Harvest Moon Speed Programming

[842]

ok. Is rory using a program to do it or manually smoothing it?

[Matt]

Dude, I must admit I'm tired of seeing that gui on everything you do.

Pick a new color and new style already, please.

[Robin]

ok. Is rory using a program to do it or manually smoothing it?

Manually re-doing it all.

Dude, I must admit I'm tired of seeing that gui on everything you do.

Pick a new color and new style already, please.

No

[Mithlomion]

You putting alot of effort for a week project .

[Robin]

You all fail at reading.

Weekend.

Something I work on during the weekend.

[Mithlomion]

NIEN

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[Matt]

The brown is just getting redundant.

Please, new color at least. -_-

[Robin]

Lol. No.

ZoSo and I just logged on. Works fine online! Woot.

Now I can start work on the more advanced farming stuff.

[Robin]

xD

[Robin]

All the farming tools now work.

As you can see, I cut down all the grass with the scythe, chopped all the wood with an axe and hammered all the rocks with a.. hammer. Also hoed that ground up a bit ;D

John's joined on as a secondary programmer and he's upgrading it to Dx8 (Because I hate converting to Dx8 xD) After I get it back I'll start work on the watering & seed planting.

Also had a change of plans. Farms will still be instanced, but the time/season will not. What this means? I'll have to code some 'helper elves' to do the work for you when you're offline. For a price of course. This means the more time you spend on the game, the more profit you'll get from your crops. It'll also encourage people to share farms and work together ;D

With Dx8 of course, I can add a much nicer day/night fading, rather than just changing to a darker pre-rendered tileset. It also means we can use John's amazingly sexy particle effect weather systems. Oh, and it'll have dynamic sized maps, like Essence, so it'll be a much more aesthetically pleasing area tbh.

[Matt]

All the farming tools now work.

As you can see, I cut down all the grass with the scythe, chopped all the wood with an axe and hammered all the rocks with a.. hammer. Also hoed that ground up a bit ;D

John's joined on as a secondary programmer and he's upgrading it to Dx8 (Because I hate converting to Dx8 xD) After I get it back I'll start work on the watering & seed planting.

Also had a change of plans. Farms will still be instanced, but the time/season will not. What this means? I'll have to code some 'helper elves' to do the work for you when you're offline. For a price of course. This means the more time you spend on the game, the more profit you'll get from your crops. It'll also encourage people to share farms and work together ;D

With Dx8 of course, I can add a much nicer day/night fading, rather than just changing to a darker pre-rendered tileset. It also means we can use John's amazingly sexy particle effect weather systems. Oh, and it'll have dynamic sized maps, like Essence, so it'll be a much more aesthetically pleasing area tbh.

So, what you're saying, is this will never be released?

[Robin]

Of course it will. All of the stuff listed there is easy to add in.

[Matt]

Of course it will. All of the stuff listed there is easy to add in.

*shrugs*

I'm not basing it off your track record, that's all.

[Robin]

This is a completely different genre though. All my other projects have had to add complicated shit like spells, cooldowns, casting times, advanced AI, huge amounts of maps. Shit like that. This one is mostly based around attributes and a simple time & date system.

[Matt]

Alright then. Hope it gets released and isn't just something that will get people's hopes up.

[Nean]

Alright then. Hope it gets released and isn't just something that will get people's hopes up.

Me too. I haven't played Harvest Moon, but I've always wanted to. This type of game just seems simple yet interesting.

[Robin]

New grass, the dirt/grass transitions are done and the bin is done, for the goods you sell.

[Doomy]

this might be the first game i play that i didnt help make

[Robin]

The conversion to Dx8 has been completed. I just need to finish programming in the GUI components (Actually doing it a decent way this time, and storing the buttons in recs) then I can begin work on the time/day/night/season cycles.

[Anthony]

ZOMG it's Tuesday! So much for weekends.

I really like how it's coming though. I liked the old style tiles and stuff better though. Rorys are nice but the others just had that old school Harvest Moon feel to it.

[Robin]

They were also limiting, and didn't match the GUI ;D

[jsventor]

ive never played one of these, but can you raise farm animals?

[jsventor]

Thats awesome

Robin are you doing that?

[Egon]

No sheep, but there were cows and chickens and a dog. If you married the right girl you'll also get a bird that does nothing. There were moles that would pop up when you hoe an area of dirt. I'm fairly sure there is a rabbit somewhere in there also.

[Robin]

This is based on Back to Mineral Town.

You get Sheep, Cows & Chicken. As well as the Horse & Dog.