back from the grave

Post by **zamros** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:22 pm

man, why do i keep reading this thread despite not giving anything close to a shit about anything that's written in it?

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:21 pm

i think it's because the title implies that it's something other than a zzt game thread.

Mister Lad · Post by **Mister Lad** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:37 pm

Rise from your grave......

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:56 pm

welcome to your doom, mister lad

Ando · Post by **Ando** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:57 pm

So how is this coming along? I'm looking forward to it.

gingermuffins · Post by **gingermuffins** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:29 pm

still working on it. I guess it's going ok. It won't come out for a while, sorry

I wanted to release it all at once, but maybe I could release the files one at a time. I have one file that is four fifths done, but I want to finish more of the other parts so that I can properly connect them together.

I'm also scared to death that it's bad like Final Fantasy ZZT. I'll bug Commodore at some point with a beta and ask him what he thinks, since he offered to betatest.

Also Ando, are you going to hold a 24hoz contest sometime?

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:27 pm

trust me, you'd have to make a real effort to be as bad as final fantasy zzt

don't worry about it too much

Ando · Post by **Ando** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:36 pm

Tuxedo Fagmuffin wrote:Also Ando, are you going to hold a 24hoz contest sometime?

Yeah I was thinking about doing it at the end of the month; I've already got topics in mind. The main problem is though is that I can't announce it in #i-c because I get banned there for no good reason at all. Well maybe I can do it in #rawr, who knows. That channel isn't really alive, but it still exists so that's enough.

phunk · Post by **phunk** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:55 pm

what the hell happened to this thread

i want to see more gingermuffins screenshots

Surlent · Post by **Surlent** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:41 pm

Are you talking about Fish's FFZZT, or Chase's (That was Chase, right? Not Drelick or something?)? Aside from not being finished, I liked that one. The animated art boards were pretty neat. What was it that everyone hate(s, ed) about it?

gingermuffins · Post by **gingermuffins** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:25 pm

I don't want to pick on people, but in Bramlage's games in particular I see problems that I want to avoid in my own project.

Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:14 pm

the battle engine sucked, it was a nice try, but ultimately was a pile of crap.

Also I'm told the story was shamelessly ripped off, but that's not too big of an offense for me when it comes to ZZT.

gingermuffins · Post by **gingermuffins** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:11 am

Hi.

I will try to get this game done by Christmas. I've paired it down to 2 files.

I must be careful, my balls may already be in crisis.

gingermuffins · Post by **gingermuffins** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:31 am

still working on it. changed from big, dumb, boring adventure to being centralised around one location -- it was the most important section anyways. presently 2 files, 200 and 100 kB. the scrapped files are really embarrassing to look at now. i don't think i'm necessarily improving but hopefully i'm on the right track with it this time. (yes it will be done on time)

gingermuffins · Post by **gingermuffins** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:32 pm

oh shit this

it's about 2/3 done, but i haven't really playtested any of it, the end section fell apart when i changed something, hehehehhhasdgdsafhkjl

anyways

in august and september i was playing through the zgames archive (starting with the smallest files) and taking screenshots. i forget how many i have at the moment, at least 1000. i have to process the images through a few programs because screen thief's BMP files won't open on my preferred editing program. (saved as PNG) when i'm finished taking screenshots, i might set up a website for it or upload the images to an online photo album (if they'll fit) or just hand out a zip file. i originally considered keeping the blue sidebar, but I think I'll remove it. i also have not been recording sources, but hopefully nobody will care!

i haven't touched the screenshot thing in months, but i'll probably get back to that after this project is finished.