Jade Phoenix - Latest release: Beta 1

[Strife]

Sorry for the late reply, Nasue. xD But glad you like it so far. ^_^

Arrow Mining is intentional, and it's actually an encouraged side-effect of the sticky arrows. You can stay in a safe spot while picking off moving monsters this way. :3


Anyway, it's been at least a few months since I worked on Jade Phoenix, as pretty much all of my attention has been focused on FableQuest (and another non-NTWF game, but, well, it's a surprise *cough*). I think it's about time that I declared the project to be on an official hiatus. xD;

Once I start working on it again, here's my to-do list so that I don't forget:

- Convert the game from MMF 1.5 to MMF2 so that I can take advantage of its new features, including hardware acceleration.
- Bugs, bugs, bugs. xD Gotta fix 'em. Also, as was mentioned previously, make the game a little more forgiving by including mid-level checkpoints and only making the player lose one or two heart containers upon death instead of all of them.
- Make the story a little more coherent so that people outside the NTWF understand what's going on. To this effect, I did start making an intro movie before I stopped working on the game, so i'd just need to finish this up and possibly make another one for the ending.
- Finishing up the missing avatars of forumers.
- As of now, I have no plans to tie myself up with new levels, so i'll only be focusing on adding bosses to the worlds that don't yet have them. I will also add a few city/space levels at the end to wrap everything up.

Looking back at all of the previous pages of this project, i'm really amazed at just how many forumers have helped me so far. ^_^ Once again, I thank you all for bringing the game up to this point. Even if it never gets past Beta, this is still the farthest i've come with a project of this scale, and I owe it all to you guys. Cheers!

[Draco]

I still play the game

[Pacmanite]

Same here. xD

Knowing how much time you spend on FableQuest and your other personal projects, I guess it's only natural for this baby to be put on official hiatus, and you'll still have all our support when or if the project gets back up and running again. Best of luck for ol' Jade Phoenix in the future, then ^^

[Vyt: Down, but Not Out]

(Still alive and kicking, folks.)

In the NSQ boss fight, when evil NSQ fights you herself, there is a bug where the level restarts itself. This happens when you use the crouch-dash against her and find yourself off-screen when she is at one heart left (which prompts a cutscene before the level restarts).

To replicate, just go to the NSQ boss fight and clear the NSQ clones she dispatches at you first. When she starts fighting you, go to the right corner and wait for her to start attacking you with her melee weapon. Use the crouch-dash against her, making sure that your character slides back to the corner for every attack. Once you deplete two hearts with that attack, your character should slide even further after the last attack, off-screen.

EDIT: I have a good hunch that this is a bit related to a previously-mentioned bug where the character used to be able to run off-screen during the boss battle. Though that bug has already been fixed, the bug I am reporting might be some sort of a "loophole" to that.

[Strife]

Apr 8, 2010 15:22:11 GMT -5 Vyt: Down, but Not Out said:

(Still alive and kicking, folks.)

In the NSQ boss fight, when evil NSQ fights you herself, there is a bug where the level restarts itself. This happens when you use the crouch-dash against her and find yourself off-screen when she is at one heart left (which prompts a cutscene before the level restarts).

To replicate, just go to the NSQ boss fight and clear the NSQ clones she dispatches at you first. When she starts fighting you, go to the right corner and wait for her to start attacking you with her melee weapon. Use the crouch-dash against her, making sure that your character slides back to the corner for every attack. Once you deplete two hearts with that attack, your character should slide even further after the last attack, off-screen.

EDIT: I have a good hunch that this is a bit related to a previously-mentioned bug where the character used to be able to run off-screen during the boss battle. Though that bug has already been fixed, the bug I am reporting might be some sort of a "loophole" to that.

Yeah, that's what i'm guessing might be the issue. I don't know why I didn't before, but I think it's time to hard-code a condition during that fight that forces the player back if their X coordinate exceeds the boundaries of the screen. xD;

Thankies. :3

[Poldon]

I have discovered a bizarre exploit that I can't quite nail down, but is quite frequent if you try to reproduce it.

I was using the default controls here, if that makes a difference.

If I rapidly tap the down arrow while holding the jump key I sometimes get a midair jump. I've even succeeded in getting several quadruple jumps this way. Tapping one of the left and right arrows seems to increase this effect, but I still can't get it to replicate with more than about 50% consistency.

A good example of the exploit is that I used this to get to the rooftop with the coffee cup in the first level simply by jumping straight up to it.

[Killix]

Woah, you're right.

That's awesome. XD

[Poldon]

And very, VERY cheap, isn't it? XD

[Strife]

Very. xD

Super Ecksdee Panic essentially uses a modified version of Jade Phoenix's platform engine, so I could probably alleviate a lot of the glitches related to the player character if I somehow import it. Thanks for the report. ^_^

[Killix]

Ah, I thought it was a similar engine.
Though, after playing Super EcksDee Panic, JP seems so sluggish. XD

[Strife]

Yeah. xD That's part of the reason why I haven't worked on JP for so long. It's age really shows. =/ And the code is a lot sloppier than my more recent projects, so it takes a lot of effort for me just to understand what I was doing with certain things. xD;

I'm thinking that if I continue work with this game, I would start from scratch and rebuild it in MMF2, most likely with updated graphics, a better platform engine, and more balanced gameplay with a larger variety of gimmicks.

[Killix]

That's too bad that it's so outdated (and code-sloppy) that it would require a complete rebuilding from scratch.
Though I agree that it would probably be the best option. XD

It is a fun game. X3