The Mega Drive is completed there is a problem with the predefined hi-scores as I putted very high numbers but other than that it is completed.
The NeoGeo is completed too and with fixed hi-score. It is beta 2 because there was a bug that was fixed but have too little play time to say that there is no other problems. So it is beta 2 just to have the best possible version up but I will wait and test it for a month before I say that it is "gold".
I wish people were helping out with the betas of my games that I post, but yeah...
This project is abandoned and had problems from the beginning.
For example, I made the assumption that I can include SGDK with it, but this did not work, and I was fooled that it works as it was using the installation I had.
So for this to work you will have to install SGDK and then make all the changes in the source to support the current version (those are very easy changes). I was planning to make another game with it, but it turned out to be too difficult to keep track of the actions and abandoned the idea and the project all together.
Sorry for wasting your time, I will update the game page with those infos.
Abyssal Infants is a little bit different in every version, because I was able to put more player and enemy bullets in the game.
MegaDrive: You can dash less often because dashing shoots additional bullets, but if you are starting loosing frames cause of cpu overload then a thunder will sound and your energy bar will be filled.
NeoGeo: You can dash more often. Also because there is no FM synth music but PCM and cause there was a limit in size not all songs are included.
PSX: You can dash even more and you can keep the dash button down. All songs are included but in PCM.
It also reminds me of the shareware and free games on the disks of the computer game magazines and the homebrew ps1 games on the ps1 magazines. I know that people do not value those games that much, but for me those games were pure gold and stole too many hours from the AAA games of the era.
Pixel Cherry Ninja presented the game on a YouTube video (just the page, by the way) and I replied that I am in the process of finishing the game. But I don't know how much visibility this whole thing got.
But around 22 and 27 of February I can see a little bit of interest for the game through the analytics of itch.
Yes, from the beginning I wanted the game to feel like a lost game of the era, but the result in truth is a combination of my limitations as a solo game developer.
I am not proud of the code to share to tell you the truth. Too many things can be done in better and different ways. Releasing the source code I believe it is going to be a disservice to people who may want to learn from it.
It contains all 4 classes: Fighter, Cleric, Mage and Thief, but not races and genders.
All the tables like Level, AC etc are from the rules, except the Hide skill of the Thief which is always a success here.
The rules from the table-top are converted from 10' movement to one tile and those are the action points (AP) + 1 (for the attacks).
The weapon list can be found there too, but not all weapons used.
The main character is boosted as he can use all his AP to attack.
I also added unique potions around the dungeon to fill the gap with no party.
Each dungeon level is following the rules of the table-top to make a random dungeon. e.g. the 6th dungeon level is like a random dungeon for a 6 level party.
Several rules were not used, for example, there is no engagement, and everyone moves and attacks like they have charge skill.
There are also some more things added by me that are not in the rulebook.
For example, there are many potions scattered around the dungeon that do the job of all the classes. Like the Attack Potion that will boost your Attack Bonus, Heal potion, Poison potion, Paralysis potion, Power Potion etc.
There is also an extra rule for the potion where you can throw them to a monster and have the opposite effect. For example, if you throw successful the health potion on a Monster it will take damage, the Armor potion will lower his Armor Class (AC).
I want one day to sit down and write a manual (rule book) for this game, but I haven't done so till now.
For the time being, you can download the BFRPG rule book and do the conversion as explained earlier.
I am a solo dev without even testers (I am the main and only tester), so any feedback is very valuable to me.
Thanks for the interest, I wish to hear back from you.
I am going to resume the development of S.P.K. I just don't know when.
If you want to know what happened, read on.
The initial plan was to have 5 stages with 8 levels each, but stage 3 became quite hard and stage 4 (not released) became too hard.
So I started to think that I may do 4 stages instead of 5, but I stuck on the development of the 4th boss.
Meanwhile, the game have a bug that almost exists only when I develop it as I have some things printed on the screen, the problem is that I can't understand it. It is a very rare bug but freezes the game. It happened two or three times when I play it without all the printed stuff, more times when I print stuff and never when I run the game in debug mode.
As the bug never happens in debug mode, it made the process of finding it very difficult, and sadly I was unable to find it. Also, as I was changing things over the code, I made it even more rare.
Trying to find this bug consumed pretty much a whole month.
A very frustrating time to tell you the truth.
So I thought that I need a break from developing the game.
With all this, I started reworking on my Plato project to add voice over as some AI tools became more mature. But this proved to be more time and energy consuming from what I initially thought it will be. The project also raised some controversy because I use AI, as AI became the main topic for some reason, leaving aside the bigger picture.
Right now, I am just burned.
I am trying to find a way to push myself to finish my Plato project, but I know that this is wrong, I just need some rest. Keep in mind that I work on my projects 7\7 and all my free time. I haven't played a game for almost a year.
I am sorry for the lengthy response, I just felt the need to write all this stuff.
So to conclude, I will resume the development of S.P.K, but I do not know when.
I also would like to thank you for your interest once again. I usually get the silent treatment over my projects, and your positive comments means a lot.
The game have 9 dungeon floors, 23 enemies including the final boss.
In the last floor, the game uses all of Mega Drive's RAM memory.
VDP (video memory) is fully used if you play as a mage, and in extreme cases some graphics may not be displayed. (By the way, I haven't encountered this, but I know that it is possible).
Also, enemy animations and wall animations will require a complete rewrite.
I never thought of the camera angle, but the way I made the textures it will require too much work just to test one different angle. The whole representation of the dungeon was made by analysing the way Eye of the Beholder is displayed in the Sega Cd version.
There are 7 music tracks, only two are repeated (the first one), I haven't though of track select option, to tell you the truth as I believed that music tracks and textures as something like the id of each floor.
If you download their booklet then you have the stats of all the enemies, weapons and classes (I used only humans and the thief have no sneak and is name rogue) used in this game. You also have the logic of how the dungeon floors are populated, all the weapons.
The game got a little bit of reputation because the first version was made during a month for a game jam, I worked over the game for plus two more months and I added all the classes more classes, at first there was only the fighter. I added more items and implemented anything I was able from the rule book.
For some reason, everybody is waiting for this game to be finished or expanded to try it, when in fact there is very little space available to do so.
Aaa I almost forgot, the shitty game title font is my handwriting, well, you will have to get used to it, I am kidding of course.
I made the collision box of the kick a little bit bigger (4 pixels), hope this will make it more usable.
To tell you the truth a friend of mine who is playing the game he only uses kicks, I am doing the same when I play. He never mentioned anything, but I had seen a video online where the player had problems with it too.
I also can't understand the problem with jumping. Are we talking about platforms that are in the same height? If so, I usually use the kick to jump on them. This was something that I had seen and in videos from people who are playing the Bruce Lee game.
1. I am thinking about adding a little bit of story on this game, and probably it will be visible if let idle the main menu. I really dislike the story screens in MD version of the Snow Bros that pop up when you press start for the game. But I will probably add a story after all. A silly one for sure. By the way, the main characters are name Ren and Kyu....
2. You are right, the truck needs a little bit of work on this. On the energy bar, I am not sure. I will probably add something like smoke.
3. Enemies do not give score at all when they die. They give score when they become rollings and when they hit an enemy or a wall. People who want to make a high score have to finish the levels without losing any lives and by not staying without rollings. This will give them the big diamond at the end of the stage.
This is and the reason that enemies become red. When an enemy becomes red, a rolling enemy will turn him to rolling, otherwise he will just damage him. For this reason, it is better to just beat some of the enemies to become red and the power kick an enemy who is going to hit them.
Also, to get the big diamond you do not have to hit all the enemies with one power kick, but you must never remain without rolling enemies until you defeat all the enemies. Some later stages require this.
P.S. I love your photo. Looks like the whole place was setted up just for this game.
Probably something else happened, I think 2^16 of s16 table is (2^16) * 2 bytes.
But SGDK have us covered on this with the fix16Sqrt function.
The main headache when I tried it was that I was getting above the f16 limits with multiplication, that's why I have the division with F320. I also looked at the source of fix16Div and it looks like that div is forced in assembly. I haven't tried to remove the div with shifting, but if this is possible, vector normals can become too cheap.
The number is the percentage of cpu usage. I left it there for the time being, because there is a little chance to help me if someone uploads a video with any problem. I will probably remove it with the next demo.
I tried to make it look like a 80' early 90's game.
The fonts is the Limelight font, I use it too much lately. I also partly converted it to 8x8 pixels for easy use with SGDK. One day I will finish it and share it.
