Take II (Who could have imagined?)

Missing tag, causing a missing link to the next room from the boss room

Ah yeah, I forgot something VERRRRRY important!

No trouble should be expected, yet a test is still in order! So here goes!

Configured not to go for encounters in the final room

The Hall of Heroes representative won't yet be present

008 will be the final room

Area 008

Area 007

And I released the bitbucket version of the repository was falling a bit behind, so let' have that one updated as well....

Updated

Lic & Version information

Finally

Take VIII

All lame excuses accounted for?

Again

Take VII

Happy now, whiner?

Why?

No reason to crash, and thus it crashes

Take VI

Running in the background, so lags can be expected

I think

Found the issue

And thus I need to find out why that is!

The move "Are you lonesome, tonight" did the opposite of what I had in mind

Take V

You never know what to believe these days, after all

???

Take IV

Effect script referrence error

Speed issue

Take III

Removed faulty file

File failure

System claims the label "Boss" doesn't exist in the SASKIA script.... fun fact... it DOES exist, so the computer is lying.... I need to find out how that is possible

Take II

No encounter zone not properly recognized

Based on all this, I hope we can start testing

Map meta issue

Checkups

That should link it all together now

Boss script

Now to link this all to the map so the boss fight can begin

You ain't nothing but a hound dog

You ain't nothing but a hound dog

You ain't nothing but a hound dog

The King

Are you lonesome tonight

Are you lonesome, tonight

Love me tender

You ain't nothing but a hound dog

No, they will NOT get me again! I'll first generate the new NEG pictures....

The king

Up to the moment you'll meet the boss everything works

Take I

Savespot at the entrance (needed anyway)

Links it all

Tied to the map

Rammstein

That will do

Engel

Ich tue dir Weh

Asche zu Assche

Given that Queen does not have anything new, let's move on to Rammstein

Queen

Breakthrough

Miracle

Who wants to live forever?

Radio Ga-Ga

I want it all, and I want it now!

I'm going slightly mad

I want to break free

Next patient: Queen

No real technical issues expected here so no test required yet

Heaven 17

Temptation

From here I can more easily set up Heaven 17

Last note was actually a techno note, but it contains a spoiler.....

What is important to note is that I did take Shanda and Kirana in this.... Both are women... For Shanda it should not be possible to meet Heaven 17... For Kirana it is possible.... I only included Shanda for security reasons, and since it was very easy to do, no trouble....

Now that I had the charm script for the men,it was easy to make a similar script that only works for the women

Next patient: Heaven17

That works

Take II

Code typo?

Take I

I've set the enemies in the hall of music for now to Golden Earring only so I can test this enemy out, as the charm men ability is new, and I need to test it out

Golden Earring

Charm the boys

I need to script that one out though

When the lady smiles

Twilight Zone

Well Let's first get some base data in order!

As the move "When the lady smiles" will only affect the men, I need to work things out properly....

The next enemy on my list is Golden Earring

As I'm through my time for today, I will do the others very likely tomorrow....

Abba works

Take VI

Macro error

Take V

I and I hope I can get the neg effect done in C++ for Star Story... That will save me a lot of trouble I tell ya!

Since I already transferred all enemies (except for the boss), I won't have this trouble until the boss comes in (which is fortunate if you ask me).

So let's do it

I forgot to 'neg'

Take IV

To the debug environment then

It keeps insisting on this non-existent error, but the error message immediately gets away from my screen so I can't read it.....

Take III

Copy and paste must ensure this can't happen AGAIN!

WTF?

Take II

?

Crash

Take I

Abba has been linked to the dungeon.... I must note that for now I am merely testing stuff, so I will unlink Abba in later tests in order to do the other enemies.... These enemies have some rather tricky moves I must take into account

Abba has been linked to the True Abyss....

Unfortunately this is only the beginning

Abba

"The winner takes it all" will allow Abba to steal all your money

In the hard mode cash that is stolen is lost forever, regardless if you can kill the enemy before it runs off.... In the other difficulty modes, you can recover your cash

Stolen cash recovery when killing an enemy

Foe class adapted for stealing cash

I do need to do some extra scripting for the last ability, though

Of course the names of these abilities are not a coincidence

The winner takes it all

Dancing Queen

Move on

That takes care of that!

Structure adaption

Although I do need to do some extra work here

S.O.S.

This ain't gonna be easy, as the foes are written in the QD format (QD standing for Quick Data), a database system predating MyData, and I must note, I don't have a working copy of that program anymore... Doesn't matter as the HEX view already tells me a lot, although it's not the easiest way to go....

I need to study the original enemy records for all this

Before I can implement the enemies I need to put in the abilities, and they are all unique per enemy, so this will get me a lot work.....

I've set up the announcement for the alpha... Also to put some pressure on myself.... To work a bit harder on this....

Dinner.... Eating is an important part of of game development too, you know!

This covers all enemies except for the boss

These are all enemy pictures.... The names of these enemies are chosen due to the theme the dungeon was set into in general

Rammstein Art

Queen Art

Golden Earring Art

Abba art

My plan is to make sure that the Hall of Music is finished first, and after that I will be allowing a select number of people into the alpha version.... I hope that many things I need to know prior to the beta release will come to light this way....

I love this

But that's for another time!

Next step will be to get the random encounters in order

So far so good!

Let's have a little test, though

This is the boss area, but the boss won't appear for now, as I'll get to the boss later

Area 006

Not gonna wait for that though, the computer will get the task done without me...

Alpha Update

See ya, next time!

I guess I should make too big rooms in this place... I did suffer a lag, but that is understandable... Not gonna "fix" that though... It's fine the way it is... This is not to be a very big dungeon anyway

Take IV

Done

Before I call it a day, I first wanna add the "disco ball" effect

That should do it

Take III

Cleaning the map

A quick debug view indicates some "rotten objects" could be to blame though

Nope!

Take II

?

Hmmm... A blockmap issue, eh?

Let's see

Fixed that

Only the chain to the previous room doesn't work... But that's an easy fix

Not bad... Not bad at all

Well, let's see how it goes then....

I've not yet added the disco ball effect... This is because I need to make sure the rest of this room works, and since this room has a puzzle with Scyndi's whip effect, things are always a bit delicate

At least I had no dupe start ups

Ah! Kthura did start up!

so I guess that means I gotta wait..... and wait and wait... and... er... wait....

And also with one of the bigger archives at this very moment, that explains a lot!

Oh, I get it.... My Backup Tool is once again taking away all CPU capacity.... I should've known

Hmmm... What's that? I guess Kthura is acting up on me a bit... Or did Windows wanna do things differently?

The COVID-19 proved unrefutably that Albert Einstein was right when he said this

Sorry for blurring the readability of this blog, but really I guess the message is only clear this way....

Problem is that the people proving Einstein right are working for governments and health organisations, and that is just sad!

It works, as expected

A test is required but no trouble should be expected, but hey, ya never know, eh?

That should link it all together

Linkup code between 004 and 002

Area 004

It works!

Take V

That feature would be disabled in the release, so don't worry

And for me also disc space as the logs are stored on my hard drive

saves CPU speed

A line of code that would in the Hall of Music create needlessly long long entries, for no reason... I don't need that line anymore anyway

Illegal secret passage revelation

Almost there

Take IV

Got them all now?

Ah, missed one

Fix ignored

Take III

Illegal class usage

Take II

Invalid tag readout check