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Glad to see the cursor isn't a standard Windows pointy-arrow, too. You're mistaken. The mouse cursor you see in that GIF is only used for showing the mouse position while recording a GIF. The actual mouse cursor is not visible in the GIF. It's just the operating system's normal mouse cursor. (Unles...

Yes, changing the graphics format and especially implementing an animation system has been far more work than I expected, even given ~10 years to think about it and foresee the hurdles! There are still many things which I haven't decided, for example where the boundary should be between the sprite a...

I also compared the amount of compression PNG achieves for paletted and unpaletted (24 bit) images. PNG has a bunch of different filters/prediction methods it uses to help compress 24 bit images. They aren't used for paletted images; so IIRC for paletted images PNG is very similar to just zipping a ...

OK, interesting. Perhaps we should just always map the first POV hat to axis 0/1? Or maybe that would be a silly limitation. SDL 2 comes with a large database of configuration for different controllers. I'm not sure what it actually contains, but it probably means gfx_sdl2 will have much better game...

That sounds familiar. So if it's a POV hat, it doesn't appear as normal buttons at all? Doesn't that mean that all games have to specifically check for POV hats in addition to buttons, and is it normal to just map the first hat, or all hats, to the arrow keys?

That palette cycling looks great - I see it's an idea that spreading! That sudden map/tileset change is also a great gimmick.

I'm wondering actually about that cycling. Are you hue shifting by rotating the red/green/blue components of each color, with smooth interpolation?

It decompresses them to bitmaps, though I am planning on allowing storing graphics as pngs too. However, you would be surprised, using pngs would actually increase the size of the game when the whole game is zipped up. Especially if you have backdrops, tilesets or spritesets which are variants of ea...

So many eyes, lots of opportunity for animations! Hoping.

Xer0.the.Dark: Neat walkabouts. How can you customise the hero sprites? Alternative walkabout sprites, or the palette?

Those are wonderful! Both styles of battle backdrop equally.

BTW, I notice that in the first battle screen the heroes are standing on the background. You can fit that by creating a hero battle formation.

If you're going to keep posting updates, a thread is a great idea

On the PC controller I have (A Logitech that looks like a PS controller) there's a mode switch to swap functionality of the d-pad and the analog sticks, only one or the other works at a time. Right, my PS controller which has analog sticks is the same. Is that the standard behaviour? It doesn't app...

All that (and much more, less interesting menu stuff) was but a horrible distraction, begun when Feenick complained that "menuspecial:sound volume" was missing. Long overdue though. Actually on-topic: You can now import PNG and JPEG images (since a month or so ago - You could import them a...

Off-topic.

<img src="http://tmc.castleparadox.com/pics/ohrbl ... colors.gif" width="640">

Note the unselectable items.

(Not in nightly builds yet)

They don't work? IIRC the dpad on a PS controller works.
I'll have to add gamepads to inputtest.rpg so we can figure out problems like this.

I haven't gotten around to finishing fixing joystick support, but I do plan to do it soon. Maybe during the bugfixing phase for Fufluns. I did buy a usb adaptor for the old PS controllers I have, so now I can actually test joystick support, including multiple joysticks. And I do plan to let you defi...

OK, I know the game is really unfinished, but I won't comment on planned features; I don't know how it's going to work out or what you should do. Some of the graphics (those which are actually finished) are quite nice. But I find that those ones which look most like normal trees are really grainy; w...