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Title: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Hungry on August 28, 2009, 03:44:42 am

Toady, forgive me...

I must tell you, I'm ganna make a ACII DF based space game.....not a sequel, more of a parady.

I'm working on the proof of concept right now, if all works out I'll have a graphical mockup in less then a week...and be finished programming a horrible base game in a year if i'm lucky.

It dosen't got a name, but that dosen't matter....yet.

Uneasily, Mr. Hungry

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Jackrabbit on August 28, 2009, 03:59:32 am

Fear not, we don't mind. Because you'll fail to come anywhere near Toady's magnum opus. Still, looking forward to seeing it.

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Vester on August 28, 2009, 04:13:52 am

The Lord Toady is nothing if not a benevolent god, who smiles upon us, his faithful followers, and says, "Yea, do what thou wilt, even a parody of my most hallowed masterpiece", and he is slow to anger, and possessed of great wit and charm, and also has mastery of the sacred guitar.

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Mulch Diggums on August 28, 2009, 05:31:21 am

Heathen! Traitor to the faith! Burn the heretic and all his treasonous text, full of poison to the heart of hearts! Let them be cleansed on the bonfire of all these evil impurities and let their ashes be scattered in the fields and rivers!

No one expects the Dwarven Inquisition!

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: JoshuaFH on August 28, 2009, 09:42:27 am

Quote from: Hungry on August 28, 2009, 03:44:42 am

Toady, forgive me...

I must tell you, I'm ganna make a ACII DF based space game.....not a sequel, more of a parady.

I'm working on the proof of concept right now, if all works out I'll have a graphical mockup in less then a week...and be finished programming a horrible base game in a year if i'm lucky.

It dosen't got a name, but that dosen't matter....yet.

Uneasily, Mr. Hungry

I'm not quite sure what the rules are, but I think you can't make parodies if you can't spell parOdy.

But I kid, be sure to update us on the development of this game of yours.

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: florian on August 28, 2009, 10:42:37 am

Quote from: chaoticjosh on August 28, 2009, 09:42:27 am

Quote from: Hungry on August 28, 2009, 03:44:42 am

Toady, forgive me...

I must tell you, I'm ganna make a ACII DF based space game.....not a sequel, more of a parady.

I'm working on the proof of concept right now, if all works out I'll have a graphical mockup in less then a week...and be finished programming a horrible base game in a year if i'm lucky.

It dosen't got a name, but that dosen't matter....yet.

Uneasily, Mr. Hungry

I'm not quite sure what the rules are, but I think you can't make parodies if you can't spell parOdy.

But I kid, be sure to update us on the development of this game of yours.

His work is none of your bleak human 'parodies'! It has transcended parodiness and is a 'parady'!
I really should work instead of lurking on this forum …

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Jack_Bread on August 28, 2009, 04:24:28 pm

I can't wait to see DWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARVESSSSSSS IIIIIIIIINNNNN SSSSSSPPPPAAAAACCCCE.

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Hungry on August 28, 2009, 05:06:26 pm

Ok, a list of preliminary goals and some random art files is about all I got right now...

Development page....if you have anything to add PLEASE do.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

CORE COMPONENTS
* SPACE, STARS, PLANETS, ASTEROIDS
* SHIPS
* DWARVES, ELVES, HUMANS, GOBLINS, KOBOLDS
* AI, TIME, AGEING, DEATH
* MINING, RESOURCES, MATERIAL, BUILDING, TRADEING
* COLLISION
* HEAT, MELTING, FREEZEING, FIRE, FRICTION
* PRESSURE, ATMOSPHERE, WATER
* PARTICALS, GRAVITY, MOVEMENT, LIGHT
* LARGE VIEW, MEDIUM VIEW, SMALL VIEW
* CONTROL, INTERFACE
* NAMES, TRAINING, SKILLS, ENTITY UNIQUENESS
* HISTORY, EVENT TRACKING
* SOUND
* MENUS, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
* RANDOM GAME CREATION
* CUSTOMIZABILITY
* AI INTERACTION
* EATING, RESPIRATION, DRINKING, SYNTHASIS, REACTIONS, AGEING
* TRADE ROUTES, CIVILIZATIONS, ARMED FORCES, COLONIZATIONS
* DISEASES, CREATURES, WILDLIFE, MEGA BEASTS, ALEINS
----
REQUIRED THINGS, OLD BUGS AND PRIORITY REQUESTS
----
BLOATS
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POWERGOALS
----

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: The13thRonin on August 28, 2009, 07:44:19 pm

Quote from: Jack_Bread on August 28, 2009, 04:24:28 pm

I can't wait to see DWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARVESSSSSSS IIIIIIIIINNNNN SSSSSSPPPPAAAAACCCCE.

Heh... What's next? Dwarves on a plane?

I have had it with these mother****ing dwarves on this mother****ing plane!

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: FluffyToast J on August 28, 2009, 07:46:42 pm

Ive had it with these motherf***ing dwarves in this motherf***ing fort!

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Phantom on August 28, 2009, 07:49:38 pm

Call Of (Cthulu) Armok

Medal Of Microline II

Call Of Socks

Brothers on Beds
The Road To the Hills of Pus

Command And Mine
Microline Alert 2

Dwarf Wars
Battlefields 2

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: ein on August 28, 2009, 08:41:43 pm

In the Mountains of +Cat Tallow Biscuits+

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Jack_Bread on August 28, 2009, 11:28:11 pm

Quote from: Manifold1 on August 28, 2009, 07:46:42 pm

Ive had it with these motherf***ing dwarves in this motherf***ing fort!

☼Microline Lever☼

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Hungry on August 28, 2009, 11:32:53 pm

WTH are you talking about....this better not be a derailment...

and besides it would be a ☼Orthoclause Lever☼...

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: kholhaus on August 29, 2009, 10:11:37 pm

Indiana Urist, the fortress of the crystal sock.

Anyhow. I doubt you'll get this up, but in the case I do, I've compressed all my greatest joyous expressions into a pringles fun-size canister. You have five minutes. No C++, ASCII Only, Final Destination.

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Kagus on September 01, 2009, 06:24:02 pm

Quote from: Hungry on August 28, 2009, 11:32:53 pm

Orthoclause

Ah yes, Ortho Clause.  A small, bearded man wearing seven pig tail cloaks colored a lovely crimson with red root dye, who travels around the world on Moonstone Eve with his chariot of flying cats and delivers stone mugs to all the good boys and girls. 

Well, he gives them to the bad boys and girls too.  Honestly, he's just trying to get rid of the damn things now.

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Jackrabbit on September 01, 2009, 06:43:18 pm

You know what? Sod it, I'm sigging that due to comedic genius.

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Killas[SiN] on September 04, 2009, 06:00:51 am

Progress? What's going on? Lost focus?

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Hungry on September 04, 2009, 01:32:57 pm

I got got a small movie planned out, to showcase an imagining of it, if I ever get it to be playable, although for now I'm working on the tri layer swich through, and makeing ACII graphics by hand....and multi layer cuts of acii dwarven ships are pounding my deadline to bits...

Progress into ACII main mixed graphics presentation of artifical game features:~37% as of Sep 4th.
Estamated date of completion of ACIIMGP: Expect oct as the soonest of viable clips.

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Zironic on September 04, 2009, 07:20:15 pm

Make it as complex as possible. Have it so people can actively track oxygen levels - with control rooms necessary to keep it flowing smoothly. Oxygen would need to be produced. I once had an idea for a DF mod involving making a desert world - and having you pretend to be on mars. However, it wouldn't work until I can make the dwarves wear space suits as an excess skin. I planned to have plants grow and be turned into oxygen (booze).

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Hungry on September 06, 2009, 01:54:48 am

I'm making controling ship systems one of the main features of the game, and haven't we all tryed to emulate space on DF at least once, I worked out the space suit problems with temps but brought up water issues...and frozen/molten world actually work sometimes...

A basic rundown of how the game will function in tri-layer...and that dont mean three z levels.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The first tri-layer is the entire game universe, like how in DF there is a global map where you generally see what a block of map contains by its figure, this is probably the most important to whole game world and will track all the stars.

The second tri-layer is a solar system and veiwed by what is around a star/star cluster, this layer tracks planets, asteroids, meteors, and ships as individual units (being controlled by player, or ai), much like when you travel around in adventure mode in DF.

The last is of course individual ships, planets, asteroids, ect... this veiw is the only z layered part of the game, and in is like most DF fortress mode in the exemption that things outside move around as the ship moves, and this layer is the only one where actual dwarven entities can be seen in game.

Of course I'm thinking of adding a lower layer in controlling an individual, flying shuttle pods, and going off alone to do things most dwarven, but this is for the game a frill, that will come later in its life.

Title: Sweet As.
Post by: Killas[SiN] on September 11, 2009, 03:25:50 am

Sounds good.

You should contract Beefmo or Mayday to make a graphical tileset, primarily because I can't stand ASCII.

Other than that, keep on workin'!

Title: Re: Sweet As.
Post by: Jackrabbit on September 12, 2009, 04:17:19 am

Quote from: Killas[SiN] on September 11, 2009, 03:25:50 am

Sounds good.

You should contract Beefmo or Mayday to make a graphical tileset, primarily because I can't stand ASCII.

Other than that, keep on workin'!

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE.

Not that I'm angry or anything. That'd be silly.

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Vester on September 12, 2009, 04:18:27 am

Surprisingly, I actually prefer DF in ASCII mode.

Same for Nethack.

ASCII has charm.

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Jackrabbit on September 12, 2009, 04:19:19 am

I know what you mean. Not that I don't use tilesets from time to time.

Title: Re: May Toady have mercy....
Post by: Hungry on September 12, 2009, 07:40:45 pm

I'm going to build the game with base ACII and accept Graphical tilesets, although my handleing of them might differ...

Spoiler: Said the eater to the first toad... (click to show/hide)

On the topic of tilesets, some questions that I've come across.
How does DF handle its graphics tables to place ACII or graphic tiles in its predesignated configuration?
Also what kind of configuration does the DF program use when it puts the game window display together?
Is the DF program based of an earlier ACII handling program, like kobold quest's build, or its own standing build?

Also I will hope to have my graphical setup for working the screen by either this week or next.