Progress on Project MONOLITH... some technical mumbo jumbo inside

[nodtveidt]

Yep. If you want to use \, you have to use \\ anyway. It makes more sense to just use / since it's supported by HuC, and it's universal. Using \\ if you're compiling in Unix makes shit go boom (already done it, so I know).

[nodtveidt]

Language select screen.



There's no Japanese currently in the game, so if you select it and try to talk to people in the village, you get the first English text blurb (since the Japanese pointers are all set to 0).

[blueraven]

MONOLITH

[Arkhan]

Yep. If you want to use \, you have to use \\ anyway. It makes more sense to just use / since it's supported by HuC, and it's universal. Using \\ if you're compiling in Unix makes shit go boom (already done it, so I know).

yeah, the \\ is implied when you use \ in C.

At least, if you have half a f*ckin brain.

[nodtveidt]

At least, if you have half a f*ckin brain.

A quick look at the staff list at Adobe proves that not all programmers have even half a brain.

[incrediblehark]

This game is looking very impressive and fun, looking forward to playing it! You are one clever man

[nodtveidt]

New prototype video:


Shows off multiple moving NPCs with working interaction, multi-layer parallax scrolling (as usual), lots of new artwork from Paul, fully functional enemies, and a new boss fight.

[henrycsc]

demo video looks great!

[roflmao]

Wow, that looks awesome!

[Arkhan]

My only complaint is that the text is kinda sprawled out.  the spacing feels like it needs to be tighter, to me.

I like the town parallax.  The whole atmosphere of the towns reminds me of Zelda II alot.

[nodtveidt]

Yeah, the huge text is kinda a bugger, but it's because it's pulled from the system card in realtime. I could implement a static 8x16 font if need be, though.

[Arkhan]

The Cosmic Fantasy 2 font was pretty legit, if you ask me. 

[nodtveidt]

Yeah, the CF2 font was pretty nice. Maybe I could swipe it, hehe.


Tatsujin translated all the text from the first village, so... there ya go.

[Arkhan]

See, the moon runes look fine in that font.  It's just the round eye that looks retarded.

[nodtveidt]

Village name translated as well.