Here is the 'correct' version of the bridge

@Jim, how is the tree doing?


Edited by Hapiel - 27 June 2013 at 9:38am

Hmm, right now the character is being displayed behind both layers of the bridge! Also it comes out underneath the front layer, I should fix that.

The character being displayed behind both layers was my fault. Should be corrected now.
The front layer could use some grass for instance so that it covers up the feet of the character.

Best regards from
M.E.

Well, in the WIKI I still see the front layer without any grass. The middle layer has some grass so maybe we are talking about different tiles?!

Updated the game also with a save/load construction.

Best regards from
M.E.

Did an edit of skeddles leaf monster guy...
Really liked the idea. : )

Edit:
Did a base with A3um's girls head. Made an Archaeologist out of her. She could chill in town but you can also meet her in the jungle. Left a base for her if anyone wants to change her up/ make her better. lol

CC-BY-3.0 OK to use these...lol Not really all my stuff anyways

2 Edit:
Working on a Totem pole design thing...suppose to be zebra stripes. : / IDK I want it to spit fire out of its mouth though.

Edited by KEtsumio - 05 July 2013 at 9:29am

I love what you did here! The more I watch it the more I like it and the snapping back action is genious!

I made a tiny edit, changed the frame rate to 8 spf (which is the standard for OPP) and added a pause in the middle not to make the attack go to fast.
See it uploaded on the wiki :)

The front post was definitely in need of an update! I changed the todo list and linked to all the wiki pages related to the jungle set.

As for tSR, I don't know the place so well but I think that once we have a clear goal for the game some advertisement would not be out of place. This is of course done best by those who are already members there and know the community, do you happen to be there?

Other edit i made

Edited by guima1901 - 09 July 2013 at 5:42am

Flash version works for me. Also Jim, do we have hope of seeing the tree finished? :D

Still working on the totem pole design... do-dee-dum XD
Going for more of a rock look instead of the zebra stripes now. Any FB would be helpful.. : )

@Hapiel Saw your edit of the Arch Girl in characters, she looks awesome now. Glad she is getting some love! LOL

Hello All,

Last week and a half I worked on dynamic-tiles so that we can have different Tilesheets
for each level and/or let people use their assets completely seperately from the 'community-game'.

Again, everything is pre-alpha and hard to use for yourself (no level-editor at the moment)

So if you just want to watch the state of the process please visit the history pages :

OPP Game Pages

If you want to investigate and play around with the Loader you can use the following text as
a short instruction how to use the Loader with your own files.

I created a kind of Player/Loader for the tiles. No other characters and character definitions
at the moment, only tiles. And also for proof-of-concept, I only created the background and action
layers, but the others should be fairly easy to replicate but have to wait for other parts to
be completed.

For the time being I don't want to put resources on a server but I did want artists to have the
ability to upload their own work.

My current solution is to use Dropbox.

Each Dropbox-account has a Public folder and you can upload your own tilesheets to your own dropbox.

When you right-click on the uploaded file you get the option to copy the public URL.
This URL looks like this:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/ __YOURNUMBER__ /scene1.txt

Keep this number because you will need it when you start the Loader.

You can download the files that I have put on Dropbox for your own reference and modifcation

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/107982821/action.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/107982821/background.png

Both 512x512 pixels and tiled on 32x32.

The loader only collides with tiles that are from the action.png file. The other tiles are transparent.
This means we have to devide the current tilesheets into multiple and put the grass and soil on
seperate layers.

The most important file that you have to put in the dropbox Public folder is the file called scene1.txt.
In this file you can use different secure paths to the images you want to use yourself.

The sample is:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/107982821/scene1.txt

At the moment the filename: scene1.txt is hard-coded as well as the dropbox-base. The Loader accepts
the number as source folder, so it can be the one that you host!

In the scene1.txt you can change a lot yourself.

scenenr=
You can change the 1 into another number, but you have to alter all the other references to this
scene-number in the file. The purpose is that you could have multiple scenes in one file, but maybe
this will be changed in future file-formats.

1.background.url=
The 1. stands for the scenenr and refers to the scenenr name.
The URL used by myself is the dropbox folder.
Flash is strict in accepting only the site that it launched from so modification should be carefully made!

1.action.url=
The location of the PNG file for the collision tiles.

1.hero.name=
At the moment hero_1 works

1.hero.x=
Tile column where the player starts from
1.hero.y=
Tile row where the player starts

1.0.nrofitems=
The 1 applies to the scenenr, the 0 is the background layer.
We need to tell the loader how many tiles we have on this scene for it to load all of them.

Then follows (nrofitems-)times the following three lines:
1.0.<item-counter>.x=
1.0.<item-counter>.y=
1.0.<item-counter>.t=
X=row, Y=column, T=tilenr (0-based)

After the nrofitems-count the action layer information starts:

1.2.nrofitems=
<repeated>
1.2.<nr>.x=
1.2.<nr>.y=
1.2.<nr>.t=

The layers 1 and 3 will come later.


You can play with these things, but you could also wait for a level-editor


Best regards from
M.E.

made something i dont know the name in english

hope it suits better the style of the cave and can be used on jungle as well

I am confused. Why is the ladder so much longer on one foot than the other?  It looks very escher-ish.

I edited it to show how I think it should look, to me.

The bottom right foot is 240% longer than the bottom left foot. 20% would be, in my books, the maximum length you could call 'a tiny bit off'.
One foot is way longer than the other in the first image.

I will grant you, each side is technically the same length.

Online Demo

Controls:
Jump = Spacebar
Charge Jump = Shift
Advance = Spacebar/Return

Here is the current demo of the Endless Runner a teammate and I are working on slowly. Note that the charge jump controls are experimental and not fully implemented. We just wanted to post something playable regardless of polish. It is using all art from the OPP. We are hoping to add obstacles and trees in next.

All feedback is welcomed, though this is very early.

Edited by Cheetah - 25 August 2013 at 6:41pm

Definitely not at the procedural generated point yet, that is actually just two screens worth of platforms in random order. Having those platforms procedurally generated is the goal though. I'm working with a programmer, we are just hobbiests seeing if we can get something done and out there on mobile.

Edit of Skeddles' wasp. Finished for tonight, but I'll be touching it up and adding doing some animations.

Definitely looks better. The colors I used were a bit too strong. I may to some small tweaks to your edit and have a go at animating it later this week.

That animation is great! The changes you made are really cool, I love the black texture at the back. The only part that bothers me is the shoulder/back area, it doesn't look bad or anything, but its not right either (Maybe I'm being too critical?). It is such a small area to edit so I don't think it would have an impact on the animation. Maybe add a bit of that black texture?

Edited by Damian - 17 November 2013 at 12:12pm

The archaeologist is looking good, but the animation seems to be moving a bit too much for an idle state, especially the map.

I like the way that the leaf monster is looking, but it looks like it could still use some cleanup before animating. I may make an edit later this evening.

In regards to the tree, I actually kind of like the use of the gray as a shadow, which gives the tree more depth.

Went a bit further with the edit than I intended. Oh well.

Edit: tweaked a few more features

Edited by Noburo - 06 December 2013 at 4:13pm

Thanks for the feedback on different hardware and I'm glad you liked it! We have been thinking about doing some procedural drawing stuff, particularly with having different vertical environments. Such has having the main islands, and then having various shaped and sized trees that you could jump on. Figuring out a clean way to procedurally draw platform trees with some variety is rather daunting.