Alpha Foundation chapter 1 released

x4861 · Post by **x4861** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:46 pm

Greetings!

After a long period of silence I finally have the first playable game version. Currently the first chapter only (30-60 minutes play time), but almost all functionality is finished (shops, battles, magic, save game, etc.)

Only exception - no sound effects

I was too lazy to do that.

I'll update the homepage someday, but for now let me know what do you think about the game itself (any bugs you find). Constructive criticism allowed

By default the game is full screen, but it can be played in windowed mode (execute windowed.cmd instead).

OpenGL only for now.

Also, special thanks to Maize

one of your comments in some other thread made my day!

Download here: http://s-fonline.com/webhosting/x4861/alpha.zip (35MB)

genesisrage · Post by **genesisrage** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:31 pm

lookin good, only bug ive seen...
i was fighting ants south of town and i went to heal and the program crashed without warning

dhenton9000 · Post by **dhenton9000** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:59 pm

This is fantastic!! I can't play these things myself, but I've watched my son blast through enough final fantasy things to recognize all the features.

Very cool implementation of the typical game features into the Irrlicht environment! It has the feel of a commercial game and I love the dialog engine and interactivity.

A couple of things for me-- I kept hitting the esc key for the menu. I was a little unclear on the combat stuff. Loved the victory dance.

Unbelievable!!

needforhint · Post by **needforhint** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:32 am

cool game structure...... I could just feel this RPG heart in it....

x4861 · Post by **x4861** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:06 am

Thanks for the great comments!

@genesisrage: thanks, my mistake. Didn't include healing model in the final relese files. I'm re-uploading the corrected version

GueZt_Coders · Post by **GueZt_Coders** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:37 pm

Hiyaa! Even though I only got 56kbps net speed, I will download
your 35MB game, because I’ve already seen your previous
release which are already great! I really wanna see what’s
been improve now.

Downloading..........

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:24 am

Several comments/observation:

1. When I turn left or right, it spins the world out of control. I think it's too fast.

2. I fell through the floor of one of the room. There're some collision issues.

3. some characters seem to jump instantly from one position to the next with no transition whatsoever.

Other than that, it's a great start.

How does one convert a NWN .mdl/.hak file to .3ds or .x file format? What tool did you used to do the conversion?

Morphing · Post by **Morphing** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:36 am

What fromat u used for save/load system
binary or XML or any other

x4861 · Post by **x4861** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:39 am

@Guest: such things could happend if you get low FPS... it hasn't been tested much

About MDL: there is no known way (for me) to convert NWN .mdl into .3ds or .x; There are tools that converts the model itself, but NWN has a hierarchical animations defined in many files and I haven't seen a complete utility to do all this.
In my case I have written my own .mdl loader which isn't compatible with Irrlicht scene nodes, since I have my own scene manager.

@Morphing: The savegame is just a binary file, nothing fancy here.

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:34 am

wow!

this game is great! not my favourite genre, but i'm gonna play it until the end! I'd write more praise but i'm addicted and must get back to it

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:59 pm

Some screenshots would be cool - I want to see it without d/l 35mb first, but it sounds good.

x4861 · Post by **x4861** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:28 pm

Here is battle screenshot:
http://s-fonline.com/webhosting/x4861/battle.jpg

And also some of the old ones:
http://s-fonline.com/webhosting/x4861/screen_3.jpg
http://s-fonline.com/webhosting/x4861/screen_5.jpg

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:33 pm

Thanks but.. 403 error on all 3???

"You don't have permission to access /webhosting/x4861/battle.jpg on this server."

cheers

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:38 pm

looks like stonefish don't allow hotlinking. after clicking on the links, click in the address bar then press return.

area51 · Post by **area51** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:41 pm

The game is outstanding!

Very mature, functionally rich and extremely playable as a game. (let alone anything else)

Well worth the download.

Excellent work!
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