Released: Red Wizard Island alpha v.0.24 (AGA)

[r0ber7]

Hello.

Finally, I can present to you the first test version of the game I've been working on. In it, you assume the role of a red wizard who has been sent for by the king. Most of the game consists of shooting fireballs at vikings. I already have ideas for other worlds, and they will be much larger than this one. (I've thought of a different way to make levels, this one is just a big iff.)

Check out the video below to see the game in action:

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To download, see screenshots, and other things, go to the Red Wizard Island website. If it doesn't load, hit refresh. My hosting isn't expensive. ;-) Before playing please read the readmefirst.txt.

Screenshot in the attachment, more on the site.

I'm taking a break on development of this game for now. It's been a long run getting this first release ready. But it's very likely I'll release more levels and continue the storyline some time in the future.

Enjoy!

[s2325]

Thank you. There was some reason to use AGA chipset?

[Shoonay]

Thanks, great to see a new game
I realize it's suppose to be night, but the graphics could be a bit brighter, I can't see shishkebab on my CRT monitor.
Should be better on my real Amiga connected to a CRT TV.

[Graham Humphrey]

Thanks! Looks very promising

Got a bit of an issue though - occasionally when you get the ball back to the gnomes and you get taught that spell, inexplicably the screenmode appears to switch to NTSC by the looks of it - it's really stretched and the bottom of the screen gets cut off. Which is unfortunate as you can't see what you're doing.

This doesn't happen every time and when it does quitting back to Workbench is the only way to solve it.

Also: joystick/joypad support would be nice

[TCD]

Quick note: In Chrome the links don't work. Having a look at the page it seems the 'content' div gets a height of 0 pixel. Maybe you can have a look

[r0ber7]

Originally Posted by s2325

Thank you. There was some reason to use AGA chipset?

64 colours, I need them! :P But if someone knows a quick efficient way to turn animbrushes and iff's into 32 colours while still keeping the correct palette order for all of them, I have no problem with a non-aga version.

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

Thanks! Looks very promising

Got a bit of an issue though - occasionally when you get the ball back to the gnomes and you get taught that spell, inexplicably the screenmode appears to switch to NTSC by the looks of it - it's really stretched and the bottom of the screen gets cut off. Which is unfortunate as you can't see what you're doing.

This doesn't happen every time and when it does quitting back to Workbench is the only way to solve it.

Also: joystick/joypad support would be nice

I've noticed this behavior. It appears somewhat random and I can't really put my finger on what's causing it. Will look into it. Keep in mind: alpha version. Joystick movement noted, will do.

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Quick note: In Chrome the links don't work. Having a look at the page it seems the 'content' div gets a height of 0 pixel. Maybe you can have a look

Sorry can't be bothered right now. Download is here: http://www.psyview.nl/rwi/rwi.0.24.lha

In the adress bar, what do the w and h variables show?

[r0ber7]

Ok, quick update. I added some joystick movement support and I think I tackled the screen issue too. If anyone wants to test it out that'd be much appreciated.

http://www.psyview.nl/rwi/rwi.0.24b.lha

[TCD]

Originally Posted by r0ber7

In the adress bar, what do the w and h variables show?

Yep, they do, correctly even

[r0ber7]

I just installed Chrome, and everything displays fine here...

I added a css reset to be sure, but the old code displays as well.

[TCD]

Display is fine, but try to click a link.

[r0ber7]

Ah, ok. Should work now, no?

Game related: working on level editor and a new way of scrolling so levels can be much larger. Consider this first island a proof of concept. I'm setting up everything right now to be able to make big levels, so that it will be more of a voyage than just bouncing around on one island. This will take a while, but once it's set up I won't need much more code, mainly pixeling and level editing. I aim to add as little code as possible, since once this is finished I'll be porting the code to GLBasic for Windows, Linux, possibly iOS.

I would also like some feedback if possible on the screen issue mentioned by Graham.

[TCD]

Thanks, it's fixed now
Had a quick go in WinUAE 2.3.2 and no issues regarding the screenmode here.

[Graham Humphrey]

Originally Posted by r0ber7

I would also like some feedback if possible on the screen issue mentioned by Graham.

Confirmed working perfectly on my A1200

Joystick movement still absent though

[kriz]

Looking forward to finally try this game, nice progress going !!

[Leffmann]

Looks great!

[Lonewolf10]

Great game, I enjoyed getting the ball back to the elves... with a little skill you can header it all the way back to them
Not managed to defeat all the vikings yet though... I must remember to jump to avoid thrown objects.


Regards,
Lonewolf10

[Lonewolf10]

Hows the game coming along?


Regards,
Lonewolf10

[r0ber7]

I'm sorry, I should've told you guys.

I have bad news and good news. The bad news is, I've stopped working on this game.

The good news is, I'm still working on this game, except not for the Amiga. After releasing in this thread, I did some pondering. I could code the whole thing for Amiga, which would mean a select base of players and a constant battle with cpu, memory, etc. Or I could switch the code to a Basic variant for newer systems and do all the stuff I really want to do without any hassle, maybe even make some money off it.

I chose the latter. The game has changed a lot since its first conception. Check out the latest video here:

[ Show youtube player ]

If you still want to play this and you have no problem playing this on your PC, Android, iPhone, Linux box, or Mac, subscribe to my development blog for updates: http://www.psyview.nl/blog/

I'm aiming for at least a demo release in february 2012. Once again, I'm sorry to let down the Amiga folks. It's now more of a tribute to the Amiga (I'll throw in a boing ball somewhere definitely, and some praise about the Amiga ), and I couldn't have done it without the help of the Blitz Basic people around here. If you want to test out, the EAB people will definitely be among the first to receive my test invites.

[Raislin77it]

Originally Posted by r0ber7

I'm sorry, I should've told you guys.

I have bad news and good news. The bad news is, I've stopped working on this game.

The good news is, I'm still working on this game, except not for the Amiga. After releasing in this thread, I did some pondering. I could code the whole thing for Amiga, which would mean a select base of players and a constant battle with cpu, memory, etc. Or I could switch the code to a Basic variant for newer systems and do all the stuff I really want to do without any hassle, maybe even make some money off it.

I chose the latter. The game has changed a lot since its first conception. Check out the latest video here:

[ Show youtube player ]

If you still want to play this and you have no problem playing this on your PC, Android, iPhone, Linux box, or Mac, subscribe to my development blog for updates: http://www.psyview.nl/blog/

I'm aiming for at least a demo release in february 2012. Once again, I'm sorry to let down the Amiga folks. It's now more of a tribute to the Amiga (I'll throw in a boing ball somewhere definitely, and some praise about the Amiga ), and I couldn't have done it without the help of the Blitz Basic people around here. If you want to test out, the EAB people will definitely be among the first to receive my test invites.

maybe u can release the source code of the amiga version ( maybe an old beta), so i can figure out how to implement the double buffering and some sprite basics

[Bamiga2002]

It's gone almost the same way as Babylonian Twins...