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Woohoo.

Alright, should be an easy one.

Hey, it's Kingdom O' Magic!

Man, haven't played that one in ages, gotta find the CDs and fire it up on my trusty retro PC someday.

This is an awesome option to have, any thing that helps impaired gamers in some way is always very welcome.

Being partially colorblind (mild deuteranomaly), I had to give up on many puzzle games (or use a visual guide for adventure games with such segments) without a colorblind aid/mode, just because I kept mixing yellow/orange/green pieces. :[

I'm getting some sweet Blade Runner/Akira flashbacks just by watching the screenshots. Definitely gonna keep my eye on this one.

One thing that also should be remembered is, quoting

game speed is affected by many factors, including how many objects/characters are on the screen, whether background music is playing, the complexity of your scripts, and more.

Zniw Adventure (640x480), being my best example, does suffer from framedrops and sound stutter (nothing terrible, but is noticeable), when larger animations or large animated GUIs are being shown, on a 1GHZ/512 MB RAM/128 MB graphic card configuration. The same settings on 1.2 GHz, 512 MB of RAM and 256 MB gfx card seems to work just fine.

So yeah, you might get some clues and insights from us, but the best way, as the manual stated, is to simply test the game on different computers and check how it behaves.

Thanks for the kind words, AnasAbdin, Cassie, Stupot, Blondbraid and Captain! It really keeps our motivation high.

Here's some more work we managed to do. Hope I didn't goof any gif this time.


Hard landings included.


Can't have a prehistoric game without our favourite flying reptiles.


No prehistoric mammals were harmed during the capture of this gif.

Here's a little bonus: some sequences are so complicated, Twarda had to do a separate rough line test to get them right... good Lord, what we have gotten ourselves into?

A job well done, and a thumbs up from me as well, Captain! Can't wait to see the new teaser.

Yup, now that's definitely a job well done, in both visual and coding terms. Looks great!

I read the news about your game and Wadjet Eye on one major Polish gaming portal - I was really glad it won't impact the release of the game.
Best of luck with the publishing! Hope those details you're speaking of won't get that much in your way!

I get a 404 on this gif: "(this one's already finished and in the game, the gif was taken before the process)"

Whoops, should be working now.

Precisely. Both Alone in the Dark and Little Big Adventure were designed by the same man - Frédérick Raynal.
Well, anybody got some another screen?

Thanks selmiak and Blondbraid!

The remaining 5% struggle continues... hey, at least we're not sick anymore! Rejoice!



So what's today to show? More animations, more bugfixes, more visual tweaks... the game is also two rooms bigger, as we expanded next-to-last location, to have a bit better flow going.

The map and dialogue screen also received some minor treatment, as the old version looked kinda bland and basic:





Can you spot ALL of the differences?

Also, here's a couple of moving pictures too:


(not everyone's friendly, especially in the late game)


(this one's already finished and in the game, the gif was taken before the process)


(everyone is equally worried about the rest 5% of the game)



Twarda also started doing hi-res dinosaur artworks for the encyclopedia and the manual:


(you wouldn't want to meet this chap, being alone in the forest)


(now featuring 100% less colour!)

So yeah, working hard every day!

Close (especially when considering one fact), but no.

Ah yes, I had a feeling I've seen these scenes somewhere before. Had a go in Mortal Kombat X with a friend several times.
Too bad I totally suck at fighting games in general.

Alright, here's mine:

Mortal Kombat?

Thanks, I'm testing and bug fixing... it's amazing how many bugs I introduced since last weekend... plus a bunch I keep finding that I thought I already had fixed...

Heh, we all know how it is.
Anyway, really great to hear it's going to be released soon!

Nice one! I really like watching such speedpaint videos (mostly because I did similiar ones back then ).

Yes, you can use the static function ChangeTranslation

Code: ags

static bool Game.ChangeTranslation(string newTranslationName)

Code: ags

if (Game.ChangeTranslation("Polish") == true) {
    Display("Now using Polish translation!");
} else {
    Display("Unable to change the translation!");
}

There are also other helpful functions, like IsTranslationAvailable and TranslationFilename, if you want to change translations while the game is running. It's all in the manual.

Just like Mandle says, one of the things to remember, while handling the *.trs file, is the space at the end of the string - if the original string happens to have a space at the very end, it won't be translated. I remember spending a good amount of time wondering why "Acquired " kept displaying in English, while doing the translation... Maybe that's the cause here?

You're on fire, man! Looks great so far, keep it up!

Will it have some connections to Neofeud, other than the setting (characters, events etc.)?