Technical update
Hello, I'm currently working on a technical update of Macroboy. Mainly: migrating from SDL1 to LibLapin, that will allow me to: * Open several windows so Macroboy can be played on several screens (so we can *really* play 8 players game.) * Awesomely increase performences, so I ca
Hello,
I'm currently working on a technical update of Macroboy.
Mainly: migrating from SDL1 to LibLapin, that will allow me to:
* Open several windows so Macroboy can be played on several screens (so we can *really* play 8 players game.)
* Awesomely increase performences, so I can:
* * Add transparency everywhere
* * Add parralax in the background
* * Maybe add dynamic lighting
Immediatly after, I'll improve the map format so I can get rid of any limitation caused by the original design of the game and bring... variety to tiles.
My battle AI is still obviously stupid, so it will not be in the next update... again.
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- Wide race, castle, eggs and deathmatch wide area "The underwater bunker"
- Update the character select screen so it supports a lot of characters
- Custom weapon loading system
- Custom character loading system
- On deathrace, when a laps is done (or every players are dead), restart at the beginning of the map
- Maps are now loaded from external files compatible with *Tiled Level Editor* (Using Flare format export)
- Custom tileset loading system
- Various maps improvements
- New wide deathmatch arena "The Sewer"
- New small deathmatch arenas "Fatal Tower", "Death mat"
- New deathmatch/race/deathrace map "The Well"
- Some maps have now an automatically moving camera (that hurts)
- Directional force fields now push players
- Race mode for almost every maps that were deathmatch only
- Castle war mode for almost every maps that were deathmatch only
- Water transmits electricity
- Fire does not work with water
- Ice freeze water
- There is now score
- Score powerup
- Water spike tile
- Foreground decoration tile
- Waterfall tile
- Water current tile
- Conveyor belt tile
- Red, green and blue teleporter tiles
Here is the list of what is currently being made:
- Very lean tile
- Low lean tile, for ceiling and floor
- Add single player levels ("The drowned laboratory")
- Add race, castle and deathmatch wide arena ("City Hall Towers")
- Wind tile
- Sand, background sand, and water sand tile
- Sand cascade tile
The list of what is planified:
- Make a better and wider version of "Highway"
- A tutorial of how create custom content for Macroboy Y
- Learn to integrate steam workshop
The idea box, that may be added to the next update or a later one:
- Animate sprite of all weapons, including enemies one
- Add animation for enemies being shoted
- A fighting bot
- New character "Damdoshi", with specific powers
- Add a transformation of "Felina" into "Felinistra", with specific powers
- Fire tileset
- Ice tileset
- A lot of steam success
- Weight changes the way a character sink in water/sand cascade
- Weight changes the way a character bounce
- Sewer tileset
- Steam success
- Lock characters by default, so they have to be unlocked by steam success
- Same for weapons
The scope of the next update is becoming quite precise now. In a few days, certainly friday or saturday, the game will be updated.
As you may have noticed, several things that were planified have been moved to the idea box: most of them will be replanified for the next update.
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I am open to suggestion, if you think about anything that could improve the game, I will listen to it. Everything may not be possible to do, but we can discuss.