El Tío sin Chorra

[Chano]

El Tío sin Chorra
A turn-based RPG for the GBA
Pre-pre Alpha <_<
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/118/fantasma2ia9.png
French demo (http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/2/17/1764711/TSC_PADemo3.zip)
French demo (link 2) (http://eltiosinchorra.sitesled.com/TSC_PADemo3.zip)

Spanish demo (http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/2/17/1764711/TSC_SPDemo.zip)
Spanish demo (link 2) (http://eltiosinchorra.sitesled.com/TSC_SPDemo.zip)



Presentation :
First and foremost, excuse me for posting this thread in english. Although I'm spanish, I visit PlayerAdvance regularly because I think that it's a great dev community. It's just that my french language level isn't too good :p.

Well, I'm doing a RPG for the GBA using HEL and AAS libraries. I just wanted to show you the game a bit.

Images :

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/9003/tsc01zp5.png http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/8025/tsc03eu8.png

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/350/tsc04mx6.png http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/9899/tsc05wx0.png

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1434/bicho1zv0.png http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9789/bicho2gj7.png

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/118/fantasma2ia9.png http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8431/fantasma1rn7.png

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2372/menu1ok6.png http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2156/menu2gw4.png

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/802/menu3pf1.png http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/6845/elegirenemigovd1.png

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/6900/pestazowe9.png

Videos :
First demo of the battle system (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1XiCE6FjKQ)
Alcoholic monster special attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0wy8F3i4f8)
Ghost special attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFN41R8ACmA)
Menu video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpgICmi20tU)

History :
21/03/2008: PA 7 anniversary demo. Changes:
- Texts translated to french thanks to Greeeg.
- CPU value modified: now it shows max CPU usage detected instead of an average of all values detected.
- Sprite rotation bug fixed.
- Poison bug fixed: if battle was finished because someone was killed by poison damage the game showed weird behaviour.
- HEL version number fixed.
- Bar timmings adjusted a bit.

17/02/2008: first and mostly incomplete demo of the battle system.

How to play :
A button: accept
B button: cancel
L button: decrease brightness
R button: increase brightness
L + R buttons: restore brightness
Start button: start and pause
Select button: show CPU usage B)

More information :
This is an incomplete demo of the battle system. The baddies development is mostly done, but you only can do simple attacks and there's no animation for them v_v.

Please try the demo a few times, because the baddies, the backgrounds and the intros change with each reset.

The battle system is similar to the system used in Grandia games, but with a bunch of changes (for example, there's no magic points).

I'm using the following libraries to make the game:
- HEL (http://www.console-dev.de/hellibrary.html) (on top of HAM) for main hardware access. If you are doing something with HAM change NOW to HEL :lol:.
- AAS (http://www.apex-designs.net/tools_aas.html) for playing mods and wavs. Good sound quality and crazy performance.
- HAM (http://www.ngine.de/) for managing a BG that needs to be updated in real-time (for transparency effects on top of sprites).

And the tools I'm using are these:
- Visual HAM (http://www.console-dev.de/visualham.html) for programming and compiling and stuff like that.
- gfx2gba (http://www.gbadev.org/tools.php?showinfo=142) for converting graphic files to GBA useable data.
- GBA Crusher (http://members.iinet.net.au/~freeaxs/gbacomp/#GBA Crusher) for compressing background data.
- SoX (http://sox.sourceforge.net/) for converting wavs to a suitable format for the AAS converter.
- Katie (http://www.console-dev.de/katie.html) for converting the gfx automatically to a suitable format.

Thanks to these great libs and tools, although the Youtube videos are a bit sh*tty, the game runs at a constant 60fps :p.

[Arialia]

Welcome Chano

j'aime beaucoup tes graphiques :wub:

[Yodajr]

Nice graphics, nice animations, good luck :wub:

PS : Please put something playable, or anything, or I will have to move your topic ;)

[Chano]

Okay, I'll upload something playable this afternoon.

[Metaluna]

Bienvenidos!

A mi me gusta mucho los videos de tu juego! ;)

This looks like a really fun game and it's very well made! I like the sound, the gfx and the weird humor (the Alcoholic monster special attack really cracks me up)!

[Tembargo]

Wahou :D
It seems to be very good !

[Alekmaul]

Yes, great ! gba dev are not dead !!! continue, that's very nice :) !

[Chano]

I've updated the first post with a demo.

Please try the demo a few times, because the baddies, the backgrounds and the intros change with each reset.

[Arialia]

:huh: zip seems corrupted for me :cry:

do it works for you ?

[Chano]

I'll try to reupload >_<

EDIT: FIXED (I think).

[t4ils]

el juego parece muy impresionante en las imagines
(I stop the spanish here, it's been so many years that I stopped learning it :ph34r:)

i tried the demo special player advance ... it kicks ass dude !
very impressive, graphics are smooth and cool, i like the splash screens too ^^
gfx and animations are great

keep up the good work ;)

[Yodajr]

Very impressive :w00t:
A lot of special effects, I love it :wub:
GBA still alive ! :D

[Bap65]

I haven't tried yet your homebrew but the screens produces very well.
Good luck for the continuation and many thanks making us share your soft! :)

[Chano]

Thanks for your comments ;).

I've uploaded a new demo, a bit more difficult than before. I recommend to play this version because with it you'll see more frequently the special attacks of the enemies.

[Arialia]

Great !

For information don't decompress with Alzip seems always corrupted
With 7z no problem :wub:

well i think i put Alzip in "poubelle" :D

[omg]

Very nice! Good Work! :)

I try it, ...
... and I'm dead! :snif2:

[Kojote]

excellent work so far, keep up the really amazing great work!

[archipel]

esta mucho fun... hay caramba, i love the weird but orginal graphics

continue !

[Chano]

Again, thanks for your comments :D.
So many important people supporting my game... wow! I'll try to do my best.


From PDRoms.de:
The release is a pre-pre alpha and exculsivly for http://www.playeradvance.org Although I did the demo specially for PlayerAdvance, anyone can download and play it without register in PA or something, so I don't consider it "exclusively" for PlayerAdvance.

[omg]

Thanks for choose http://www.playeradvance.org/! :)

[BennyRebirth]

Sa me rappel la bonne époque :)
Que du bonheur! sa donne vraiment envi!

Thanks a lot, that's too good!!

[greeeg]

Tu demo es increible, me parece una base muy buena para hacer un juego bastante interesante. Sigue asi tio !
(vas a hacer un juego despues con la fuente esta, verdad ?)
Ademas muchas gracias por haber elegido playeradvance para la primera version...

(je commence à parler espagnol, finalement ca a du bon de vivre en espagne... :D )

[Kojote]

Again, thanks for your comments :D.
So many important people supporting my game... wow! I'll try to do my best.


From PDRoms.de:
Although I did the demo specially for PlayerAdvance, anyone can download and play it without register in PA or something, so I don't consider it "exclusively" for PlayerAdvance.

As i love the french dever community I tried to push playeradvance a bit, of course everyone who followed knows that you can get the demo without registration :)

[greeeg]

Many thanks Kojote ! It's always a pleasure ;)

[Kojote]

Many thanks Kojote ! It's always a pleasure ;)

actually that rpg preview is a pleasure :) you better praise that guy instead of me :)

[Riolehh]

Hola,

gracia por haver puesto en playeradvance tu primera release :bave:, el systemo de pelea es muy original entre grandia y mario & luigi, tus graficos tan bien me gustan, son muy originales :)....

Haces un trabajo muy bien ;)

[Chano]

I've updated the first post with a new demo just in time for the PA anniversary. In this demo the texts are in french thanks to Greeeg translation. I have fixed a pair of bugs and the bar timmings have been adjusted.

I hope you enjoy this new demo (comments plz ^^).

[Riolehh]

:w00t:

Muchas gracias :), lo voy à testar enseguida :bave:

[Yodajr]

Trop excellent ! c'est sûr qu'avec la trad de greeeg, on se rend compte que tout le reste à l'image des graphs :D

http://hothmoon.free.fr/public/TSC_PADemo3.png

Really, really amazing work :wub:

[Chano]

Greeeg's nick has three e's >_<. Fixed.

EDIT

Some screenshots ;):
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/225/tsc01ol8.png http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7383/tsc02ra0.png

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/8943/tsc03jp6.png http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/2492/tsc04jf3.png

[Chano]

Past week I have been working a bit on the engine:

I have changed sprite text system a bit: now instead using one sprite per letter the system prints a few letters per sprite, so now I can fill the screen with stupidities :lol:. This new text system is much slower than the previous, but nothing problematic.

Also I have been working on a mode7 effect on the background. It is not yet integrated into the engine, but I hope I won't have problems doing it. Instead of boring blah-blah I'll show you a video as an example (demo runs at 60fps, choppiness brought to you thanks to Youtube :na:):
Link to video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbA7rrmdCW4)

[archilolo]

J'étais passé à côté de ce projet... et c'est excellent ! C'est fluide, joli ; et la traduc. de greeeg est à mourir de rire ! :D

J'adore !

Thanks for this awesome game ! Waiting for an update ! :bave: