woah impressive ship ^^

Really o.O  Does it have to be? cuz I already drew the ground shadows :(
For now ship stays there all the time but it can sail away if needed.


Thanks Elk :)

UPDATE 9

I'm in a REAL hurry, so I will answer you jal tomorrow or ASAP, I only can post what I've written earlier, talk to all of you soon!!! UPDATE 9 IS UPLOADED!!

http://www.jaumealcazo.com

The time catch me for this update, i did not all what i've planned (i'm sorry mainly for not including last supper and complete floor2 and 3 of medici), but anyways, here is what I did:

Things done in update 9

- Additional guards in the palace.



- You can talk with the bad guard...



... and then he leaves.



- You can talk with the good guard...



... and then he leaves.



- The shops of the twins, both are fully working. You can buy and sell (and cancel and exit : P). Both twins share the same stocks for the moment. That means, if you buy 3 wood to one twin, then the other twin will have 3 wood less in stock. There are animations for the shop, buttons, etc...







- You can talk with David. He's in the entrance of the woods.



- The ship captain walks around the ship, up and down. You can talk with him.





- You can talk with Josquin.



- The monk in the library.



- The collisions are not showed anymore (except a few spots), we superated that stage.

- You can look at this plaque in Medici's palace...



...and this other portraits too...



...and this Boticelli's painting.



- The doors auto-open/auto-close as you approach/go away from them.



- New leo portrait, the sprites are untouched for the moment.

- The couple by the cathedral.



- New cardinal.



- Gypsy dancers.



- Animated pig and dog in the gypsy camp. Notice the pig rotates by itself, lol xD should not be someone there rotating it? I suggest also the dog to bark from time to time ; )



- This doors in the gypsy camp open depending on which direction Leo is taking. There are some bugs with this door and the gate of the gypsys when exiting from the fortune teller wagon (and other buildings too). Explore it please, i'll try to fix that.



- New portraits & frames for the twins





- You can walk the path around the first screen. The guard also has new frames, but this will be changed, as jal said, as he's a unique character to be first met in Medici's palace.



- Incremented again the base speed of Leo (not the running speed).

- New mona animations. Jal, I left the first frame from previous versions. Note the difference in the face, which is more "clean" on first frame. Shouldn't be all the other frames with the "cleaned" face?



- Now you can't run (or use the scooterina inside the shops and the empty house.

- Fixed the bugs that Chris pointed.

- Fixed some important internal map-engine bugs.

- I left the bushes around the Cathedral as in previous versions (now you can't walk behind them) because was a source of bugs.

- Actual name of Mona Lisa in her house.



- You can talk with the Fortune Teller. She actually takes the money from you, as you can check, if you walk back the shops ; ) If you have not enough money, she should say so (I haven't checked...)



Edited by JaumeAlcazo - 03 February 2011 at 1:24pm

Good update.
It needs some instructions and menu shortcuts at least temporarily. Where is inventory, menus, etc.
_______

Paintings suitable for scenes are surprisingly hard to find. Was everything a religious painting in the 1400s o.O

This one is, Saint Nicholas Calms a Tempest at Sea; The Miracle of the Ration of Grain, ca. 1437, by Fra Angelico

Water reflections are simple 50/50 to eliminate need for animations to keep file size manageable. Flying birds will have no ground shadows for technical reasons, else different heights would need unique frames. I'm trying to keep it pure pixel... eventually trans FX may be needed :/

All sprite animations not shown here, just their positions.

@ChrisButton, that is not a playable area so I removed that guard :)

Two more painting scenes.
The single guy animation keeps pointing at the rock wall Leo needs to destroy.

The other scene apparently is the Super Mario of the Renaissance, everyone painted a version of it o.O. They are the part of the maze puzzle.


Tower in BG is for Leo to use the glider invention.

Thanks :) New Leo with more frames in next update.

Almost done with the forest, sneek preview

I like how the guards are trying to occupy the whole space. It's like they're

It's a multi-part puzzle involving movement, logic, and colour -- what's not to love?

I tried following the puzzle in my imagination to see how it played, as best I could, and I'm not perfectly clear as to how it works, so I'd like to ask a couple of questions for clarification, if that's okay:
   1. In the first map of the maze, at the end, when transitioning to the second one, is it being suggested that (after working your way to the end for the first time) the door is locked anyway and you have to go back through the maze and do something with the mirrors to get it unlocked?
   2. How are the lights related to the mirrors? (what does turning them on do?)
   3. Is the bottom version of the maze supposed to look different?
   4. It looks like, in your first map, that there are coloured tangents that break off the main maze map. Is this to suggest where the keys will be placed on your way through the first time, or after you have gotten to the door and realise you need to do something to it? (if you think the first stage is too easy, perhaps you have to put the keys into the towers as you go, to unlock gates or change which areas of the maze are flooded -- but you get more than one choice for each key that you come to, meaning you have to decide which set of doors or sluicegates to leave open as you go. You may even have to leave one in the wrong position to set up a later one, and then come back and move it to then go on in the correct direction.)
   5. May I assume the mirrors in each tower can rotate when there is a key placed in them? And that you only learn you can do this when you get to the locked door at the end and a message box pops up with Leo musing about how the lock must work? (each tower is oh-so conveniently rotated to the wrong position when you start?)
   6. Do the lights increase the power of the mirrors so they can shine all the way to the second gate? Or could the mirrors be raised up through the towers to pop out the top so that they have more range (or can shine past walls/hedges)?
   7. How will Leo be depicted getting from the bottom to the top of the towers? It makes sense that he can only enter a tower with an opening at the bottom, but should the towers have little trapdoors in the top? (either Leo or the lights/mirrors could pop up through them, I guess)
   8. Should the end tower (the goal of the glider stage) be made to look a little different, or slightly more special to suggest its status as a kind of 'switching station' for the raising of the mirrors/lights? It might have a big wheel on the side that spins as this change is made -- powered by the same running water that might be used to flood different sections of the maze? (perhaps even dependent upon which gates you left open before you got into your glider.)

The towers are terrific, and the glider looks great. It's all cool without a doubt, and puzzles of this type are my absolute favourite -- I love it!

Thanks Stratto for the precisions : )

Since u9 i've been working hard on the programming of u10.

Jal, I wrote an incredible long mail to you! : P

@jalonso:
I hate to be the one to have to break it, but Galileo was born in 1564, and Leo died in 1519 -- 45 years earlier! If you already know, and wanted to fudge history for the fun of it, I'm cool with that, but I just wanted to be sure!

Hey, I like the new details you've mentioned for the puzzles (going down into the towers to solve block puzzles to get the keys sounds like great fun!) but if you're up to it, I have some more questions!


   1. The door to the fort?


   2. What is this platform, and from where would the light beams be blocked by it?


   3. Does this mean that the gliding part (the third of your map versions, with the orange paths) is the first part of the puzzle?


   That sounds very cool!


   It looks like you had to give it a lot of thought, and I can hardly imagine how often it must have been a head-scratcher, but it also looks like you've put in a lot of energy and artistry, to help make this more than just another puzzle (for example, I love that you used one of Leo's own maps). I hope we get to see more :D

After Leo gets David's clothes he's next seen at Michaelangelo's pad. Complaining about always being naked or something...This is that one place in every game where the player is sure to get an easy prize for no work.
Ceiling beams and floor mosaic create the Sistine Chapel ceiling.



Edited by jalonso - 23 February 2011 at 2:16pm

I'll post the update 10 by the end of this week, or as much late, the end of the following : )

Update 10

Hello folks! Today I'm bringing you the update 10, it's here:

www.jaumealcazo.com

Let's review the things done in this update:

1 - You can change the wand by simply pressing the 1, 2 and 3 keys.



2 - You can also change the wand by pressing "c" to show the collection. Then select the desired wand and press "c" again. To carry no wand simply press "c", select no wand, and press "c" again.



3 - The wand hud also changes.



4 - When you approach a chest, a clue is shown above the chest. It tells you which wand you need to open that chest.







5 - When a chest is finally open, it gives you a prize (a material), as follows:

Yellow chest (VERY COMMON) gives you from 1 to 9 units of one of this:

     - wood
     - bronze
     - rope
     - pewter
     - wheels
     - wire
     - fabric



Blue chest (COMMON) gives you from 1 to 9 units of one of this:

     - iron
     - grease
     - copper
     - gears



Red chest (RARE) gives you from 1 to 9 units of one of this:

     - bamboo
     - quartz
     - ebony
     - ivory



6 - If you try to open a chest without carrying the right wand, it tells you so.



7 - Leo's assistant. His sprite faces you when talking.



8 - Animated water (not in the forest)



9 - Animated first painting, and walking seagull.



10 - Flying seagulls, walking seagull on the city walls and "benvenutto a firenze". All the panels, conversation panels, etc.. now are 80% alpha transparent.



11 - More seagulls also fly around the ship. The captain does a different walking, and has more frames. The seagulls start to fly at different (random) frames, to avoid flapping their wings all at the same time.





12 - Animated chickens and ducks in the market. They start they animation at random frames. If you don't do this, they seem to dance the thriller of Michael Jackson, because they all were going at the same time xD I had a lot of fun watching the ducks doing the thriller before making they starting frames random xDD



13 - Animated girl and cat.



14 - Animated fruit seller.



15 - Animated flowers seller.



16 - Seem's that jigsaw wants to play a game with you.. ; ) (by the way, yesterday I saw "Saw VII" :P )



17 - Animated vitruvian men and knife thrower, chest, fountain and flags . I'm planning that if you are hit by the knife, one heart goes down, what do you think about this? The animation of the knife thrower has one or 2 frames that are transposed (are in bad order), I will tell you jalonso about this by email to correct.



18 - Now I draw only what is seen on the screen. This increases the performance of the game greatly. Before, Flash was drawing things offstage.

19 - FPS counter on the left upper corner. This tells you the "frames per second" rate. The game now targets 35 fps. This is an estimation. My laptop gets 35.7 fps. The most important thing is that doesn't falls behind 30 fps in a noticeable amount of time. If it does, tell me.



20 - Increased again the base speed of Leo, and the dashing speed.

21 - Cool animated cat in the city walls.



22 - The anunciation painting, with animated girls and fountain:

The girl doesn't block Leo for the moment.





23 - Blue prizes around Florence, and Medici's castle. New action hud "open", "talk", etc... When you open a blue prize it gives you between 1 and 10 florins at random. Check the money counter to see, when you open a blue prize.



24 - New location for the couple.



25 - New guards at the entrance of Medici's Castle.



26 - Chicken seller near the anunciation painting.



27 - Patrolling guards at the beginning.



28 - Carrier of weights. He goes from the ship to the market. I ask jal to draw the frames when he's not carring anything, to go back to the ship. Or, at least, a different type of weight?

The carrier doesn't block Leo for the moment.

He walks very fast. Only for testing purposes. He'll walk slower.







29 - Solved bugs around the gypsies gate and wood gate of the gypsies.

30 - Money hud, the coin shines every 8 seconds more or less.. nice animation of the digits whenever updating the money, and at the beginning. Currently, the only ways to update the money (which I can remember now)are: the shops, the gypsy fortune teller and collecting money at the blue prizes.



31 - Fireplace on Medici's Castle floor1 and floor 2.

32 - Animated big candles in Medici's Castle floor 1, 2 and 3.

33 - Animated small candles in Medici's Castle floor 1.

34 - Animated grey dog in the western upper left corner of the map. Animated brown dogs at beginning area and gypsy camp.



35 - New credits.





36 - New Leo.

Tell me what do you think!

Edited by JaumeAlcazo - 04 March 2011 at 2:03pm

Tht is so cool Good Job u guys its kinda fun

This is looking pretty good.
Just a few points I want to raise:
>Your character can walk on top of other characters sometimes (perhaps just when they're moving).
>You sometimes appear above things you shouldn't.
>I think it'd be far better if it was grid-based. Why have you chosen not to do so?

Oh, so you're not actually mapping it with the tiles at the moment? You've just got massive images of entire areas?

Edited by Dark Matter - 11 March 2011 at 12:33am

Oh, I've got a good idea.

Making Leo walk normal on all the game, except the sokoban's areas, where he would walk from one square to the next!

A sokoban is any area with pushing blocks, like this:



I would make Leo walk from one square to the another only on this areas.

But the transition from one square to the another would be animated, what do you think?

I think walking freely in sokoban's area is looking weird in my laptop, so I will go for this!

Edited by JaumeAlcazo - 12 March 2011 at 7:31am

Oh, I don't know what's up with the image size.
On the left, I'm talking to a person who says 'undefined', because
obviously I wasn't supposed to talk to him. He's right at the start of
the game in front of some boxes, he's unreachable but talk able.

The second image is just some green collision detection boxes that are
still visible. :-)

You don't need two variables. If walk_normal==false, then the other variable will be true. They should never be able to both be the same.

 Great game man, 11/10. But there are some things I found in the first 5 minutes I played:
There's no sound.
When you start, the guard on the bottom of the screen says "undefined".
There are no instructions.
Say I'm facing left and there's a wall to my right (player's up) and I press up, I keep facing left, I should face up.
There are some open doorways i can't go through. Should be closed.
That's all I noticed for now, I'll edit if I find anything else.

Haha, ok. I was just making sure :P

One thing. I've come to this point in the Birth of Venus scene 3 weeks ago but I'm having a hard time pixelling anything other than my game project lately.

There will be a swimming girl on the right.
The lovers will fall down from the trampoline and the swimming girl will climb on the shell and take Venus' cloth to dry herself, leaving her naked :)

What shall I do with this idea? Is an animated GIF of the whole scene enough?

PREVIEW

Sorry guys for being some many time without a word.

I've been busy and also working hard with Medici. This update is specially difficult to program, but it's near it's completion.

Today I bring you images of the upcoming update.

*** ONLY IMAGES, IT'S STILL NOT UPDATED ***

- Inventory at the beginning, obtaining the Scribe's Scroll:





- Beginning the Cardinal's Quest:











- Sketching the Sailor's Painting:



- Sailor's painting sketched, going to sketch the annunciation: (DON'T MIND THE COUNTER OF THE PAINTINGS, Jal, noticed that only 1 digit on the leftest part and 2 digits on the rightest part? What happens when Leo has 10/15 pictures or more??)



- Annunciation sketched, browsing the paintings:







- The gate of the elements:



















- Conversation with guy and sketching his painting:











- I'M TESTING THE SOKOBANS AT THE BEGINNING TO AVOID WALKING TO THE FOREST EVERY TIME I COMPILE







- Ladies:



- Kids:





- Salvia for the ladies:



- Sister's quest:

- Luisa (she says 3 things):



- Maddalena (she says 2 things)





- Contessina (says 4 things)





- Lucrezia (says 1 thing)



*** ONLY IMAGES, IT'S STILL NOT UPDATED ***

Chris

Thanks for the effort! But I feel it's too happy and optimistic for the game, maybe in a particular point could be useful (at the end of the game?). For the majority of the game I would use renaissence tunes, barroque, J.S. Bach, harpsichord chiptuned, that kind of things..

For the cathedral, would be nice to hear some apocalyptic choirs there, for instance:

KIND OF MUSIC I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR IN THE CATHEDRAL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XOfE96ABFI

Another idea for the Cathedral (Marcia Funebre sulla Morte d'un Eroe, from one of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonate) http://www.madore.org/~david/music/midi/b_fun.mid

Gecimen

Thanks for the effort! Looks good! Maybe the wood too bright and plain (no shadows)? Also agree with jal in the perspective.

Offtopic

Also this is a little offtopic, but yesterday we visited the sister of my mother, she's relatively young (around 60). She's in the hospital, she has the same illness from Stephen Hawking. She can't move and can't talk. Only can move a little bit her fingers, she barely can eat, drink or breath. When she tries to talk, her mouth is full of soam. I'm shocked by seeing her in this way, the disease has been very, very fast, and I'm very sorry. Life's very cruel :' (

Let's enjoy this life every second and minute while we can.

Edited by JaumeAlcazo - 10 April 2011 at 7:45am

Originally posted by Mr. Jaume

Thanks for the effort! But I feel it's too happy and optimistic
for the game, maybe in a particular point could be useful.
For the majority of the game I would use renaissence tunes, etc.

No worries, I made it just for my amusement anyways, I would have
never had any intention of putting THAT in the game! hahaha :-)
I will have a try at composing some music for you though, which you can
decide to use or not - I won't be offended or anything, it's good practice
for me. :-D

The preview of the eleventh update looks very good, too~

In one of the screenshots, did you mean to write:
"You can't catch me!" instead of "You don't catch me!" ?? :-)

so so so amazing!

 

I think it the "sketch" idea is quite interesting, and it'd be much better to have this action rather than attempting to "talk" and being told that you do not want to disturb... :P

 

>Music

 

I love the idea of a sort of etheral sound for the cathedral, though feel an upbeat, folk-style song would fit perfectly for Florence's streets. The Renaissance was the time to be happy for Florentines, after-all!