Monthly Archives: March 2013

Review: When a Star Falls

Posted on March 28, 2013 by adamantyr

Time to take a short side trip in my blog to review a product… “When a Star Falls”, UK4, was the first Dungeons & Dragons module I ever purchased. It was back around 1984, when book stores were selling D&D … Continue reading →

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Animated Changes

Posted on March 26, 2013 by adamantyr

I’m still working on content changes right now… graphics, sound effects, actual FX for all the spells… a lot of work to do before I go back to coding up things. One aside was to update my animation code. I’ve … Continue reading →

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From my Video to my Radio…

Posted on March 23, 2013 by adamantyr

Bonus points if you can identify the source of today’s blog entry title… Camtasia is a FANTASTIC video recording software tool. My trial period will be up at the end of the month, but I’m definitely going to go ahead … Continue reading →

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Tactical Position

Posted on March 17, 2013 by adamantyr

It was a bit more work than expected, but battlemaps are now loading dynamically AND units are being placed dynamically as well. The main problem I encountered was that my trigonometric functions were, well, not working right. I dug around … Continue reading →

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Battlemap Rebuild

Posted on March 10, 2013 by adamantyr

As I continue working on the combat engine, finishing up other portions of “temporary” code has come up. One particular one is the use of battlemaps. Most of the 2D CRPG tactical combat games feature some kind of varied terrain … Continue reading →

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Checkmate

Posted on March 6, 2013 by adamantyr

Let’s take a moment to look at the monster A.I… Monster A.I. can be as simple as just calculating the deltas of the positions and making them into coordinate change values. My favorite version of this came from an old … Continue reading →

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