Foe class adapted for stealing cash

I do need to do some extra scripting for the last ability, though

Of course the names of these abilities are not a coincidence

The winner takes it all

Dancing Queen

Move on

That takes care of that!

Structure adaption

Although I do need to do some extra work here

S.O.S.

This ain't gonna be easy, as the foes are written in the QD format (QD standing for Quick Data), a database system predating MyData, and I must note, I don't have a working copy of that program anymore... Doesn't matter as the HEX view already tells me a lot, although it's not the easiest way to go....

I need to study the original enemy records for all this

Before I can implement the enemies I need to put in the abilities, and they are all unique per enemy, so this will get me a lot work.....

I've set up the announcement for the alpha... Also to put some pressure on myself.... To work a bit harder on this....

Dinner.... Eating is an important part of of game development too, you know!

This covers all enemies except for the boss

These are all enemy pictures.... The names of these enemies are chosen due to the theme the dungeon was set into in general

Rammstein Art

Queen Art

Golden Earring Art

Abba art

My plan is to make sure that the Hall of Music is finished first, and after that I will be allowing a select number of people into the alpha version.... I hope that many things I need to know prior to the beta release will come to light this way....

I love this

But that's for another time!

Next step will be to get the random encounters in order

So far so good!

Let's have a little test, though

This is the boss area, but the boss won't appear for now, as I'll get to the boss later

Area 006

Not gonna wait for that though, the computer will get the task done without me...

Alpha Update

See ya, next time!

I guess I should make too big rooms in this place... I did suffer a lag, but that is understandable... Not gonna "fix" that though... It's fine the way it is... This is not to be a very big dungeon anyway

Take IV

Done

Before I call it a day, I first wanna add the "disco ball" effect

That should do it

Take III

Cleaning the map

A quick debug view indicates some "rotten objects" could be to blame though

Nope!

Take II

?

Hmmm... A blockmap issue, eh?

Let's see

Fixed that

Only the chain to the previous room doesn't work... But that's an easy fix

Not bad... Not bad at all

Well, let's see how it goes then....

I've not yet added the disco ball effect... This is because I need to make sure the rest of this room works, and since this room has a puzzle with Scyndi's whip effect, things are always a bit delicate

At least I had no dupe start ups

Ah! Kthura did start up!

so I guess that means I gotta wait..... and wait and wait... and... er... wait....

And also with one of the bigger archives at this very moment, that explains a lot!

Oh, I get it.... My Backup Tool is once again taking away all CPU capacity.... I should've known

Hmmm... What's that? I guess Kthura is acting up on me a bit... Or did Windows wanna do things differently?

The COVID-19 proved unrefutably that Albert Einstein was right when he said this

Sorry for blurring the readability of this blog, but really I guess the message is only clear this way....

Problem is that the people proving Einstein right are working for governments and health organisations, and that is just sad!

It works, as expected

A test is required but no trouble should be expected, but hey, ya never know, eh?

That should link it all together

Linkup code between 004 and 002

Area 004

It works!

Take V

That feature would be disabled in the release, so don't worry

And for me also disc space as the logs are stored on my hard drive

saves CPU speed

A line of code that would in the Hall of Music create needlessly long long entries, for no reason... I don't need that line anymore anyway

Illegal secret passage revelation

Almost there

Take IV

Got them all now?

Ah, missed one

Fix ignored

Take III

Illegal class usage

Take II

Invalid tag readout check

Why?

Code ignored

Take I

Into script

Color changing effect

The ball should "turn" now

Nothing has been scripted yet, though

A quick check inside Kthura shows the effect appears to be working

Generated the tagmap

Some issues Microsoft has.... Microsoft does for some reason see fit to generate C# files in non-ASCII format, which I am highly against!

Before I generate this effect, though I first wanna backup stuff in order to make sure I won't get a data loss case again!

I've adapted the generator for the discofloor effect to automatically tag the disco ball effect tiles as well

Devlog issue?

Scripting is still required here

Put into the map as far as I currently have it

Disco Ball Effect Graphic

So far it all works.... I hope I can put in the disco ball effect next time, but that's a later concern ;

Take III

Label error

Take II

Case error

Let's see....

The secret passage in area 003 should work now

Back chain from room 002 to 001

it works

Take V

...

.....

Take IV

Syntax error

Take III

NIL requires "self" in classes and groups, sigh

Take II

Scope error

No telling if it all works yet though, so -- Take I

The "Disco Ball" effect is not yet put in

The disco floors should now be activated

The scanner will look for disco floors when you enter a floor you have note yet entered before

I've run a few tests on the Hall of Music.... It was a bit neglected to my time being a bit consumed by Star Story now

That comes later, though

Area 003 - But some scripting is required here!

and that's the wrong devlog.... AGAIN!

Sub itself

More linkup done

I've set up some linkup code for Inventory read-outs

Time is NOT by best friend today, but I'll try to get a few things done

Big backup running now... May take longer than one day, but it's needed sometimes

And I succesfully voided Microsoft's failure to create .exe files when it should! FUCK YOU MICROSCHOFT! (No I didn't mispell it! 'schoft' is a Dutch word, that explains EXACTLY what Microsoft is).

Okay, it works again now... I think

Appears effective as I now finally get errors that Make SENSE!

I've done some things to force things up

the most ludicrous error ever produced by Microsoft.... (because it DOES link to that crap)

" Your project does not reference ".NETFramework,Version=v4.8" framework. Add a reference to ".NETFramework,V ersion=v4.8" in the "TargetFrameworks" property of your project file and then re-run NuGet restore."

For some odd reason Visual Studio refuses to turn the generator into an .exe file

MICROSOFT!!!!!

Nope.... Doesn't work

And now to test things out!

Well, they are put in

Okay. Bob needed a few changes to enforce a few things

I wonder

Test unsuccesful, but at least I got some way to go.... I think

Now to see if that was fruitful

I had to drasticly act as bob really managed to mess things up, this time

I hope... Although I'm not sure

Clearly the bob script doesn't work the way it has to

And let's now see what data Bob produced when the generator is run

Another miniback-up

Redone area 002

Let's GO!

In order to make sure I've no data loss this time, a mini backup first!

Still leaves it beyond me why this didn't work in the first place

Now I've undummied the save routine

the data outputted now on screen appear to match what it should be

And now a quick test!

Let's first run Bob to make sure my map is up to date here!

I order to do this, I've first deactivated the save routine, as stuff already goes wrong before saving.... Having the original undamaged until I know everything happening before that is vital

I really gotta sort out why the discofloor generator is acting up on me, when it comes to the layers, as nothing should make that possible... Why I am so sure? Because I only used Kthura core features, and none of them could be bugged like this or the editor AND the game would NEVER work AT ALL

Now I can live with that one, as it won't be hard to recreate that (not gonna do that today, so this day is lost in that perspective), but I am a bit mad, and the fun part is... Nothing could cause this to happen, or Kthura wouldn't have worked in general.... So WTF happened here?

For some reason the DiscoFloor generator destroyed my second floor map....

Disco tiles

Added a new floor to the hall of music

Running

The first tag generation was succesful

I've set up a quicktag tool for the discofloors... Tagging them all manually would just be undoable

A few things done here

And I am out of time for now.... We'll see later what is about to happen next

AT LAST!

Take II

Washed the lie out of the mouth with soap

LIAR!

I've added a (for now) basis SASKIA script... It will likely only be used to activate the boss fight, but hey, what's needed is needed, eh?

Ah yeah.... Still a SASKIA script required, I suppose

And stuff SHOULD be working now...

Meta settings

And "Disco4" by Kevin McLeod will be used for this dungeon

Tag Issue

(Well at least, it should)

NOT there yet! I think the game will still crash when you enter the place

Hall of Music linked to the world map

A small start though with the Hall of Music

Time is short today, so I cannot do much

This took my valuable time for my other things I had to do today.... SHEESH!

AT LAST!

Well?

Aha! That explains!

WHAT THE FUCK!

Well, let's see what'll happen now

Added it again!

For some reason it even disappeared from my database too

But the dungeon does NOT appear on the world map

The dog does indeed only reveal the Hall of Music to Scyndi

Let's see if it does!

That oughta do

Nope, I do NOT want that to happen again!

#257 - I wanna make sure this goes well this time, as it didn't in the original version of the game, and it was thanks to DarkBloodBane that I found out!

The dog should not appear in the normal game, only in the New Game+

Dog placed

Trying to visit it will likely crash the game

Hall of Music

Sprite of the dog opening the Hall of Music

I did

Take II