Slime Salad

Using NPCs would be problematic if this could happen anywhere other NPCs could walk, which seems likely. That said, if there is no chance of blocking other NPCs, yeah using step-on NPCs for the different lighted tiles is a great idea. Then stack them at intersections, making sure that the NPC who is...

Hm, this idea seems promising. For each torch, have one zone for 'interior' tiles and a different zone for 'border' tiles. Then the lighting script could go something like the following: 1. Check through all torches' "interior tile" zones and light them up if the torch is lit (relatively e...

Yeah, having a separate zone for overlaps might be a bit helpful, but it doesn't change the fact that you will need a rather involved script to do this (Pepsi's is already somewhat involved, and doesn't even include the 'hard' part). I tried to think of a way to simplify your calculations, but if yo...

He doesn't want dodge rates. He wants damage calculation and randomization. I talked to him briefly; the idea is that he wants a separate stat, called Stealth, to act as both aim-stat AND dodge-stat for the stealing skill. He was going to do it by having an attack that pits Stealth against Stealth, ...

The immediate things that come to mind for me are Dragon Warrior II, Metroid, and Castlevania II. In fact, I don't think I ever beat Castlevania II. All three of these compounded the difficulty of surviving with the difficulty of figuring out what to do and/or where to go.

Haha, why is there a fox-man in a pens uniform??? And is that a hockey stick in his hands?

I'll be honest, I'm not sure how an array would help, unless you're really planning on reading and writing pixels on every tick, which I imagine would slow the game down quite a bit. I'm still assuming you'd want a small, non-rectangular area of visibility that appears to move smoothly.

Just popping in again to say I've thought a bit about the 'only dither the nearby tiles' idea, and I'm pretty sure there is no way of doing this with a script of comparable simplicity to what we've been looking at so far. If someone comes up with a "cunning" method of doing something like ...

Are there script commands to activate/deactivate certain layers? If so, rather than write-map-blocking entire areas, and having different scripts for every scenario, you could always make the 'solid' obstruction the same layer on every map, and the 'dithered' obstruction another layer. Then have a m...

Whoa wait, Swamptroll is Jabbercat...? As a secondary note to Meowskivich, if you have a piano/keyboard handy, I think the easiest way to begin understanding chords is to set yourself in the key of C, and then just say that a (basic) chord in C would be any three (white) keys separated by one (white...

Haha, is that Zangief up by one of Fenrir's wolf-characters (I can't remember the name offhand)?

Hm, at the time of my reply the votes were 4 YES 3 NO, and my vote made it tied at that point, I'm pretty sure. Regardless, it's starting to sound like a lot of those votes were made with a slightly different idea in mind for the poll question, as TMC is pointing out. My apologies.

I've never done it and don't plan on doing it, but I don't think it's WRONG. Also, a few comments on earlier comments: the entirety of my musical skills can be summed up with "do, a deer, a female deer." Hahaha, that Re, what a slimebag. But if I create Game X, and another person creates G...

Oh, that actually makes it sound like a great idea, and invalidates pretty much all of my whining. Oops.

Ok, I can see the point about NPC location saving. But I am still standing by the claim that in most other cases, changes in custom should NOT override changes saved in the RSAV file. New scenario: -custom has hero learn spell A on level 0 -author has arranged so that spell A is changed to spell B b...