Let’s be honest, no real news at all… And that’s the problem. Actually, this is not totally true. Cyann joined me from mid-2004 to help me work a lot on FFC, and we did so. But we stopped working on it at the end of 2005. Why? Just because the lack of free time we have. Now we’re considering the idea of finishing it because the version we have on our computers, excuse me, our macintoshs, has so much new features. So different from the available FFC version you can download on the web. Just check the artworks, renderings and screenshots below to discover what have been done during this period. We even tried to and successfully port FFC to Linux, that took us so much time and consider many port issues we didn’t even imagine. Now we’ve decided to get back to a Mac only version for many good reasons, the main one is time, time and time. We must admit that the features we want and our needs are probably oversized compared to the size of our team: only 2 guys. Enough writing, what’s new in the development version:
- cell-shading
- 4 whole new stylish characters
- character moves animations are smoother
- a character has his own moves
- a character has his own music style
- new FFC logo
- the trick-editor has been replaced blender
- character and objects import/export with blender
- lots of new objects: houses, rails, trunks, tables, cable-car
- menu rendering was in .swf, it worked and costed us a lot of developement time but the lack of antialiasing made use choose to throw away this feature
- linux port was ok but costs us too much time, now we stop taking care of linux port
- many fixed bugs (physics, renderings, …)
Now we need to:
- create a new level format (export seems ok from blender, we need the import feature)
- handle dynamic objects collides
- create new menus according to the new graphics style of the game
But who knows when we’ll have the time to do that :p |
A vrai dire, tout est malheureusement en statu quo actuellement, et c’est bien dommage tant Cyann et moi avons bossé dessus dans nos temps libres de mi-2004 jusque fin 2005. Mais gros stop durant 2006/2007. Et voilà que maintenant l’envie de retravailler dessus nous titille un peu. Il faut dire que la version que l’on a dans nos machines, euh pardon, nos macs, n’a plus grand chose à voir avec celle disponible sur le Web. Pour preuve les derniers travaux ci-dessous: artworks, rendus et screenshots en vrac. Après avoir voulu faire une version encore plus multiplateforme (eh oui, c’eut marché sous linux aussi, jamais releasée), on s’oriente vers une version MacOS only pour plein de raisons, dont la principale: le temps. Nos exigences sont probablement trop fortes par rapport à nos temps libres et à la taille de l’équipe (2 personnes). Au chapitre des nouveautés bossées avec Cyann:
- cell-shading
- 4 nouveaux persos
- animations des persos accélérées
- animations propres aux persos
- styles de musiques propres aux persos
- un nouveau logo
- trick-editor remplacé par blender
- import/export des persos et objets depuis blender
- beaucoup de nouveaux objets: chalets, barres deslides, troncs, tables de pic-nic, téléphérique.
- menus en .swf (codé, fonctionnel, mais désormais abandonné car manque d’anti-aliasing) -> principale perte de temps
- port sur Linux (porté, fonctionnel mais désormais abandonné) -> massive perte de temps.
- beaucoup de bug fixés (physique, rendu,…)
Il nous faut désormais:
- un nouveau format de piste (export OK, import à coder)
- gérer les collisions des objets de manière dynamique
- créer les menus selon le nouveau style du jeu
Qui sait quand nous aurons le temps :p |
So here is a description of what I have done two years ago to port this language and its game API. Some steps are probably out-of-date for today’s versions of ruby and rubygame. Anyway, I hope it will help someone who wants to support next releases of ruby/rubygame on GP2X-F100 and probably the GP2X-F200. Let’s detail the steps I had followed two years ago… It’s been a long time, so I hope I don’t forget anything…
