Dopewars

[Psilocybeing]

I've taken some time off of my other project, and threw together a quick base for a Dopewars style game. The gameplay should be done tommorow, depending on how much time I get to spend on it, aswell as an online highscore list.



What do you reckon to the funky colors for the interface, do you think a clean interface would be better? I'll be writing a simple skinning system once the rest is done and dusted, so in the end it won't matter

I've also contacted the developers of 'DopeWars Online', in hope that the client will eventually work with them, to add to their already impressive client base of over 7500 users(apparently).

[wicked_fable]

That's cool, but I assume this is browser-based right?

Will there be images to look at as we play, besides that one on the menu?

[Psilocybeing]

Nope, this is written in C. I'll eventually write a HTTP frontend aswell, so you can play from either the PC or the PSP. Also that is a very early screenshot, I've only spent 5-10m on the graphics so far, so they are by no means the final ones. Just thought I would let you know I'm working on it

[wicked_fable]

Cool, can't wait for the release. I had so much fun with Dope Wars, this should be addicting. And the Mac OSX type dock or toolbar down there is to show the drugs you are carrying right?

[will1234]

cool this is great i was wondering when you were going to attempt this lol. you said you would in one of my earlier threads.

[torchzack]

are you writing this as an Eboot? (Id assume)

All the 2.01+ users will miss out on your wonderful creation lol

[BlackPhoenix]

I wasted many hours at college playing this game :mrgreen:
Now I have a chance to waste many more!

Just out of interest are you using any of the psp/trunk graphics libs? I did a little looking on google for dopewars source code that could be ported to SDL, PSPGL.. but I'm guessing, as it is a text based game, you'll be using the standard pspsdk functions for the graphics.. and using some of the procedural code from an open source project?

[Master Inuyasha]

Is this going to be online only like your other one? if so, count me out...

[Psilocybeing]

I'm writing a Dopewars style game from the ground up, as I couldn't find any examples of Dopewars using GU/GL. I'm going to rework the graphics on the buy/sell toolbar tommorow, aswell as adding all the usual features(BUY/SELL/JET), and if I have time police/merchants(guns, larger cases, etc).

It's going to be online in a way, as in it will record scores online after every game the user plays. At the moment it will not have any mutiplayer modes, but I hope for that to change as soon as the developer of 'DopeWars Online' gets back to me. I might be writing a clone of an old game, but a clone of a clone..nah . You will be able to play it online or offline, as the only section that needs net access is the score recording portion.

[Macca]

Originally Posted by torchzack

are you writing this as an Eboot? (Id assume)

All the 2.01+ users will miss out on your wonderful creation lol

yea its written in c so i guess it will be an eboot

[Master Inuyasha]

Will it be able to also save the score in the memorystick?

[Psilocybeing]

Once I get the initial game finished, I'll modify it to work with Fanjitas loaders. Currently it is all working in a single thread, but once I add the highscore ranking it will require another thread for the net code. Removing the ranking will be pretty simple, so creating a custom version for 2.0+ users shouldn't be a problem

Edit: yeah, saving onto the memory stick won't be an issue, just a matter of a few lines of code really.

[Shatterdome]

Just make sure that Canada has some of the highest quality weed in the game....because it's true :P

Otherwise the online scores sounds sweet....that's something I wish I could implement into my games...but I guess it requires a working knowledge of SQL or PHP ???

Keep it up my man....


edit: http://www.rense.com/general67/candr.htm Read that, I guess you'll have to make the weed super expensive in Asia.....damn, 70-90 $$ canadian for a gram....that's insane.....i'm rethinking my whole wanting to live in japan or china now :P

[Psilocybeing]

Haha, yeah, you guys over in Canada have got growing down to an artform. I've not added Canada as a travel location yet, but I'll take out one of the ones I've already got on there to make room. Here is my latest screenshot, featuring a funky new clean interface.



Shatterdome, do you post over at Cannabis Culture? My screen name there is 'Ebl'

[simmcity]

lol, im liking this game alot! nice work Psilocybeing.

[threeballspin]

Yeah, this sounds great. I used to love playing this game on my TI calc. Good luck with it. I think a clean interface would be nicer than a trippy one. Just my opinion. Again, looks good, and good luck.

[Enclave]

You got to remember British Columbia is where all the best Canadian MJ comes from. Specifically the Lower Mainland

[NaYoN]

I like the trippy colors

[acradeli]

I can't wait to get this on my psp. This is one of those games I can play, and put down, and play again a hundred times. I was hoping somone would have put it on the psp. Thank You very much.
Acradeli

[Shatterdome]

Hey, with the control scheme you have going on, maybe you could do something like this...

Keep it like you have it, then have countries on the outter circles be like major distributers, then have smaller countries, that are harder to import to, be on inner circles, and have some sort of reward for getting it through to a harder to import country ? Have like the pentagon in the middle or something ;P Just something that came to mind when I saw your menu....

[Psilocybeing]

That's a pretty cool idea, I'll see what I can do

[Master Inuyasha]

Just checked back, and I see cubas in your game!!! LONG LIVE CUBANS!! We rule! Damn, cigars rock. Ever tasted a cherry flavored one? It rocks! Well keep up with the game!

[TeamOverload]

Originally Posted by torchzack

are you writing this as an Eboot? (Id assume)

All the 2.01+ users will miss out on your wonderful creation lol

get an ipod and put ipodlinux(Floydzilla) and play the crappy version, while you wait for the eboot loader for psp

[iball®]

Meh. I've got the game on my phone. It's been ported to almost everything (as Overload knows).
It's OK, but lacking in depth.
Now, if you were to make it more "interesting" gameplay-wise, that would be an improvement.

[Psilocybeing]

I finally got some time to come back to this project(if you can call it that), and am making good progress. One thing is puzzling me though, which are these assembler warnings I'm getting when compiling from cygwing. I believe the code that is causing the problem is what I've pasted below, but really it shouldn't cause any trouble, at least it didn't when testing with lcc. If anyone has seen this strange warning before, or might know what is causing it a solution would be nice, as I hate unresolved warnings when building :P

The declaration:

typedef struct locHolder {
	char locName[7];
	float cannabisMult;
	float shroomMult;
	float lsdMult;
	float ecstasyMult;
	float opiumMult;
	float dmtMult;
	float cocaineMult;
	float heroinMult;
} locArray;

The warning:

/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/Main/LOCALS~1/Temp/cczgjyT4.s:1998:
Warning: Float register should be even, was 21

Edit: I've sorted the issue, it seems I had left in a line required to build for the PSP emulator. Once removed it compiles without a hitch .

[Psilocybeing]

Been playing about for an hour or so, and I've got buying sorted, aswell as a few problems I was having with setting the price modifiers for each area. I'll throw selling in tommorow morning, and then it's really just a matter of cleaning it up and adding more depth to the game.

Here's a screenshot from my test version. As you can see, the prices need tweaking, aswell as the modifiers but that is a quick and easy job.

[threeballspin]

Looking good. Can't wait to play it.

[PSPHax0r9]

^^^100 posts man!!

[threeballspin]

Haha. Nice. Thanks for pointing that out.

[cLoT]

looking goooooood.