Slime Salad

Dash it all, this has really captured my mind and I can't put it down. After doing some brainstorming (another sleepless night) I believe I've figured out how to generate a pseudo-3D map ala-Dwarf Fortress. My first step would be to generate a height map using zones. Height can range from 0 to 127, ...

Kolobor is likewise confused, and looks around trying to figure out what Czolgosziel is talking about. Unable to see anything, Kolobor very cautiously edges forward towards the stairs while still in bear form.

BMR, Are you a wizard?! A plotscript Wizard?! Hardly =p If anyone is a plotscript wizard, then maybe TMC or James. Spoon is pretty great at scripting as well, look at Tim-Tim the Mighty Gnome or Tim Tim's Tower, those are pretty nifty. I have a rather long way to go before I can consider myself a p...

Purdy. Hmm, just noticed that puzzle in your previous screenie. Is that a lights-out puzzle?

Pseudo z-levels work!

Now to combine this with the random terrain generator in order to automatically create multiple linked maps! Shouldn't be too difficult... I hope...

The product of late night/early morning sleeplessness and brainstorming about scripts. What this basically demonstrates is how to link maps together to simulate different z-levels (such as in Dwarf Fortress). It works by using different zones on a map. In this example, I have three maps, 00-Middle ,...

Multiple Z levels? What do you mean? Do you want to generate Dwarf Fortress-style 3D maps? Something like that. I couldn't sleep last night, and was thinking about how it would be possible to implement. I don't have a clear idea yet, but I was thinking Z-level boundaries could be done with zones. S...

Playing around with the code a bit more. Added lakes, cliffs, and tweaked the rivers to flow a bit more the way I want them to. Screenies! http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/r552/ld2i/09.png http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/r552/ld2i/08.png http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/r552/ld2i/07.png ht...

Kolobor pushes the door open and will charge and attack the first hostile he sees. If he manages to hit, he'll use his improved grab to grapple whatever he hits and then hold it immobile for questioning.

Ah, I see, that makes it a lot easier then. So the map seed is stored in a global, and then I just reuse that map seed for later playthroughs? Makes sense, thanks! Regarding the rivers, they're not yet exactly how I want them to work yet though. Currently, the script picks a random point on the edge...

So I've been dabbling with generating random terrain. I can successfully generate a map of pretty much any size with some code I pounded out when I should have been sleeping last night. Here are a few screenies of generated terrain: http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/r552/ld2i/04.png http://i1171.p...

Crikey, it's been more than a month since my latest update! But fear not, I have indeed been working on this, so here's a: General Update Sprites All the base sprites for the first area of the first town are finished. I have yet to do their action (picking things up, looking around, other actions) s...

Kolobor turns to the assassin and says: Friend Czolgosziel, there's a rather strong smell of kobold coming from the other side. I think there might be more, and considering that this door is closed, they might just be waiting for us to barge in. If we do go in, it might be a good idea for me to take...

While the assassin attempts to disable the trap, Kolobor will use his scent ability to figure out if there are more kobolds, or anything else for that matter, on the other side of the door.

Ah, crikey, I should have specified that I meant successful <b>commercial</b> game. Editing my post now. Aye, I've played Spellshard, and it is indeed amazing. I'm curious though, if the community is able to produce games like that, why haven't there haven't been commercial games thus far? Like I sa...