Retro Game Coders

APRIL 29, 2022

Now we can move sprites in STOS we need to put things together to see how we can actually begin creating playable games. Along the way we will look at some more new features and concepts so you can understand more of how STOS works versus programming languages and game engines you might be used to. Collision Detection and Game Over.

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Im trying to create game with isometric tiledmap and im using Tiled app to create the map. Everything work fine till i’m trying to change a tiled at runtime via setTileGIDAt. Nothing happen after I call the function, no error, no warning or anything.

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Im trying to create game with isometric tiledmap and im using Tiled app to create the map. Everything work fine till i’m trying to change a tiled at runtime via setTileGIDAt. Nothing happen after I call the function, no error, no warning or anything.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 27, 2025

In a tactics game such as Final Fantasy Tactics, units get their turn based on their individual speed, which can also be affected by things such as slow and haste. The first line we send a signal to tell our turn controller to continue, and then we select the unit’s tile. 7thSage again, welcome back to part 15 – Turn Order.

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Grid Sage Games

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

. “Semi-modal” 45-Row UI Layout Although players are free to continue using the full 60-row layout originally designed for Cogmind, anyone who does not mind sacrificing some convenience in exchange for greater cell size can use 33% larger tiles and text by switching to a 45-row layout. It was a lot.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

A lot of people asked about making 2D maps and how to use different types of tiles like water vs dirt. So I decided to keep the visual style of this project as a simple 2D game and to make my boards with a Tilemap so that I could demonstrate solutions for those questions. It has everything we did in the previous lesson ready to go.

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Retro Game Coders

JANUARY 31, 2024

Let’s see how far we can get porting my forever-work-in-progress dungeon game to the computer! Converting Dungeon for Agon Light My WIP dungeon game running on Agon Light coded in C Dungeon is a conversion of my work in progress top-down dungeon-delving game. library that really helps when programming text mode games.

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 17, 2024

In that project, we had some unique challenges thanks to a non-square board where tiles were optional. In addition we had to consider tile heights – and whether or not a unit could jump as high as needed. In contrast, the pathfinding in this lesson will be for a 2D square board with no missing tiles.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 6, 2024

Different creatures can be different sizes, and accordingly may occupy different numbers of tiles, or be able to reach different tiles (such as for attacking). At the top of the class I added a "tileSize" const that is set to 5 and represents the number of "feet" a tile on the game board spans.

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The Liquid Fire

JUNE 4, 2023

Good news, I also found a link to more online docs of the second edition game mechanics here. As I understand it, this is all Open Game content, so we should be good there. I won’t be copying the text of the adventure, but I will show how to have a flow that alternates between the exploration and encounter phases of a game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 12, 2017

Nodes: Add modulate (color) to TileSet tiles. It might also crash on some projects, it was only tested on simple demos so far. Editor: Add option for automatically closing the output when stopping the game. Editor: Several enhancements for the tile map editor. GDScript: Add enumerators (enums). exporter to Godot 3.0

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 20, 2024

Although I imagine that for the most part the player will only be controlling medium sized units (which occupy a single tile), I also want to make A.I. Even worse is that our current iteration of the pathfinder does not include blocked tiles in its path map, so as it is now, I can’t see a path to an opponent.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

If you recall, for my initial Cogmind map zoom demo upon adding Quad support to REX, all I did was change one thing in the game: the map font size. Things get a lot more complex if we want to support both the regular map font and quads, not to mention the ability to swap them dynamically while the game is running.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Auto-tiling in tile maps. The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. is the ability to export games coded in C#, as such it's not fully usable in production yet. Here is an example using the older 3D platformer demo: VR support.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As I start fleshing out the “tactics” side of the game, where position actually matters, then I could also use physics to see what is within range of an attack or a cast spell. Because of the grid-based nature of my game, I position my sprites at whole number coordinate positions like "(2, 3)".

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The Liquid Fire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Each game will likely have a different set of stats, and the formulas that use them will vary. Whether that be how many hits a door can take, how many HP a character has, or the number of tiles a unit can move. We’ll start with a list of fairly standard ones and store these in an enum.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Good ideas do come spontaneously, albeit inspired by random discussions among players, reactions to various situations in game, even playing other games and consuming various non-game media. An ancient demo image from Cogmind pre-alpha with a deteriorating item state listed on a hypothetical item.

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The Liquid Fire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

On a game board, each square usually represents 5 feet. There are different actions for moving, and is why you see “Stride” vs “Step” A step is only a single tile of movement and can avoid acts of opportunity, whereas a Stride can move much further, but does provoke acts of opportunity.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Wojtek Pe 's Forest scene demo made in Godot 4.0 As much as we love exciting new features, we also want to see people create games on the full spectrum of devices for everyone to enjoy. There are new CPU architecture options in the export dialog for exporting a game.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

As the coronavirus lockdown continues, a lot of people are having a hard time getting their board game fix. The ability to play board games online, however, has never been easier. That’s because it’s easy to make board games in Tabletop Simulator, an inexpensive board game simulation tool available on the Steam store.

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The Liquid Fire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We will also provide a tile based room for them to fight in. I only care about facing left and right, though if I were making a top-down game I might want other directions as well. I want the combatants that are lower on the tile map to appear above the combatants higher on the tile map so that they appear closer.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 13, 2024

They can potentially occupy the same tile as other units, and so our current selection process would fail to handle this when merely selecting a tile location. They can potentially occupy the same tile as other units, and so our current selection process would fail to handle this when merely selecting a tile location.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As I’ve stated many times before, my first influence for Cogmind was the original BattleTech board game , where my friends and I wouldn’t just take stock mechs, but designed our own based on the rules, selecting the right combo of weapons, heat sinks, armor, and special tech. Botcube compatibility highlighting demo.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

Warning: this is a fairly technical game developer-y post. For an upcoming project commission, I'm making a 2D game with crowd simulation and simple controls that works well on mobile browsers. Which game engine should I use to maximize ease of learning and compatibility, and manage hundreds of simple objects on-screen?

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 16, 2025

This time around we’re going to set the attack’s Area of Effect, or in other words, how many tiles the attack hits. An archer may hit a single tile with his arrow, or a mage may cause a massive explosion hitting multiple tiles. This one is pretty simple, it just returns the single tile as long as the tile is valid.

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In the loop we auto add the “start” tile with “retValue.append(start)” However, I think it would be beneficial if we were able to send it through our filter like any other tile, as we’ll use in some of our ranges later. First, lets make a small fix in the RangeSearch() function. _min.y = min(_min.y,

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