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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: ChaosLord on November 09, 2003, 07:31:52 AM
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Hello everyone! :)
I am working on a Strategy Game project for our beloved AMIGA.
What do you think about the screenshots?
Any suggestions?
Want to work with our team?
The screenshots are all in English but the game and online help
is fully playable in English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano,
Magyar and Polski.
(http://xavnet.chez.tiscali.fr/chaos/pix/screens/TotalChaos.gif)
A heavily overpopulated world!
(http://xavnet.chez.tiscali.fr/chaos/pix/screens/EnemyCreatures.gif)
This screenshot is a tutorial snap to help newbies learn the game.
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Hey,
Not bad of an idea. Any new game that any person works for is worth the shot. This would be especially awsome if you could somehow make it an online multiplayer game so all Amigans can use their good old amiga and play online with decent speed.
Keep up the good work, and let the rest of us know how progression makes.
Also,
Welcome to Amiga.org
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Are you James Conwell?
Because this looks like the Game "Chaos" available from Aminet!
This Game is very good,but i hope/wish you will find
some who can makes some better gfx for the menü and for
the Game Board!
Good luck!
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That is looking realy great, what kind of help do you need?!
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@AmigaACE
Well,just check his profile... :-o ;-)
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This would be especially awsome if you could somehow make it an online multiplayer game so all Amigans can use their good old amiga and play online with decent speed.
It has Play By Email option but that is really only good for 1v1.
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AmigaACE wrote:
Are you James Conwell?
Yes.
Because this looks like the Game "Chaos"
Its actually called "Total Chaos" and this is a new version with many amazing new features.
This Game is very good,but i hope/wish you will find
some who can makes some better gfx for the menü and for the Game Board!
Good luck!
The Game Board gfx are chosen by the gamer because a game should be friendly to its players.
Many beautiful Game Boards are supplied with the game such as Stone, Dirt, Grass, Charred & Burned Chessboards, etc.
If those are not good enugh for you then you or your gfx friend can easily make your own. It should be a 256 color IFF file of 640x512 pixels or less.
P.S. I am not sure which "menu" you were talking about.
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ryan2k1 wrote:
That is looking realy great, what kind of help do you need?!
Gfx, sound, speech, art, playtesting, coding, typing, organizing, SDL, music, special fx mods, a voodo3 gfx card, food, etc. etc.
There are an infinite number of tasks to be done because I receive an infinite amount of mails about the game requesting an infinite amount of new features.
So its all down to: What are your talents? (if any :-D )
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Welcome to Amiga.org ChaosLord :-)
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@ChaosLord
The game looks excellent so far. What sort of system specs are you aiming for? Something that works on graphics and sound cards? Or even an OS4 native version? :-)
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ajk wrote:
@ChaosLord
The game looks excellent so far. What sort of system specs are you aiming for?
Amiga 1200 with a Hard Drive and 16 megs of ram.
If you want the monster animations to be Disney Quality (24 fps)
then you need an 040 or better
If all you care about is gameplay then an 020 is fine.
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Something that works on graphics and sound cards?
No extra hardware cards are requred to enjoy this delightful game.
Or even an OS4 native version? :-)
Give me an OS4 machine or $500.00 US and Ill port it for you. Otherwise it won't happen.
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I can contribute with some music if ur interrested? :-)
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Looks great man!
Characters need some more contrast though (look a bit washed-out)
Good luck in your project, and if you need ANY help in animation or video just mail me.
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total chaOS OWNS!!! , now lets hope they take my tips :) + make the pbem serious!! :)
cheers
(it was me who suggested the Turtorial) :)
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No extra hardware cards are requred to enjoy this delightful game.
Yes but what I meant was does it work if I have those. I do not have AGA output on my A1200.
It should run on OS4 without any modifications, unless it accesses hardware past the OS APIs.
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(it was me who suggested the Turtorial) :)
Cool! Thanks man!
I suggested tutorials years ago but nobody on Team Chaos listens to me :shocked:
Could you please suggest -more- tutorials to the Tutorial Design Department? Thanx!
I hereby dedicate this Tutorial to you, Lempkee
(http://xavprods.free.fr/chaos/pix/screens/GadgetsQuickStats.gif)
It seems a bit overcrowded with text to me.
What is your opinion?
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You should program it so when you hold the mouse pointer over the coloured text, the line pointing to the correct icon appears. It gets a bit cluttered with all those lines back and forth.. :)
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soooooooo, any plans for an AROS port of Total Chaos then? :-D
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ChaosLord: A friend of mine has been askin a game like this for a some time. Looks really interesting..
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JoannaK wrote:
ChaosLord: A friend of mine has been askin a game like this for a some time. Looks really interesting..
Does your friend have an Amiga 1200?
If she does then tell her to quit looking and start playing it! :-)
If your friend lives close to you then this is a great game to have some friends over, gather round the miggy and have some fun.
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bloodline wrote:
soooooooo, any plans for an AROS port of Total Chaos then? :-D
I don't even know what AROS is.
Does that answer your question? :-D
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AROS at the moment is a pc-thing, but will being ported to Pegasos too !!
Is a implementation of AmigaOS 3.x or something, but i consider that isnt an usable OS at the moment, but noce code for know some things of amigaos...
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Yes but what I meant was does it work if I have those.
Yes the game works if you have a gfx card and/or sound card.
Many people with gfx and sound cards play Total Chaos every day.
I do not have AGA output on my A1200.
Yes you do. Every A1200 EVER built by Commodore, ESCOM, Amiga Inc., or Joe Blow amd his brother Bob,
all have AGA output. Its a standard feature of all A1200 and A4000 Amigas built 1993-2003.
Look on the back of your A1200 for a connector that says RGB. That is it.
So unless you went psycho with a hacksaw, you've got AGA output.
It should run on OS4 without any modifications,
unless it accesses hardware past the OS APIs.
Wrong. OS4 API is different from OS3.x API.
OS4 API is not compatible with OS3.x API.
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>Wrong. OS4 API is different from OS3.x API.
>OS4 API is not compatible with OS3.x API.
This remark is probably targeted about the Interfaces. If you include inline4/... you can use the oldstyle API in your code (you only have to include two "special lines" when opening and closing the library.
Generally it is of course an improvement to have interfaces (for multi-interface-libraries).
Anyways, when I for example ported GBE to OS 4 this was maybe 5 minutes of work, and 2 KB of diff-file. There are of course things in the OS 4 API which are not supported in the OS 3.x API.
This is of course about source-code, a OS 3.x Binary would work out of the box.
Steffen
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Without Total Chaos (http://xavprods.free.fr/chaos/index.html), my life would be nothing.
My favourite game of all time.
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Wonderful game!!! Its good to see such nice developers making coll games for the amiga!
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hi guys
is total chaos just for team play or can i play it by myself on my machine with no net connection?
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As to e-mail for being only a one v one thing... how do you set up e-mail games? Do you use a central host who recieves and transmits all turns, or do you have some decentralized method? Do you have unique ID codes for everyone so as to block two or more races being the same guy in a game?
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ChaosLord wrote:
I do not have AGA output on my A1200.
Yes you do. Every A1200 EVER built by Commodore, ESCOM, Amiga Inc., or Joe Blow amd his brother Bob,
all have AGA output. Its a standard feature of all A1200 and A4000 Amigas built 1993-2003.
Look on the back of your A1200 for a connector that says RGB. That is it
What was obviously ment is that there is no AGA compatible monitor around.....
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yes, you can play alone.
Infact, I have yet to play it
with another human,
and its still my favourite game!
You can however assign cpu wizards to your side.
Forexample you and 1 cpu wizard
against other cpu wizards. Great fun.
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mantisspider wrote:
is total chaos just for team play or can i play it by myself on my machine with no net connection?
You can totally play with urself. :-D
Or with a partner. :-)
You can even do it with a group. :-o
No net connection needed.
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jeffimix wrote:
how do you set up e-mail games?
Click the gadget that says Play By Email.
It might help to tell the game your Email address and mail server too. :-D
Do you use a central host who recieves and transmits all turns,
Why would you want me to do that?
or do you have some decentralized method?
It just uses Email.
Do you have unique ID codes for everyone so as to block two or more races being the same guy in a game?
You've been playing way to many racist games.
You can be whatever you want in Total Chaos.
Its about having fun, not being racist.
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>Wonderful game!!!
I agree.
And no 2 games are alike,
so the lastability is really infinite.
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Do you have unique ID codes for everyone so as to block two or more races being the same guy in a game?
You've been playing way to many racist games.
You can be whatever you want in Total Chaos.
Its about having fun, not being racist.
LOL, no, I mean, like, in Stars!, every has a serial code (it's commercial) and the game hoster's machine checks it so the same guy can't be playing as several people at once, atleast not on one machine, or with one serial #... hehe...
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I tried that game quite some time ago, but at least then it had some quite bad problems...
For example:
1.It worked only on AGA, tried (unsuccesfully) to promote it to CGX screen...
2.It used multiscreen "hack" (I think it still was in 3.9 developer manuals, likely it will be finally removed from AOS4.0 developer manuals)
3.It required Paula for sounds (and musics)
Well, hope those are / will be fixed (Downloaded the newest version) :-)
It sure feels like a nice game, but problems I described above sure make it hard/impossible for many to play it...