Wizards of Yore (second try)

[kevglass]

Legends of Yore is back on the app store:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/legends-of-yore-full/id441898274?ls=1&mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/legends-of-yore/id434205569?ls=1&mt=8

Thanks to the awesome LibGDX, I blogged my experience with it here:

http://cokeandcode.tumblr.com/post/45862290321/libgdx-legends-of-yore-and-getting-to-ios-again

I'll certainly be using it going forward with Wizards of Yore. Speaking of Wizards I've mostly been working on graphics for the game and packaging it into a form that can be used for physical board game as well as the online game. You can see the unit cards I've just submitted for prototype printing:



Still pressing on with graphics at the moment. Back to code shortly.

Cheers,

Kev

[ReBirth]

Nice sprites, what tool is it?

[HeroesGraveDev]

Legends of Yore is back on the app store

THANK YOU!!!

EDIT: It crashes after "Loading Dynamics..."

EDIT 2: Realised that Apple wouldn't have approved the update yet. I hate Apple.

Edit 3: 20 minutes late there was a new update. It launched, but the buttons are acting strange. They only work when you click to the top left of them.

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[kevglass]

The tool for spriting is GIMP.

Legends of Yore - aware of the button position issues, new release shortly. Easy to fix now thanks to LibGDX

Cheers,

Kev

[ReBirth]

How do you fill, or draw the "big pixel"? (gah what I say) I mean, it only has pen brush which is round, not rectangle.

[kevglass]

I sprite at the single pixel level with zoom way up, then scale up as and when needed.

Cheers,

Kev

[Nate]

Just seeing this now Kev, super cool! This is mostly what I wanted Arcane Tactics to be. I'm jealous. :p

Glad you like libgdx. Be sure to check out scene2d and especially TableLayout!

[badlogicgames]

Neato! Glad submission worked out as well. @scene2d: don't go there, it's a dark place!

[matheus23]

Glad you like libgdx. Be sure to check out scene2d and especially TableLayout!

@scene2d: don't go there, it's a dark place!

Huh? Why is scene2d a dark place? It's probably missing a "TextArea", but everything else is pretty much okey...

And TableLayout is awesome...

Hm...

[Nate]

Because Mario is scared of anything I write. :p scene2d is super awesome!

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[kevglass]

Complete set of sprites for units created, woo, finally back to code:



Yay!

Cheers,

Kev

[ReBirth]

Huh? I think most of libgdx projects use scene2d and table. What will you do with the UI/menu? absolute coordinate? Gah.

@kev
That does the trick! Never thought about it before. Gah.

[kevglass]

FWIW, I didn't even look at scene2d yet - SpriteBatch seemed to have everything I needed

Cheers,

Kev

[Nate]

Of course, scene2d also uses SpriteBatch. You'd probably find scene2dui most useful, as it makes it easy to layout UI stuff that automatically adapts to various resolutions (using the Table class). It has buttons, scrollpanes, etc ready for use.
https://code.google.com/p/libgdx/wiki/scene2dui

[ReBirth]

Long live scene2d, table, screen, game, and image classes!

Topic: If this is your 2nd project, what happen to that top-down dungeon game? Forget the name but use same sprites design as this.

[kevglass]

I think you're either talking about Legends of Yore (which is complete and selling) or the Crusaders of Yore prototype that never went anywhere?

Cheers,

Kev

[ReBirth]

Crusaders of Yore I know LoY pretty well and had played it since your 1st release until it became paid. IMO CoY is pretty good because of its simplicity.

[dapy]

...about Legends of Yore...

Whilst googling for roguelike inspirations, I spotted this article which lists Legends in its top 10 roguelikes for android:

Thought you might be interested if you haven't already seen it!

[kevglass]

Nice! Thats very pleasant!

Cheers,

Kev

[kevglass]

I'll probably revisit Crusaders once I get done here - I normally go back and forth on games as you might have noticed

Nice thing is for Crusaders I'll now have a bunch more graphics to use!

Cheers,

Kev

[impaler]

Good luck with WoY! I loved Chaos and I like where WoY is heading.

Also libgdx is amazing, welcome to the guild. I also think scene2d is a very overlooked part of it. It makes UI a breeze and the things you can do with it is amazing. I am planning to use it more and more.

I'd also love to see your art in dwarf fortress. That would be amazing, but it takes one probably 3 lives to create all the sprites.

[kevglass]

Just added freeze and poison into the game (along with the modifier framework):



Leaves room for the new magic cards.

Cheers,

Kev

[kevglass]

Lunch time - just added the heal card. Unfortunately if all you have is heal spells then it's very hard to win

Sauren is very proud of himself:



Cheers,

Kev

[Tyecon]

I absolutely love the art style! My pixel art looks like corrupted video ram.

[kevglass]

Taking the time to learn a bit of pixel art theory was one of the most enjoyable things I've done recently.

In other news, version 0.0.2 of Wizards of Yore is up at:

http://www.wizardsofyore.com for the desktop/java update version.

http://www.wizardsofyore.com/js for the javascript version

http://www.wizardsofyore.com/android/wizards-android-0.0.2.apk - for the Android version (I'll put it on google play as soon as it's ready for general play )

Lots of new bits of pieces:

- Select your players
- Computer is a bit smarter when it gets towards the end of the game
- Bunch of new units to control
- Some modifier spells - (bless, heal, curse, magic sword, magic shield etc)
- AI Fixes

Any and all feedback richly appreciated as always

Cheers,

Kev

[kevglass]

Just pushed the game up onto google play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.newdawn.wizards

Still in development but at least this way I can use player input to shape the game. The AI has been improved and a few of the glitches taken out.

It's also been submitted to the App Store so should be appearing on iOS real soon now.

Cheers,

Kev

[teletubo]

Taking the time to learn a bit of pixel art theory was one of the most enjoyable things I've done recently.

Can you direct us to some resources ?

[kevglass]

I found this one good:

http://gas13.ru/v3/tutorials/sywtbapa_almighty_grass_tile.php

And this short one surprisingly insightful:

http://www.photonstorm.com/archives/2291/16x16-pixel-art-tutorial

Mostly I learnt by looking at other people's art including the mighty Oryx:

http://oryxdesignlab.com/sprites/

The things I learnt are:

1) Colours - Lots of colours on a single sprite is bad - multiple shades of a small set of colours is better.
2) Proportions - Real life has nothing to do with it - the bits you want to emphasise should be bigger (i.e. the head). If you're doing a set of characters then consistent proportions helps.
3) Angle of View - 90 degree angles (i.e. flat on, side on) are harder to give character.
4) Animation - even subtle simple animation adds far more adorability factor.
5) Variants - varying a character by adding/removing features works. Just changing the colour doesn't.

Cheers,

Kev

[Vermeer]

There are also some extensive notes arranged by chapters here:
http://opengameart.org/content/les-forges-pixel-art-course

But yes, I have seen the insightful one one the frog, very minimal  - but very concise.

[Bogdan]

Looks really great, but hard as hell. Is there going to be story mode?