Halo 2d by MasterChafed

[MasterChafed]

I present to you Halo 2d! Of course it is in extremely early stages of development. There are currently no animations but he jumps with a good feel of gravity and moves left and right, although when moving left he does not turn left. Now that I have a concept out there, is there anyone who would like to help me develop this game?

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[jman420]

heh sweet :D thats a cool game :D

[MasterChafed]

thx man

[Gizmo356]

i could help but i dont know that much lua

[MasterChafed]

do you know how to do frame rendering? you know so that I could use multiple png files for animation? If not, would you like to be a beta tester?

[mesosade]

i'd be willing to test it for you dude (i got 1.5 psp and lua player..) that ok? btw how exactly will it work? will it be like metal lug when you kill all in an area than it says GO!!!---> and then fight a boss hitting it's weak spot? if so, i'd we willing to help with background stuff and object drawing too as well as testing the game:cool: i'm actually so wanting to test this game i even came up with a little sig i made on paint
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i feel this would be good game and i hope you haven't already given up dude;)

[jman420]

for animation rendering I beleave there is a way to blit a part of a picture (so you could make 1 png with 10 images of animation) and then there is a group of code for the animation part.

its either that or you make 10 png images of the 10 (frames) and blit them with a pause between images..

ie.

screen:blit(0, 0, frame1, false)
screen.waitVblankStart()
screen.flip()

screen.waitVblankStart(3)

screen:clear()
screen:blit(0, 0, frame2, false)
screen.waitVblankStart()
screen.flip()

and so on, I dont beleave that this would be a good way to build it, nor would it make sence, but it can be looped I beleave.. (I personaly havent tried this code, so it may not be usable, but it makes sence that you should be able to blit and pause, blit and pause, and loop that around to animate.

(And I did write all that code out, I didnt copy it).

there is also a code to render animations, I just dont know what it is.. sorry I'm sure I havent been of any help :p but its a suggestion.

Edit: now that I think about it, that code I posted above can realy only be used to animate a background anyway.

However since you use a single variable for the position of your "player" object, it would be possible for you to add another few player variables (player1, player2, player3, player 4). and from there you could add all the seperate timed blitting sequenecs and of course make sure your player2, and player3 and player4 are all blitting at the same point as the original player1, you can use somthing to make sure it blitts the player2 image to the same variable position.

ie.
"
if player2.x < player1.x ==
if player2.y < player1.y ==
"

I dont know if thats usable, but it would make sence, you could have seperate frames for 1 object, and have them all tied to your one "player1" object's position.

[mesosade]

but would the very small delay cause a slight sort of flash between each 'frame' or would it go so fast it would be unnoticeable?

[Zion]

Nice work! Looking good :D

[yaustar]

What positions are available? You have to be careful that bringing in a coder that is better then the lead will dominate the project development.

The best way to do the animation is to have an image of the whole animation (e.g. Walk) cycle and blit an area of the image to the screen.

e.g
http://i4.tinypic.com/16h6ng2.png

[Shadowblind]

Cant wait to be playing H2 on PSP ( even if it is 2D)

[gunntims0103]

i would love to beta test and il help as much as i can by the way yaustar is a great help to

[MasterChafed]

Thx to you all! Anyway to answer some q's #1 any1 who wants to beta test pm me with your emails. #2 That siggy is awsme!!!! No, I haven't given up, my net would load any dcemu pages afer about 11:30 my time last night, i dunno why. to JMan, I wll try to blit vry frame individually and see if that wrks for what I am going for, but I had wanted to use the type of frame rendering that Gunntims usd for Sora's adventure I just can't seem to get that to work. And as for the flash between frames, well I will get bakc to you on that after i try it. :) Also, mesosade you can be a beta tester. Oh, almost forgot, as fo the gameplay, I am open to suggstion, and you aid mtal slug type gamplay,and I got excited, I was actually gonna make it a 2d platformer, but metal sluggish type gamplay would be awesome. Thx for suggestions and support. Now where is my coder status. lol

[yaustar]

Code wise, good start, you have the player as an 'object' (table in Lua terms). Just remember to comment your code and indent code blocks otherwise it is going to get very unreadable very quickly.

[Gizmo356]

did you get my pm

[MasterChafed]

how would I go about doing that? I only know how to blit the image as a whole.

[MasterChafed]

Yeah, i don't have a lot of coding positions open because this was my hit or miss attempt at learning lua. Maybe soem code advisers, but mainly i need beta testers, and som people to help with backgrounds (i hate making backgrounds) and whatever else I can think of later. But yauster, how do I go about rendering only portions of an image like you said?

[yaustar]

how would I go about doing that? I only know how to blit the image as a whole.
The wiki is down at the moment but it be here:
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:itZtHjD2AFAJ:wiki.ps2dev.org/psp:lua_player:tutorial+&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a
http://wiki.ps2dev.org/psp:lua_player

Look at the wiki entry for screen:blit when it comes back up. Basically you define a 'clipping frame' on the image. If I get the chance, I do a quick demo.

[MasterChafed]

thx a lot, right now I wll try jmans method, then i will check out the wiki when it gets back up, unless you can create a quick demo. thx again

[mesosade]

i sent some edited script which will hopefully help the turning problem. I barely have no knowledge of lua though when i read it makes sense to me...strange oh btw do gif animations play in a lua app if so why not give values such as if pad right play for example runright.gif and if pad left and so on though i wouldn't know how u could make it stop at will...anyways back to testing...

[MasterChafed]

Ok, mesosades script worked, the problem with the script(and I think this is why i didnt use it when I was making the game) is that it loads the image on key press, therefore causing the image to be constantly loaded and blitted if the button is pressed, this doesn't freezed the game, but the framerate goes down dramastically. I will post the new script and sprites.

[yaustar]

Here it is as promised

[MasterChafed]

thx man. I will study this script and tyr to put it into mine.

[mesosade]

i started to work on a little background but it's nowhere near the final product but here's a tiny little teaser
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[MasterChafed]

nice work man. Can't wait to see the finished product

[BrooksyX]

hey nice work. I hope this project can progtress far!

[mesosade]

:P gotta update of the first part of background. oh yeah and the sky is not the finished product i just stuck in the 8-bit clouds of mario bros randomly.
NEW IDEA: should backgrounds be 8-bit or 16-bit?

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ENJOY :P

[MasterChafed]

16 preferably, I am trying to make this game look as professional as possible. Nice work on the background. Also, check out the new build I released a few posts up. I am getting animations in here in a while. I have animations running, just not in the game itself.

[mesosade]

alright! great to know btw when you release for beta testers is it gonna be through email or a password encrypted rar you could pm us the pass?

[MasterChafed]

I am not sure yet. I am thinking pass encrypted rar.

[mesosade]

can someone plz upload a detailed tileable sky pic plz i can't find one nor draw one

[MasterChafed]

there, the first official animations of my game be complete. this is for beta testers only. Beta testers of Halo 2d need to pm me for pass.

[mesosade]

don't forget to make note that this is for beta testers only b4 ppl begin to moan for pass update: alright cool, btw the beta is looking sweet

[Shadowblind]

I found a petty excuse for a scorpian on the net. see if ya can't fix it up for more indef detail? :D

[mesosade]

check out this vehicle sprites i found amazing detail! i though maybe that's how lvls could be started..with vehicle flying past dropping you in the action i even made an example :P
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also check out the other's
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[BrooksyX]

you should make the pelican part of the game and even make it so you can controll it!

[dtothabreezy]

got a good felling this is gonna be good
is thier gonaa be aming or straight up shotter o and the million dollar question multiplaya

[mesosade]

ad-hoc mode with lua player now that is gonna be veeeeeeeery hard seeming that this is soooooo early in development but i'm sure at some point in this game's project ad-hoc may just be possible...
WOW i just realised this project was started today and we're already getting far! but just HOW the hell are we gonna manage to do a.i that's gonna be a tough challenge to tackle...

[Gizmo356]

meso did you pm me the password

[mesosade]

you'll need to ask masterchafe it's his project not mine i can't go saying the pass...

[mesosade]

i'm gonna try and get a chat room here to stop too much replies wish me luck...

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DAMMIT!!!!

[dtothabreezy]

good question maybe like shoot when so and so far away more advance ones could jump or duck

[Gizmo356]

lol

[jman420]

well its looking good. This should be realy cool.. I cant beleave that there has been so many people post since 4 am yesterday lol.

I did want to ask though, I am working on an RPG in Lua (mostly because I want that "Coder" tag(and because its a game that truly needs to be made for the PSP)) and I wanted to ask if anyone can help me, I need to know how to tile a background, and if it is possible to scroll the camera across it, its a top down RPG that I just want to move the character around the screen, and when the player comes to the border, I want it to make the background track to follow him across the different background images (as I guess, your only allowed to load imagers 480x272 and smaller..

if anyone can help me, please PM me with information. I appologise for going off the subject of this thread, but since you may know more lua then I, you might be able to help :D

[MasterChafed]

Sorry everyone, a thunderstorm struck over here so i had to turn off my computer. I am back now. Anyway, multiplayer may be possible (let em study for gods sake lol) but not in the near future. As for the pelican idea, sounds great, It might take me a while to learn how to do that. I plan on adding some crouch sprites here in the next few weeks or so (i have to learn how to change things without the horrific lag) Anyway, jman420 i can't really help as of yet because I hardly know what i am doing lol. This project was started to help me learn lua. And I plan on working on it until it is a fully functional, fully pollished game.

[Kaiser]

Nice, Moved to news forums :)

[MasterChafed]

nice, when do I get my coder title?

[shadowfighter]

looks nice.but how come someone doesnt just port over the 2d halo thats already on pc.havent seen someone try yet.if i was a coder,i would.someone ported beats of rage and ive played many mods that are great-tales of vengence being my new favorite.just a thought.

[jman420]

haha! MasterChafed! Are you in Aurora? cause this storm isnt THAT bad :p

[MasterChafed]

no man, I am near Cotopaxi, about 70-80 miles from Pueblo. It was horrible and we had a power failure.

[ninja9393]

did you read game informer (or rather game infarcer:p ) a few years back. They put a game in there parady game infarcer called halo 2d

[MasterChafed]

I am currently perfecting the healthbar for this game.

[MasterChafed]

my bad. I didnt even know, i just decided to call it that because it has 2d halo sprites. lol. seriously this is 100 percent original.

[jman420]

oh I see, sry to change the subject, I think that this should be a sweet game, and if I could help I would :D

[MasterChafed]

well healthbar is as completed as I can get it. Moving on to stopping animation when you stop pressing the button.

[yaustar]

looks nice.but how come someone doesnt just port over the 2d halo thats already on pc.havent seen someone try yet.if i was a coder,i would.someone ported beats of rage and ive played many mods that are great-tales of vengence being my new favorite.just a thought.
You can't (as I found out recently), the PC 2D Halo was done in GameMaker.

[dtothabreezy]

only if game maker worked on psp that make things so easy becuz i rember yousing that

[ninja9393]

ha masterchafed is there any way i can help

[RedKing14CA]

Call it Hola Tu

just to be safe for awhile...
and um....

it looks awsome, especially if you make it exactly like metal slug.. the union of two of the greatest games.. oh.. yeah

dont forget wifi multiplayer...

[PSPdemon]

I would love to help.....esspecially since i am a big fan of Halo.....

If you need a GFX artist......PM me :)

Thanks for Everything,
PSPdemon

[jman420]

I would like to ask, how do you make a png transparent, I know there is the true or false statement on the end of the screen:blit function, but even if that is set to "true" it doesent make the places I want transparent.. is there a special color that must be made? is there a reason that it wont work?

I know thats off subject, but it could be helpful to halo project aswell as you dont have the masterchief transparent :D

[MasterChafed]

actually yes I do. The Masterchief has most of the outside transparent. And to make the white (or w/e color waste space it has) transparent use photoshop or w/e and use the background eraser tool.

[Shadowblind]

what would be amazing is multiplayer in 2D for Halo.


Buuuuut, first things first, right?

[MasterChafed]

here you go, this one includes a health bar, and the walking animation doesn't start until you press right or left. I still cannot get the animation to stop or the lag when you press left or right to ease up. I could use some help if someone could give it to me. But none the less, here you go. note: the health bar is currently inflicted upon by the L and R buttons. This is just to prove that it works as I currently don't ahve any enemies. and the pass for the rar is the same as b4, so no need to pm.

[Kaiser]

here you go, this one includes a health bar, and the walking animation doesn't start until you press right or left. I still cannot get the animation to stop or the lag when you press left or right to ease up. I could use some help if someone could give it to me. But none the less, here you go. note: the health bar is currently inflicted upon by the L and R buttons. This is just to prove that it works as I currently don't ahve any enemies. and the pass for the rar is the same as b4, so no need to pm.

Cool I'm going to add that update to the first post. As for your coder tag... its getting sorted out I promise you :)

[MasterChafed]

thats right i have to figure out and plan for a single player, and to fix all of the bugs. For those who have ever played soldat (i think thats what it was called) that is how I imagine my multiplayer being if this project gets that far.

[MasterChafed]

thx a lot Kaiser

[AlinayG]

hey MasterChafed, if u need some help on the pixel art you could go here : http://pixeljoint.com/forum/
and here http://www.pixel-arts.org/pixelopolis/index.php
and ask for some help, show off some of the work that you have done and what are you working on anf stuff like that ( i know it can be hard pixeling a hole game by your self ( iam a pixel artest my self, but iam not that good at all ;p )

so i hope so see some nice enemis soon so i can kill em \,,/

Ps: i think you should change the whole way that you have the GFX right now, and make them more mini, kinda like metal slug, but halo!!! it would be mad kool if u get some nice pixel artest to help :D

[gunntims0103]

great work masterchafed this project is really coming along nicly

[Shadowblind]

Except for the constant tap-dancing, everything looks really well with it :D

[PSPdemon]

thats right i have to figure out and plan for a single player, and to fix all of the bugs. For those who have ever played soldat (i think thats what it was called) that is how I imagine my multiplayer being if this project gets that far.
__________________


OMG!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE SOLDAT!!!!!

Dude...you are my New Best Friend :D!!!

Is there anyway i can help....at all?
because if its anything like soldat.....it would be a honor to help you :) i can do alot of different things :P mainly graphics wise.... so please do PM me if you need any help ! :)

and also, good luck with later releases, i cant wait to see another release :)

Thanks for Everything,
PSPdemon

[mjfouline23]

i would love to be a beta tester for this program

[BL4Z3D247]

ok masterchafed, hes walkin instead of slidin but when i stop his legs still move, and when i jump while movin he looks like hes walkin up and then down stairs

[AlinayG]

o....beta...could i be a beta tester also? :D

[Shadowblind]

I do like the double jump though, thats a good add to the program.

[emuking]

hey make me a beta tester ill be glad to help you
[email protected] contact me man

[MasterChafed]

lol, thx everyone I am really glad to have this much support. AlinayG, I am sorry to say I am not responsible for this wonderful pixel art. I actually found these sprites on the Gamemaker forums.

[AlinayG]

Humm...well thats kool, but you could still go to thowse web sites that i linked, myabe if u ask in a nice way and present it good, i think they will help ya.

Ps: may i be a Beta tester ;p

[MasterChafed]

ok, the last 3 people who said they wanted to be beta testers i will say welcome, pm me so I can keep track. but no more after that. To PSPDemon, i may have a position for you. to Blazed, i know about the bugs (read on the description for the file) I am currently working on ironing them out.

[BL4Z3D247]

no problem glad i can help a little :D, thanx for makin me a beta tester

ohh my bad i didn't read that :o

[ninja9393]

i would love to beta test

[oafan]

hey, if you want i would like to bet test this game in the future

[PSPdemon]

okay!!!!

PM me so i know what you need :D

its an honor to work with you :)

Thanks for Everything,
PSPdemon

[stotheamuel]

ill be a beta tester... yay

[MasterChafed]

i am sorry the oafan but all my beta positions are full. Sorry for not replying to your pms ninja9393. But not to worry, because I am probably going to be making this a public beta. I am loosing track of the tester I have. Just wait for a couple more releases.

[stotheamuel]

hahah i just realized it was 5 pages ago as well.... i like the game tho!

[Gizmo356]

i cant wait for this game to be more playable

[MasterChafed]

Alright, now this is of utmost importance. If any1, ANY1 knows how to stop the animation when you stop pressing the button please tell me, i am up to my neck searching for functions and thought I almost had one. it was some thing like

if player.x == player.x + 4 then
player = Image.load("1.png")
end
if player.x == player.x then
player = Image.load("idle_r.png")
end

but all this did was make the image "idle_r.png" and it was really laggy. Sigh, this is frustrating, so if anyone can help me at all please, from the bottom of my heart, please help me!!

[Gizmo356]

is your image a gif cause you shoul get a master chief sprite sheet and do his walk cycle frame by frame and make it loop till you let go of the d pad and then it returns to the stand sprite sorry if i dont make sense im new to lua

[MasterChafed]

I am using a strip in the form of a png for my animations. Basicly it sets a clipping box for the png and runs through the png as if it were a filmstrip. Basicly it has 5 chief sprites on one image. But thats not what I was talking about. After I set it to load the image, it continuously plays it and you can't stop it. So, i need some help there.

[AlinayG]

Humm...i think you should make this an Open beta Masterchafed, i think you will get more feed back and better info and stuff about bugs and junk :D....just a thougt

[onecrzyazn]

Hey man I love what you doing. And I woudl really liek to help in anyway possible. Right now Im wipping up a concept Main Menu For you, even if you dont it it. Just consider it a gift man. You really got balls for what you doing!

Im also making the Menu from scratch except for the stock picture of the "Halo"

[Gizmo356]

try loading each frame/sprite indivisualy

[MasterChafed]

I don't know how to load each one individually, and I was going to make it an open beta after i fixed the sprite animation problems.

[Gizmo356]

ask gunntims0103 how he did it in soras adventure

[MasterChafed]

He told me he has someone who scripts his animations. He said he would ask them, i haven't heard from him since. All beta testers reading this need to head over to my development thread over in the development forums, this is where I will be talking from now on. Also, beta testers, if you want, there is a new beta release that fixes that lag glitch in the previous versions.

[onecrzyazn]

Well you guys probably have not noticed my post, but ive been hard as working making this sample main menu for you. I really want to help you out man any way I can.

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http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/8449/h2d6cy.jpg

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As you can probably tell, I tried to make this look as authentic as possible. I downlaoded the Halo font and made the Main Text with it, using a gradient a white stroke and small emboss.

Also I used the N-Gage (horrible system great font) font for all the menu text and added a glow to it.

[The reason "Campaign" is in a different colro and glow than the others is because its currently highlited]

I also added a faded white window box with a thin black border and some tech around it for a backdrop to the menu items.

And the stock image for teh background is taken from a Halo 2 art gallery I found here (http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/artofcraigmullins.html
)

~OneCrzyazn (a.k.a Pancho/Alturnatx)

PS. I would love to hear what you think about it and if you would consider me being your offical GFX guy for this project. Also id like to be a tester to ^-^ Thanks for your time

[dtothabreezy]

that menu looks sweet

[onecrzyazn]

that menu looks sweet

Thanks man I tried realy hard to make it look good, I jsut hoep the topic creator can have a change to see it.

[Gizmo356]

nice im already a beta tester though

[onecrzyazn]

nice im already a beta tester though
Oh so theres only one beta tester? Well its ok then I supose

[Gizmo356]

no theres like 6 but post this in the development thread he doesnt use this one anymore

[onecrzyazn]

no theres like 6 but post this in the development thread he doesnt use this one anymore

Oh I see, could you please be so kidn as to point me in the way of where he resides now? I really want to help, or at least what he has to say about the sample.

Thanks man.

[Gizmo356]

he went to bed but i could recomened you to him

[onecrzyazn]

he went to bed but i could recomened you to him

Thanks for all your help man.

[Gizmo356]

no prob thats wat im here to do

[MasterChafed]

Me? I am still here for a few more minutes. I love the menu man. I am currently writing the code to put it into my game. Thx a lot for it.

[onecrzyazn]

Wow! Really? thats so awesome man! Thanks.

But on a more seriouse level I can do anything GFX wise (besides pixelart) I can whip up all the menu's and anythign else you trow at me. I do really want to be a part of this project.

But if your goign to include it in you next release do you want me to send you a version with my water mark on it?

You can PM me for any additional info you want, or jstu post it here!

[Gizmo356]

thats what i said 2hrs ago

[onecrzyazn]

thats what i said 2hrs ago

Ummm said what?

[acn010]

Lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gizmo356]

just a few minutes till i go to sleep

[MasterChafed]

I am gonna try to put it in first. I will release a new version with the update menu. Thx.

[onecrzyazn]

I am gonna try to put it in first. I will release a new version with the update menu. Thx.

Awesome man

[Gizmo356]

cant wait

[mr_nick666]

Very interested to see how this project goes! :) Looks and sounds really promising! :D

[mesosade]

alright soz i'm late i'm in uk so different timezones an all...btw kaiser may i have a cool title coz i help with script and beta test :D just wandering oh and can someone plz gimme code for chat room in a post!!?!?!?!? tooooo much replys...

[mesosade]

GUYS, what's this about a new thread?

[dtothabreezy]

the new threads in the development part

[MasterChafed]

everyone coming and reading this need to head over to the development thread in the development forum for a public beta release. Bunch o bugs fixed in this release so check it out.