indicator next to your enemies:
- green is safe : you will move again before the enemy does (unless you loose speed obviously).
- yellow is a dangerous: the enemy can act just after you do.
So I hit him...
Most player already do that, the indicator just makes it easier (is that what you guys call "kiting"?).
As a nice side effect, I used this feature to improve civilians AI melee combat tactics. They are now much more effective at killing slow targets in melee, hitting and evading properly like you do.
FRAGILE MELEE WEAPONS
Melee weapons can now be tagged as "Fragile". They have x2 more chances to break.
ITEMS VARIANTS
Now that the basic items are working, I'm starting to add more items variations to give the player more choices in gear. Start with the existing items and create variants from them, with slight stats differences, giving other advantages and drawbacks.
4.11 had already the Kolt Revolver (more damage but less ammo than the pistol).
I've already added the Short Shovel (based on the Shovel; no STA penalty, but weaker and fragile) and the Iron Golf Club (based on the Golf Club; more damage and not fragile but STA penalty).
If you have any ideas of item variants, feel free to share!
TOTAL CONVERSION MODDING...
...Is not supported and will not be supported.
TC needs a game engine that is a completly moddable engine.
RS engine is NOT designed that way.
You can change stats and graphics, that's it.
Sorry, but that's the way this game works and was planned. It allows me to work much faster, focusing on gameplay and getting stuff done.
4.11 DOWNLOAD HOSTING
Mediafire did not work yesterday, so I added Rapidshare.
End of post.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Alpha 5.0 - Items and Skills Modding
DONE.
Involved bunch of repetitive typing, Ctrl-C Ctr-V and refactoring but its done.
Remember you can only mod stats, not the abilities or types and you can't add new content.
Some stuff are still hardcoded.
RS was designed that way. It gets the game done faster, rather than being a nice project with cute design and features that never gets done (I did that way too often).
I'm sure this will make some people disappointed/angry/furious :D
ITEMS MODDING
Like actors, all items are moddable.
For instance Melee Weapons:
Or Food:
SKILLS MODDING
Same principle.
NEXT!
So you will be able to mod actors, items and skills stats.
All the files are in Resources\Data.
There's also a readme.txt that explains some stuff.
I'm done with modding support for this version.
Now onto more interesting and fun things...
End of post.
Involved bunch of repetitive typing, Ctrl-C Ctr-V and refactoring but its done.
Remember you can only mod stats, not the abilities or types and you can't add new content.
Some stuff are still hardcoded.
RS was designed that way. It gets the game done faster, rather than being a nice project with cute design and features that never gets done (I did that way too often).
I'm sure this will make some people disappointed/angry/furious :D
ITEMS MODDING
Like actors, all items are moddable.
For instance Melee Weapons:
Or Food:
SKILLS MODDING
Same principle.
NEXT!
So you will be able to mod actors, items and skills stats.
All the files are in Resources\Data.
There's also a readme.txt that explains some stuff.
I'm done with modding support for this version.
Now onto more interesting and fun things...
End of post.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Alpha 5.0 - Actors Modding
SO?
Implemented. I hate coding parsers and stuff like that. But its done.
The game now reads the actor model data from a CSV file, rather than hardcoded values.
You can change most game values of the actors.
EXAMPLE: MODDING SKELETON.
The result:
Drawed the ghost and changed the stats in 30 seconds.
How?
1 change the stats in GameActors.csv.
2 change the graphic file.
The stat line went from this:
to this:
I CAN HAZ NEW ACTOR MODELS? CHANGE ABILITIES?
No sorry. Only changing basic stats. Same with items.
End of post.
Implemented. I hate coding parsers and stuff like that. But its done.
The game now reads the actor model data from a CSV file, rather than hardcoded values.
You can change most game values of the actors.
EXAMPLE: MODDING SKELETON.
The result:
Drawed the ghost and changed the stats in 30 seconds.
How?
1 change the stats in GameActors.csv.
2 change the graphic file.
The stat line went from this:
"skeleton","skeletons",100,5,99,8,2,3,0,6,0,0,10,"Quite annoying. Like a fly."
to this:
"blue ghost","blue ghosts",125,5,99,10,1,5,0,8,0,0,25,"Gobble Gobble."The vanilla GameActors.csv file now looks like this in Open Office:
I CAN HAZ NEW ACTOR MODELS? CHANGE ABILITIES?
No sorry. Only changing basic stats. Same with items.
End of post.
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