Shattered Wrath dev update thread

[Moosader]

yeah i quit using q??

huh?

[deryni21]

yeah i quit using q??

huh?

the q key exited out of the game but didn't end the project.exe process

[Moosader]

That's weird; q shouldn't quit the game (maybe I put it in while half-asleep?)
F4 is the quit button.

Oh, it is in there. Does F4 act the same way for you?

[deryni21]

nope it worked fine with f4. I accidentally hit q and it quit out once and when i actually wanted to get out of the game i hit it again haha

[Moosader]

The NPC paths were fixed (had to be fixed in the script), and the run speed.

Tried to implement battle system but it's a mess. I'm going to have to wait for the scripter to redo some things before I can do anything conceivable.

(Pst: Script for entire game: http://www.moosader.com/combatsystem.lua) x_x

Need to fix the menu, which is apparently a bit botched. Need to add inventory, too.
And cutscene stuff (Scripted NPC movement and dialog), game "switches"
Blehh...



*EDIT*
HAY GUYS IT'S MY 666TH POST!!

[aamesxdavid]

*EDIT*
HAY GUYS IT'S MY 666TH POST!!

Haha, that should earn you a fiery egg with horns below your name.

[MarauderIIC]

It might... for people that don't have a special rank. :)

[Moosader]

The battle system thus far.

Is just getting info from the Lua script.

[Moosader]

Here's a preview video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkHD-EqopZ8

[Maevik]

Nice, it's really coming along!

What class is this for exactly? Is everyone in your group a programming student ( i know it's just you and the scripter doing the code for this ), or is it a mix of people with different majors?

[RyanPridgeon]

This looks awesome! :D

Is it safe to say you're doing a whole lot better than the other groups in your class? :P

[Moosader]

Nice, it's really coming along!

What class is this for exactly? Is everyone in your group a programming student ( i know it's just you and the scripter doing the code for this ), or is it a mix of people with different majors?

Yeah, it's Software Engineering so it's supposed to teach structure and documentation (though the teacher himself is unorganized and scatter-brained), and we're all CS students for the most part.

This looks awesome! :D

Is it safe to say you're doing a whole lot better than the other groups in your class? :P

I like to think that a game takes a little more effort than a pedometer, and maybe a bit more than a scanner + book database query-er.
(We're also a lot more ahead of schedule than everyone else, but I think that's because I'm USED to working on "big projects" and they're all non-hobbyist CS peoples who don't write anything unless they have to for a class)

[programmerinprogress]

(We're also a lot more ahead of schedule than everyone else, but I think that's because I'm USED to working on "big projects" and they're all non-hobbyist CS peoples who don't write anything unless they have to for a class)

I seriously can't fathom how people can study CS (or just computing for me since i'm at A-Level) and not take a hobbyist interest in their spare time...

When you think about it, Photographers take pictures in their spare time, film editors put together their own projects in their own time, it seems to me that a lot of people I work with don't have any substantial projects in their spare time, it just boggles the mind

Lusikka, sounds to me that you're leagues ahead of some in your groups, I mean your project reflects your enthusiasm in a sense, you're doing a game, something which requires planning, initiative and a bit of creativity (I was going to write a counter argument for databases...but, I just hate databases, databases suck! )

[RyanPridgeon]

I seriously can't fathom how people can study CS (or just computing for me since i'm at A-Level) and not take a hobbyist interest in their spare time...

I know EXACTLY what you mean..

I'm currently at your same stage in AS computing (VB exams in 2 weeks... woooohooo -.- ), and everyone in the class sucks donkey dick at programming, and never touch it outside of lessons.

Then they expect me to help them out in lessons, with a language I hate and barely know! So at some point a couple of weeks ago I told them to go home and read for themselves, and since then I've been able to get on with my own stuff :P

I doubt they actually did anything though :P

[programmerinprogress]

I'm currently at your same stage in AS computing (VB exams in 2 weeks... woooohooo -.- ), and everyone in the class sucks

I think they actually changed the spec for your year, I do A2 Computing , we never did a VB test, we had to do a piece of coursework instead, but they used the WORST possible way of assessing it.

We had to produce the coursework, to a specification, then take it into an exam, and then HOPE that we did ok on the parts that they asked questions for (bare in mind that both us and the teacher only had a rough idea of what we had to make, and no idea of what they were actually going to test us on), the exam basically asked questions like "which page did you do this?", it was a farse! the exam/coursework didn't asses your programming skills(actually it didn't even assess your project management skills because theres a chance that you could have done HALF the coursework, just as long as it was the right half), absolute bullcrap... I got a D

...well, I went off on a bit of a tangent there.

I'm glad someone understands where i'm coming from, I think that programming in your spare time is not only beneficial, but ESSENTIAL if you're taking the more technical-based subjects such as computing, it's common sense really, and it occurs to me that if you decided to take computing, wouldnt you want to anyway?

EDIT: also, forgot to mention, what exam board are you on, i'm on AQA.