First download!

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[Future edit: useful feedback
First Impressions:
>13meg? huh? thought you'd bundled a bunch on mp3s, but no, a 9meg maps.vpk - wow. that's a lot of game play.
>Can't comment on code, as you didn't include it. :cry:
>Nice intro.
>Your textboxes are fucking your timered fog. Suggestion:

void TextBox(...)


{


    int timestart = timer;


    //All the sheite


    timer = timestart;


}

There are better, less quick-fix methods too.
>Nice combat. Very nice.
>That crate doesn't really fit the art style... :)
Moar later maybe]

Thanks for the feedback Zip. Actually, the reason the file is so big is the vsp files. :(

First impressions:

> Wafflecopter re: VERGE 1 logo
> Holy shit, that Help feature rules. Does it read from a plaintext file?
> Hooray for utility hotkeys!
> It's annoying to use the mouse since I'm right handed and I usually use the arrow keys with my right hand.
> Battle gauges take kind of a long time to fill.
> Man, enemies take a long time to fade out when killed.
> It'd be nice if pressing ALT after selecting something on the character menu took you back to the character menu, rather than dumping you out of menus entirely.
> Man, this game has weirdly inconsistent graphics.
> I like the little 'zoom window' that shows a close-up of your face, though. Hee!
> Jesus, people really go flying. You move like four times as fast when being punched as when walking.

Really? can you send me your slot files.

franky2timez@hotmail.com

Everything Gayo said, except the save errors.

The graphics are definetly inconsistent: some horribly blurry graphics in some places and yet some nice, hand-drawn stuff elsewhere. The mix of photos and sketched stuff is.. disortienting. And that crate - yikes! You'd do well to replace that, since it's not even at the right angle.

Otherwise, quite nice. The battle system is shuffling into Kickass terriotory (although it would be nice for enemies to STAY dead :-) ), there's some reasonably impressive coding funkiness (the zoom-in really is quite novel: something I'm almost tempted to do myself somewhere..) and the character art (especially the portraits) is great. Nice intro music too! I have no idea what it is but it's spacey tones get a thumbs up here.

Found a bug with the battle system, though! I was in the cave and a trooper managed to spawn in a WALL. Unfortunately, when I attakced him I also jumped into the wall and couldn't move. Argh!

Anyway, how DO you get past the cave? I'm stuck already, unless that's IT. It's painfully obvious, isn't it? Sigh..

Yay. Cheers clips. That was a little un-obvious, though. Think you could work on some subtle hints?

Quote:Originally posted by Interference22


Found a bug with the battle system, though! I was in the cave and a trooper managed to spawn in a WALL. Unfortunately, when I attakced him I also jumped into the wall and couldn't move. Argh!

I haven't been able to duplicate this error yet.

x=random(1,47); y=random(3,21);


while(GetObs(x,y)) { x=random(1,47); y=random(3,21); }


e = EntitySpawn(x, y, 'fyeman.chr');

This is the code I'm using to spawn the enemies. Anyone see any reason why this would put an entity in a wall?

Ok, this is rather big list of things, but not a comment on quality of game at all. You have lots of very nice bits of polish, jus quite a lot of bits on non polis too. I have a list like this for serinor somewhere, I must dig it up and send it to Eldritch. Not going to go into graphics or stroy at all (not my current domains), just programming stuff and display glitches. However, reading list: Neuromancer, vergers seem to like Ender, any of the old skool short story writer (Azimov being a good place to start), or for that matter - anything that isn't anime scifi. Which sucks. Every series. Just been watching Plantes. Ug. Right, now the little list:

>Don't use copy screen methods, see blit errors on menu from keyboard/fog problem
>Menu writing overwrites itself, due to no render() in the loop
>Fog as above, also due to no render() in the tbox loop
>Also Fog, should adjust for screen pan, otherwise looks very stuck on for scrolling
>Less random damage. 0-26 seems too much in the context
>Give me going off the top of menus to get to the bottom. This causes mouse problems, but unless you add mousemove it's pretty redundant anyway.
>Readme in game loses random lines. and could do with a bigger box.
>No 'empty' inventory check. I can the ghost of the first item always. Very useful as potion.
>I want a way to cancel out of move. Hard to move uder the full distance atm.
>I can summon menu with esc in combat. This is somewhat misleading.
>Some of the art melding pixels with photo is better than other bits.
>Put the saves in their own directory
>Put the character stats in a vpk, to hinder evil Gayos
><Gayo> OK, I give up. Wth do I do in Element Cyber. I've been wandering around this snow place for ten minutes
* troupe\eat is now known as troupe
<Gayo> NOT HELPFUL
<Gayo> NM, got it
...
<zip> ^what was it Gayo, I've just picked up again (with notepad open for bugs) and have same idiot problem
So, some kinda pointer at the start might be useul for silly people, also:
<Gayo> Hee hee
<Gayo> You can drop the explosives, and then you're screwed
>Enemy fade out DOES take years. And also super imposes, when it shouldn't
>Relative positions/facings should relate to inital battle conditions
>Can you not make the maps cover all one area? Moar scroll and less change sceen would be nice
>zlib dll not needed by verge.exe
>The throwback direction when close is somewhat... odd. Might be best to prevent overlaps entirely
>The camera change on entities is jerky. Beyond just jumping aroundness. Which is also ugly.
>A variable wait length in battle would be nice
>In the galaxy's[newline]postwar state... has a graphical glitch and I presume the new line is accidental
>Supreme Commander Sky-Fye... need I say more?
>Red fading enemies that stay alive seems silly.
>Lying down entites after the no-longer-sempei (*thank you*) fight are blited over the player

...that better do for now. I can offer practical suggestions for fixes given code and love. Do bother me here or on #vergehelp

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Cowboy Bebop sucks scifi ass. It rocks jazz ass, but is pantso scifi. Go flame me in Donnie Darko if you disagree.
Cyberpunk has become somewhat cliched, however my point was that it's better to get ideas from closer to source rather than filtered through a lot of mouths. This STILL doesn't stop this demo rocking. I wouldn't have put the time into find bugs if I didn't like it a lot.
Also, apparently I suck:
Quote:Originally posted on #verge

* Gayo is now known as Gayo|Gone
<Gayo|Gone> BEfore I go
<Gayo|Gone> Pressing 'Enter' cancels out of move, zip
<Gayo|Gone> (gone fo reals)
<zip> ..damn, SURE I tried that :D
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He was bashing my reading list, not the game. I'm not suggesting a chnage in style, you have the feel down really well, just thought reading a few moar scifi trad. bits might help avoid some obvious... thingies.

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