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 So would anyone be interested in a fangame, like this...
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I was really bored and had this idea which I think is pretty cool but idk if I should continue making it or not. Would anyone be interested in playing it? It's sort of like SM63's level designer on steroids - you would be able to create levels (although they would be a lot more flexible - about as powerful as NSMB's level format) and play them. Each level could have an "objective" set for completion: you could have to grab a star at a specific point, for example, or collect 100 coins. They'd be downloadable (I could even create a site to share levels for it) When you start the game you'd see a list of levels you have, and you'd be able to choose one to play or make one with an editor program. So is it worth making or not? edit: I know it sounds a lot like what Hello posted in the FGD, but it's not a ripoff of it.  I thought of this idea a few days ago before ever having seen Hello's game. This post has been edited by Treeki on Jun 22 2009, 08:06 PM
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the **** have you been reading mpuz's design sheets
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| QUOTE (Treeki @ Jun 22 2009, 07:24 PM) | no, I'm just psychic
progress is good so far after about 2 hours of work: (okay, well not THAT good, but I procrastinate a lot)
also I stole the basic structure of NSMB's level format |
oh good so you're not using level thumbnails apparently
I'M STILL BEING ORIGINAL SOMEWHAT WOO
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| QUOTE (Comrade Kesha @ Jun 22 2009, 07:39 PM) | | is DLC the future of fan gaming? |
no the future of fangaming is just changing a "credits.ini" file
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| QUOTE (Xgoff @ Jun 23 2009, 02:18 AM) | | the **** have you been reading mpuz's design sheets |
so how much of this seems familiar to you now? :P
| QUOTE | == Level Format ==
Header: 0x70 bytes
Each level is split up into 14 blocks. The offset and size of a block is defined as two little-endian 4-byte integers. (They may be 0 for a blank block)
The header is composed of 14 offsets and sizes. For example, the first version of test.lvl starts with "7000 0000 1700 0000" - this means that the first block is at offset 0x70, and is 0x17 bytes long. The rest of the header continues with 13 other similar structures.
Block 1: Metadata
This block is currently composed like this:
- unsigned char: Length of the level name
- string: Level name (Length is defined by the above variable)
- unsigned char: Length of the level author
- string: Level author (Length is defined by the above variable)
- unsigned short: Level width
- unsigned short: Level height
Block 2: Tiles
This block contains the tile data for a level as a consecutive string of tiles. (Row wrapping is handled by the engine - after reading level_width tiles, it will automatically go onto the next row)
Each tile is two bytes, read as an unsigned short. They are mapped like this:
If the top bit is set to 1, a rudimentary form of compression is used - a set of blank tiles will be placed. The tile number is used as the amount of blank tiles to be placed.
The next bit is reserved, and the bottom 14 bits are used as the tile number (allowing up to 16383 tiles - not counting tile 0, which is blank)
Block 3: Collision Overrides
While each tile has collision settings set up by itself, a level designer may want to override them (to create a secret passageway, for example) - therefore collisions can be overridden per tile.
This block is simply a sequence of 5-byte structures, which are composed like this:
- unsigned short: X position
- unsigned short: Y position
- unsigned char: new collision byte |
by the way: Notepad is terrible at handling word wrapping
obviously the format will have more, this is just a start so I can get my basic engine working
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why aren't you using notepad++ it's awesome
also i decided to be lazy and not do a binary format for levels **** YEAH TABLES
BENEFITS:
1. they can be plain text!!!
2. i don't have to waste time writing a specialized loader or designing a format!!
3. they can still be compressed decently!!
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DIRECTIVE 3 (FEATHER DUSTER): you must address me (xgoff) as "Sir Master Xgofficus his Highest and Most Awesome the Third"; failure to comply with this term may invoke one or both of the above directives, and i will leave a burning bag of **** on your doorstep
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| QUOTE (Xgoff @ Jun 23 2009, 03:35 PM) | why aren't you using notepad++ it's awesome
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I use notepad++ for code
I was just too lazy to open another tab... ok well i'll do it my taskbar is too full
| QUOTE | | also i decided to be lazy and not do a binary format for levels **** YEAH TABLES |
that's what I did for my last engine (although they were just python functions embedded in the code) anyway so far I've revised the level format (to add layers for tiles) and compiled a tileset... can anyone think of anything I've missed? http://treeki.shacknet.nu/tileset.png (credits to Black Squirrel and Guss)
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