ShakeyAir's OHR Journal

Getting my survival horror on...



Features: (I'll update this list as I work things out)

Hero Movement

Pixel walking
Uneven walls (allows for organically shaped boundaries)

Object Interaction
Creepy Camera System
Textbox Engine:

Custom font
Variable-speed text (it 'types in' at a speed which is changeable mid-textbox... think Earthbound)
Advance text box (only closing textbox works currently)
Menus?

Visual Effects:

Subtle palette 'flickering'
SH2 fuzzy filter (this may be scrapped due to being a pain in the ass)
Lighting (will pray to the Great Devs we get alpha transparency before this game is done!)

Sound Design (With current OHRRPGCE sound features, this will be a hack job)

Locational Sound
Individual Sound Effect Volume

Cinematics
BAD GUYS!
story...

KEY:
= DONE.
= MOSTLY DONE
= NOT DONE, but have a plan of attack
= what is this I don't even...

I will not say much about the story (and do not have much of it written yet) but it revolves around the main characters estranged family, who he is seeing for the first time in years because his mother is about to die of cancer.

Graphics are filler until i work out a palette, none of the available ones lend themselves to survival horror much. hero sprite probably won't change much besides the palette, though.

Sweet! Object interaction and uneven walls? Going to be impressive!



Don't do this. I'm promising these features for Beelzebufo.

1. Thank Slime.
2. Love that name.

EDIT: I am wondering why you are excited about object interaction? It is not much more robust than the OHR's default. Basically, you step in an area (which has a location defined by an NPC though the area can be any size) and an 'X' (usekey) shows above the characters head. If you hit X, a script runs.

Do scripts trigger by timers take precedence over running scripts?

Short answer, yes.

I don't remember the details about which takes priority if a timer script triggers at the same time as another script triggers, but for practical purposes you can assume that your timer script will interrupt whatever else is running.

(And I have written plenty of scripts that made that assumption and worked great)

Script triggered by timers or anything else do take precedence over running scripts, but the order in which things that get triggered on the same tick is undocumented (I ought to write that own) and a potential cause of problems. It's generally dangerous to have any triggered script contain waits, or worse an infinite loop, because it could block stuff that's triggered at the same time (and of course anything that's running).

I'm looking forward to the whole thing, not objection interaction in particular.