[WIP][DEMO] SquareForce chapter 1

[Akabane87]

Unfortunatly The final release for this contest will only be a technical demo. I stupidly forgot my energy supply cable for my laptop 2 weeks ago and lose the entire week without beeing able to work on SF. Now I won't have the time to implement the quests system and even the new part of the background story. I must focus on the sector loading and actors behaviour.

What is WIP and should be finished for next sunday is :
One entire sector with planets, speedways, and patrols (hope I will be able to implement cop and bandit patrols)
landing on planets : ship factory
using speedways : vortex which allows you to travel very fast between two planets

if I have the time :
squaretiles' loot system or shop on planets.

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[Akabane87]

Here is the release of SquareForce Chapter 1 Demo.

Why is it a demo ?
Just because I've only been able to put half of what I wanted to put in this release. So much time lost last week because of a damned battery charger for my laptop forgoten and maybe too ambitious features imagined for such a short time.

Anyway don't worry about this I'm not stopping this project after the genesis so time will come when all features will be implemented .

So what's new with this demo ?

- As promise here is the first entire sector (map) containing 6 planets and speedways to go from each others :

- You can land on each planet and have access to the factory to modify your ship (in the future you will be able to take quests and buy/sell materials)
- The sector is filled with hostiles ships which patrol in their own area. They will attack whoever enter their range of fire. (no patrols (cop and pirates) for now unfortunatly)
- The SpeedWays are some tubes linking two planets. They allow you to travel with very high speed when you dock to them. It creates a vortex which will propulse your ship through the tunel and bring you to the next planet. Take care fellow anglo saxons : speedways used from the right side (maybe I will add some flags in languages files to invert the side of speedways if necessary ).
- And finally lots of invisible changes which make the game run very smoother (I ran to 9fps the first time I loaded and displayed a planet xDD)

The controls are quite the same as in the prolog (see the 1st topic). The button for docking speedways and landing on planets is the D-Pad Down. You can undock a speedway by pressing down again whenever you want.

SquareForce : Chapter 1 Demo :

http://www.mediafire.com/?eb2wx3v98rtbcn7

Some new screenshots :

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[Léo]

Good Luck!

[Yosh]

The new first Chapter crashes my psp just after the intro after "New Game" -_-
but I wonder how you got the electric effect on the SquareForce title from the main menu screen ??? really nice effect, you made it all out of your "nrj10anims18x16" tileset, pixel by pixel or what ^^

[Akabane87]

Damned... could you tell me what type of psp you have (fat, slim, or go) and your firmware ?

And please copy past the crash dump if you have one (what is written on the blue screen when it crashes). For this you will need to get this prx and put it on your psp in the same directory as the eboot.

The lightning effect is a remake highly down scaled from a sprite sheet Genevois made me for a game which finally has never been released.

[Yosh]

I have a flashable psp slim with 5.50 Gen-D3

Crash dump :

Code: Select all

Exception details:

Exception - Unknown 16
EPC       - 0882A548 / JGEApp_Title.text + 00026548
Cause     - 1000003C
Status    - 60008613
BadVAddr  - 05115491
zr:00000000 at:DEADBEEF v0:08960000 v1:00000000
a0:08B048E0 a1:C0A1F703 a2:00000000 a3:00000000
t0:089A45A4 t1:0000001A t2:089A45AC t3:FFFFFFFC
t4:089A4664 t5:00C90FDA t6:DEADBEEF t7:DEADBEEF
s0:08C3E25C s1:08B048E0 s2:08C3E25C s3:08B0431C
s4:089A0000 s5:089A4D38 s6:08B0431C s7:00000001
t8:DEADBEEF t9:08823990 k0:09FBFF00 k1:00000000
gp:089ACC70 sp:09FBF7F8 fp:09FBFE90 ra:08811EE4

okay I must say I'll have to take a look the code, seems interesting ^^

[Akabane87]

Exception - Unknown 16... WTF ?!!
I have slim 2k flashable too with either 5.50 Gen-D3. I don't understand what happen... maybee incompatible plugins activated ?

[Yosh]

Exception - Unknown 16... WTF ?!!
I have slim 2k flashable too with either 5.50 Gen-D3. I don't understand what happen... maybee incompatible plugins activated ?

oh right yeah lol sry I'll try with no plugins

Edit : haha nope I desactivated all In-Game plugins, same crash -_-'
But don't bother too much about me if nobody else has problems, still if I get a crash others might get one too
It happens when I click to skip the intro text after new game

NEW EDIT: I tried without plugins another time and it works now !!
Another edit : I tried again and got a crash (It really does randomly crash)

[Akabane87]

Finally got it the 4th time by spamming X to skip the intro...

It probably comes from mp3 decoding but can't assume it... all the **** I got with crashes came from mp3. I'll release a NO_SOUND version to prevent these crash in a few hours. Sry for that .

ps : Try not spamming X or start to not skip too fast the intro.

[Yosh]

I hate waiting lol ^^