Raiders of the Lost Ark

Basis set up for Diane Foxey, but a few things are yet to be taken care of still

Foxey's scenario

Trying to enter the Hall of Heroes now will crash the game

Hall of Heroes

I was working on the original game, that would later be remade as "The Fairy Tale REVAMPED", totally unaware of what was happening when a friend of mine made a phone call to me. He demanded I turned on my TV to "Nederland 1", which is in the Netherlands the channel that is always cancelling its normal programming when something really disastrous happens. His story was vague, and hardly made sense to me, but I decided to obey it was very unusual for him to be so demanding. That was exactly 19 years ago today that this happened. And what I saw on the TV was this.

I did soon hear than a plane crashed into that tower and as things were pretty vague, I was wondering about an accident until I saw the second plane ram the second tower with the precision of a surgeon, and I knew that this was deliberate. But I was wondering, what was happening as aside from mass murder this action was also suicide. Very soon already I heard experts speculate on no evidence at all, but only speculations that Osama Bin Laden could be behind these attacks, as he had not only a reason to do something like this, but also the stuff you need to do this. I also remember the theories coming up, like how Nostradamus is said to have foreseen these attacks as the 3rd World War would start with a burning city caused by two metal birds. I also remember how the number of planes flying dropped increasingly as people were struck with fear. Of course, this was the day I truly learned how dangerous terrorists can be, but I still try to get an image of those who lost their lives that days due to the action of some despicable cowards who had the illusion they'd become heroes. I remember an image somebody who jumped out of the window out of fear of the fire, against better judgment as nobody can survive a fall from that height. I do think about these attacks a lot, as I think a lot about many things every day. Their lives ended for nothing while I was lucky not to be in New York or even in the U.S. at all, and that alone granted me the luck to live on. No please not put any anti-islam messages below this post, I will report them to the moderation team. I condemn those terrorists and the organization they belonged to only. Most of all, I have my thoughts with the people who died that day loads of times, and now on the anniversary of these attacks I only want to express them in public. I hope for a world where Christians, Muslims, atheists, Buddhists, well, people of any group or race to live together in a world and accept our differences, or maybe even embrace them.

You may say that I'm a dreamer.
But I'm not the only one.
Perhaps some day, you will join us.
And the world will live as one.

Well And that's all for today... I'm tired!

Making sure all repos are up-to-date

Running

The documentation I could find on this said that the data will be flushed anyway after several months, however I cannot wait for this. Depending on how much time my work on Star Story is gonna eat, I hope to have the game finished before that flush takes place...

The Game Jolt API still refuses to work on me... The game keeps on looking for the old DNS, and nothing I tried to flush that worked so far. This means I cannot test the achievement links with Game Jolt anymore. I must assume they will work if the game works on a strange computer... The means once the game meets the user....

Stuff works now!

Take II

Not a formality then, as I did have to fix a blockmap issue

A test is of course required.... This should only be a formality now, but ya never know

This makes the map itself complete, but we're not there yet. Dianne Foxey is already there but she'll ignore your presence for now, as she has not yet been scripted, and I also didn't yet tag her that that is a requirement for the game to pick her up as an activatable object

Area 010

Area 009

Area 008

I'll first do a few small things on Star Story today. My plan is however to add a few extra rooms to the Lost Ark in this game today too... If the place will actually be fnishable, that's something I need to sort out later.... Due to the state of both games I can still combine the two projects, but for how long?

Added tag STARSTORY

Ok!

Testing

Area 007 has been added

The projectile angle bug has been fixed

Based on how things go it may be possible that DYRT.NET will be moved into the Apollo engine... This may however be a time consuming operation, because Neil!=NIL even though the languages are close in syntax (VERY CLOSE), and there a few trapdoors can lie also, plus the underlying APIs are not entirely the same. Although SASKIA would not be needed Apollo as it doesn't use the strict setup MonoGame obligated to me (making SASKIA needed) I will still have to see if I can do it that style anyway, otherwise the entire game would have to be rescripted, and I am not game for that. Also new bugs will definitely pop up this way too... So this is in the planning, but no promises yet!

I've altered the projectile spellani a bit... Hopefully this fixes some issues I have here

One more test will have to confirm this, though!

This SHOULD fix the issues, but a check is required to make sure

They have always been a problem in Kthura... Since they are useless in any single way I may need some way to automatically remove them

Rotten objects removed

but the save room after that blocks all movements for some odd reason

Boss fight works

Take I

Now to see if that's true or not

Yes, NOW the boss fight should start

Linked to map

Boss activation

It won't activate yet!

Boss Start Up Script

The boss fight is not yet linked so don't expect anything to happen yet when you approach the boss

Ocean Goblin

I did do a few things for Star Story... For this game I could do nothing... The Star Story things were easy... Putting in a boss fight is always more work and on Sunday I overall have little time, so then I must spread things out.

Running

As far as I can test, stuff works!

Take I

Please note, I did NOT yet active the boss, so it will still ignore you!

Enemies have been linked to the map

I gess I should be happy that most of this stuff is for TFTREVAMPED and Star Story already set in Kthura....

And once again I'm doing things wrong

The Aqua Goblin can also appear in the True Abyss

License

Lost Ark

AquaGoblin

Gobling pictures present

Well my Star Story contribution is done for today, and no more details required here

NeilProject/Neil#15

Issue in Neil causing type names in strings to trigger Neil, while they shouldn't

This is the pace where the save spot is located... That being said do I now have a good marking from where the random encounters can be put into place

Area 006 done

The "Star Story" Revising project has not yet begun, but as too much related to that project more than this project appears on this Devlog (where it doesn't belong), I can now say that the Star Story stuff can be found HERE from now on! Good!

Some transfer works for Star Story has begun, so I should really start up a new DevLog now, I suppose!

The basis set up for the Apollo Builder

Please note that the boss will (for now) ignore you!

Neg

Ocean Goblin - Art

Aqua Goblin - Art

Entry points forgotten

I promised myself I do at least one new room to the lost ark, and I fulfilled that promise

the placeholder routines work... The actual true action will now have to be implemented

Compile wise it all works, now for the run-time

More work on Kthura compatibility

My Apollo Engine is now able to handle Kthura's data.... Drawing stuff has not yet been implemented

Oh, in case you care... I got Dijkstra to work in C++, and yeah, it was a challenge to make that happen properly

Today I was most of all transferring Kthura to C++. This took me off my work on Dyrt.... I will soon resume that though... It's just that my C++ work is now taking more of my time, as now stuff gets complicated.

gamejolt/issue-tracker#1414 (Not mine to fix, though

Nala will have to be recompiled as a result

Of course I brought this fix over to the C++ version as well... (duh!)

And in the process I found out why the streched areas were not being animated....

Is being translated to C++ now

Area 003 Lost Ark

She's pretty good!

Apollo is now in a workable state.... My biggest challenges there now are attaching Kthura and Dijkstra to them... Dijkstra most of all I'm concerned about, to be honest, due to the heavily node based nature of Dijkstra, but perhaps I can deal with that... :-/

Yes, I do know it says "FATAL ERROR" but that error is only the result of things not yet being done completely, but as the "Hello World!" message was written in Lua, it could not appear if contact with Lua wasn't established and that shows that stuff is actually working now!

Before I mess any further with Lua though I need to have a few things in order!

For Apollo it's almost time to get Lua on the roll (and then the (Apollo version of the) Blue Screen of Death will also no longer show).

Lua 32/64bit conflict in Apollo

Linkup error

Let's first run a test on the new area in the Lost Ark, though

Well, some preparational work has been done... Wish me luck, as the documentation of Lua is on the C-side of the language still a bit vague

Unbelievable

I've Linked the Lua engine to Apollo.... It doesn't make any calls to Lua yet, but at least I can see that in basics it works... good!

First of all copied the dll into the project... PUC-Rio strongly advices that road, so let's follow suit, eh?

In the Apollo engine the time has now come to get Lua to work... I've never attached Lua to a C++ project, and the other projects I've done this in made it ridiculously easy. Now I have tried this before in a Go remake of Lua, and there it looked a bit awkward, yes, but not that hard.... We'll see....

I'll test them later!

ANother area of the Lost Ark

Extra work for Apollo done

Oh, they fixed MonoGame/ MonoGame#7317

By the time I alreadys set up the most important basis for my own engine, on the point that I'm close to including Lua....

Oh, well...

Well this didn't go the way I wanted it, but at least I GOT something to put text on screen now, and it obviously also appears to be pretty fast too....

If this is the reason why MonoGame has no font support (MonoGame appears to use SDL as well) then it appears the error is 100% SDL not properly set up... That could really put a damper on things, so I hope not!

TTF crashes my game engine in SDL....
No proper error message nor any useful information from the front for C++ error thrower.

Now I had font trouble before in SDL when I tried the Go variant, and the community was about as usefuly (and polite) as the usefull of the information VS2019 provides me...

I've completed my study over font usage for Apollo... This *WILL* make my life significantly better, I tell ya!

And if you thought you'd seen it all

The next step would be allowing fonts... Something NALA couldn't do because of MonoGame being a half-assed product

It all works! YAY!

A big operation in Apollo was done. This was needed as otherwise things would really have gone messy on me in the future....

And a coordinate issue

Some label issues

Area 002 - Lost Ark

All linkups work

A quick is required now... Not that I expect much trouble, but hey, always test, eh?

Link script set up

Zone implemented in Xenor Bushes North to which I can link the entrance script

Base script

I already got this piece, so I only had to hook it up

"The Snow Queen" by Kevin McLeod will be used for this place (just as in the original game).

Entrance done for "The Lost Ark"

Running

Of course, before all else, I'm gonna focus on that dungeon first... Well, as far as my work on Apollo allows it as that is going through the more complicated stage now, but as long as I can combine it.... When the complex part of Apollo is done I should priortize this game a bit more, but I must also mind my own health as things are slowly getting the better of me

I've worked everything out until reaching Xenor Bushes North -- This will be the place were the entrance to the 1st New Game+ only dungeon will be, and I can confirm that the barrier has indeed disappeared, which is wonderful!

Well?

Triple case error

AT LAST!

Let's see now!

Anymore trouble?

Fixed that!

Code order issue

Let's see now then...

Not to mention that I also gave a little bit of a resistance bonus in the New Game+

That'll do

In the New Game+ Eric had to start with all his magic groups activated... That does not happen

And let's go again!

Syntax error

Scope Error

And another take!

Lack of "self"

Let's see...

The first extra dungeon that should open due to this is in Xenor Bushes North and it'll be awhile before I get there....

Hard to check out fully now, but at least I can make sure no bugs occur.

Bonus points due to New Game Plus

Of course, I only have access now to Irravonia's prologue mission, but I can already see if I can set a few things up

Both bugs appear fixed now!

Hopefully!

Should now be fixed

Request to register the failure was set on the wrong spot in the code

Log confirms that the failre is NOT registered.... Why?

Let's see!

I think I tacked the first one completely

An extra debug check on the latter one

And the GJ security blockout also appears to be persistent!

NG+ bonus on travel bonus not right

Again!

Such things NEVER go right in one go, though!

I've put in a temporary "gjfail" variable.... This variable will not be saved, so when GJ fails now, your game will still be valid for GJ in general

I see that when GJ fails to login achievement cause security errors....

A small test will need to be done

That will be Game Jolt's task to fix.... It' very likely a conflict between my system and theirs as a result to their long maintenance, yesterday

That's been taken care of!

I see the travel emblems do not yet respond properly to being NG+

I've done some work on Apollo.... Loads of work and not a single pixel will appear on screen for that YET... But the work was important nonetheless...

I did however make progress in my C++ work, so it's not all that bad!

Was in maintenance today, and due to my reliance on the GJ API, that stops the game development for today....

Confirmed #249 fix

Although i was working on other stuff, but I had to take care of that one quickly (unfortunately).

I think I fixed it!

#249

This looks good

Well, let's see.... :-/

The Script notification I made earlier will help me there

For now, all I can do is start a game up and make sure the system marks this as a New Game+

I've temporarily moved my True Abyss savegames to a different folder... This is to make sure no crazy things will happen to them, as I may need them for more tests later!

And when it comes to Dyrt, I am right now focussing on getting the New Game+ started... Where the test gets hard is is the fact that the game will then start with a lot of scenario, and it *is* potentially hard to test if stuff all works... Of course, this is no excuse not to get things to work, but it will make things harder....

Well other than that I got JCR6 to work in VisualStudio... Due to Microsoft's stunt without any form of compression yet, but that doesn't matter... Compression wasn't my most crucial point anyway, and my experiments for lzma are only planned for the future in C++ already, and if lzma can be set to work then I wouldn't have aimed for zlib anyway

MICROSOFT!!! YOU BLUNDERING IDIOTS!

"Deprecating standard C features"

I've set the field to show you you are in a New Game+ if you are are actually doing so!

I've set up GINIE to work in C++

True Abyss Test Complete

Successfully build myself a Lua library for C++... I should not be happy too early, but with Lua successfully built and some tests in SDL going well, things are going well on the road... That was quite unexpected... C++ and I have NEVER been good friends... so.... I wonder when things go terribly wrong beyond my control...

A lot of reconfiguration has to be done here

Running

None of the open issues in the game though are really suitable to fix in the True Abyss, added with that I also must note, that the (for now) final tests of the Abyss draw near... I think I can better focus on that test first when it comes to this game

So a redo in C++ is becoming realistic now... I guess...

Added tag C++

It appears the Apollo project has failed in C#, this most of all due to that fucking MonoGame not functioning the way it should and its developers not yet responding to my outcry for help...

Now don't question my patience... I got a very very big project on the line because of this, and I must move on... On this moment I'm digging through documentation written by LazyFoo about SDL2 for C++ in VisualStudio and so far I like what I'm reading... If implementing Lua will go just as easy, as well as implementing my JCR6 library (which I already have), that I got good hope that translating Kthura to C++ won't tax me at all... C++ seems to provide most I need to make Kthura run smoothly except for a garbage collector, but even that can be taken care of smoothly, as I already got a few ideas to make that happen... I just need to make a few steps back here...

Why did VS2019 only allow up to .NET 3.1 while I did ask up to 4.8?

I THINK I fixed it though....

Even more huh, the screenshot got out of my clipboard, so all data I need is lost!

Crash upon using a banana

#35

IT WORKS!

Let's see now!

">" != "<"

Cancelling itself works, but there are issues with the coordinates

II

Case error

Let's see....

The button has been scripted

If you get how much trouble that one just to get an "X" on the screen, it's downright depressing!

IT'S THERE!