Game with text based graphics

ITzTravelInTime

@Dave Looked at it, i is very cool, but i prefer to just study do study documentation and try myself, i got it to run pretty well, and yes i am putting toghether my whishlist of features to make this game how i want it to be.

This game is basically a recreation of a simple text mode game engine i made for dos using low level c + assembly (without libraryes, i just the good old programming and manul resource management) and in fact i want to experiment on the switch before implementing new features on dos, the switch is a very simple and funny platform to develop on with fuze, i get started in very little time, but i am missing some c features i'd like you to implement.

Thanks for answering my post and letting me know, i am likeing very mutch fuze

ITzTravelInTime

And now i am making a world map, I want this game to became some sort of rpg

ITzTravelInTime

So i added color and reworked the graphics because i wanted some more features, now instead of working with characters, it works withs tiles, and this allows me tio reuse characters for different things rather than purposing every character for a specific use, with that i also added colors, here is a quick look at it in handheld mode

Jaywalker

Nice work!

ITzTravelInTime

Now i am about to add strctures made of multiple tiles, i have to figure it out a bit

Dave

Dude this looks awesome... I can't wait to try it.

"welcome to the text world" hahaha..

Being there makes me feel... out of character...

ITzTravelInTime

i was experimenting with optimizing the text drawing and i saw that fps meter takes quite a lot of cpu time, the game is mutch soother when it's disabled.

@dave any way simple way of calculating fps only or display it only in the debug info?

MikeDX

@ITzTravelInTime i have an fps calculator function in pacman which i will share when I get home later.

i also have a profiler function which may be useful

ITzTravelInTime

@MikeDX Thank you, you can also add me as a friend my code is SW-6620-3252-4535

I will also share my work when it will reach the state of "complete enought to be a demo"

ITzTravelInTime

Making some prototpyes for the look of structures made of multiple tiles, here it is a house, for now i am using the text edit app on my mac with the menlo font, do you know which font is used by fuze in text mode?

Dave

Beautiful house. This is so cool...

Now do a castle!!

Jonboy

Ooh - a cathedral please, and an under water temple er.. and Norway, fjords and all.

ITzTravelInTime

For now i am making a prototype map with a text based forest in which there are a river and a small village + some messanges inside the game world

ITzTravelInTime

I think i acidentally chopped all my trees

ITzTravelInTime

Today was spent on optimization, now the screen drawing work with an enless loop and the inputs are cheched using a timer scheduled regurally, all of this avoid the game being uplaybe if the framerate is too high or too low

Nisse5

@ITzTravelInTime Why can't you just synch everything to Update()?

ITzTravelInTime

@Nisse5 I am doing this because i want the game to run at the maximum framerate and the controls to be at the same speed reguardless of the framerate, and so keeping all this stuff into the game cycle will mean that the player moovement will depend on framerate and so it can suffer from speed or syncronization issues and in this way it will be also hard to time correctly, that's why i want with this route, it's simple to keep everything timed correctly while having the best performance

ITzTravelInTime

And i found a bug with timers, which causes FUZE to crash, i created a thread into the bug reports if you are interested

https://fuzearena.com/forum/topic/165/timers-produce-wired-errors-and-also-some-fuze-crashes

KuraIthys

Interesting.
Regarding switching from 'char' to tiles, that fundamentally if you go far enough back in history, these are the same thing.

Tile based graphics is an offshoot of text based stuff. The only thing that changed is that you can redefine the character set. (later a few other things showed up like parallax scrolling, but at heart it's still just a fancy text based mode.)

If you were to look at something like the Atari 800 (or the more well known C64) you'd see that they talk about using 'character mode' displays, and by default these are the system's text modes.
But in reality what's happening is this is a tile based graphics mode where the computer has a 'default' tileset that just so happens to be the letters that make up a text mode display.
That's really all there is to it on the really old 8 and 16 bit systems.
Tiles and text mode are the same thing! XD

Still looks like a fun project though. Good luck with it.

KuraIthys

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