[Beta] TwoStep - The challenging puzzle game! [Axe] [TI-8x+]

[Unicorn]

Oooo a level editor? Awesome! Great job Darkest.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I found some time during school breaks to work some more on the real, original TwoStep Editor.
It will be graphical (no compiler anymore) and it is pretty far already.
Hopefully you will be soon able to make your own levels

Glad to hear. I was curious if a more user-friendly editor would eventually come out.

[DarkestEx]

I should really finish this nice game sometime

[Dudeman313]

Have you noticed all your download links are broken? I wanted to try this out!

[DarkestEx]

Have you noticed all your download links are broken? I wanted to try this out!

Until today all source code and binaries were lost. I found the harddisk of my dead laptop I threw away and luckily managed to recover it. The laptop died of the graphics chip overheating. Not fixable. This is why I bought myself a proper laptop a while back. The new laptop is actually my first new laptop. I went though about 4-5 used ones so far. They were all 10-6 years old and died quickly. At some point I stopped buying replacement parts and scrapped then for parts.

Go here for a list of the latest releases: http://media.muessigb.net/TwoStep/z80/Beta/
Download the latest version here: http://media.muessigb.net/TwoStep/z80/Beta/TwoStep_z80-b150404-a.zip

[Dudeman313]

Thanks!

[DarkestEx]

You're welcome

I have finally decided to release the TwoStep Level devkit:
http://media.muessigb.net/TwoStep/z80/Beta/TwoStep_z80-b150404-a-lvldev.zip

You will need Axe to compile and run it.

This is how to make levels:
1. Grab a sheet of paper and design some levels that you might find interesting. Choose a start position and the start and endpoints of the portals (you can have multiple inputs and outputs per portal channel A and B; every input of a channel goes to a random output of a portal of the same channel).
2. The size of a level is 10x6. The list and value of the blocks is attached.
3. Build the hex version of the level by going row by row. Start in the upper-left corner and go right. Then go to row 2 and proceed. To write the hexadecimal representation of the blocks, just write the hex character of the block. Two blocks build one byte. The MSB of the byte is the left block of the pair and the LSB is the right block of the pair.
4. Build the [] blocks of the levels like in the default level pack file attached. Just take the hex representation.
5. Build the Data() block for every level as shown in the sample level. Make sure you understand the header format: [encloses bits] {encloses single bytes} (encloses multiple {bytes})
6. Finally build the initial Data() block as described in the devkit.
7. Compile and run the Axe program. You have to run it, what will make it create your actual level file. You can delete the compiled Axe file if you want; it is not needed anymore.

Have fun and don't forget to share some levels

I will probably make a graphical editor at some point, but for now this is the easiest way to make levels.

[DarkestEx]

Finally a new update after all this time.
I just looked through the code again and checked out, how it actually works.

The latest update consists mainly of bug fixes and some level pack releated changes.
It can be downloaded here: http://dl.muessigb.net/TwoStep/z80/Beta/TwoStep_z80-b160123-a.zip
From now on, the level SDK is included within the archives.

As always, have fun!

[alexgt]

Nice! I like bugs becoming extinct

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Oh I am happy you are resuming work on this. I was wondering if it would get revived or not at one point. A level editor is cool. I don't know if I'll have time to make levels myself, though. Do you plan to release this on ticalc.org?

[DarkestEx]

Nice! I like bugs becoming extinct

Me too

Oh I am happy you are resuming work on this. I was wondering if it would get revived or not at one point. A level editor is cool. I don't know if I'll have time to make levels myself, though. Do you plan to release this on ticalc.org?

Well, it is not really a level editor yet, but a level development kit. That means no graphic interface, but a stub axe project, where you insert you level blocks, and that you compile and run.
It will then output the actual level file. About ticalc, I think I will, when this project comes to a release state.

The next tasks are:
- Getting timed mode done
- Restructuring the level file format to allow saving and high scores
- Implement high scores and possibly saving (though idk if we really need saving - it adds just extra work)
- Design a new loading screen (I need help redrawing the logo; I would appreciate any help!)
- Work on the menu screen and on the level selection

[DarkestEx]

So I took some time to recover the images from the first post and and went through the links and fixed them.

[SiphonicSugar]

Nice! I like bugs becoming extinct

Me too

Oh I am happy you are resuming work on this. I was wondering if it would get revived or not at one point. A level editor is cool. I don't know if I'll have time to make levels myself, though. Do you plan to release this on ticalc.org?

Well, it is not really a level editor yet, but a level development kit. That means no graphic interface, but a stub axe project, where you insert you level blocks, and that you compile and run.
It will then output the actual level file. About ticalc, I think I will, when this project comes to a release state.

The next tasks are:
- Getting timed mode done
- Restructuring the level file format to allow saving and high scores
- Implement high scores and possibly saving (though idk if we really need saving - it adds just extra work)
- Design a new loading screen (I need help redrawing the logo; I would appreciate any help!)
- Work on the menu screen and on the level selection

The logo is what you should try to do first.

[DarkestEx]

Nice! I like bugs becoming extinct

Me too

Oh I am happy you are resuming work on this. I was wondering if it would get revived or not at one point. A level editor is cool. I don't know if I'll have time to make levels myself, though. Do you plan to release this on ticalc.org?

Well, it is not really a level editor yet, but a level development kit. That means no graphic interface, but a stub axe project, where you insert you level blocks, and that you compile and run.
It will then output the actual level file. About ticalc, I think I will, when this project comes to a release state.

The next tasks are:
- Getting timed mode done
- Restructuring the level file format to allow saving and high scores
- Implement high scores and possibly saving (though idk if we really need saving - it adds just extra work)
- Design a new loading screen (I need help redrawing the logo; I would appreciate any help!)
- Work on the menu screen and on the level selection

The logo is what you should try to do first.

Sure, I would love to get any help, as stated

[c4ooo]

i could try to convert it to monochrome. could you post the image and the output [size] specification?