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Ashingda 27
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Posted: 29th Mar 2010 04:28 Edited at: 5th Apr 2010 06:34
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I've move the viewing of character illustrations and descriptions to the first post and will update it there from now.

The Map Phase is almost playable will take a while longer.

New character added.

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Ashingda 27
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Posted: 29th Mar 2010 04:28 Edited at: 5th Apr 2010 06:34
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This one too.

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Posted: 30th Mar 2010 04:03 Edited at: 30th Mar 2010 04:07
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Those look awsome. Are you doing these by hand?!?! if so, Killer, if I may say so myself! Especially like the Frozen Bow on the first new character(Cylum).(I'm a fan of any character automatically if they have ties to Ice or water-based stuff!)

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This is looking great I can't wait to play it.

You are a very good artist, but I must say that your male characters look feminine. I don't know if that is by a certain style or by accident, but just thought I'd mention it.


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@Dark Dragon
Yes these are hand drawn on the computer and thanks!

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Quote: "your male characters look feminine"
Yeah I notice that too especially on Zatsuo, I've had a few friends mistaken that he is female. I don't draw as much as I code so this would be consider an accident however these are still not the final versions I'm still learning as I go both drawing and coding.
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Posted: 5th Apr 2010 04:58
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Quote: "Yes these are hand drawn on the computer and thanks!"


...Wow, you are quite the artist..........


Quote: "your male characters look feminine"


Now that its been said, i do notice that...........

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Posted: 5th Apr 2010 06:49 Edited at: 5th Apr 2010 06:52
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Updates:
Got Most of the map phase working. Too much to list.
Added custom font.
New menu beep sounds.

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Posted: 5th Apr 2010 18:02 Edited at: 5th Apr 2010 18:07
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WhOa........................Ashinda,nice! looks quite.........professional!

Might I ask how you go about making your maps? do you use a map editor?(.....)

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Posted: 5th Apr 2010 18:54
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Quote: "do you use a map editor?"

Yes, it's that same map editor shown on page 1 near the bottom.
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Posted: 5th Apr 2010 20:16
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Quote: "Yes, it's that same map editor shown on page 1 near the bottom."


oh......How did I miss that?
Dude, this is so..............inspiring, i guess. but nonetheless awsome.

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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 02:11 Edited at: 6th Apr 2010 02:13
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This is the 6th character, just 2 more than I'm done with large illustrations.

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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 02:39
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lemme guess, she's mage,right? awsome. I like it.

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How about some strategic points on map, like mines or villages? Players would fight to take them from each other and have some kind of bonuses. Like, if you conquer centaur village (dunno if it's ok with your lore but just an example), you can recruit centaur troops, or when you capture a gold mine, you have more gold income, statues could give morale boosts or watchtowers could prevail being sneak attacked or something.

I don't know if you want to make it this complicated but it looks great so far anyway, better and better every day
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Posted: 27th Apr 2010 23:31 Edited at: 1st May 2010 17:10
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Yes you bring up a good point, but as this is my first attempt at this kind of game I plan to keep it as simple as possible so I can at least finish it but I like those ideas and thanks!

I finally finished the 7th character portrait. It wasn't very hard but just haven't found time to start coloring the rough draft until now. Progress is getting slower and will be even slower in the up coming months as I'll be away from home for a few months.

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Wow it feels great to be back. A little bit of freedom is refreshing. If you are wondering, NO I was not in jail. I tell ya military training is an awsome experience. It's time to start catching up and I got alot of great new ideas to add.

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Good to know this is still being worked on!

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Wow it is still looking awesome. I really hope you can finish it. I've been being lazy and need to get back into my game lol. Keep it up

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Yeah sorry to bump this, but those screenshots look pretty sweet.

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played the old demo. very very nice.

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Wow, this project has come a long way since I saw it last time, nice work! The characters, levels and maps look great!

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Posted: 28th Aug 2010 23:02
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Thanks I haven't been having alot of time lately but still trying to do my best with progress.

Updates:
- Battle gameplay has changed alot.
- Added several new Sprite animation frames.
- Some other stuff I can't remember...
- New downloadable demo (Whole source code really) available on the front page 2nd post.

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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 05:01 Edited at: 9th Sep 2010 05:01
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Nice demo I did like that old battle system, but I'm sure this one will turn out better in the end. I had a look at the source code and I must say I was surprised by how organized it was! You've inspired me to do the same (have lots of short include files) in my future programs, so thank you .

Keep up the good work, I can't wait to see what this will become.


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Posted: 6th Oct 2010 04:58 Edited at: 6th Oct 2010 04:58
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Glad I can help some.

Updates:
- Battle is now playable, the basic AI works and majority of the characters are done.

- Custom colorize of characters, currently using random value.

- Updated demo/source.


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Interesting. Like i said before,but now that you changed the battle system, this looks so much like Disgaea or Final Fantasy Tatics.......Its amazing. Keep it up, man!

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@Dark Dragon
Yes that is the direction I'm taking this and thanks.

Updates:
- Major change, now using Advanced Sprites Plugin. Much faster performance.
- Bow and arrow animation now works.
- There was a problem with the AI approaching a target, fixed.
- Added lots of new helmet/hat portrait images.

- Updated source/demo download.



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Posted: 5th Dec 2010 21:38 Edited at: 5th Dec 2010 21:40
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Updates:
- Map phase is now working.
- All the old characters are now functioning.
- Fixed a few bug with path finding.
- Added new graphics for flags, gui, etc.

- Demo download now shows both Battle and Map phases. Just a matter of time til I connect the two. Find demo download at 2nd post of this thread.



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Quote: "Fruit Wars is a clone of the strategy/rpg game "Dragon Force" for the sega saturn. For a time I have been moving away from the original idea and leaning towards Final Fantasy Tactics because embarrassingly I was stuck with a few coding problems with the skills and effects but after learning a ton of things from my different approach I decided to return to the roots of this project and finish what I started. Fruit Wars has returned to a 100 troops vs 100 troops battle.

During my detour I managed to finish all of the character sprites and even fixed up the old ones. I learned lots of other graphical techniques and coding structures."




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Awesome to see this is still being worked on. I was wondering what happened.

The skill animations look incredible. Professional quality.

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Ahh thanks, it took a bit to draw them out

A while ago someone suggested to place trees into the non map area, after stumbling for a bit I learned a very effective way to do it with minimal process and memory loss. It also ended up looking very nice.

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Looking at how many characters are on screen at a time, how well does this run?

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Posted: 22nd Jan 2011 21:30 Edited at: 22nd Jan 2011 21:30
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It runs fine, I tested it on my Asus Laptop and an Acer Netbook with the Vsync turned off.

(Left) Asus Laptop
WIN 7
Intel duo core 2.53 GHz
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

(Right) Acer NetBook
WIN XP
Intel 1.6 GHz
1GB RAM
Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family



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ah reminds me megalomania.... not for the game, but for the small soldiers.



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Hey Ashingda,

I'm trying to find a download link to a hold of your demo and have a go of it, but I can't find any links anywhere in the thread (perhaps it's just because it's late and I'm tired). Can you post a link to the latest version please?

Thanks
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There wasn't any links because I took it off. I was working on updating a new one and just got done .

The demo .rar has three versions. Two battles with random AI and one speed test. Note that the programs do not run in 16bit color mode. It's something to do with the color editing that I overlooked.

Download the demo here or the 2nd post.

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Is the blending supposed to look funky like that?

It's only like this in the first demo.

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Posted: 26th Jan 2011 22:00 Edited at: 26th Jan 2011 22:04
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Wow I never experience that before. Lol I wonder what the problem is.

[Edit]
Does that problem happen every time you run it?

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As far as I've tested it, it did.

I'm gonna restart it a couple of times and see what it does.

edit:
so I've redownloaded it and it works fine now. Must have been some corrupt data or program interfering with it.

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Looks great, but how do you play? I can move the cursor around, but not sure what to do?

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Posted: 28th Jan 2011 13:00 Edited at: 28th Jan 2011 13:10
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Controls:
Your left 4 fingers goes onto keys "A" "S" "D" "F"

F = Access Menu
D = Cancel
A & S = Other options but currently disabled.



While in the menu:

Formation = Control your troops
Skill = Skills...
Retreat = Exits battle but it's not implemented yet.

[Edit]
By the way let me know how your speed test turned out.

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Ashingda, this is incredible! I use to play a game like this but i can't remember what it's called...It might of been Dragon Force but I'm not sure. Either way, keep up the good work! I'll post any issues I have

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WOW been looking for an rts Downloading as soon as I can.....

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I've been working up a big update, will post it once I get all the phases linked and draw more faces. I tell ya, designing the user interface is HARD work! Been going back and forth trying to get something that I like. There's a lot of artwork required at this phase and that sucks up a lot of time.



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Got three new skills done. Creating the fireball spell was easier than I thought. The lightning spell was a bit tricky, I'm so glad it's over with. Soul Arrow may need some touch ups but it's working well for now.



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The artwork is fantastic!


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Thanks, I'm in luck cause I'm a bit of an artist. Drawing still takes forever though.

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Really awesome work you have here!

Maybe possible to hire you later on for some 2d artwork ?

You have the perfect art style i am looking for in an project for the app kit later on

But thats a bit in to the future
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Quote: "Maybe possible to hire you later on for some 2d artwork ?"

Possibly if I'm not too busy, just let me know.

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Completed another hard to create skill. I forgot I had the variables used with this set as a float and caused lots of confusing.



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Quote: " I forgot I had the variables used with this set as a float and caused lots of confusing."

You get some weird effects when using floats and screen cordinates sometimes
I have noticed it my self when iam using floats for movement in my fake 3d engine and then have to solve it when drawing it on screen.
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Yeah, I hate that, too.

But, on topic, this looks pretty cool.

I like the earth spell, looks really nice. Do you plan on making any water type spells? Those are fun, but usually pretty hard to make.

*downloading now*

[EDIT]
Okay, I tried it. Nice start. I did a speed test as you asked.

Here is what I found:

With all troops alive: ~200FPS
With all troops dead: ~400FPS
Skills seem to drop frame rate ~50FPS! Might want to work on that.

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