Castle Paradox

[Ysoft_Entertainment]

Basically its just a test game. I just wanted to prove to myself that I can make a side scroller in the ohr. I also wanted to reserve a name in the game list.
The game's name is Vareo, some of the graphics were based on smb3, some on smb1. The hero is my own, he will get a redesign in the future.

Also its a tile-by-tile movement, so it is very fast, I just didn't feel like messing with pixel by pixel movement.

I am trying to work on it on daily basis, I am glad I finished the basic movement in 3 days . I just couldn't get the jump to work right for me.

here is the link.
http://www.castleparadox.com/ohr/download.php?game=643

The plotscript isn't included yet, but may be included in the future releases. I just didn't feel like including it because I think its too messy.

So tell me what you guys think? Good Start? Bad? You decide.

PS: there is no death checking yet, so if you fall in a big hole with spikes, you won't die but, you won't get out of it either. lol.
Oh yea, right and left arrows move hero right and left. Up arrow makes it jump. Sorry for not including the instructions in a zip.
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[Leo]

It's very fast! Can't you slow it down by setting the hero speed to 2 or something? Otherwise, good!
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[Ysoft_Entertainment]

I am not using ohr's built in movement, I am using setnpcposition command, hence why its very fast.

edit:I uploaded a slower version of this game, so try it out.
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[Linkmax]

I think you should slow the guy down a bit, otherwise nice work.

[Moogle1]

The controls are still awful and the motion is jerky because of the move speed. Play any Mario sidescroller.
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[Ysoft_Entertainment]

This is just a test anyway, the new one that I uploaded is slower one, so you should get the new demo.

also for the next release I will try adding more stuff.
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[Moogle1]

That WAS the new one I was talking about.
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[TMC]

I can see that it is 'tile based' in the crudest sense. It should be possible to add additional frames when moving to tiles, like Leo said, a speed of 4 or 5 pixels per tick rather than moving a whole tile at a time.
But you seem to have the general idea. Are you planning a sidescroller or something?

[Ysoft_Entertainment]

Yes, I am planning a side scroller. but to decrease speed would mean I would have to turn this into pixelbypixel movement, and that won't be possible, because I strictly want a tile by tile movement.
I already increased the ticks to 2 and it slowed it down a good bit, right now I am working on a better control, I will make it so that camera will only move the y coordinates if the hero falls, or jumps too high, otherwise there will be no change in the y movement of the camera.

I am hopping this would solve the jerky movement problem.
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[TMC]

What I meant was that it could be tile based in the way the OHR is: when you move from one tile to another you are drawn in various transitionary states, but you can not stop partway, and the whole time you are treated as if you are placed exactly on a tile.

[Ysoft_Entertainment]

But I do not wanna mess with put npc command. there is too much math involved in this. and setnpcposition works ok for me.

edit:Alright, the camera movement is perfect now. It is more or less like the smb1 movement.
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[Moogle1]

Ugh.

...Okay, I wasn't going to do this, but you leave me no option.

http://www.castleparadox.com/ohr/gamelist-display.php?game=644

Tile-based movement is NOT fun in a sidescroller. It makes everything much less precise. It is entirely possible to make a sidescroller with fluid motion in the OHRRPGCE.
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[Blue Pixel]

i think i made a sidescroller before, but it wasnt with the ohr. im not that good with plotscripts.
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[Ysoft_Entertainment]

well, I will try to do pixel by pixel movement, but if it will be slow, I am scratching it out.
and moogle, not everyone is a pro in plotscripts like you, so you cannot expect them to do stuff with plotscripts that you can do.

edit:I played your smb, and to tell you the truth, my sidescroller is faster than that. and its about to get better.
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[Moogle1]

I never said it was "faster." Yours obviously has faster movement, but faster is not == better. It's all about control.
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