It certainly hasn't made any progress since I last talked about it, but I thought I should at least get what I have done out to the public as a demo before something bad happens like I lose my source code and end up having nothing to show for my work
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You can get it at my project page here: http://gendev.thelostangel.net/projects.php
Or the direct link to the rom is here: http://gendev.thelostangel.net/projects/genwarsdemo.rar
There isn't much to it really. You Press Start at the press start prompt (you might have to press it several times. Because of that fade effect, the key detection timing is a bit picky). Select a mode and press start (doesn't matter what mode, both go to the same place).
In the game you select a character (red team is up first) with A, move him with the direction pad, once you get to where you want, tap B to bring up the action menu. Once in the menu, you can hit B to exit the menu (kind of works
), or use A to select an item. Wait just waits, Fire brings up a fighting background regardless if you are next to a unit or not. Once you are done with a unit, a little check mark shows he is done, and you can select the next unit. Once all the teams members have moved or you are done, put the cursor on a blank tile, hit A, and go to End to end the turn, then its the next team's turn, etc.
Anyway, I probably don't plan to have much time to work on it for a bit, but I wouldn't mind constructive comments/opinions. The graphics were mostly shamelessly taken from Advanced Wars and modified/optimised to work in a smaller palette.
I am working on another project. It's a rather simple game, but the basic idea of the project will be documenting making it step by step with screenshots, code, etc and publishing the results when the game is done as a tutorial of sorts. We'll see how it goes
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You can find more discussion on this at Kaneda's GenDev forums, here: http://www.spritesmind.net/_GenDev/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42
You can get it at my project page here: http://gendev.thelostangel.net/projects.php
Or the direct link to the rom is here: http://gendev.thelostangel.net/projects/genwarsdemo.rar
There isn't much to it really. You Press Start at the press start prompt (you might have to press it several times. Because of that fade effect, the key detection timing is a bit picky). Select a mode and press start (doesn't matter what mode, both go to the same place).
In the game you select a character (red team is up first) with A, move him with the direction pad, once you get to where you want, tap B to bring up the action menu. Once in the menu, you can hit B to exit the menu (kind of works
Anyway, I probably don't plan to have much time to work on it for a bit, but I wouldn't mind constructive comments/opinions. The graphics were mostly shamelessly taken from Advanced Wars and modified/optimised to work in a smaller palette.
I am working on another project. It's a rather simple game, but the basic idea of the project will be documenting making it step by step with screenshots, code, etc and publishing the results when the game is done as a tutorial of sorts. We'll see how it goes
You can find more discussion on this at Kaneda's GenDev forums, here: http://www.spritesmind.net/_GenDev/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42
The only thing I noticed is that I don't see units when choosing fire even when you're in front of a unit.
