RELEASE SOMETHING! DAY IX: SOMETHING ABOUT CATS: DISCUSSION THREAD

Sweet Chops The Second Cooking is missing Main. No I don't have the RTP on this computer I'll probably get it later or something. One way to test RTP independence is to just rename your RTP directory. RM2k(3) won't mind if it actually can't find the RTP, just that the RTP location is defined in the registry. Then you can just play the game and if it crashes from a missing file copy/paste it from the RTP to your game's appropriate directory.

Except music/sounds, Rm2k(3) doesn't care if those are missing and it just won't play them.

Shinan
I tried to make it so that you could walk around while having another command active. Since I've usually been annoyed in games when I've had to click "walk" in order to look at something just outside the screen. I think that usually it'll say in the top bar if you can interact with something or not and if there's not text there (apart from walk, or look or use) it'll default to walk where you clicked. (while having the use/look active so you don't have to click around the GUI more than necessary)

(sorry I missed your post on the last page)

I think a better way of handling it would be to have the left click for the mouse be walk and right click could be a context sensitive action. You could walk up to the Baron by left clicking on him or right click to interact with it (in the Baron's case, It'd be 'Talk To'). Item interaction could be the same: When you have an item active left click moves you to where the item is and right click is to 'Use' Item on 'X' (or if nothing is selected, deselect the item)

Well, GRS, to answer some of your questions...

from GreatRedSpirit
Why are plant and bug pokemon in the Air zone?

In my RPGs, I lump Bug, Poison, and Grass all into the same element, and fit it into one of the classic four (fire, water, wind, and earth). Opting out of calling it 'wind,' I went for 'air' instead.

from GreatRedSpirit
The 'home in on player, attack' enemies need a handy boost to their AI so they don't run eternally into walls/obstacles that you're hiding behind and pegging enemies with. Hell sometimes I expected that due to my current position enemies would actually move away from the wall to attack me but nope they just really hate obstacles. (ex: Being three squares one square right of an enemy with an obstacle to the right of the enemy. The enemy would keep attacking right instead of moving up to attack me)

Consider this a small mercy on my part. The early enemies have this problem, but surely you noticed that Beedrill occasionally finds its way around obstacles? Yes, there are tricks I can use with their movement 'AI' to correct this problem, and it will be remedied in the more difficult zones. So, be happy you can own stupid charmanders and bulbasaurs for now.

from GreatRedSpirit
Scyther is a tremendous faggot. He can appear in walls (where you can't see him) and attack you and if you dodge you've got to be quick to hit him to actually do damage and it takes about three hits too many to kill him compared to how every other enemy requires almost no effort. I quit when I got in a room with a locked door and two Scythers because fuck that shit.

Scyther is pretty much the toughest thing in there, but there are some tricks to beating it. For one, it always follows the same pattern (four jumps, a pause, and a strike). It always comes straight for you, but a single step out of its path in any direction will cause it to miss. Also, while it's moving around, it can still be hit by your attacks (even in walls). But it is a bit too hard, so I think I'll increase the time he pauses between movements. Also, in the room with two of them, you only have to kill the Metapod to open the door.

from GreatRedSpirit
It's a neat idea but it has issues (hint: tile based action games), Scyther is a fucker, chain rape is possible, and some enemies take forever to kill (the upgrades would help except in the Fire zone I got the third when I didn't need it anymore since I had already killed everything remotely difficult). Maybe change the attack strength from 1->2->3 to 2->3->4? Early enemies wouldn't be such a tremendous pain to fight and upgrades wouldn't be such a huge boost.

I scaled it this way so things would get incrementally easier. Enemies' HP is always divisible by three, so each upgrade brings them down more significantly. You can get by with just the second upgrade, but the third's high power is a reward for going the extra mile. And the bosses still take a lot of hits, even with all three. On top of all that, even if you die, you still keep your upgrades. The weak start is meant to encourage the player to seek higher power levels before fighting things that are tougher. Take Scyther, for instance. It's 6 hits normally, but one upgrade puts it down to 3, and another to just 2. I think it works pretty well the way it is, especially since fighting isn't required a lot of the time.

Thanks for playing, by the way!

Hey, sorry to anyone who was looking to play my game (if there is anyone); I couldn't finish it by Release Something but I will release within the next few days and that's a promise.

Crap.. missed the release date -.-

Oh well.. guess I can keep the demo for next time..