Category Archives: Coding

Character and System Developing

Posted on February 5, 2024 by adamantyr

Happy 2024 to all! Another year, another effort to get myself back into developing games over playing them. 🙂 I received Baldur’s Gate 3 for Christmas, which is VERY good. I’ve also been a steady player and fan of Fallout … Continue reading →

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Digging Dilemmas

Posted on April 1, 2023 by adamantyr

Hello all! It’s been awhile since my last post, things have been busy! I started a new job at the beginning of the year, so I’ve been really focused on that. I also participated in a Retro RPG Roundtable discussion … Continue reading →

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Update: New Project!

Posted on September 20, 2022 by adamantyr

Hi, sorry for the long quiet! As we all know, 2022 didn’t turn out to be much better than the prior two years… I’ve also been mostly occupied with patching and maintaining Realms of Antiquity in hobby time. But at … Continue reading →

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Making a CRPG Part 2 – Maps, Scrolling and Line of Sight

Posted on December 15, 2021 by adamantyr

In this, part 2, we will be looking at scrolling maps, a pivotal element of top-down 2D computer role play games of yore. I think something that is lost on many modern gamers, who didn’t grow up in the 80’s. … Continue reading →

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Making a CRPG – Part 1: Infrastructure and Platform

Posted on January 24, 2021 by adamantyr

In this, the first part of several, I will talk about the creation of Realms of Antiquity for the TI-99/4a home computer. There will be technical, narrative, and designer content, with plenty of side-treks. Strap yourselves in! I should add … Continue reading →

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Many Thanks

Posted on November 22, 2018 by adamantyr

A very happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I am always thankful that I have at least a few people paying attention to my project. Despite taking WAY too long on it. 🙂 I’ve been working on an FX tester recently. FX … Continue reading →

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Alpha Ongoing

Posted on November 13, 2018 by adamantyr

So I’m definitely in alpha stage with the game engine. For those of you unfamiliar with software, alpha testing is typically testing of the project with internal testers, and using both white and blackbox testing. At the moment, the sole … Continue reading →

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Trades and Revisions

Posted on August 9, 2018 by adamantyr

Churning onward… As part of my work coding up traps for the encounter module, I realized I had to make my damage approach consistent. There’s effectively two kinds of damage reduction, one for wounding effects and one for every other … Continue reading →

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Now serving Monster #43…

Posted on July 29, 2018 by adamantyr

Made a nice push and got a LOT of code work done. All that’s really left in the Combat module is alteration spells (which requires retooling them for the new data design, as well as adding some new stuff like … Continue reading →

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Do the Split

Posted on July 23, 2018 by adamantyr

So it turns out that 12k was NOT enough for both combat encounter generation and management. I had 1K left and still a ton of things to write. So I’m splitting the encounter portion into a separate module. Fortunately, this … Continue reading →