I wrote a book on making roguelike games that might give you some ideas. It is on my FB site here. I also have a basic rl engine here.

Garvan is using the soundex function which uses a phonetic algorithm to match words that "sound" alike. I used it a lot when writing client-server applications back when I programmed for a living.

vdecampo wrote:Sorry its...

http://www.imakegames.com/files/downloa ... Object.zip

Fixing original link
-Vince

Got it. I missed this the first time around so I thought I would take a peek at it. Thanks.

vdecampo wrote:Yes, try here...

Net-Objects

-Vince

I get a 404 on the link. Case sensitive?

Yeah, I want to make it as data driven as possible, but I'm not trying to make a generic game. Generic game engines usually equals bland game play. if I build the world right, it should be big enough for many adventures.

Since I am changing direction on this, I thought a name change was in order. Here are all the details.

Forgot about this project... Looking forward to new screenshots and demos. And glad to hear you will try a classic RPG. I prefer them over rougelikes. It should be a nice change of pace. I am currently writing a tile map editor for the game, which will make it much easier to build the maps since I ...

Jocke The Beast wrote:Any ideas on the battles yet? Action rpg or battles alá Final Fantasy and similar? I pray for non FF-ones :)

Thanks Jocke.

Yeah, I am not a fan of those FF-style battles either. They will be rl-style battles since I am most familiar with coding those and they should work just fine.

I nuked the gallery for now. Most if not all is going to change. You can also ignore the pics on my FB site. I will be updating those as well.

Since the holidays are over and work is getting back to normal, I am going to get back to this. However, I found that I am a bit tired of doing roguelikes, so I am going to do this as a straight RPG. I already have a basic story, I just need to flesh it out a bit more, do a tile map editor which I a...

The image grid object will load a bitmap tilesheet and assign index numbers to the sheet which you ca use to draw the tile to the screen. /'**************************************************************************** The MIT License Copyright (c) 2012, Richard D. Clark Permission is hereby granted, ...

LOL.

Played with this and it makes me want to update DDD now. Nice job yetifoot.

1000101 wrote:I think it's more of a PEBKAC situation.

Or a loose nut behind the keyboard. :)

Heh. That is very cool. I am still amazed people are still interested in DDD. I'll have to give this a try.