KOFFE - The Fighting Engine.

[Ñuño Martínez]

After a lot of planning, drawing, replanning, redrawing... Here you have a drawing test, too far to be a game (actually it's a still image). It proves that everything is loaded correctly, and rendered in the right place. Almost everything you see can be modified, not just changing the pictures, you can change their position, and also you can decide not to show it if you don't want to.
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So next is to load all character data (currently it loads only the first frame of the "stand-by" animation) and then start coding the brawl... May be we have a playable first pre-alpha release before Christmas.

[SilverWarior]

Great work on yor project.

[WILL]

Hey cool! I can almost imagine seeing this being played right now.

[Ñuño Martínez]

There are a lot of things that works, but isn't still a game. It loads all data and animations, it does the game cycle (intro - wrawl -end) and even animates. But I haven't implemented the user input nor the AI so that's why I didn't record a video yet.

Now I must tune my new computer, translate the SVN to the new Sourceforge repository system (a pain in the ...) and I'll add an in-game command console system.

[WILL]

So what are your plans for supported platforms and compilers?

[Ñuño Martínez]

At the moment, FreePascal for Linux and Windows (theoretically it should work on MacOS X, but AFAIK nobody has test Allegro.pas in Apple computers yet so I have no idea if it works). May be version 2.x will allow Delphi too.

[Ñuño Martínez]

Reporting:

I had the game loop and the animation working but then I read Mat Buckland's "Writting game IA by example" and I said "Of course I was so afraid about how to code character control, dude: I'm doing the FSM in the wrong way!" so I decide to stop, step back, redo the UML-Class diagram and re-sort my code.

Also I've wrote an old-style sprite engine and now I'm modifying all drawing stuff to use it. Then I'll rewrite my SFM using an object oriented design instead of long CASEs statements.