LostRealm's site

I might need a little help.

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:33:50 +0000

Though I am loathe to admit it, I may need a little help on Dream Forge. The scale of DF is such that I cannot (and I never did) plan to finish it on my own, but I didn't want to go so far as asking people to outright manage different areas of the engine's development (discounting area construction).

I don't mean to make it sound more ambitious than it is, but the idea behind DF was to make something a little different and maybe push BYOND's limits a bit. I'm not asking people to devote a lot of time because I can't guarantee that time will be rewarded with a finished project, but if anyone's got an avid interest in the project or a little talent they'd like to share, we'd be glad to have an extra hand and mind.

The guild forum here is rarely used; the official forum can be found here: http://lrforums.redomo.net and you can probably find my MSN and other means of contact if you dig around there. The new help thread can be found here: http://lrforums.redomo.net/viewtopic.php?t=35

I'm not looking for people to offer icons in exchange for GM or player houses or even game progress, I want to find people who might be interested in the game world itself and contribute because they enjoy the game--these are the people that make me want to finish.

Game Forums/Wiki Up

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:20:37 +0000

Just posting a heads up to World Devs and fans of the Lost Realm that the game's (not the guild's) forums are back up.

Also, there's an in progress wiki with information about the world the game is set in.

Forum: http://lrforums.redomo.net/
Wiki: http://lostrealm.redomo.net/lrwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Activity!

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:40:14 +0000

World Devs:

Hey guys, Tiko here. Just posting to see if we could get some activity here on the guild forums and get back to some building of the world, until the private dev boards come back up and we can move our discussions back there like the good old days.

Rawr.

The Lost Realm: Dream Forge Guild

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 05:50:43 +0000

Well, we've decided to set up a Lost Realm guild on my LostRealm key. Our official forum has been down for some time, and our webmaster, ZeroCrash, is unfortunately sans-Internet at the moment (pray for his soul). He has assured me that he'll be back online any time now, but we've been forumless for too long so we've decided to start a guild and utilize this forum until our usual is back online. After we've got our website back, that forum will become more development-oriented while this remains more casual.

The guild is open to just about anyone. One of the devs will have to approve each application, but that's really just a formality to keep out known troublemakers. If you've played Dream Forge and enjoy it, go ahead and join; if you disliked it, feel free to stop by the forum and tell us why. I only ask that you not join just because you can.

I'm not sure what we'll do with the site design here; maybe we'll mess with it, maybe we'll leave it this way. If someone really wants to hook me up with something undeniably bad-ass, just email me or something.

Thanks,
Lord Raven

Question about HUD backgrounds

Sat, 20 Mar 2004 18:29:17 +0000

Well, I've finally gotten back to working on my RPG; I'm hoping to push some limits, but I'm bound to run into problems and now I have a question on HUD backgrounds.

For reasons that shall remain unknown (but could easily be figured out by looking at some in-game screenshots), I wish to place a .png HUD background behind the world. The .png is as large as the screen (544x448) and it's tiled using the following code.

var/ex=1
var/yi=1
while(ex<=17)
while(yi<=14)
new /HUD/background(client,ex,yi) //assume that New() adds it to client.screen correctly
yi++
yi=1
ex++

The code is working, but whenever the screen moves, the player and screen both move slowly (it works fine when the background is dissabled. My question is, is this "lag" unavoidable when using large backgrounds like this, or am I doing something wrong; is there a better way of achieving the same effect?