Mineth Studios

Since I enabled comments yesterday, I’m now still fine tuning them a bit. I wanted avatars with comments too, so I added Gravatars!

What’s a gravatar, you might ask? Well, the official site’s description reads:

Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?

So if you’re commenting not only on my blog, but other people’s blogs that have Gravatars enabled, it will show your own icon! You can sign up for free on their website and upload your image right away!

For those of you who wonder how it works, it’s based on your email address. You sign up with your email on Gravatar.com and upload an image. When you post here using the same email address, it will show your avatar from Gravatar! Isn’t that just convenience?

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I just want to let everyone know that commenting on these articles have been enabled again. I’ve installed a (hopefully) decent SPAM filter, since last time I got too much spam to dealt with, so I closed commenting all together.

But now it’s open again! So please, feel free to comment us on our work! Either using comments on articles or on the forums (see menu). We’ll be happy to receive your feedback, especially on my Multitroid project. :)

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A quick mockup screenshot I made about Multitoid. Yes, I know the HUD is missing and stuff. But meh, who doesn’t want to see Samus vs Samus, Super Metroid-style, online?

This is basicly what I’m building. Super Metroid, online. Maybe I’ll make a few more (proper) mockups later. If you like to request a mockup or anything, drop me a line on the forums (see menu)! I’ll see what I can do. ;)

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Optimizing and cleaning up code atm, so that we’ll have a clean base when we can really start working on the player physics and networking code after. At the moment, there’s some duplicate code which I’m stuffing away (properly, mind you) in the existing classes. Also for time being, I’m kind of busy with IRL stuff, so I haven’t got a whole lot of time to properly work on anything at the moment.

I also might add more tilesets soon to give people more freedom with map design. Don’t hesitate to fire up the level editor and show me some of your work. ;)

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A reminder to you folks who don’t read the forums (as often):

The current level editor for Multitroid has been released a while ago. This is not the actual game, like a tech demo or something playable whatsoever. But rather, the level editor. It hasn’t been built for simplicity, please consult the included readme before use or ask on the forums.

Please check this topic for more info and download link.

The level editor is pretty much functional, and although levels can’t be tested yet, I’d like to point out that good maps will be officially included in future releases of Multitroid. Also, please report any bugs you find in the bug report topic. Other than that, I also want to hear your comments, questions and suggestions about Multitroid, about the whole idea of an online Super Metroid-fangame and the level editor in it’s current state. Also feel free to show off creations you made with the level editor!

Please register on the forums and let me hear your voice and thoughts about it.

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The old theme was getting boring, so I picked something different. Simplicity is the key! (If you don’t like it, then shoo! :< )

Also, Multitroid isn’t dead as I’ve hear some people say. It’s just that I’m too busy in real life at the moment to properly work on stuff like Multitroid. Other than that, the engine is getting along quite nicely. We can start working on a tech demo and networking code soon.

In other news, the link linking to the forums in the Pages section works again. No idea when or why it broke, but it works again. Don’t forget to register and say hi to us there!

Commenting on posts have been disabled due huge amounts of spam (and me being too lazy to use a proper spam filter). If you would like to leave a message to us, please use the forums!

Stay tuned for more updates!

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The engine has been rewritten from scratch successfully, and is now more stable and clean than ever!

Back on the level editor, I’m working on the collisions engine. At first we decided to use a vector-based collision engine, but today we felt that pixel based collisions are enough. The former was too much work to get it functional and the latter is more precise, especially seeing we’re basicly (re)creating a pixel based game.

Optional default collisions for a tileset are now stored on the filesystem as image as a black-white mask, containing tiled collisions. The full-solid tile and blank tiles are hardcoded, so this way collision masks are optional. But they can be used to add stuff like slopes, half-tiles, etc to the collision maps. :)

Here’s a screenshot. Top right image is the tileset, bottom right image is the optional tileset collision mask, and the application itself (top left) shows all the unique tiles in the tileset collision mask. ^^ I know a few tiles are incorrect on that mask (slopes, for example), but I’ll fix that later.

Now to add a substate in the Level Editor to actually view, place & remove them (collisions per tile), and to save and load them. After that I can start working on the basic player physics with pixel collisions! Rawr.

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Mineth.net now has it’s own official forums! Visit us at the Shinesparkers! (near the bottom)

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azFRAXY//REDUX enemy

Hey all,

Development on aF//RD is coming along quite nicely, having experimented with events and the new attach types a bit i have created a new enemy.
It’s basically your standard dragon/snake type boss. But hell, it’ll do.

So what have i found out about the new FRAXY editor attach methods? They are crashy as fuck, i must’ve had the editor crash on me 20 times. which always leads to losing all your data.
But enough about that, t’s now possible to easily make tails that move realistically behind the bosses wich lead to better encounters.

I’m thinking about making 5-6 bosses per update, just as i did with azFRAXY, So i can work on it for a while and then do nothing, since i’m ofcourse also busy with my job, playing videogames,testing(a.k.a destroying)SQD’s editors and games and other assorted things.

The current status of the first version of aF/RD is about half done.I’ve gotten 3 bosses done definitively, 2 of which have been posted on this blog. Two spinnertype bosses(Think Orbic) one big, one small. And the dragon you see to the left.

haven’t thought about the other bosses i’m gonna make yet, but then again i never really think about them untill i start working on them.
It’s how my creative process works, i just wing it.

Well enough of this rambling on about nothing, thats it for this update.

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protoSPIN//REDUX

Allright peoples,

Here’s the beef.I’ve decided to start working on azFRAXY(aF) once again,It’ll have a different name though(azFRAXY//REDUX(aF//RD from now on)), to signify the restart,This strapping young lad on the left, that’s protoSPIN//REDUX, a redesigned version of one of the bosses from aF, yes it’s a spinner. yes they are hard as fuck, Yes he can regen his cores, no those aren’t lasers.
Apparently FRAXY got changed to hell and back in my absence, and now i’ve gotten all these new toys to play with.

Building bosses is still a complete bitch though.
mostly because of the way the parent system limits you to 16 child objects per parent, and that requires some creative use of invisible/indestructible parts. Lucky for me, i rememberd how i built the Orbics and the previous protoSPIN, so getting the different rotations in the frame wasn’t that stupidly hard.
I’ll see what i can do about getting the metafraxy page back up, but for now thats it for today.

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