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    PGDmC - Duke of Dragonfear: Deathland

    I'm tracing my advances in my blog but it's in Spanish and everybody created a thread here so...

    My game's name is Duke of Dragonfear: Deathland, as a tribute to Tim Harnell, whose books teach me a lot about games and general programming. The game itself has some of hte original Duke of Dragonfear, random maps, caves and treasures, but will be a lot different too. Instead of dragons there will be zombies and skeletons.

    Last weekend I was planning and looking for graphics. I've found a great isometric character set in OpenGameArt.com which is almost perfect for my game. For the scenery I didn't find any tile-set that fits the character style and my tile-map engine (the one used by the Allegro.pas' demo game) so I'll adapt some I've find.

    That's all at the moment.
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    Excellent! Another game in the competition.

    Looking forward to some screenshots!

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    Sounds great can't wait to see more as you progress.
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    As I've said at "What gives?" it's too hot here, in Madrid, and I can't think a lot. You know, I feel lazy (I mean "more lazy" ) but I'm trying to advance in the game. Yesterday I was modifying the tilemap engine from the Allegro.pas demonstration game. Now it loads the tileset and seems to render everything right. I hope I can write a "map-maker" to build random maps this night and then I can show you how it looks.
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    I had problems with the dungeon generator; it was harder than I suspected. But here you have an screen-shot:

    (No, it isn't MacOS, nor it is Windows: it's Xubuntu. But the game should work on MacOS and Windows too, theoretically )
    I have half sprite system finished. I hope I have a crawling player this night.
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    I have a dragon in my project too!
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    The original Duke of Dragonfear has dragons. I'm not sure if this will have, because I didn't find a good dragon graphic for it. May be I should look deeper.

    BTW, the player is in!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ?ëu?±o Mart??nez View Post
    I had problems with the dungeon generator; it was harder than I suspected.
    Map generation is sensitive; you can make great maps with a few lines of code, but it has to be the right lines. I made one once, based on a few random rectangles and corridors between them. I didn't care if a corridor crossed over another room, and rooms could overlap. It was that simple and it never created a bad level.

    You obviously create visible walls, but if you do that as post-processing, simply detecting edges, then it shouldn't be hard. But you are making things a bit trickier wih pseudo-3D effects. You can't have too narrow corridors, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ingemar View Post
    Map generation is sensitive; you can make great maps with a few lines of code, but it has to be the right lines. I made one once, based on a few random rectangles and corridors between them. I didn't care if a corridor crossed over another room, and rooms could overlap. It was that simple and it never created a bad level.
    Actually I wrote a similar algorithm on MSX some time ago, but I decided to use a different one here. BTW, I think I'll rewrite the map-making algorithm for the final version, after the contest. I don't know what algorithm to use.

    Oh, and now the game engine is almost finished! Here you have: Zombies!


    After this shot I added skeletons, similar to the ones from the classic "Jason and the Argonauts" film. Zombies are easy to fight but skeletons are harder.
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