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@Ameena: Yeah, that was my idea. Having an enormous vending machine as a dungeon heart :) The four imp generation is already implemented in my current version. Instead of mana I input dirt into the Dungeon Heart, At first 4 dirt are needed to generate an imp, then 6 dirt, then 10 dirt and so on. I w...

Haha, thats a really cool idea, instead of bribing I could just feed some fat blob with specific items and eventually he will spit out a creature corresponding to the items I feed him with.. This is a perfect and idea for my game, it is simple to do and it is straightforward, do you mind if I steal ...

@bit: Oil may be a little to futuristic for this game :) @zoom: I like the way you think about wood "just beeing there" as it is a very valuble resource, but as I even collect dirt and rocks I should collect wood too. I think I am going to go with the previous idea and having some undergro...

I have thought about the tree roots coming from the surface, but I am not sure about the design of them in the game.. But I liked the fungus thingy :) It would be a nice change to harvest plants instead of just rocks.. And it would give the dungeon a more "alive" look. And I was also think...

@Bit: Digging out bones, thats a really good idea :) But I would still have to keep the gold.. My idea is that the gold and coal can be melted down, and then taken to the ironmelter to make coins. These coins can later on be used to bribing some of the more feeble minded creatures ;) But I am lookin...

Yeah, I know the DK games reasonably well ;). Hehe, I remember that we had a little discussion about implementing DK creatures AI back when I was making DMT 2, and as I recall you did know much about DK :) I had a friend over today, Fabian, he is the creator of Lootfest http://www.youtube.com/watch...

@Ameena: Well I will give you that, the names are simular, but I will change them later on as it is in pre-alpha state right now. In DK the only resource that the imps digs out and store is gold. Anyway, in the end it it will remind of DK but the gameplay will be with a lot more depth :) @terkio: A ...

Thanks Ameena :) I don't think there will be any problems. Sure, the basic gameplay such as the digging and building rooms will be simular to DK, but other than that the game will be diffrent. I think the gameplay in Dungeon Keeper is a genre by itself, so it would be like sueing the developers of D...

Its great to be back :) @Gambit: I am glad you liked the imps, they are my soul characters in the game :) I have been checking Kickstarter out and it would be a great start for me, not only because it can help me financially but also because I have heard that the projects there gets alot of media at...

Hello, hope you all are well :) Just wanted to drop by and tell you all that I am working on a new game, but this time it ain't a Dungeon Master clone :P Instead my interest have been directed towards making a scramble ship game out of Settlers and Dungeon Keeper, which also are among my favorite ga...

I am using managed c++ and its forms, I have come to like c# more and more when it comes to creating programs. But since I don't want to mix c# and c++ I went for c++. I must say that I am alittle bit suppriced that the c++ form editor are as advanced as c# editor. Works really nicely, even if I hav...

I will try not to make any brainmelting editor :) I have often thought of the RTC editor to be a perfect editor for Dungeon Master, if one had played Dungoen Master before there was almost no learning curve. If I wanted to put some item on the floor somewhere it was just to rightclick at that tile a...

I don't have access to the program right now, but I will check it out and reply as soon as posible..
Probably it has something to do with the CSBuild version the dungeon are created in.
I just found out that I'm not using the newest CSBWin version out there

@Gambit: I can do almost everything with my editor, but map must originaly be made in CSBuild or simular. It is hard to draw a line here, the easiest thing would be to say that I can do everything with CSBWin3D.. Because I can always do some walkarounds.. I can change the monsters hp, strength, item...

I'm sure most of you already are familiar with my work on converting CSBWin to a 3D engine.. Otherwise here is a link to that topic http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=28815 I have already added some extra features like: - Party movements between tiles are and turning smooth...

Hehe, look at that, I hit my self on the fingers.. I was using the source for 11.014

Well, that was a couple of hours going down the drain.. Anyway, it was good codetraining

You can call me Fixmus
No but seriously, it's those problems that keeps my motivation running.. If everything goes on to smoothly I just get bored..

Olalala.. Works!! Found the problem at the line.. in chaos.cpp D0W = MyUnscrambleStream(LoadPnt(A4+4104), //Timers 10 * LE16(wordGear(A4+578)), LE16(wordGear(pnt_4646+6)), LE16(wordGear(pnt_4642+6)) ); The size decided here is "10 * LE16(wordGear(A4+578))" = 2970 While when saving the game...

Hmm, found something interesting here.. The CSB src Clone-CSBwin-SourceCode-11_014.zip at http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/851 also generates the same problem.. Seems like the CSBWin11_014 has updated the savegame and didn't let the utility tool in on it.. CSBWin11_014: CSBGame.dat have a size on around...

Something else I am worried about when checking the CREATE functions the savegame filenames are saved into the FILETABLE::m_fileName and used in the FILENAME::m_name when creating three files.. The second one I can easely avoid, but I am alittle bit worried about the FILETABLE::m_fileName varible.. ...

Thanks for the info Paul. I have checked if it is only a checksum problem but it seems to be more than that, almost like I alter the data inside the savegame unintentionally.. If I ignore the checksums I only get a big error! The savegame loads and saves fine in the game. But the utility don't seem ...

Ameena wrote:Meh, who cares about graphics? This is the DM forum, dammit .

Personally I think DM has WAY to high resolution!


Anyone can see that this is a yawning mummy! So why overdo it..

I've always thought that "Dungeon Master Tribute" was kind of "interim" name before you make up something else? :oops: Now I am insulted ;) Hehe, well that may have been the plan at first.. But as it took longer and longer time I sort of got used to the name, and I didn't wan't ...

Well I'm starting to get a hang of it now, so now I am alot happier :) But then again, I am facing a new problem.. The CSBGame.dat savegames are giving me alittle bit of a headace. The reason is that because I am doing an editor, I don't want to use only those CSBGame file in the current directory w...

Hehe, waaaay too little time

And it's DEFINATELY far easier to create a game/engine than it is to give it a decent name. I thought it was all about priorities ;) But hey, take it easy on the namecalling. As long as your engine isn't finisihed you have a lot of time to think about it.. Once you have choosen a name you would hav...

Saw it in action today, I way really impressed! This is a must buy game
Sometimes I wounder if it is posible to extend the day to 48 hours instead of 24.
So much to do, so little time..

Yeah, they probably had a purpose in the beginning when debugging, but they are begining to fade away one by one.. And I wount call them all that evil, Paul has probably full use of them, but they may see complicated for a outsider trying to understand them.. Anyway, I learn something new every day ...

Anyway, I finally got it working.. But it is annoying when almost all code are decleared as instances, harder to collect the garbage that way.. Fixed the RESTARTABLES with declaring a global boolean and by adding some extra code in the RESTARTMAP defenition that would reset the state and then return...

The reason why I get allittle bit angry about these is because I want to be able to restart CSBWin without having to reload it. So when I restart it I reset the DBank and other varibles of importance, but there is still those RESTARTABLE functions that have static values in them. They all have a val...