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by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Tue Jul 21, 2020 4:17 am
Forum: Front Page
Topic: OHRRPGCE (old) stable release (Gorgonzola)
Replies: 93
Views: 32434

How about "Ichneumon?" (For those unfamiliar with the name, it's a type of parasitic wasp that lays their eggs in other bugs, especially caterpillars.)
by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Fri Jul 17, 2020 4:42 am
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: OHRRPGCE feature requests/suggestions
Replies: 813
Views: 161092

Attacks are usable outside of battle already, but it would definitely be useful to be able to have outside-battle attacks trigger textboxes or scripts! Something like the old school Final Fantasy games' teleport spell would be a lot easier to make that way, for example. We've already got items than ...
by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Tue Jun 16, 2020 6:46 pm
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Ridiculous Games Contest 2020 - The 1998 one
Replies: 71
Views: 17697

Are the two of you sticking to the original limitations for your edits? For now, I'm focusing on finishing the game with the same limitations -- it's so close to done already that I'd rather go ahead and have another truly finished game first, rather than getting hung up on going back through and a...
by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Tue Jun 16, 2020 3:13 am
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Ridiculous Games Contest 2020 - The 1998 one
Replies: 71
Views: 17697

I'm also continuing work on my contest game beyond the contest's deadline. So far I've given the "bad ending" scene some of its own unique backdrops rather than just reusing the Ihctogo-from-space backdrop from the intro, fixed a few bugs, added a new room to the ship's map (in place of on...
by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Wed May 20, 2020 5:10 am
Forum: Q&A Discussion
Topic: Victory dance logic
Replies: 5
Views: 1621

I've definitely seen this happen -- and it seems like it happens when a hero is about to attack (or just finished attacking) right at the moment the battle ended. Basically looks like they get "caught" stepping forward or back from a strike, cast, etc. animation and end up rapidly repeatin...
by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Tue May 05, 2020 10:25 pm
Forum: Front Page
Topic: OHRRPGCE (old) stable release (Gorgonzola)
Replies: 93
Views: 32434

I like hapax, humgruffin, hypnotoad, hullabaloo, hurlbutt, and hurdygurdy. Hapax in particular seems fitting with the theme of obscure words, what with it (to my understanding) describing words so obscure they only show up in written record once. EDIT: I also really like Hamstarok, though it does ki...
by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:34 am
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Ridiculous Games Contest 2020 - The 1998 one
Replies: 71
Views: 17697

Downgrading to the lower capacity brain of your youth is surely not an easy task. That is definitely the truth! I didn't even attempt to do "actual 1998-style" graphics, aside from using the old palette and less black outlines than I usually go for, because I figured either I'd end up wit...
by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:51 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Bok's Expedition
Replies: 0
Views: 2028

Bok's Expedition

Explorer and map-maker Bok travels to the distant planet Ihctogo on the spaceship Ummiboro 5, seeking to be the first to thoroughly document the planet. He is joined on his travels across the planet's surface by warrior Norgu, scientist Ondu, and healer Crikki. Of course, this won't end up being *ju...
by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Mon Mar 16, 2020 7:32 am
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Ridiculous Games Contest 2020 - The 1998 one
Replies: 71
Views: 17697

A few screenshots showing some progress. The main dungeon-type area of the game is now a few floors deep, with more to come!
by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Mon Mar 02, 2020 1:56 am
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Ridiculous Games Contest 2020 - The 1998 one
Replies: 71
Views: 17697

Now that it's March, I've got my huge pile of graphics together (...for the first two maps, anyway... plus some random enemy sprites that won't get used until later) and now it's time to actually get things into a state that's less "bundle of graphics" and more "actual functional game...
by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:52 am
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Ridiculous Games Contest 2020 - The 1998 one
Replies: 71
Views: 17697

I also remember when poison/stun(/was mute not added at the same time?)/regen were added! I went back and added those features to a recently finished game as soon as I could (I had placeholder "poisoned" and such chained from other attacks already in place, so all I had to do was make them...
by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Mon Feb 24, 2020 9:33 pm
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Ridiculous Games Contest 2020 - The 1998 one
Replies: 71
Views: 17697

So I just downloaded DOSBox and the oldest existing OHRRPGCE version and... wow. On one hand, it's neat to look back at all the old wacky stuff (pages upon pages of never implemented status-effect bitsets!) On the other hand... I'm really glad some things like wallmapping and scrolling through menus...
by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Mon Feb 24, 2020 2:12 am
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Ridiculous Games Contest 2020 - The 1998 one
Replies: 71
Views: 17697

After starting (and then quickly ditching) three other ideas, I realized that this is the "make a game that could've existed on the 1998 4-map version" contest and went with the obvious choice: make a game based on a story I wrote way back in elementary school. If I'm remembering right, th...
by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:59 am
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Gorgonzola stable release planning thread
Replies: 28
Views: 6881

Oh wow, we're already looking forward to the G release? I didn't realize we'd gotten Fufluns as a stable release until just now... I've really been out of the loop with OHR stuff the past few months to a year, I guess. Anyway... I see nobody has suggested Gorgonzola, Medusa's favorite cheese, for th...
by FnrrfYgmSchnish
Sat Jul 06, 2019 10:22 pm
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Standard or Comfortable Keymapping
Replies: 8
Views: 2547

Aside from running away from battle, you can just use ALT for anything ESC could do. I've always used CTRL (or spacebar, forgot about the spacebar when I first wrote this... actually I think I use spacebar more than CTRL now that I think about it) and ALT for the basic use and cancel keys, and ESC o...