Walrus Kingdom (former PocketWalrus) [PC] [Windows] [Java] [Walrus]

[Dream of Omnimaga]

For houses, can't you re-use corners from one house on another? That might speed up the process.

Also which Walrii tiles do you need in particular? Do you need all walruses to face 4 directions? That will be a lot of work for sure. I doubt I will have time. To save time you could maybe instead have all NPC's face two directions and not move, except maybe two or three kinds of NPC's that can move.

[p2]

nah just the base
but I need it looking in 8 instead of just 4 directions ^^ (for walking diagonal)

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Oh I see. Well... most games that supports 8 directions only use 4 directions for sprites. See Zelda: Link to the Past, for example. Usually, diagonal movement uses the same sprite as the last direction you went in (so if you start moving up-left after moving left, then the left frame is used, while if you were moving up, the up frame is used. Some games only use vertical frames for diagonal movements, though, while others use horizontal only.

[p2]

yeah I'm currently doing that, too, but it looks pretty stupid :/
always using the vertical ones (except for right-top direction, but I'm not sure why^^)
It looks REALLY stupid, but I also dont want to block diagonal movement... :/

[xMarminq_]

How do you play it?

[p2]

It's written in Java and if you want to try my current version, feel free to do so:
https://github.com/KaliPhobos/WalrusKingdom/
import the files in a new java project in eclipse and add a folder named "resources" where you put the tiles.png in. then you should eb able to try it out
If you need any further halp with it just PM me
I'll add instructions later, too much other stuff to do right now ^^

[c4ooo]

Just paste a runnable jar

[p2]

I'm currenty redoing big parts of the artwork as I'm implementing DJ's highres tiles of the house... but once I'm done I'll paste one
the game is so far pretty stable, just make sure not to drive to the eastern wal as the game will crash there
but besides from eastern (and southern) wall there is no way to crush the game I think ^^

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I can't wait to see new screenshots with the new houses.

[p2]

I modified the pic U sent me even a bit more (but only a very little bit) ^^
now the results are the following.

but still I have to redraw all of the tiles in different colors (as I have orange, green and blue houses) as well as the special ones for the big mansion ^^
again thx  lot @DJ Omnimaga 

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I like and glad I could help

For differently colored houses, don't you have tools to change the hue or find-replace specific colors/ranges?

[p2]

I do but first I have to prepare mano more tiles with the new highres...
(for longer roofs and stuff) that will take time. and sadly my screenshot is useless to me as my screen isn't 1pt/px (the screenshot is blurry). And as you know somehow the color palette was alterd so I got to redo all of if :/
I'm working on it a much as I can but currently I'm making only little prograss as I'm also working on the Wikileaks case.
But I'll provide a lil update soon
Will you, too?

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Will you, too?

Which update?

ALso I hope you don't permanently get involved into Wikileaks or other political matters to the point where you ditch all of your other activities and projects . That would suck to see you and this project go (I saw this happen in the past with other Internet users from specific communities, although the most common thing was LDS church missions.

[p4nix]

p2 has always been politically interested I guess. So that activity increases when s*** is about to happen/happened, but will come back to normal -level

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Ah ok phew. Anyway I am still confused by the other thing you said one post ago in my quote