Michael3131's BYOND website

Rising Empire

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:07:22 GMT

Well, it finally hit me today that the game's gonna take a hell of a long time to make, especially with me being the only coder. No point in making deadlines, especially with school coming up soon. I know not many people are fans of RE, as it wasn't that popular when it used to be around, but I figured I'd post a few screen shots of my alpha map that I use for testing.*

Anyways, take a look, I know it isn't much to go off of, but if you are a pixel artist or coder, toss me a line on MSN at mdhmule@comcast.net.

Fishing**

Morning In Alpha Land**

Castle Entry**

*Nearly all the icons, including the base icon, are placeholder icons until I can find a pixel artist.

**Awesome dark library from Shadowdarke's Dynamic Area Lighting

Calendar System

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:26:32 GMT

Awhile back, a few weeks to be precise, I posted a Calendar system that DivineTraveller and I made. It works very well, though it isn't as advanced as Deadron's of course. It's just a simple system that uses days, months, and years. It of course includes a ticking time system. The implementation however, is not one of using procedures. It's a direct intervention kind of system. You simply change the value of three lists which contain the months, days, etc, to your liking, and increase/decrease the sleep() delay in the Time procedure to change how fast time moves along. I created this system originally after looking at Deadron's Calendar system. I realized how complex it was, and how newer coders might not get it all without staring at it for a good while. I got a buggy, processing theif system working, and DivineTraveller completely did a rehaul of the proc to make it more efficient and stable. After a bit of back and forth work, we finally finished it and polished it for BYOND. I haven't recieved any feedback on it yet, though I hope people will get some good use out of it. Any feedback on the system is greatly appreciated! Helps me think placing it online wasn't that bad of an investment.

It can be found by clicking on it under my libraries, or by going here:

http://www.byond.com/developer/Michael3131/CalendarSystem

Rising Empire!

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:43:58 GMT

Believe it or not, because of persistance by a few people and my own stupidity, Rising Empire has returned! I've been updating the hub as I slowly make updates to the game. I planned for the first playable version to be out around July 1, 2008, but eh.. things aren't going so well. I'm too lazy! If you want to contribute to Rising Empire, simply download a few tutorials, and become an excellent mapper! Once you've become a good mapper, MSN me at mdhmule@comcast.net, so we can start to get a small map together! Also, don't be afraid to replies with ideas about monsters, locations, and quests. Really, just click that lil' button down there, PLEASE!

I'll post update posts every now and then on here so my site doesn't look completely like a ghost town.