Stu's Rusty Bucket

Foray into 16x16 tiles and Multi-Character Parties

I’ve decided my foray into 16x16 tiles is over. I tried it, converted my tiles overland tiles to smaller variants. Since this is primarily designed as a handheld title, I felt they were just too small on the GP2X.

I could, technically, do 24x24 for handheld and 16x16 for tv-out but cant be bothered with the extended exercise duplicating all tiles. (I only duplicated a few to get the basic overland working) indoor and outdoor. Since I already have my 24x24 for what I need right now, I’m going to concentrate on just doing code.

I’m also slowly converting scripts over to a multi character party, this will involve some small but fundamental changes, mostly adding things like ‘Which character’ selection.

Food/Gold is automatically shared by the party and I’m thinking of making unused items local to all players, so no need for complex inventory management. Anything unused/unequipped etc will be in this pool. If a player is removed from the party (ie: disintergrated), only what items are equipped are lost.

This also removes my arbitrary item limit (well increases it anyway), yes a mythical and invisible trunk monkey will be following the party toting any unused items, you know the 12x Plate Mail, wagon load of arrows and 3 bronze life size elephant statues (what else would you use a spell like animate golem on!)