I've decided to wait with Bitotopia until I've at least defeated some of the optional bosses... the sealed ones, I mean

So far so good!

And Jennifer does open the Dark Storage on the right moment now, as far as I can tell...

Frundarmon's basement appears to work the way it should

Jeroen appears

And the dungeon Digitopia he'll unlock comes later, but I needed to make sure this works, at least!

But Jeroen will only appear when you've defeated Frundarmon during the New Game+

Jeroen added to Felixium

Art Jeroen

Code Typo

Let's see

Perhaps I found it?

NOTHING shown in the chain routine allows this crash to happen... odd

First a break, though!

So the next task for me will be to find out, WHY!

Second part of the facility crashes the game

#1

#129

#129

Take IV

For real now?

No errors, no warnings, so WHAT THE FUCK GIVES C# THE RIGHT TO IGNORE THIS FIX?

I am REALLY getting pissed off now!

#129 - Take III

let's compile AGAIN!

ignoring fixes, eh?

#129 - Take II

I hope this clears everything up for real now

Ah, it seems a different function was used here....

I hope I voided this... Something still seems to go wrong as far as contacting Game Jolt is concerned... At least so it appears....

Stuff seems to go wrong when actually scanning games for achievements... Now this is odd

Clearly now it complains in other ways....

#129

As I could void my Game Jolt issues (at least for now), I'll get to some tests of the GJ only dungeons that I had to skip up until now

It seems #213 is indeed fixed

Well, just as the project comes to an end I FINALLY find the editor which allows me to EASILY set up a good syntax highligher for NIL, and also with good hope for Neil... Well for NEIL I'll definitely need it, I guess...

Of course, the system NEVER agrees with me :(

Take I

But a test is in order to make sure

I hope I fixed #213

I do not know why this crash never happened before, but I've now cheated a bit to make the player not notice this conflict is there... That was the safest way to prevent further crashes

SASKIA conflict

?

I see some strange things happening when both the crack text as one of the bed rooms go off in conjunction....

I've configured NALA to use http in stead of HTTPS when it comes to contacting Game Jolt... It's really not worth it to keep using https to no avail

#263

Rubine Should now appear in the Hall of Heroes, but only if you found her in the Thief's Den

Not that it matters on the short term as the internet shit is still broken, but hey I need to make things sure

Linkup done, but something went wrong, requiring me to do a manual fix

Tag error

I'm not a thief... I'm a TREASURE HUNTER!

Rubine's disappearance in Thief's Den was not permanent

Rubine

Rubine

Rubine

Rubine

Art Rubine The Hood

The next issue will be to put Rubine into the Thief's Den, and of course, the Hall of Heroes.

Done

I still need to set a few things right

Again!

And that will fix that mistake

So let's up the HP up "a little"

So I guess every con has its pro after all

The scripts around the boss work properly

I forgot to set the Boss' HP right, making the boss just a snap in the fingers to kill, however, this allowed me one thing

Jesse

Jesse

Jesse

Jesse

He'll still ignore you, this was only an update of the database

Jesse

Important note, if you approach him now, he'll simply ignore you, as the boss activation scripts have not yet been written

The boss has been placed into the map

Preparations to get the boss in order

Super Break Stab

New Game+ dungeon won't be there for final chapter... Nothing planned and I want this project to be over and done with....

#1

#21 -> Scrapped due to time running out.

It APPEARS to be working now

Take IX

There was still a "miss" message when in fact something DID get stolen... I wonder how that could happen... Or maybe I simply missed something... Things can go a bit fast after all...

Should show the name of the item, not the code referrence tag

CLOSE but no cigar!

Take VIII

Debug issue

Take VII

AND STAY FIXED!

Again!

As a magic stroke my fixed code reverted back to the original bugged code....

WTF?

Take VI

At least this is the first bug in the actual content that was on testing

Unknown identifier in steal script

Take V

And that should fixed that issue in the process

Done that now

Ah I forgot to run the NEG tool.... Silly me

Take IV and the screenshotter at the ready

the last error flashed out of my screen so quickly I was unable to read it... This can sometimes happen and I loathe it!

Long term plan #262

Take III

I forgot the random treasure spots, so I placed them in

Enemy reference error

Take II

Arena issue?

Take I

It's testing time!

Boss is not yet placed, so I can only test up to that point

A few other things to take care of

That links that stuff all together

Treasures set

Encounters set

Bandit

Thief

Run away

Next stop, the enemies

Preparational packaging

This is all in preparation of the thieves you'll meet in this dungeon. This is a thief's den after all, so it's only to be expected you'll be stolen from here.

The money recovery will be able to use the same variables as the ones used by the abilities stealing all money at once, so no issue there!

Alternate money steal effect

I hope, as nothing has been tested yet

Item recovery has been set right

However recovering items has not yet been implemented (which will btw in the hard mode NOT happen).

Stealing from allies has been implemented

Class adaption for stealing items

That was too long ago anyway

Alpha Update

The boss Jesse was named after the famous U.S. criminal Jesse James. His persona however (as far as he has one) was not based on anybody or anything.

Art Jesse

Art bandit

Art thief

And walking all the way back from the end point to the starting point works as well (this is something easily overlooked, you know).

This works

A small test is needed but trouble should not be expected

The enemies, bosses, nor the Hall of Heroes member will appear yet

That does at least complete the map itself

Area 005 has been done

No trouble to be expected, but hey, ya never know, right!?

Area Boss

Running

As far as I can check for now, this appears to be working

Now Area 004 will be for the boss and 005 to meet Rubine... This is a bit of rushed job, I don't care, I wanna have this over and done with.... My schedule is allowing me less and less time for this project. It's clearly time to have it finished

A new map has been created in stead for this location

The puzzle, as I announced! The puzzle should no longer be reachable (unless you find out a way to cheat)

It's now official, I'll cancel this puzzle.... The existing puzzle will be dummied (in case I still change my mind, but the chance for that is low).... It simply isn't worth the trouble and I notice I'm way behind schedule

Really there are so many setbacks about this, that I am seriously considering to skip it.... This dungeon is getting less and less worth the trouble....

Syntax error

All Okay Now?

I fixed that issue

That provided the answer I needed

Take II

Extra errorcheck must provide more answers

And now something completey different happens

VS will have to provide me some answers now!

A .NET error has been found.... A referrence to a null object is made inside the API

A packer issue in JXSDA

Success

The next step in this method will be to convert this into C++ so Apollo can benefit from this as long as lzma is still an issue there...

Now it looks like it would be really effective if JCR6 did support solid archiving technology, which is possible, and I even have a few ideas for that, but as it's delicate and prone to bugs I wanna make sure this cannot go wrong so easily, so in other words, that'll take TIME... Loads of time....

That too appears to work

JXSDA is used in the savegame I made, let's see if it also loads properly

I've decided to make NALA use this method for savegames.... Less memory eating than lzma but still better than no compression at all

JXSDA Bug

I've created an experimental packing algorithm.... Not gonna be used in this game anymore, but in my future projects it can be worth gold, especially as long as lzma is not yet an option (and zlib even less of an option).

I've set the basis for a small project that will also start soon.... The full work on this will only begin after I finished the Thief's Den, though

Crashing in my debug tool whenever volumes or volumized directories contain characters that shouldn't be in a file name

Some required debug crap set

I think I got it, but I'm not 100% sure....

But I have an idea.... Well, sort of...

I do have a few issues, as I didn't think everything through right, so I really need to sort this out....

All Crashes accounted for

Take VI

Another (sigh)

Take V

Case error

And while the builder runs, I'm gonna fix myself some food, as I am starving

Take IV

And fixed a bug in the process

Call to a Pascal function that no longer makes sense in the game

Yes I voided the actual issue, good

Take III

A bit of an issue in the NIL parser?

Take II

Was to be expected when transferring from a case insensitive language to a case sensitive one

Case Error

Take I

Okay, by high exception I got the time today to put things to da test, so let's go!

I don't want "Pascal" to show in my repository, so i moved to the source of my spiral prototype to gist

I'll test later if this works.... That is that stuff will at least compile as many things may have gone wrong in the translation from Pascal to NIL. NIL is unlike Pascal case sensitive (that issue won't be there in Neil, but hey, as far as Dyrt is concerned I'll have to take it the way it is).

I did however see a kind of error that would have caused trouble when popping the floors would have to chain to popping other points on the way

I really cannot tell what this will do for the gam yet, as there are still no visual effects

The prototype code has now been translated to NIL and adapted to the different needs between the prototype DOS environment and the in-engine needs of communication with Kthura

Preparations to pop

I wrote a prototype for the spiralling routine.... This prototype will now have to be translated to NIL

So far it's all cool, I see

Quick test to see if there are no parsing errors

This class does nothing by itself though, but at least I can get a few things on the move now....

A class which will be used for the actual chain effect.... I do need to do a few more things, as the chain must also increase on the moment other geo points pop in the chain process... This is however something I need to brainstorm about....

She's good