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

Lua "deprecated" this

--[[ --[[ ]]

for no reason, but it did get me in trouble....

Fake Seelah Gandra

More Neil work

Yesterday, my time was most of all taken up by the produciton of Neil, of which I am now developing the core....

I use a special generation program for that... Soooo handy!

vUpdate

Everything appears to be in order

Another test then....

Issue voided

MICROSCHOFT!

Who is the idiot at MicroSoft who came up with the idea to use backslashes for directory dividing?

code typo

Let's put that to da test!

On floor 090 you will now get one of the sealed bosses as the floor's boss.

THIS WILL IN NO WAY INFLUENCE WHOSE SPECIAL WEAPON OR SPECIAL MOVE YOU'LL GET ON FLOOR 100

I've also made sure "Hall of the Mountain King" will play when you meet the Mountain Emperor, and the regular sealed boss music when you meet any of the others.

A quick music check

I can throw in a take IIi, But that won't tell me more about the fake enemies... Oh well

Dominance issue with the background on floor 090

None of the fake enemies appeared this time.... Leaving me unable to test if the bug is truly fixed.... I can only hope it is....

Take II

Case error

Wish me luck -- Take I

I gotta test on the way if this did actually fix everything

As I think this is the reason of the bugs on this department

I've tried to set up a system that can make the AI use a method during the Foe compilation in order to get everything for that foe alone in order

The function definition of Neil appears to work now

Well I'm tired to FUCK YOU ALL!

The computer keeps bringing up one excuse after another to make 100% sure the HP bug doesn't get fixed in any way.... Now a silly fact... The HP is the first stat in the list that should get altered.... So I wonder what is happening there...

Well.......

Oh well

Illegal Method Call

Well, we'll see....

I think I fixed the HP issue with the fake-enemies

Yay! That only leaves me 95 and 100 and then I'm done...

Area 090

Bottom pieces forgotten.... Added now!

Non-working exit

Does that all work?

Area 085

Okay, now?

....

I'm tired

Parse error

Let's see....

Floor 80 boss

Blauw Slijm

Fake Rebecca

Again!

Build failure

I do need to recompile NALA for this though....

Of course... I can never tell if it's fixed... I can only tell if it's not fixed when... it happens again.... Oh well...

A few fixes have been applied though....

Unfortunately exits out of reach are still possible.... GRRR!

the town works

Okay and NOW we can test something....

How could I be so stupid

Duncan

Duncan

Duncan

I doesn't end there though

Tagged all stands on floor 075

Hold the show.... I forgot something important

But at least I can test stuff out, and at the current status of things... relax my brain in the process

The boss enemy has not yet been scripted so that encounter will crash the game, yes!

In the meantime I did floor 080 for the True Abyss... That is after all an easy thing to do!

I've done some work on Neil.... This is however where Neil gets very very complex, so I am by far not sure if this is gonna work

Blockmap issue on floor 075

And the missing .negative files are present now!

The negger has been fixed.... It would ignore earlier faults due to a a malformed boolean expression.... Sigh.....

Note to self... Fix this up for the next productions (although I may build in an auto-negger in TQMG for the next project)

I *THINK* I know why this happens, though....

For some reason the negative versions still don't pop in... what the fuck is going on here?

And now to check the ultimate results

Let's try to FORCE my way through, then....

Even after negging this anew things didn't work out

Negative failure?

And let's make the generator generate new data for the True Abyss

Blackie

Adaption for Blackie

Fake Merya

Please note, that although this is a market floor, none of the stands have been tagged yet, meaning all merchants will ignore you for now... This is because they are not my first concern, at the present time.

Area 75

Duncan's Jewel Stand

Jewel crafter's stand

Exp fix issue

More HP for the boss, as he went down TOO quickly... Especially for a True Abyss boss

The two have now been linked

Trophies

I've set them up in-game

Oh crap... I forgot the in-game achievement

Pic referrence

(Yes, it's the True Abyss equivalent of Rondomo)

Abyss Explosives Expert

Well, I need to be pretty SOPHISTICATED, after all with this boss!

Voided the Rondomo scenario for the "Little Boy" counter

That won't stop me from testing, though, so here goes!

The boss fight is not yet activated... Triggering the boss will (for now) crash the game...

I've done some preparational work here

A little EXP issue

Butterfly

Fake Irravonia

As a side effect this also fixes two stands not operating, as the hero could not reach their walking pinpoint, due to the error

Blockmap issues

Take II

Blockmap issue

Well, let's see how this goes, eh?

Further configuration

Abyss Kirana

So back to The True Abyss

I'll leave Neil there for now... Getting the actual translation done is gonna get me some hours of work, and I must be able to stick my head to it... In other words... Now is not the right time to continue....

The chopper is is a kind of lexing.... It chops up the code in tiny pieces and identifies all these pieces.... This way, the actual parsing and translating process should go easier....

The NIL language I used for this game also contains a chopper.... I do hope though that the chopper I've set up for Neil is by far more robust, as the NIL chopper does have a few nasty bugs I could never get fixed... Not to mention that Neil does support a few things that NIL doesn't....

Right.... the chopper works now......

Lua Parse errors fixed

Now testing this will be a not of a pain.... As a few more things need to be done for that... Oh well...

I've set up the chopper.... The chopper is a part of lexing the code.... It chops the code up in sections and words that are by the translator parser easier to process....

Before I move on in the true Abyss.... I really noticed I should set my mind on other things as well... The True Abyss allows me to, as this point, so let's get on with that.

Vesuvius

Mjöllnir for Irravonia

248

A bit of a work-out on Corona

Irravonia's version of Blizzard

Missing FROST element in spell "Blizzard"

Linked them!

The Game Jolt variants

Achievement based on getting an Abyss Score of L(50), C(100), D(500) and M(1000)

I've been doing pretty little today.... I require some rest.... I did do some testing today, but these kinds of test quite often produce little bug results.... and so things are calm today

I.D.D.Q.D

Another go, then!

Dominance issue

Let's see

Which happens to be the Abyss version of Kirana... And she may give you a hard time (I hope)

The game will crash on the boss fight here!

Area 060

Disappeared Tag!

I'll test again....

Recompiling

This is C# code, so....

A few source fixes

As I cannot find out why this happens I've made sure the computer can generate a way from start to finish (using Dijkstra), and if not, it will generate an entirely new map. If this keep shappening a time-out will the thrown... although possible I deem it unlikely this will happen....

Another map that is NOT solvable.... Bound to happen with this many levels if such a bug exists....

Let's Go!

Dernor can obtain this move when charming an Abyss Ant (since that creature only appears in The True Abyss, it won't be listed in the normall spell list of Dernor when playing a regular game or New Game+)

Void (for Dernor) (True Abyss Only)

Abyss Ant

Fake Eric

Area 055

Another go then?

To ensure this does not happen again... I've decided to make sure all four bosses are now transferred (in graphics), and their "Neg" equivalent is generated... At least these crashes belong to the past until level 100 now, as there a new graphic will probably be used

How negative

And the boss itself had to be configured (of course).... dork!

And NOW we can start it all up!

Arena configuration

I forgot something important that MUST be done first!

HOLD THE SHOW!

And now I gotta put all this to da test!

Abyss Jeracko (or Abyss Monster Man)

(Yup, Kirana and Rondomo will come later)

Abyss version of Jeracko

Altough something else is in my way now

One more test and then I can get the boss done

This was easy... the map generator placed the exits so close to the starting point I could advance 5 floors without 1 encounter

BlockMap error based on a "Rotten Object"

Dominance issue on floor 050

Another one!

Macro typo

Area 050

Of course now to compile

And the blockmap will now be affected, as well

Okay, that was easier than I thought it would be....

Some modifyable fields blocked for StretchedArea

Selecting a Streched Area is possible now

For the Kthura editor this is a bit different, but yet, something I need to get through.... Well, you guys still with me?

Recompiled..... For NALA this stuff is now no longer relevant... NALA will pick it up and execute it accordining, and even manipulations should auto-adept everything.....

This is looking good... The editor cannot yet create nor edit this, but at least this result is already what I was hoping to see

before bothering myself with the adaption of the Kthura editor itself (as that will be the hard part) I can use the Kthura Text editor to enforce a little test... The editor should pick that up already, as it uses the same classes as the game will do

The core function for monogame has been created, but due to the work I did before for TQMG this was the easy part actually....

Kthura can now return the width and height of stretched areas, but since the same data is needed for that as used for zones and tiled areas, that was the easy part

I needed a new abstract for this in the Kthura system itself

must be recompiled... That comes after this anyway, but to make sure, I'll recompile it right now... The operation on Kthura can be a bit nasty you know...

A TQMG null pointer issue in disposing fonts fixed

And so I need to repack the assets for the Kthura editor

A new button is required for this, however....

I'm gonna dive into Kthura now.... For a new feature the original BlitzMax version never supported (BlitzMax never offered the official support, although there are in BlitzMax too some ways to "bend" this).... For this I need of course to break open the original C# code

The "Void" issue cannot yet be checked, but let's have good hope, shall we?

the map tags work

I can at least test that

Tagged all stands, and the exit orbs

Extra experience in the true abyss

I voided this issue by making sure the database is updated on the moment the new move is announced.... If it's for some reason not executed (that can happen) it will still count as unlocked.....

This might as well explain a few other occurances, where learning a new move caused an instant victory

I think I know why this is, though.... It's very likely due to the victory sequence immediately kicking in while the exection phase has not been fully completed.