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| AEON DEMO 3 Friday, July 30, 2010 11:59 pm — Posted by Livio |
ShareThis- Level Editor prototype.
- In the debug panel, you have a nice reference list on the right side to help you change things that the level editor can't do yet.
- The latest Aeon artwork, straight from the Graphics 'n stuff topic.
- Along with the new artwork comes the ability to change the appearance of the playable character. Look near the bottom of the Debug's reference list to see what you can use, and as an added convenience it includes the "optimized" dimensional values to use with that sprite. Actually, some of them could use some slight improvements still. I put in jell's two gerbil images AND all of the characters from GF's Interguild comic.
Warning: There is no preloader, so you may have to stare at a gray screen for a few seconds until it loads. I'll try to add a preloader soon...
If for some reason, the old demo loads, try clearing your browser's cache and reload.
How to Use the Level Editor
You always have some kind of selected tile, and whenever you click on the grid, you place the tile. To change the selected tile, go up to the top menu under "SELECT TILE" and click on another one.
To change the dimensions, go to Edit > Dimensions.
As a shortcut, you can scroll using the arrow keys on the keyboard, or the W, A, S, D keys.
Another scrolling shortcut: Hold down the space bar, and then click and drag the grid around.
If you want to share your creations, go into the Debug panel and copy everything over and paste it in the forums. It's a ton of text, so if you just edited a few things, then it would be better if you only copied over the How to Use the Debug Panel You can open/close the debug panel from anywhere by pressing Ctrl+D. The same goes for the Error Log, but that's pretty useless. The Debug panel lets you edit everything about the level using XML format. As you look through it, how to edit certain items is self-explanatory. But for more confusing stuff, check the right side of the screen for the Reference List, where you can look up all the possible values of some of the more complicated items. Most of the XML is the same as the last demo, and you can find an in-depth description of the meaning behind everything by clicking here How to Select a Different Character In the debug panel, look for the How to Play the Demo When you click on "Demo", the demo level will load. If the preview map is too big to fit completely on screen, you can move it around using the arrow keys or the WASD keys. When playing the level, you can move with both arrow and WASD keys. Press space to jump Press "R" to restart the level, and "Q" to quit. "P will pause it, and "Shift" will also pause it. You can unpause by pressing either of the pause button/keys, or by pressing space. If you click away from the window while playing, the game will automatically pause itself. Press Caps-Lock to turn on and off some crazy feature that helps me investigate glitches. Glitches/Problems/Annoying Stuff/Things to do I've recently begun to rebuild the way the XML is coded, and what I have so far makes the current set up look boring and restrictive. The reason the XML is so important is that that's how all of the game's options are recorded in the game, actually, so it's not just a user-interface thing. I'll probably release another demo when I finish implementing the new XML structure. That's how important it'll be. In order to post in the forums, you must be logged into your account.
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Just because my character is a ninja doesn't mean you need him to have ninja abilities! Fix that glitch, if you don't mind. krotomo
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... And did you intentionally put a Water Drain in the bottom left corner of the map? 
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Also the new XML structure will give objects multiple "states" in which they may be in at various times. For example, the playable character will have a state for standing, crawling, falling, swimming, and ladder-climbing. And what's great about this approach is that each state has their own version of the standard settings that you have access to now. So for example, you could set the horizontal running speed to be different while standing than while falling. And there will be settings to control when these states can cross over each other. For instance, what variables are prioritized kept when you are crawling and falling at the same time? And are certain states even allowed to intrude on others, like for example, do you want to let people crawl and fall at the same time? And do you want to let them start crawling while falling? Man, there are so many crazy things you'll be able to do with this new structure that I can't wait to finish it. Livio
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anyone else get this problem? Quirvy
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I also think you might want to consider doing a CSD style cave-maker option, as well, because filling a level with terrain is too time consuming if you have to add it one tile at a time.
Other than that, I like the demo, although I have yet to check everything out.
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I added Aeon to the games database after jell submitted a level for it HATPC or something like that. HATPC is hard-coded that way, but obviously, I couldn't hard-code something for Aeon. Livio
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and Quirvy, I couldn't even get the news post to link straight to the game. I included the javascript and everything, but it still links to a new tab instead of a new window. But I should really fix that...
and yeah the idea is that you can hold shift to draw big squares of tiles.
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Here is the current idea for how all the player's options will be organized. On the top level, there are the four states. Inside each state there are three categories: animation, collisions, and movement. And inside each of those categories, there is another category for what to do if the player is currently in crawling mode (omit the entire category if you don't want anything to do with crawling in that state). Among other options, there are also categories for what to do when a key is being held down (only the arrow keys and space bar). The whole thing feels similar to a mini-programming language now; it's not just a bunch of options anymore.
AND I also began working on a way for you to take images straight from the internet and use them in the game. I got the part that actually loads the content into Flash working. I just have to make it actually load it all before starting the level-load process so that it could use that content while building the level.
In the future I may or may not improve the options found in the XML so that you may set reactions to keyboard keys other than the arrow keys and space bar, because there is certainly room for such an idea right now. I'm also considering letting people create custom states. However, instead of these states being triggered naturally by in-game events such as entering water or landing on a solid floor, they would be triggered via some kind of option in the debug menu, such as when you press a certain key, or reach a certain horizontal speed, or something like that.
Man this is some cool stuff. 
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way too lazy to push the mouse so much to the top of the screen, you know.
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