Heart of the OHR Contest 2014

I'll only release a demo if I finish the first half of the game by the deadline. And even then I'm not keen on releasing a demo for it.

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dOn'T MiNd mE! i'M jUsT CoNtAgIoUs!!!
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Oh, and I'm officially entering Troll Over into the Hot Ohr 3: The Wickening.

Troll Over

Hey Guys,

We are officially one-third of the way through this contest. How's progress going? So far we've had a lot of silence, so let's drum up a little discussion to get the fires burning.

Our entries so far include:

Troll Over by Spoonweaver
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And I think that's it for now.

Any others I've missed?

If you've ninja-uploaded a game or an update to a game in the last two months (that qualifies as an RPG) and you'd like it entered officially into the Heart of the OHR, please mention it with a download link here. It doesn't have to be on Slime Salad. It just has to be accessible somewhere.

Note: The official window began on June 1, 2014, but, because I believe in week-long buffer periods, I won't disqualify you if you got it online in the last week of May (though I won't volunteer your game, either), so let me know which game(s) you are entering.

Don't forget, we're running out of time to get our bugfix/feature requests to James. Traditionally, August 1st is the last day, so I'd get your requests in now if you haven't already. He'll need time to consider them.

Lastly, to get the gaming hype up and running, I've uploaded all three trailers for The Adventures of Powerstick Man: Extended Edition in their purest forms--clear integrity with no frames skipped. Check out Trailer #3 for the definitive Powerstick Man XE experience (but the other two trailers are worth your time, too). Who knows, I may even preview the game again before this contest ends.

Anything's possible.

Trailers available here: http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewgame.php?t=3911

So, let's get the hype wagon going. Talk about your entries. Get your bugfix/feature requests posted and finalized. Let's make Heart of the OHR 2014 the success that its predecessors were. It can happen only with your support. I look forward to seeing what you guys start posting.

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new job + forced to take 12 units = no game from me this time.

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Having a baby. Going to cut back on the games I'm planning on entering

Troll Over is complete, but I might give it a slight update. Would have already but the judgment period for the other contest it's in was extended. Not expecting to place well in that contest, a lot of the entries don't seem to have upheld the spirit of the contest to say the least.

Iron Galaxy has been sidelined due to Blasted Earth disappearing. Presumably he blasted off and left the Earth.

Kruntorvas won't be released this year, the scope of the game is too big and I don't want to release a demo publicly.

Still plan on updating Legendary Heroes. It's possible this might fall through.

Kinvesard might also see a small update, but is less likely than Legendary Heroes which I'm giving more priority.



Really looking forward to playing other people's entries. Can't wait to see more of them.

I might be working on something for the HotOHR.

Working title: "Elanor".

I'm hard at work on my game (well, when I get a chance to be). I conceived and started the whole project from nothing almost a month into the contest's beginning date so I had the complete opposite of a head start. But I hope to get a well polished demo finished by December.

I found out my current job contract is being extended, which means I'll still be working a lot 'til the end of the year. I did some rough calculations for my current time budget and how long it takes me to do certain things in custom.exe and it's really unlikely I'll have a finished game by the end of the contest. Which sucks. But it's going to put fire under my ass so I at least deliver a decent 1-2 hour demo that I can finish sometime in 2015.

Also, sorry, but no title yet. I'll think of one later!

Worrying, guys! You could at least request a feature to keep James on his toes! You don't have to be completely sure that you can submit a game before the deadline. The idea is to add features that help you create your games.

Meanwhile my pledge to work on RPG-centric features hasn't been too successful so far. Both the RPG-centric bit and the features bit.

I'd like Battle Scripting.
If that's too much, I'd like the max Heroes increased. 3000+ should do.

An 'export map to image' function would be nice.

Max hero definitions, or heroes in the party?

Exporting maps to images is something I've been meaning to do forever (and sort of started on). I think I'll do that. Want to make map minimaps look better anyway.

Hero definitions and in party

mostly definitions

Per-character currency support.

I imagine it would work something like this:

• Participants in battle earn currency points (CP) in the same way they might earn experience. Bitsets control whether dead and out-of-party heroes earn CP and whether CP is split amongst living heroes.
  
• Shop items that cost CP require you to select the hero who will pay for the item. The shop allows you to set who can buy each such item and gives the option to automatically use the purchased item on the hero who bought it.

This makes it really easy to do a Final Fantasy Tactics-style "buy your abilities" system, and it greatly decreases the complexity of implementing the FF6/FF9 "learn abilities from equipment" system.

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Mega Tact v1.1
Super Penguin Chef
Wizard Blocks

I'm just going to go with my original request I made right before deciding to start a newer, smaller project than my previous one to do for HotOHR.

http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6191