Just routine, that's all

vUpdate

I removed two items form the main menu. Both were buggy and not really needed, and more trouble than they were worth.

#267 -- I guess having an alpha tester immediately paid off ;)

This will take time, though... The game *is* rather big after all!

speaking of which, let's update all the crap here

Please welcome Danielez as first Alpha tester....

The first Game Jolt alpha key will soon be sent

Version info

Take V

Final syntax error (I think)

Take IV

Irravonia Fly Zone

Take III

Okay

WHAT THE FUCK!?

Take II (let's try that again)

Build failure

Take I

And a possible permadamage due to me forgetting this before, has been fixed

And thus stuff is linked

And that is pretty soon

Whenever Jeroen speaks after meeting the CGA brothers, this achievement will be awarded

Linked the two

Trophy counterpart

Color Graphics Adapter

Only area 009 and 010 - and 010 is only the room to collect your prize

Area 008

Technobabble room 008

Take II

Set that right

I realized I forgot something VITAL!

Take I

Let's test

Area 007

Quick check, but not trouble expected here

So a little fixup was in order, I suppose

I guess I need to make sure the screen is properly updated when Jeroen opens the room

Before all that a small test... Everything here should work, though

The moment that the checker flag will be waved comes closer, but it will still take some time, though!

I need to make futhre checkups later on the scenario of this place....

Area 007 Digitopia

Take III

Wrong brother

And suddenly it doesn't happen anymore, eh? (not that it was possible in the first place)

But I made the error message give more info.... How does it comes to this impossible conclusion?

Nothing can make this possible

Stealing is now causingproblems for no reason at all (it would never have worked in the first place)

Take II

I hope

Let's see why

Showhow the cash bug refuses to get fixed

Take I

Or to say it in Dutch "Doet-ie-'t-of-doet-ie-'t-niet?"

Well I don't need Peter Jan Rens to say that.

Does it work or doesn't it work?

And now this has been linked, meaning the boss fight should work now... At least I think so...

Boss configuration

Don't expect an easy fight from these two fuckers. They only appear in the New Game+ and are also in a quest that is in the New Game+ optional... They are not meant to be easy, and if they turn out to be so, they may be boosted

Clean up of the bosses after they've been defeated

A few needed map modifications

Eating dinner (hey that's important too, you know)

Nope, this won't yet activate the boss since this SASKIA portion is not yet linked to the map

The CGA Brothers

The brothers in the dungeon still ignore you... I did not yet script them after all

CGA Brother 2

CGA Brother 1

#232

#264

Testing the tag

Added tag TFTREVAMPED

I will have to combine my works for Dyrt with those of TFT REVAMPED now, and Star Story is temporarily on hold. Why this, well Dyrt is entering the final stage of development, after all Digitopia is the game's last dungeon to be added, as the fight against Juggernaut takes place in the city of Gagolton, and once Juggernaut is done, the game is basically ready and then I only need to make sure the most important issues are fixed before releasing the first beta versions. In TFT REVAMPED I only have to translate the LAURA II engine from BlitzMax to C++ which is a lot of work, but not as much as setting up an entire game, and I'll only have to deal with compatibility issues once the engine is fully done... Normally setting up or preparing the engine is only the beginning of the adventure for me, but here it's the end, since I already got the game itself. So that's how my choice came to be. As a result the TFT devlog has also been revived after it was closed some time ago.... (almost 6 months, which is very short). Funny how things can go, eh?

Calling it a day.... See ya

#266 But fixing that one is a later concern

That issue WAS fixed.... It magically came back

I think I fixed the area, as it didn't work the way I planned it

Take V

FUCK YOU FUCKING CRAP COMPUTER!

The computer voids me?

I DON'T THINK SO!

Take IV

Or at least I hope so

This error is a lie

Take III

Crap.... I hate "self" -- Just a little longer, Jeroen... You'll be free of that crap soon

Take II

Syntax Error

Dang! Auto-house keeping... At a tlime like this :-/

Oh, yeah, the Kthura Text Editor confused my builder... hahaha, I should have known

This should fix that

Okay, this is really bad

Running in the background

The Travel Emblem located behind the backs of the CGA brothers is safe, even though the brothers ignore you at this moment... There's no savespot in that room anyway.

Also updating... Has to be done before the Alpha officially opens

Take I

Random Treasure spots set

But there is still one thing to do

That means encounters can be tested now

Linking this all together

Set this all to the map

Packed Ghost Version Cyan

Packed Ghost Version Ember

Packed Ghost Version Magenta

Duplicate foes for easier adaptions

Packed Ghost Version Red

As far as digitopia is concerned I'll have to stick when the regular enemies first, so the CGA Brothers will for the time being ignore you, no matter what.

The alpha announcer I programmed to go off on Game Jolt will go off tomorrow (in which tomorrow is speaking from my own time zone, which is OFFICIALLY Central Europe, but geographically western Europe).

It can still go wrong with Juggernaut, the only enemy remaining now.... I hope I will not forget when I'm going to get that boss fight done

They won't have me this time.... The neg generator is running already

Enemy art

It's unfortunately impossible to test if this arena works as intended until I've done the enemies that will inhabit Digitopia

Digiopia

Well the next step will be to make encounters possible.... Since this is the last dungeon I'm adding, this will therefore also be the last time I have to go through this... At least in THIS particular game. ;)

The bosses will (for now) ignore you

Boss Area

Art The CGA Brothers

Take II

Background

Good thing I tested as I forgot something vital

But first .....

The area after that is the boss, so it might be more prudent to get in the random encounters once all this crap works

Area 004

Recovery wasn't too hard

But Since I can compile it again

It's also a mystery where my SwapKill program went

And suddenly it works, how odd

???

Added Area 003

A little test to see if everything works accordingly

Added area 002

See ya!

Alpha update

And time to call it!

Nice to note, this post has number 22222

All cool!

Final test for today as I am really getting tired

Blockmap issue

Important string fix in Kthura fixed

Another one then!

I forgot that streched zones were added to Kthura and as such some checks on them needed to be supported as well

Let's see, though

Area 001

Area 001

Meeting me in digitopia will stop walking, but only if I'm there, and you didn't therefore hear my story before

A bitof altering in presentation.... Now the background is better tilable

Let's see now!

I did do something wrong here, though

Digitopia room 000

The scenario for Digitopia will be rewritten from scatch. This because the game was recreated from scratch... well most of it... Due to that some things need to be taken in order.

Jeroen

Jeroen

Jeroen

Works the way it's intended... Good!

Take I

A few code issues

I've set up the script which must take care of the background of Digitopia

Map layer naming issue

Well, with the help of stack overflow.... This is really really crazy

This can of course be sorted out now (I really have a reason now)

Should have done that from the start of course

Missing link to music

Bad file name

Basis for Digitopia

Jeroen

And Dutch readers my age or older may be reminded of an old series of children's books by Jaap ter Haar

Jeroen

Linkup code Jeroen

Updated

Digitopia added to the map

Packing

That works again

For some reasons some dependencies in my NJCR directory went missing

Just like the original game "The Machine Thinks" by Kevin McLeod will be the tune for Digitopia

Opening room Digitopia

background art

That's not everything I need, though

the floor chip textures for digitopia

Anyway, everything is ready to start the preparations for Bitotopia

last entries all came up on the Star Story Log where they didn't belong... fuck it, I'm not gonna transfer them all over here

for some reason my mouse is malfunctioning now, though

Cleaned up my desk (and it was about time)

Does not mean there's isn't a lot to do anymore, as there still is, but things are now really beginning to take shape and an important milestone in the production of this game has just been past, so I still can celebrate.... a little

Well, all issues that are still open are now on one page (of which 2 are monogame issues they always refused to fix). That is always a pretty special moment in this stage of development as that means the end is slowly getting in sight.

#104

Resolved #104

#259

#215

#259 Or at least no crashes now, I hope that enough

#215

Gotta test to have that all confirmed

#215

#259

Adding that fixes that crash

Rebecca's text for trying to get out was absent

A few issues with the IDDQD spell for Irravonia

crash when trying to go back after defeating the order of onyx

Now testing Mörker

Dark Storage up to the point you'll meet all four members of the order works

For now I'll get into the Dark Storage... Digitopia will be implemented as soon as the test for the final chapter starts

I've deactivated the lines regnerating the disco floors for the hall of music... It's not longer needed and only increased the building times for no more reason

As the announcement for the desired alpha testers can pop up on Game Jolt any day now, I must more and more be prepared for alpha testers running into unexpected behavior because of the last missing features enabling bugged behavior and even crashes that are only normal to happen at this point

#264