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Willy Elektrix wrote:However, the encounters were balanced assuming that the players would trade all of the shops until they were empty.

I'm fairly certain the version of the game I played gave the shops unlimited stock...

I tried booting up the game with the latest executable today and came across a weird engine bug. It seems that for some reason, palette changes don't work when a menu is open. This is an issue for this game in particular, which opens the difficulty menu before fading the screen in. I've worked aroun...

All that said, I just noticed some considerable flaws in the support positioning algorithm. It's fixing time!

Phantom Tactics AI The general AI routine is to construct a Dijkstra map for the entire map, then use that for each unit to decide on a "best" tile. Dijkstra map means more or less assigning a value to each possible destination that represents how much you want to move there. You start by...

You'll also have to use an instead-of-battle script that looks like this: plotscript, instead of battle, formation, begin fight formation(formation) # check for dead party members end After each battle, check if each party member is dead. If everyone is dead, end the game. The on-dea...

There are two use cases for pathing in Phantom Tactics. The more general one is unit movement range. Each unit can move up to N tiles, but the movement rules vary by unit: you can't move through enemy units, and Pirate units can cross water (as seen in the demo video; the Pirate class never shows up...

Meowskivich wrote:Is there some way to make harm tiles unable to kill you?

Use an on-death script.

:zombie: :zombie: :zombie: Rise from the dead :zombie: :zombie: :zombie: What's this? Madness! I am reviving a three-year-old thread because I am reviving a three-year-old game. Phantom Tactics is in development again. When we last heard from it, Phantom Tactics was stalled because I was really drea...

Baconlabs wrote:I have no idea who built this site or who is capable of programming such a thing, though.

Me and me. If there's significant interest (in the form of people actually submitting a critical mass of graphics before the fact), I can put something together.

I have an unofficial New Year's Resolution not to create any new games this year. I could keep myself busy for the rest of the year finishing my dang games (Super Penguin Chef, Memento Mori) or at least updating them (Phantom Tactics, Untitled Game Boy Game). Of course, if I manage to release a fini...

Cube is still maintaining The Hamster Burrow. You can also just post the results on Slime Salad, though I'd prefer if you gave an exclusivity period of one or two weeks to Hamster Burrow.

I must be the only person who thinks the sounds were fine in super pengler. Hm. That makes two of us :D But I'll definitely be lowering the volume for the next release based on the comments I've received. It'd be nice if there were a way to do this from within the engine (wink, hint). This is the f...

Heyyyy... who you callin' ugly?

You can never leave.

Pepsi: Thanks, that's very helpful. I look forward to your full comments.

And more generally, thanks to everyone who's commented and reported bugs. I plan on doing a bug fix release before the full release, but I might squeeze in a little content, too.