ZXodus][Engine

[cheveron]

The cRPG engine I'm working on now has a Facebook page at http://facebook.com/zxodus
It should be accessible without a facebook account.

[cheveron]

And a small update to say that the overhead map view and 3x scaler for dungeon monsters are now done.

[cheveron]

The dungeon engine is almost ready. Because it's going to be a long time before ZXodus is complete I've teamed up with another coder to attempt to make Dungeon Crawler Construction Kit available for 48K machines this year. This will be a commercial release and we have a publisher lined up. It will include a level editor that runs on the Spectrum and outputs a game file that can be used with the engine. As well as the level maps you'll be able to edit the monster sprites. There will also be an example game file. You'll be able to distribute your game files, but a copy of the original will be required to play them (legally). Think of it as a simpler version of Bard's Tale Construction Set. My share of any profits will go towards the development of the game I'm writing for ZXodus.

[cheveron]

I've finished the display code and handed it over to Polomint to do the editor and game engine. There will be 50 levels included.




Video: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 225&type=2

[radastan]

¡I love dungeon crawlers!

¿Can be the graphics set custom made?

[cheveron]

¡I love dungeon crawlers!

¿Can be the graphics set custom made?

Yes, but not using the included editor (which will just enable you to edit the monster graphics). You'd have to use something like ZX Paintbrush. The view is built from tiles and many of the tiles are re-used for different purposes so designing a tile set isn't easy. But we are talking to a few people about doing some additional tile sets, possibly for an expansion pack.

[Hark0]

Wow!

Thanks for this!

[cheveron]

There are some videos of the editor up on facebook.com/zxodus if anyone is interested.