Stu's Rusty Bucket

Getting the little things done

In 10 minutes last night I knocked out the birds eye ‘map view’. It needs some refinement to work properly on maps that dont really wrap around (like town maps).

Right now it doesn’t adjust itself resolution wise. its a 32x32 grid blown up 7x and centered. Same on PSP.

I’m debating if I’ll keep it as a window (32x32 grid) or make it bigger for the outside world map (only say 3x increase) and bigger for town maps (say 5x increase).

I have also been debating a couple of new titles. I’m still in the hunt for a single word title (easier to cram on the title screen), checking mobygames to see if its been used

The next ‘small things’ that need to be done

* Re-ordering of the party
* Configuration of gp2x buttons

edit
After some more work work last night, I tidied the birds eye map from 32x32 to 48x48.

I just need to wrap it into couple of lines of lua like so, and its done

354:function UseGem()
355:    local maxi
356:    local i
357:
358:    maxi = GetMaxInventoryItems()
359:
360:    for i=0, maxi-1 do
361:        local idx = GetItemIndexFromSlot(i)
362:
363:        if idx >= 0 then
364:            if GetItemName(idx) == "GEM" then
365:                if GetInvQty(i) > 0 then
366:                
367:                    -- remove one from inventory
368:                    RemoveItemFromInventory(i, 1)
369:                    
370:                    -- down clock processor to save battery
371:                    ClockLow()
372:                    BirdEyeView()
373:                    ClockHigh()
374:                    
375:                    -- dont process any more inventory items
376:                    return
377:                end
378:            end
379:        end
380:    end
381:end

Re: “still in the hunt for a single word title”

Can you give a short synopsis of the game, what is extraordinary about it, a singular feature?

take care,
Calibrator