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• • mOOnpunk
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  • 2 Nov, 2018
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  Hey, from what i recall Dungeon Keepers ai was heavily scripted with the enemy bases pre built and triggers setting off events.

  I always thought of DK as more of an RTS then a base builder, i'm not yet certain how closely i will end up following DKs design, almost certainly i'll be adding my own stuff in, so i'm not so sure about the ai yet. I agree though, theres no part of DK, outside of 3d, that c3 can't handle.

  I've had to pause development for a moment as i discovered a bug in the LOS behaviour thats now been fixed for the next c3 update.

• • mOOnpunk
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  • 31 Oct, 2018
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  Next problem is getting the minions to dig the rooms and build stuff.

  For now i paint on dig commands which will tell the minions the tiles i want digging out.

  My approach to the actual digging is first using a fast tilemap 'flood fill' to get all the tiles the minion has access to so i know a pathfinding test will always return true.

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/dhdt28lutjsz8f3/fungeonKeeperFloodTest.mp4?raw=1

  Then i can generate a list of tiles next to the ones i want digging out thats reachable. Of those i order the list by those with direct line of sight and nearest, then those without line of sight, perhaps in another connecting room.

  The work order list is simple, the minion will always do the closest task. In order to re-task them you pick them up (which cancels their current job) and drop them near the job you want them to do. They then pick the closest again and do the job until complete and move to the next one.

  Here is the next step.

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/79ty7x7tyetmltw/fungeonKeeperDigging1.mp4?raw=1

  Next i'll code the actual digging and a drag and drop of minions.

• • mOOnpunk
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  • 31 Oct, 2018
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  Join me as i attempt to rediscover some of the magic of my youth by recreating one of my most loved childhood games...Dungeon Keeper (in 2d).

  I will document my adventures here.

  Problem number 1, auto tiling a tilemap, including shadows. I use the bitwise method.

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/n03hhz8m3k6cuh7/fungeonKeeper1.mp4?raw=1

  I also did screen 'drag and scroll' and zooming, and tested a minion moving around with the inbuilt pathfinding.

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/sk6jg5v5ed8abr5/fungeonKeeperPathTest.mp4?raw=1

• • mOOnpunk
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  • 26 Oct, 2018
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  Ashley would it be possible to have the spacing data field of the sprite font object support .fnt file as well as .json? This seems to be the standard format.

  I want to convert text fonts to bitmaps for use with spritefont object, there are a number of apps that do it but they all output the spacing data to .fnt. along with the sprite sheet file.

  There is something about converting .fnt to .json on GitHub but i dont understand it.

  https://www.npmjs.com/package/bmfont2json

  https://github.com/mattdesl/bmfont2json

  I know there is the nice sprite font generator written by blackhornet but its windows only and i'm on mac.

  https://www.construct.net/en/forum/game-development/tools-and-resources-27/sprite-font-generator-v3-64038

  Or better yet it would be great if you just load a font into the spritefont object and c3 converts it for you.

  Theres linked to some code that does it: http://www.codehead.co.uk/cbfg/

• • mOOnpunk
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  • 24 Oct, 2018
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  Dictionary keys are strings.

  If dictionary key = str(tileX)&"-"&str(tileY)&"-"&"Tree" do whatever should work.

  If you were storing the tileXY in variables then make sure they are strings and you do - set variable mytileX to str(tileX). Although i think construct should convert a int to string in a string variable automatically.

• • mOOnpunk
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  • 23 Oct, 2018
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  You can't have else in a subevent because for the subevent to trigger the top event must return true, which would be a contradiction of the else statement.

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  • 19 Oct, 2018
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  Search isn't working. No matter what i type i get a 404 "ah nuts we could find that".

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• • mOOnpunk
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  • 18 Oct, 2018
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  It might also interest people who want to enter a game jam, which typically dont last that long.

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  • 18 Oct, 2018
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  I think a monthly or even weekly subscription is a good idea for those who simply want to maintain a published game project.

• • mOOnpunk
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  • 18 Oct, 2018
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  Safari for mac, version 11.1.2 (13605.3.8).

• • mOOnpunk
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  • 18 Oct, 2018
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  Wow really excited for this. Does it use the c3 runtime now its enabled by default?

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  • 18 Oct, 2018
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  I have issues with the new design.

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/zf42m3bube5v2y2/topbannerBug.gif?dl=raw

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/wtnin8fdbbd4zhc/Oct-18-2018%2011-30-58.gif?dl=raw

• • mOOnpunk
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  • 13 Oct, 2018
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  Releases never have the same number, so if a beta is r120 and they release a stable it will be r121. The next beta would be r122. Releases are always incremental regardless of if that release is deemed stable or beta.

  You can open you project in any version, beta or stable, the same or later as the release it was saved in but not prior to that, as a later version might have code changed or might support new features which are not in the earlier releases.

  Keep in mind that beta is beta for a reason and that if you are worried a new version will break your game you should stick to stable builds, or at least always have backups.

• • mOOnpunk
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  • 5 Oct, 2018
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  Ah yes, solid 60fps now.

  I think a game like this exists called "gratuitous space battles".

• • mOOnpunk
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  • 5 Oct, 2018
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  Nice idea for a game, but the demo runs slow on my computer, very choppy.