Slime Salad

Workin on some Fire Emblem-esque sprites and seeing how I can make them work in a limited palette. I'm finding it very limiting.

There's no reason that shouldn't work. A value is a value; calling it as an argument to a script doesn't change it in any way. It's not like you could cast it as something else. In fact, in other programming languages, it's often taboo to use global variables unless absolutely necessary. Piping vari...

Title screen's looking crisp. I dig it. Got that NES style spot-on.

Choosing a font is always hard. I feel your pain. Sometimes it's better to draw your own words instead, or look at special blackletter fonts or decorated letters for reference and inspiration.

Although, with the OHR's 20x20 tiles it looks quite different from 8x8 tiles on the NES (was that all the NES supported? I'm not sure. The fact that the OHR's tiles are 6x larger means that sticking to 4 colours per tile is much more restrictive than on the NES though) It uses 8x8, yes, but IIRC it...

Have you checked the target and aiming settings in the attacks editor? "Target Class" should be "Ally"

EDIT: Good to hear from you again

I'm incompetent. Is there any easy way to get this to run on OS X? I don't have the time to reinstall and play around with Wine right now, so I figured I'd ask in case there was a simple way of doing it.

Using slices, it should even be relatively easy to allow the construction of "playlists" to allow you to shuffle or cycle through only the menu themes you like and disable any of the ones you don't. What about going the extra mile and adding in filters for the menus to sort games by whate...

Anyone want to write some music for me? I need one long piece (maybe 5-10) minutes, with a lot of variety so people don't get bored of it as it loops. I'm imagining something weird and funky, but very laid back. Xeno Safari is supposed to be relaxing. So, along the lines of Ramble Planet's soundtra...

Look into using timers and timer loops (where a set timer() in a script calls that script at the end). If the processes you're trying to do are too complex to use timers, I'm not sure about other solutions. You shouldn't have to use wait commands other than your wait(1) at the end of each while loop...

I think level design for a non-isometric view would not only be easier to make, but easier for a player to read. I agree, the isometric movement looks cooler, but as a player, I would have to get used to the perspective. It doesn't feel very natural to look at. In addition, the walls take up a lot o...

http://www.bfxr.net/

Here's a nifty tool for generating 8 bit sound effects.

That scrolling in the background looks smoooooooth as hell

I'm getting closer to having my fire emblem clone ready for a demo. It might make the menu demo more authentic to see it using the new command to actually move between rpg files.

The animation in Robocop 2 is surprisingly smooth. He even has an in-between frame for kneeling and standing back up. Looks pretty good.

Here's an even easier solution: if you unequip the item, use a for loop to check whether any of those inventory slots that will become unusable have anything in them, and if so forcibly re-equip the item and show a textbox telling the player they need to dump something first. Where would one set th...

EDIT: Oops! look how much I miss while I am typing! :) Beat you to it! This might seem to work, but it has an obvious problem, which is if you unequip the bag and your inventory shrinks, stuff past slot 100 becomes unusable until the bag is re-equipped. I hadn't considered this. I thought I might b...