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That's right, a second version of the RPG Starter Kit has graced the internet. This version gives programmers the ability to make true 4 way scrolling games with ascii characters. The maps can be any dimension, but they have to be greater than 9x17. Check out the developer's guid for more information on this set up.





Download here: http://omnimaga.unitedti.org/rpgsk2.zip

UPDATE 09/19/07 (Kévin): Added in TI Programming Tools section of the Calculator RPGs and Programming tools archives

Now this give me a reason to stick to ASCII graphics and make Nemesiat 2

Wow great job tifreak8x. RPGSK2 is like the Unreal Engine of the TI community.

Awesome.

But 9x17? That's odd...I'd think the minimum would be something like 8x16.

This post has been edited by bfr on 17 Sep, 2007, 16:09

I guess it needs the extra row and colom so it wont error or something.

anyway, great work.

Sweet! Now we can all make Pokemon!

Actually, I forgot what the numbers were... >.< you need... 4 rows to the left, 5 to the right... 3 to the top, and 4 to the bottom, on top of the actual map.

not to rain on your parade with my assembly bigotry, but...dontcha think you could make it faster? you dont even have collision detection yet and its getting to be pretty choppy.

IIRC an older screenshot of it ran almost twice faster. I think this is 83+ speed actually in the screenshot. Of course, smaller maps will be faster I'm sure. I think it's prbly at maximum speed almost though, considering how good is tifreak8x at programming BASIC, but we never know, I didn't even looked at the source yet

does this have to be pure? (shameless asm plug)

it would be preferable that no Asm( command was used inside the loops, else in huge games this would slow things down considerably, considering Asm( take half a second to be executed in large games. See ROL3 map loading for example

but I think tifreak8x meant to make this pure BASIC, and he don't do ASM for games (IIRC he only used it for small asm programs because it is very hard to make asm games like RPGs)

Well... if I wasn't so far into LOTR I'd replace my walking engine now, since I *did* start with a blank copy of RPGSK1, but... Looks cool anyway. I'll have to code another RPG when I'm done to take advantage of it. =P

hehe I hope to see it coming! But please finish LOTR fisrt

Uh, yes I do, not sure where you are getting your information from. Hit detection was implemented 15 minutes after posting the very first screenshot of this engine in action.

And the gif capture isn't the greatest in the world, try it on calc before saying it is too slow.

true, on emulators it's always slower than on calc.