[A]tari [G]ame [T]ools - 2D prototyping engine for STE

[Eero Tamminen]

I quickly browsed through the docs. Impressive amount of them too!

I'd like to propose one more tutorial / example: a simple non-interactive demo with scrolling background and text sine-scroller(s) on top + background music. The demo could be named "AGT intro", and text would be one of the AGT docs.

PS. For me, "AGT" always first brings to my mind this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Game_Toolkit

[dml]

Thanks for the comments - much appreciated. Wrote a longer reply but fell into the 'logged out' trap and lost it. Bah!

Anyway the short version is: I made a new STE sample today, which illustrates collision detection. You can d/l it here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bda6ntl2ge1ya ... n.zip?dl=0

agtcoll.png

It creates 32 squares in 4 colours and defines some rules for interactions between them:

RED <-> GREEN interact with each other
RED -> BLUE interact in one direction only
YELLOW doesn't interact at all (might change this to yellow<->yellow)

The only difference between the object types is their colour, their movement pattern (tick function) and interaction filters. Note that when lots of objects overlap, the rules are not broken. There is no limit to overlaps / depth complexity and cost is roughly flat.

This will be broken into a 2- or 3-step source tutorial (no. 6) with a walkthrough on the wiki.

[dml]

I'd like to propose one more tutorial / example: a simple non-interactive demo with scrolling background and text sine-scroller(s) on top + background music. The demo could be named "AGT intro", and text would be one of the AGT docs.

that could be arranged.

In fact proper text support is still pending but there's enough present to do that currently as-is.

PS. For me, "AGT" always first brings to my mind this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Game_Toolkit

I do remember that thing in fact - but didn't remember the name.. oh well!

[dml]

Recently added more wiki pages on spawning & removing entities from the world.

https://bitbucket.org/d_m_l/agtools/wik ... y%20System

More to follow on entity usage soon.

[dml]

Have created a playlist for some of the AGT demos on YT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WXdels ... GzrdrZJxgM

However its just the demos - not the tutorials. A description has been added with each one.

YT doesn't encode some of them very well due to the interlacing, so they seem a bit jerky & wobbly at times. That's just the encoding though.

[troed]

demo #5. wow.

[AtariCrypt]

demo #5. wow.

Yeah!!! I drooled a little I think...

[MM41]

Yes, it's trully superb !

[TheNameOfTheGame]

I miss the status updates on this. I hope the project isn't dead.

[viking272]

I've been meaning to post about this for ages, but I've started working on a platformer using AGT. Stalled a little recently but will try and get back into it over the next couple of weeks. It's going to be called Dave the Dragon Here's an out of date screenshot, might post a quick test build at some point (there's not much to do right now apart from jump around and shoot ineffective fireballs )

Did Dave the Dragon get any further developed?

[LaceySnr]

Did Dave the Dragon get any further developed?

Uhhh, it got completely stalled because I started trying to build my own 68k computer on a breadboard! I am planning to pull my thumb out though, so hopefully it'll see some progress in the next month or two.

[Dal]

This passed me by last year for one reason and another, but wow!

If only I could get some inspiration from somewhere, I’d like to try and build something with it.

[TheNameOfTheGame]

Hope Doug is ok...been a long time since this thread was updated.

[viking272]

I think it's a case of real life getting in the way. I spoke with Doug via email early January 2018, he had a lot on his plate but hoped to get back in to things in a few months time when things settled down.

[Eero Tamminen]

Thanks, it's great to hear that Doug's OK!