Slime Salad

Beaten by Willy again! I left this contest until the last day, not enough time to master it.

I did manage to get 256 points to tie with James though. And I recorded a video (see here); no audio, sorry. I would have liked to have seen a video of that 312 point run.

Hmm, I see that gfx_directx is indeed doing something unusual with the arrow keys. When it receives one of those keypresses, it checks whether the "extended key flag" is set. Buried in the winapi documentation I found: The Extended Key Flag is 1 if the keystroke results from one of the add...

You can also download the nightly as a .zip file instead of an installer. Oh hey, this fixes the Magic Cheese bug in Okédoké doesn't it? Yes, this is your HotOHR bugfix request. Since I claimed that one but James fixed or paid up for all the others, I felt I should get onto it. Fixes to BMP importin...

How do you park two vehicles on top of each other? Are they each set to pass through NPCs?

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Overwrite Palette just means set the selected palette to the image palette, which of course we've always had. (EDIT: oh wait, probably you mean the ability to select which palette to overwrite. Well it turns out that we've always had the ability to do that too, but ...

Spells can't directly trigger scripts, and you can't set a spell to only be usable out of batle. But I can think of really convoluted ways to achieve both: for the first, set aside one of the stats and have the spell increase that stat (this means the hero target picker comes up though). Have a scri...

Huh, that doesn't sound right. What happens if you use the gfx_sdl backend instead of gfx_directx, or vice versa? you can switch between them by adding/removing gfx_directx.dll or via command line arguments.

This is quite tricky because the state of the game after the script is the same as the state before. I think ideally we would have a general bitset or a "stop other triggered scripts" command for this. What I would do is to have a short period of immunity at the beginning of the game, just...

Ah,s o you agree that Medium is one of the easiest modes! At least I still have one remaining high score. Yes, if you touch two NPCs at once and they each have different on-use scripts, then both scripts will be triggered at once. A bit regrettable. You can work around it by putting checks in your s...

Heh. Well, I'll have to try to beat it anyway!

Just a reminder that TheCube asked (and still wants, I assume) scores to be posted at HB.

I agree, I already complained on HB.

Sadly TheCube has me beat by just 2 points! I shall have to try to top that.

I remember very clearly that when you released Blu Eternal it was lauded for its great pixel art! But wow, I'm amazed that that was nearly 10 years ago!

Freeze mode is a gag.

You don't need a blogging account, blogspot accepts OpenID and Google too, which probably covers 95% of everyone.

That's weird. Is this for a stick or direction buttons on the gamepad? If so, does it send diagonal movements like 1 for down left, or does it send 2 and 4 at once?

The fact that the OHR doesn't currently let you move using the numpad is an
open bug.

So what's happening?
inputtest.rpg is likely to be helpful in finding out what keys Joy2key is sending. I/someone ought to add joysticks to inputtest.rpg too.