Upgrade Time: Encounter

[Dbug]

Very nice artwork! This is so beyond the orignal

Thanks

I added a new room to the game, and I'm keeping my itch.io experiment by adding some developer logs there.

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Not sure if that will have any impact, but who knows, that may give a bit of visibility to an Oric project!

[Dbug]

A couple people asked me how I was making the graphics for Encounter, so I wrote a small step-by-step tutorial for one of the graphics.

https://defenceforce.itch.io/encounter/ ... t-tutorial

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[Dbug]

A new devlog for the game, about iteration times (how to speed up development).

https://defenceforce.itch.io/encounter/ ... tion-times

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[Dbug]

Small animation: The abandoned car can now be played with.

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[Xeron]

If encounter is set in the UK, the rear storage area of a car should be called the boot, not the trunk.

[Dbug]

If encounter is set in the UK, the rear storage area of a car should be called the boot, not the trunk.

Good point, at least the steering wheel is on the proper side!

Which words would you use for the "opening/lid where you pour the gazoline", and for the "gazoline/petrole"?

[Xeron]

We call it petrol, and it's the petrol cap.

[coolman66]

This game is going to become EPIC .

[Dbug]

This game is going to become EPIC .

Well, in term of realization is definitely upgraded, but at the core it's still the same relatively simple adventure game (with some tweaks here and there).

[Dbug]

I updated the way the list of items are handled, instead of one item per line (which can easily overflow the screen).

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Now items are comma separated to better use screen space.

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Also pressing SHIFT at any time now highlights the important words the player can interact with.

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Should make it less frustrating, no need to wonder if something is called "BLACK DUST" or "DUST".

[Sodiumlightbaby]

Ah, that's a great usability trick - I love it! Watch and learn, whoever made Africa Safari (c64). Those hours and days trying to decipher the correct words to use

[Dbug]

Been a while since I gave an update, so here is a "cheap" animated scene.

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Quite a few moving parts have been required to get that working

[Sodiumlightbaby]

Franz Jäger?! Oh boy you crack me up! Very nice touch and kudos on the animated scene! Can't wait to see it released

[Symoon]

Very nicely done. Are you going to turn it into an arcade game?
This reminds me of Damocles for Atari / Amiga where you could visit the game editor's building, and blow a safe there to open it and get some hints - and die if you stayed too close

[Dbug]

Not really an arcade game, but since I made a scripting language that runs asynchronously to display all these delayed speech bubbles, the direct consequence is that the player can still type commands while the script runs, so I can do this kind of animation without impacting the rest of the game.

Did not know about Damocles, I was not much fan of 3D games back then