GOOD IDEA!!!! NOT!!!

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Well, I've checked if NALA (based on the old MonoGame templates that I no longer seem to be able to use for some silly reason) DOES work in VS2019... If worst comes to worst I can still take NALA as my basis, strip it completely to all Bubble references and sources and use that as my basis for the Apollo Basic Game Engine and RPG engine.... It's not the road I wish to travel though, but it's better than nothing.... I always wonder why stuff like this always happens... It wastes tons of my valuable time... It does show however why I rely so much on my own engines as much as possible... Then I got all trouble in my own hands... 3rd party stuff is always a disaster for some reason.... (But unfortunately something we cannot do without).... :-/

Okay, let's make the guys at MonoGame themselves sort this out as I'm out of clues now: MonoGame/ MonoGame#7317

Whatever I try MonoGame keeps failing

A lot is going wrong though.... But then again.... Stuff never went right on me in this stage of things.... Needless complication is an issue, I suppose

The NALA engine was completely developed with VisualStudio 2017. I've now installed VS2019, and for now I'll focus on that when it comes to the development of Apollo... The CLI version of Apollo is nearly completed, and appears to work well in VS2019... MonoGame is acting up on me, so I had to re-install it and was even forced to move to VS2019 that way...

The script can access that now properly

I've taken care of the ID process... Important

Is the void fixed now?

I thought I did

I dunno what happened but I voided it

Take VII

I had a few other things to take care of before I could resume the action

Which reminds me it was for good reasons I made another run here

Blockmap issue floor 65

Lightning works now! Whooohooo!

Take VI

infinite loop

Take V

Pure idiocy

Take IV

Syntax Error

Take III

Identifier trouble

Take II

Linked the spellani to the abilities in question

HOLD THE SHOW! I forgot something important!

And I'll take a few extra True Abyss Levels in the process...

Needs to be tested first of course

Lightning

A few mirror effects

Yeah, those updates can be really terrible sometimes

Paint.net outdated

(About time too)

Jukebox was outdated.... So I regenerated that

Audio Thunder Clap

Expanding some file support

Now since the Star Story redo may be the first game that will be developed with the Apollo engine, I guess I should start that Devlog already.... hahahaha!

I'm working now on a new engine called Apollo.... Yes... Unfortunately it will replace NALA and the underlying Bubble system... It was to be expected that Dyrt would expose some nasty things requiring me to start anew... Oh well....

Added tag APOLLO

I've given JCR6 an overhaul in the error handling... Please note none of the programs so far can pick this up, so the one is still present (as deprecated), and I also did not yet set the drivers to cooperate well with this....

Only a few more additions need to be done and then Neil is finally fully ready for action.... Isn't that exciting, folks?

And more stuff done

Not yet tested though, and I expect a lot to go wrong!

I've tried to put a "Try--Catch" clause in Neil.... As I already decided that NALA will have to be succeeded by a new engine, the Try-Catch clause can really help me to put a better error handler in that new engine, I tell ya!

#124 -- Although testing that is impossible now.... It shouldn't give that much trouble!

Not perfect, but it will have to do

Take Four

I did also fix a little bug in the rotation stuff

One of the reasons for developing Neil... To get rid of that! (Not only that, but it's one of the reasons)

Case error

And NOW to take a look at Take Three

Before I go to take three... first the news!

And another one!

Take Two!

And the first trivial fix had to be done already.... (oh well)

Take One!

Well, I can only test on the way if this all works... wish me luck, as I feel I'm gonna need it, pretty bad

Linked to Quake Strike

Linked to "End of the World"

Linked to the spell "Quake"

I've worked out the Quake animation... No idea if it works yet, though

Like the "Quake" effect

I'm however first planning on doing some stuff for the game

Yes, somore more is planned later

Simple switch support....

Old style case support

The failure must lie in Geany... Bob can find things Geany can't.... But which do turn out to be really there... How odd...

Bob keeps on finding things to build things without need.....

Increased max size for hashing to 5 MB

Oh, fuck it! I'm tired!

Not yet fully working the way it should, eh?

Also tied to Anyway (not that I expect to need that tool much, but just in case)

It does appear that somehow the scenario editor can push itself to the background.... This would explain a lot of failed builds and scenario blocks strangly getting back to their old settings....

Can now check if a build was a sucess or not

Updated script to also see Nala being updated

This DOES cause some extra crap to be rebuild, but hey, it's all for a good course... At least I wanna think so! XD

Enhanced with some better checking

Although I could with less heath, and I am more and more worried about my sleep with this fucking heath!

I've done some more testing, but did not lead to any new issues to work out

Added tag BOB

I'm putting Bob to the test

I've written a small program called "Bob" which is to be used in QuickNeil... You can see Bob as a kind of "Make" (the name Bob is not a coincidence.... Can we build it? Yes, we can!) only written in a way more adequate than MAKE. Make kept on doing stuff even when it was not needed... Bob was written from a different approach!

A few more fixups required

Well, that ends this investigation, my dear Watson

I hope this solves all issues, but ya can never know for sure, eh?

As far as I can tell most achievement appearing illegally were merely not correctly tagged... That should be fixed now.... Now that my current savegame is a bit messed up this is hard to check, but this will have to do

Let's list it out for real now, shall we?

Force log to show more info about now allowed achievements still being listed!

Several Syntax Errors

I cannot test that right away.... So this is something to be tackled later on

Auto-Achievements not supposed to be given in the True Abyss will no longer be given there...

And besides... I could use the distraction for awhile.... The project is beginning to bore me, but hey... I wanna finish what I started...

As this contains active content things may be a bit harder on me than for the True Abyss, and that's why I made the basics for Neil during the True Abyss....

As soon as this setup for the True Abyss is done I'll focus on the New Game+

I've been working out a good installer... C# is pretty much dependency based I found out to my horror... Well at least now Microsoft can take the blame if the game doesn't work

Wasted some time sorting things out for a good editor

It's not much... But at least it's something!

I've written a quick editor for Neil.... It also supports NIL (which was used for Dyrt), and SASKIA....

And let's see now!

System should not ask to "leave town" from the start level

Magically the changes to the scenario have been undone

Conchita And the start of a full test to make sure The True Abyss really works!

Conchita

Scenario fixes

Adaptions for Conchita

Config adaption

The logs tell me that one of the characters will indeed learn their supermove.... Before I can test that if that is absolutely true a few more things need to be taken care of first!

Super weapon given

Well, that works.... so far!

TAKE IX

Whatever

TAKE VIII

AI error

TAKE VII

...

Oh, crap

TAKE VI

Declaration issue

TAKE V

Idiocy

TAKE IV

AI configuration

Boss reference error

TAKE III

Put that in

Forgot Boss Activation zone

TAKE II

Some issue in NIL (that is given the circumstances not gonna be fixed anymore)

TAKE I!

Ready to test

A few more checkups

Abyss Guardian

Not yet ready to put everything to da test.... I still need to take care of the AI

Linked these

Game Jolt equivelent trophies

And 3 achievement based on your difficulity setting

I reject your reality and substitute my own

This is needed because his "secret form" will never unlock in the True Abyss

A special version of "Blue Moon" for Eric in the True Abyss

Boss fight can start, but it's not over yet!

Rebuilt Music resource

"Death and Axes" by Kevin McLeod will be used for the Abyss Guardian....

#pure and #endpure

Classwise ++ and --

It should be noted this will be second only to Juggernaut, the strongest boss of the entire game.... And no nerfings will be there... Especially given the way the True Abyss is set up with....

Abyss Guardian

with that the True Abyss can at least be played now from level 1 till 100, but some more stuff needs to be done before this is completely ready

All I can do now is testing if everything works, so let's go!

Adapted to origin (saves memory)

I've set the abyss compiler to automate the animation of the plasma floor.... The effect was asstoundingly good!

I've not yet put in the boss for security reasons, as I need to test a few things out first.....

Yes, that takes care of all areas, but I'm not nearly there yet!

Area 100 True Abyss

NeilProject/Neil#4 (Oh crap!)

QuickMeta support

Take II

Put that in

Forgot Start Exit Point

Take I

But that is a later concern

Yes, when it comes to the not-generated maps, that is the last one before the grand finale....

Area 095

Almost there... But some work is still to be done here!

All the others are in order!

Wrong weakness on Thunder Bulupu

Abilities

Meta settings

Bulupu can easily go wrong, so some extra verifications are in order here

Bulupu - Wind

Bulupu - Thunder

Bulupu - Light

Bulupu - Frost

Bulupu - Fire

Bulupu - Earth

Bulupu - Darkness

You may have guessed it, these are all set up for the Bulupu enemies

Wednesday

Bright Light

Volt's Crash

End of the world

12 Beaufort

Grand Inferno

Not nearly there yet!

Datacopy

And from here, let's cheat around!

Bulupu Water

That all seems to be in order

Neg versions

Bulupu for all 8 elements

Model for Bulupu

Class support ready.... Neil is now ready for OOP

Yes that is regardless of the question if the call was static or not

I've been setting up the static constructors in Neil.... These will be called when a class is called for the first time

Nothing I could do today.... I had some duties elsewhere.... And a broken scooter (3x in a row that thing didn't last longer than a few weeks.

Static fields can be declared and read out (not yet be redefined)

A start up to classes

Class preparational work done

My focus lies (for now) on Neil.... I also needed to step away from the game for a little... I'll soon be back though....

I managed to make neil "void" that issue, though