[M][CE] HALLOWEEN HERO ●
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Re: [M][CE] HALLOWEEN HERO
Just played this now. Thank you for the "Man with the Machine Gun" remix. I love FF8 so much.
Oh and the true ending made me CACKLE but was also kind of wholesome. Thanks! The battle system, while simple, was clever with a good number of the enemies and I enjoyed things. Just a lot of floors haha.
Oh and the true ending made me CACKLE but was also kind of wholesome. Thanks! The battle system, while simple, was clever with a good number of the enemies and I enjoyed things. Just a lot of floors haha.
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OUR CASES:
- Athena Cykes ~ Locks on the Heart (synopsis)
- May Your Memory Be a Blessing
- A Little Piece of Healing
- The Killer Turnabout (~70% complete!)
- I guess we made the Looking Back case comp ceremony with Super legenda, but that's not an actual case
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(Don't know what a system is? Play 6-4, and take a look here.)
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OUR CASES:
- Athena Cykes ~ Locks on the Heart (synopsis)
- May Your Memory Be a Blessing
- A Little Piece of Healing
- The Killer Turnabout (~70% complete!)
- I guess we made the Looking Back case comp ceremony with Super legenda, but that's not an actual case
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Check out our music & art thread here!
Re: [M][CE] HALLOWEEN HERO ●
The Making of HALLOWEEN HERO pt1
Since this is a pretty unique endeavor for AAO, I figured some people would be curious about how I accomplished certain parts of it. It would be a shame to let everything I learned while making it rot away in my own brain, so I decided to do a writeup sharing how I made this and explaining most of the design choices. I don't know if this writeup will be useful to anyone else, but I figured I'd write it anyway.
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Really interesting stuff in there. You mentioned autohotkey stuff during the competition, and it makes sense why.
Thanks for the share, enjoyed learning more about one of my favourite things on the site.
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Just finished playing this... truly there is a wizard among us. If you haven't already, go play and complete this!
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Thrower of bricks.
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Stuff I've made in 2 weeks:
The Impossible Turnabout
Erinaceinae Griminance
Cases I have collabed on:
Don't Resort to a Turnabout (W.I.P)
Trucy's Magical Catastrophe
That time I got reincarnated as a fictional Defence Lawyer in An Ace Attorney fangame and had to defend myself against incredibly unfair odds.
Stuff I've made by myself that is good:
...maybe in the future.
Co-host of the Into the Takumi-verse case compeition.
Stuff I've made in 2 weeks:
The Impossible Turnabout
Erinaceinae Griminance
Cases I have collabed on:
Don't Resort to a Turnabout (W.I.P)
Trucy's Magical Catastrophe
That time I got reincarnated as a fictional Defence Lawyer in An Ace Attorney fangame and had to defend myself against incredibly unfair odds.
Stuff I've made by myself that is good:
...maybe in the future.
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The Making of HALLOWEEN HERO pt2
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Rebellious double post because I had a bit more to say about this project. It's been out for a while, so this one will go into the story a bit. So it will contain spoilers, beware. There's also not really any interesting info about the editor stuff in this one. I can still answer any questions anyone has about how I did stuff, but I don't really feel like doing a whole writeup over any more of that stuff.
The Making of HALLOWEEN HERO pt2.0 + 1.0
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I'm quite enjoying the director's commentary here. (More authors should do this, imo) I'm less interested in the intricacies of the programming, but the thoughts that went into design and story do quite interest me!
Also, spoilers for the game below:
Also, spoilers for the game below:
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Did you ever see Endless Nine? It is nine frames long, and photobucket has wrecked it. I should probably fix at some point.I could remove the linebreaks and store that as this number: 1111100001011110100001111. But here's the problem. AAO can't store numbers that long in its variables. I can't recall the exact limit, but I tested it and found that you could only have so many digits before AAO would start cutting them off or breaking. So that plan didn't work. Then I thought "What if I convert that binary number to decimal?" That same long string of 1s and 0s could be represented as the number 32554255 in decimal. I spent a while trying to create a system of converting numbers from binary to decimal and back in AAO, but then I realized the major flaw with this plan. The decimal number is useless to me if I actually want to get information out of it. Somehow I would need to convert that decimal number back to binary, which would mean I would need that long 25 digit (or 100 digit in the case of real maps in the game) number again. And there was another problem as well. 1s and 0s are all well and good when it comes to walls and floors, but what about other things, like an event tile where I want a cutscene to occur, or a stairway down to another floor, or a door? 1 and 0 weren't enough to convey that information. So I went back to the drawing board. Binary wasn't going to work.
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Like you, I used some automatic code generation. However... I did represent each row as a single number, in decimal. For example, variable r1 was: 99999909999999. This allowed for things like doors, NPCs, etc. Modulo arithmetic made it straightforward to split rows and check adjacent cells.
Anyway, I'm going to count you as the LONG-AWAITED winner of the Endless Nine challenge!
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
Re: [M][CE] HALLOWEEN HERO ●
I never saw that before, but it’s really cool. Nice to see I wasn’t the first to attempt something like this. Your contributions to the variable guide really helped out though.
The main reason I didn’t go that route with the numbers is because with floors, walls, doors, locked doors, stairs up, and stairs down, that would only leave 4 slots for events/NPCs. By not having it be a number, I had room for a lot more. Theroretically I could have up to 26 different events per floor, plus more if I used special characters. I think the most I used on any floor was 6 or 7 though.
EDIT: I looked back on that challenge. I don't think I passed it in the strictest sense, cause my case is way more than 9 frames long. I guess I theoretically could make one of that length, if I cut out most of the meat in this one, but I'm not especially thrilled by the prospect of doing something like this again. But hey, if I'm counted as the winner anyway, I'll accept the honor.
I also see that you did yours in a way more sane way, by editing trial data directly instead of using the editor.
The main reason I didn’t go that route with the numbers is because with floors, walls, doors, locked doors, stairs up, and stairs down, that would only leave 4 slots for events/NPCs. By not having it be a number, I had room for a lot more. Theroretically I could have up to 26 different events per floor, plus more if I used special characters. I think the most I used on any floor was 6 or 7 though.
EDIT: I looked back on that challenge. I don't think I passed it in the strictest sense, cause my case is way more than 9 frames long. I guess I theoretically could make one of that length, if I cut out most of the meat in this one, but I'm not especially thrilled by the prospect of doing something like this again. But hey, if I'm counted as the winner anyway, I'll accept the honor.
I also see that you did yours in a way more sane way, by editing trial data directly instead of using the editor.
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I have (I hope) successfully migrated this trial's images away from imgur. I have not extensively tested this, but the loading bar was green and the intro seemed to load properly. I ran through the game once and everything seemed to work correctly. If anything is broken, let me know. Unfortunately, as it's technically a new trial, your existing saves will no longer work.
It actually didn't take that long using Ferdielance's tool and then a quick Find & Replace to change the links. I was also able to download all the imgur files easily by going to Page Info in firefox, selecting the media tab, and selecting all imgur images and saving them all at once. It would have been a nightmare to change all the links by hand so I'm glad that worked. Note for anyone else who wants to try this method, it'll only work if you use a hosting method that doesn't change the filenames, and has a consistent URL for all the files.
It actually didn't take that long using Ferdielance's tool and then a quick Find & Replace to change the links. I was also able to download all the imgur files easily by going to Page Info in firefox, selecting the media tab, and selecting all imgur images and saving them all at once. It would have been a nightmare to change all the links by hand so I'm glad that worked. Note for anyone else who wants to try this method, it'll only work if you use a hosting method that doesn't change the filenames, and has a consistent URL for all the files.
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Incredible turn around. I'm glad the export/import trick worked!
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Re: [M][CE] HALLOWEEN HERO ●
And I thought Champion of Turnabouts was magic. This one lets you cast six whole types of it!
As a fan of JRPGs, this one hit the spot. Even down to its bare essentials, the joy of leveling up and seeing big number get bigger cannot be matched. And of course, the impressiveness of this being done in the AAO engine cannot be overstated. Even just being able to name your character was mind-blowing to me.
As a fan of JRPGs, this one hit the spot. Even down to its bare essentials, the joy of leveling up and seeing big number get bigger cannot be matched. And of course, the impressiveness of this being done in the AAO engine cannot be overstated. Even just being able to name your character was mind-blowing to me.
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Glad you enjoyed it.CodingAnt wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 8:19 pm And I thought Champion of Turnabouts was magic. This one lets you cast six whole types of it!
As a fan of JRPGs, this one hit the spot. Even down to its bare essentials, the joy of leveling up and seeing big number get bigger cannot be matched. And of course, the impressiveness of this being done in the AAO engine cannot be overstated. Even just being able to name your character was mind-blowing to me.
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