Category Archives: Design

Year in Review

Posted on December 31, 2018 by adamantyr

First of all, happy new year! So a year is nearly gone… what has been done, and what’s left to do? I decided in mid-2017 to start using the AMS (Advanced Memory System) for the game, which gave me tons … Continue reading →

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Twas the Night Before

Posted on December 24, 2018 by adamantyr

If you celebrate Christmas, a merry Christmas eve to you! If you don’t, happy holidays of whatever form of winter solstice festival you choose to observe! 😉 I’m just about finished testing out spells. I’ve gone through all the different … Continue reading →

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Phone a Friend

Posted on December 21, 2018 by adamantyr

I’ve finally reached my end of year vacation time, hurrah! Besides holiday stuff going on, I also have a new cat in the house, a beautiful tuxedo long-hair I rescued from Petco. She’s slowly getting used to the house and … Continue reading →

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Bug Hunt Blues

Posted on December 11, 2018 by adamantyr

Happy upcoming holidays to everyone! Crawling along with the work… Bugs are becoming a major hassle. I implemented monster and mob movement, which have been disabled for quite some time. This created a perplexing bug where suddenly the game would … Continue reading →

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Trimming the Grimoire

Posted on December 7, 2018 by adamantyr

I’ve been hard at work with the game the last few days… There are many bugs to hunt down and features to test! Part of the fun of playing the game is the refinements you can add to make gameplay … Continue reading →

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Great Balls of Fire

Posted on December 3, 2018 by adamantyr

Another video, this time of the fireball spell. I did a video in the older game engine some years back, it was by far the most popular video I did. 🙂 It’s also the one that comes up most frequently … Continue reading →

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Anchors Away

Posted on December 2, 2018 by adamantyr

Another video, this time of the sailing in action! The hardest part of it is plotting the ship’s course, which is stored in a transaction. This particular map is slanted which made counting the steps particularly difficult… Ranged weapons are … 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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Phat Lewt

Posted on October 17, 2018 by adamantyr

Despite not having a post for awhile, I’ve been very busy on the game! I’ve been updating the progress page with various bugs and issues. There’s a LOT of code to test and fix; in particular I know the FX … Continue reading →

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Work in Progress

Posted on September 26, 2018 by adamantyr

Quick share of some screenshots of where I’m at… So initially I got a nice video garbage screen when going to combat. Lots of bugs with functions not returning to the caller, workspace overlaps, and video buffer overruns. After getting … Continue reading →