Further work on the automap is going well. I’ve tweaked the images slightly so doors look more like the ones on old Dungeons & Dragons maps. Personally I think they look much better. I’ve also fixed a problem about the map display wrapping when viewing the edge of the map and added some additional checks… Read More »
After my setback at the weekend with the power supply failing on the PC I managed to swap it today and have also managed to get the automap working correctly. Currently the automap shows you everything regardless of where you’ve been. As you can see from the screenshot it shows you where special places… Read More »
disaster struck on Friday evening – I came back to my pc after a few pminutes and found that it was dead. Hopefully just temporary – it appears that it might be a power supply failure so I’m hoping I might be able pick up a suitable old one on Monday. Of course I just… Read More »
I’ve talked about adding an automap to ARX before and decided I will try and add one into the next release. This will mean a delay in the next release but hopefully the feature will be seen as a positive addition. The original Dungeon game didn’t have an automap but it did feature an item… Read More »
After taking almost a year between the first and second demo releases for Alternate Reality X (ARX), I’ve vowed to release updated versions more frequently. However I have been really busy with work and been away on holiday so I’ve made very little progress since the demo release at the beginning of August 2010. I have started working… Read More »
I was fortunate enough to be able to upgrade the old laptop I was using to a decent spec PC. Everything initially looked very positive. Windows 7 installed smoothly, detected all the right drivers and the PC seemed to perform very well. I installed Visual Studio 2008 Express which I am using to develop my… Read More »
I’ve been giving a lot of thought over the last few weeks to the games that I’ve played over the years and the features I want to include in my game. One game that ’ve played quite a lot over the years was the Bards Tale, first on the Commodore 64 and later the Commodore… Read More »
I think the first Computer Role Playing Game (CRPG) I ever played was Ultima IV: The Quest of the Avatar on my Commodore 64. I was only about 12 years old at the time and Ultima IV wasn’t readily available in the UK at the time. Fortunately my Uncle worked with someone who had a… Read More »