Well, I guess I stayed mum about it long enough. My next project, and the one for the YoYogames ancient civilizations comp is called Rosetta Stone. The name has meaning as well, Wikipedia Rosetta Stone. I have to thank my brother for the name, once I told him the concept of the game he thought up of the name. I like how it has meaning and I think it just sounds cool.
It’s a little outside of my normal style, It’s a word game. You try and spell words with the letters and get points for the longer words you spell. However, It has a rather unique twist. Rather than racing a clock like most word games. There are two stacks of letters on a scale. You have to spell the words using letters from either stack, but you need to keep the scale stable. How about I just show a screen shot?Screen!There, how does that look!Of course, I plan on having different blocks fall. I am accepting ideas…Ones I have so far.Normal Blocks (Basic) Weight value of 1Heavy Blocks (Same as normal on heavier) Weight value of 3Exploding Blocks (If not use after so long it explodes taking some of the blocks around it with it.) Weight value of 1What else? I’m sure I’ll come up with some more, but your feedback is always welcome.At the moment it is functioning. It can search the word database and it only accepts words 3 letters or longer. If it’s wanted I could release a public alpha release.Another thing I started doing is keep I kinda dev log/dev journal going. Basic each day I write down what I did on my game that day. (Worked on a background, added an object, ect…) I find it helps me stay focused and working on the game. If I go a day and put nothing, it makes me want to be able to add something the next day. I just started it on last Monday. I thought about posting the Dev logs at the end of each week so you all could keep up with what I’m doing. But I didn’t really know if anyone would care to read them. The don’t really get in depth about the how I do it, it’s more of just a list of things accomplished. Well, that’s all for now.-Elmernite
Thanks, well, it should get harder as I add the heavier and explosion blocks.
-Elmernitehey thats pretty cool,
My sister has a computer program called rossetta stone, its a language course for spanish. But you can get it for other languages too.Dont forget about combos! Like if you get blocks in a row in a word then its worth more points or something.Id be very interested to know how your going to get the program to recognize words?!?Looks great.
Maybe different color blocks to make combo's?Or morphing blocks that change letter after a certain time.@ mesenberg: I was aware of the software. But when my brother told me where the name truely came from I just had to use it. (The rosetta stone helped us understand egyption.)
Combos, thats something I hadn't thought of.There is a word reconigontion dll that I have made by EricDB. And I have a massive list of words. It works really great.@ Distortion: Hmm… Different color blocks would ruin the look. Maybe if you make certion shapes? Spell a word in a row, a square, all on one scale, ect… I'll need to think about that.Thanks for the feed back.-ElmerniteWowzorz! Looks very nice! :D
Thanks!
-Elmernite