Please test Jscript powered PocketAdventures

[suchiaruzu]

[esw]

[kaiton]

[kaiton]

[kaiton]

Pfff,

My work takes so much time that i havent been
able to continue to work on this a long time!

BUT, we've finished our biggest project ever and
now i have time to finish this thing.

Status:
We removed a lot of things:
Pathfinding
Scaling
Parralax scrolling
Scrolling

Why? Because after we let someone create
an adventure game with it, it was for him
just to much work. To finish 1 location he had to:
Draw a background, Draw a scene, Draw a pathwalking
bitmap, Draw a Scalebitmap, for every walking object
he had to draw a left-right-up0down movement!

It was just to much work to make a game with it.
Just to finish 1 scene would take a week.

Our new goal is to be able to make adventures
in about 20 hours of painting, scripting etc.
20 hours is not much, people could make
it in their spare-time.

What we kept:
JScript/VBScript powered
Sprite/Object animations
Unlimited scenes
Unique user defined actions with every object
(like eat apple, slap man in face, suck pipe etc)
FullScreen / Halfscreen mode
Talk mode
Inventory
MOD music
Loading/Saving states

We are also developing a GUI in delphi.
With it you can make the script of
the adventures.

I'll post version 1 tommorrow

[kaiton]

Pfff,

My work takes so much time that i havent been
able to continue to work on this a long time!

BUT, we've finished our biggest project ever and
now i have time to finish this thing.

Status:
We removed a lot of things:
Pathfinding
Scaling
Parralax scrolling
Scrolling

Why? Because after we let someone create
an adventure game with it, it was for him
just to much work. To finish 1 location he had to:
Draw a background, Draw a scene, Draw a pathwalking
bitmap, Draw a Scalebitmap, for every walking object
he had to draw a left-right-up0down movement!

It was just to much work to make a game with it.
Just to finish 1 scene would take a week.

Our new goal is to be able to make adventures
in about 20 hours of painting, scripting etc.
20 hours is not much, people could make
it in their spare-time.

What we kept:
JScript/VBScript powered
Sprite/Object animations
Unlimited scenes
Unique user defined actions with every object
(like eat apple, slap man in face, suck pipe etc)
FullScreen / Halfscreen mode
Talk mode
Inventory
MOD music
Loading/Saving states

We are also developing a GUI in delphi.
With it you can make the script of
the adventures.

I'll post version 1 tommorrow

[esw]

Cool, nice to hear it's still being worked on

If I were you though, I would leave it an option to still use scrolling, pathfinding, and possibly scaling.

I can't really see an adventure game without pathfinding, and a scrolling scene or two is useful.
Pallarax scrolling probably isn't that important.

[kaiton]

hmmm,

adventures without scrolling and pathfinding are
perfectly possible:
We've changed the interface from Scumm to
something more like Xanth, Deathgate, Hoboken etc;
The game will be from 1st person perspective, like
Xanth.

Later we always can enable pathfinding etc, but first
we want to make sure the system works

here are some screenshots

<img src="http://www.mk-it.nl/PocketAdventures/main.jpg">

<img src="http://www.mk-it.nl/PocketAdventures/3.jpg">

<img src="http://www.mk-it.nl/PocketAdventures/2.jpg">

[kaiton]

Hello!

Here's a version for ARM PocketPC.
Unzip it in a directory on your PocketPC.

The file "game.js" has to be in the root
of the PocketPC filesystem (that's a little bug, hope
to fix it soon).

<a href="http://www.mk-it.nl/PocketAdventures/ARM.ZIP">Click here to download</a>

[kaiton]

and here's the PC version.

It is compiled from the same source as the pocketPC
version (without any modifications!).
Just unzip and have fun.

<a href="http://www.mk-it.nl/PocketAdventures/PC.ZIP">Click here to download the PC version</a>

[kaiton]

The game logic can be found in the
file "game.js".
It is fully JScript. In the final version
it will also contain a conversion file
to make everything Object Oriented.
Please let me know what you think!

Greetz

[esw]

[Raynne]

[kaiton]

[Raynne]

Ok, I'll try it out. Do I just transfer the entire file to the PPC? Will it run from the memory card, or do I need to put it in the main memory?