The iPhone Project

[Gan]

I'm sorry I wasn't very talkative or paying too much attention at the meeting but...

YEAH! I got it! I've converted the extremely slow CoreGraphics version of the iPhone RPG to OpenGl! Works perfectly! Super fast! Before when playing on the iPhone you'd hit the left arrow key and it'd take 2 seconds before moving the character. Now it's instantaneous!

So yes. I am very excited now. I'll definitely be talkative and not distracted at future meetings.


-Gan

[WarHampster]

Awesome!

Everyone who was at the meeting, post (or PM me) your email address so I can share the design document with you.

[Gan]

ajfkelvkfjquiutnflskajwlajfkgprkqnwmia@me.com
The bold is my e-mail address.


-Gan

[WarHampster]

Ok, I invited you.

[Silverwind]

Mine's dropSilverAMegaUltraAwesomeLine@yahoo.co.uk, minus the mega ultra awesome.

[WarHampster]

Sent.

[Gan]

Hey guys... Video!
iPhone RPG in Action on the iPhone!
(Ignore my heavy breathing, I had to escape a pair of vile agents out to stop progress of the iPhone RPG)


-Gan

[alias]

I feel somewhat compelled to make an RPG myself now. Or pick up Iphone development and join in.

You dad is a gamer?

[WarHampster]

Looks amazing!

[Gan]

I feel somewhat compelled to make an RPG myself now. Or pick up Iphone development and join in.

Then come on! It's a whole new world of wonders...

You dad is a gamer?

Nope, though I like to show what I've made to him.

Fixed a few minor bugs and one major bug. Things are looking better.


-Gan

[Gnome]

joemama1024@yahoo.com

I get enough spam already

[WarHampster]

Sent.

I have too much work to do, I probably won't get anything more done this weekend.

[Gan]

Npcs are in with a random AI. Gotta do a smart one.


-Gan

[Gan]

Guys, I just fixed a massive bug.
Turns out that if you do 1/20, it thinks that you want an int result. Which means that 1/20 rounded would equal 0 as an integer.
Now I had put 1/20 as the timer so it'd run 20 frames per second. Turns out that when 1/20 is turned to zero, it makes the timer run as fast as possible. So yes...  the iPhone RPG has been running 100-500fps since it was first created.
Now it's fixed. Figured out the problem when I was getting crazy results for setting an Npc's movement speed.


-Gan
P.S. Maybe it's my eyes playing tricks on me or me just not paying very much attention... though...
It appears that the player's shirt has changed it's color to green...
Well, I'm off to bed. Much to late for me.

[Gan]

In class at the moment but at a lack for better things to do I'll just start playing the iPhone RPG and noting things here I'd like to change:
•Add Loading text to loading screen.
•Make lightning bolt on loading screen animate more.
•Add potions to the Stats screen as a button that you click to use.
•Make it so you can hold your finger on the key pad to move instead of constantly tapping.
•Optimize tile and map drawing code to be much faster.
•Only redraw screen if npcs are in the view and moving.
•Put more features from World Editor in iPhone RPG.

Now I just gotta do those changes and continue coding into the game. What I have planned is:
•Add in AI to move towards the player.
•Add in items that you can pick up/equip/use. Have items as a whole NSMutableArray by itself that gets saved.
•Put hand-to-hand combat collision back in.
•Make a special trinket that'll allow the player to shoot lightning at the cost of mana.
•Make NPC drop items and also give exp.
•Make dead npcs respawn if they're suppose to.
•Put in leveling system depending on EXP.
•Put in damage stat system.
•Put in event system to show what's happening at the moment. Talk boxes, ect...
•Insert music if we have some.

At the moment we're ready for more maps.


-Gan