Locotus Desperatus

WIP games, tools & toy projects
#1

Download latest version: r2

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/41733151/scrn.png

This is a screenshot of my WIP game Locotus Desperatus.
Anyhow, video of menu (WIP):

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Picture of gamepad input system (shamelessly copied from Steam Big Picture):

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/41733151/Input.png

It will all be done in java2d and will hopefully end up being fast enough to easily maintain vsync.

Edit: Link to source code: https://github.com/novasharper/LocotusDesperatus
Please critique.

Edit 2: Working on porting game to LibGDX

Edit 3: Finished porting menu system. Also moved to separate game thread from graphics thread. Much easier thanks to LibGDX.

#2

was this the one we talked about the story for? glad to see you’ve been able to get started! ;D

#3

Yep. One and the same. It took a long time to write all the game engine code for it (and I still have quite a bit left), but now I should be able to start work on tying the game together and adding content.

#4

Update: Got basic level editing working (sortof).

Two edit modes: paint and edit.

  • With paint, you set tile type to paint, then when a tile is clicked on, it sets it to that.
  • With edit, you select tile, then change its type.

Loads tiles from spritesheet.

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Note: The editor is actually smooth, it just appears to stutter because of the screen recording software I use.

The code for this is on github in the desktop project. The package is daedalus.leveleditor

I need to clean up the code, but right now I am focused on finishing it.

#5

New download: r2

New stuff:

  • Correctly renders weapon fire, combat mechanics soon to be implemented.
  • Re-implemented LOS, simplified code, also, now it works.

Bugs:

  • Sometimes hangs on start because pathfinding is weirdly slow. I am using A* on a 30x20 map and it hangs. If anyone can find the problem, that would be awesome because pathfinding used to be really fast and now sometimes it hangs almost indefinitely.
#6

Here is a sort-of gameplay video:

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No download for this because I have not implemented my resource downloader yet, so the game would crash upon startup. First alpha release should be ready this friday.

#7

Here is a sort-of gameplay video:

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No download for this because I have not implemented my resource downloader yet, so the game would crash upon startup. First alpha release should be ready this friday.