#156196 - gauauu - Wed May 07, 2008 5:31 pm
After 3 years, I have finally finished my action-adventure gba game, Anguna.
It is a zelda-esque adventure game, with 5 dungeons and a large overworld to explore.
Screenshots, downloads, etc, are available from http://www.tolberts.net/anguna.
To promote it, I'm also having a contest: the first person who can find all the powerups in the game will get a free copy of Anguna on a flash cart. Details about the contest are also on the Anguna website. If you download it and play it, please let me know if you have any comments or feedback!
#156201 - nsm333 - Wed May 07, 2008 6:01 pm
ok, that is the coolest game i've seen in homebrew. i can see how that took years to finish. great job!
#156262 - another world - Thu May 08, 2008 4:59 am
i have been playing it for the past few hours. this game is highly polished and very fun. i'm collection a small bug report to send to you after i finish the game. hope my finds and problems are welcome and that they may lead to fixes to better the game overall.
you really did a great job everyone should stop what they are playing and give this game a try.
-another world
#156264 - gauauu - Thu May 08, 2008 5:27 am
Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Yeah, bug reports are welcome! I've started a list of known bugs off the website....
#156265 - Alphanoob - Thu May 08, 2008 5:30 am
okay... so I have a flashed nds lite, with a supercard lite and 2gb micro-sd card. What do I have to do to make this thing run? (if anything)
EDIT: scratch that, it worked fine =). I can tell I am gonna get addicted to this one....
#156266 - sgeos - Thu May 08, 2008 6:06 am
Looks good.
-Brendan
#156284 - keldon - Thu May 08, 2008 2:58 pm
Excellent stuff; I will be sure to run this some time.
#156289 - bluesceada - Thu May 08, 2008 4:44 pm
Wow this seems really cool and was probably a very lot of work, played a bit!
But so far it seems like it's kind of missing a real story ... (quite like the first Zelda)
To give it more "depth" - I think it really needs a story, so the most simple and still good thing would be to add a "journal" which now and then automatically pops up and has some text to read...
And if there are people here anyway playing the whole game, they could contribute to it...
Just some ideas (I won't have time to really play it .. :-/ )
So really nice work, keep it up to give it more depth and it will be better than MOST of the commercial games - it's already better than a lot !
#156296 - gauauu - Thu May 08, 2008 5:43 pm
| bluesceada wrote: |
| Wow this seems really cool and was probably a very lot of work, played a bit! |
Thanks!
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But so far it seems like it's kind of missing a real story ... (quite like the first Zelda)
To give it more "depth" - I think it really needs a story, so the most simple and still good thing would be to add a "journal" which now and then automatically pops up and has some text to read...
And if there are people here anyway playing the whole game, they could contribute to it...
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It's definitely missing a real story. That was by design -- the goal was to make a game with the older style of gameplay typical back in the day: exploration, no hand-holding, no pesky story getting in the way ;-)
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So really nice work, keep it up to give it more depth and it will be better than MOST of the commercial games - it's already better than a lot ! |
Again, thanks. But other than bug fixes, the project is done. 3 years was enough for me for one project...I'm finally liberated to work on something else!
#156299 - bluesceada - Thu May 08, 2008 6:59 pm
Ok than it's good work, - It's also that I never liked the first Zelda so much because of the lack of a real story - so this is more for other people than me ;-)
#156317 - yellowstar - Thu May 08, 2008 9:31 pm
It looks good gauauu.
| gauauu wrote: |
To promote it, I'm also having a contest: the first person who can find all the powerups in the game will get a free copy of Anguna on a flash cart. Details about the contest are also on the Anguna website. If you download it and play it, please let me know if you have any comments or feedback! |
I was interested in this since my homebrew card is broken... (What cards are you giving away? Any DS Slot-1 cards?)
Does it matter how the contestants play?(emulator, PC version, hardware...)
(As I said, broken hb card. My only options are PC & emu.)
#156334 - gauauu - Thu May 08, 2008 10:33 pm
| yellowstar wrote: |
What cards are you giving away? Any DS Slot-1 cards?
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A gba flash cart...one of the ones ordered from KeithE (See this thread)
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Does it matter how the contestants play?(emulator, PC version, hardware...)
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Doesn't matter, as long as you don't "cheat" (defined as rom-hacking, reverse engineering, etc).
Also, I'm updating the contest page..I found a minor bug that makes a certain powerup harder to find than it should be, so go ahead and email me if you get above 95% completion :)
#156338 - tepples - Thu May 08, 2008 10:45 pm
Might the publisher of this film disagree with your game's title?
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-- Who?
-- You know, the human.
-- I think he moved to Tilwick.
#156342 - yellowstar - Thu May 08, 2008 10:50 pm
Guess I can only play it for fun...(DS dev here with a busted DS flash cart)
I probably should redownload it again because of that bug... (Don't mean to put down your hard work or anything. It's just that it's hard going without a flash cart for homebrew.)
#156360 - Alphanoob - Thu May 08, 2008 11:30 pm
2 things:
-how do I save? I click save and continue, play for a little,and then when I turn my DS off, I end up back at level one. Am I doin something wrong?
-I found a kinda funny glitch too. if you enter the shop place and shoot an arrow at the guy it starts the shop. edited out the second one, I just mis-saw (it was late, ok? lol).
Edit: I meant 3 things... 3rd thing: THIS GAME ROCKS!!!
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#156364 - nsm333 - Fri May 09, 2008 12:03 am
@alphanoob: sorry to ask, and answer for the creator, but what are you using it on?
and, gauauu, is it possible to get this to run on the ds? i mean as a .nds file.
#156373 - Alphanoob - Fri May 09, 2008 12:55 am
I think I mentioned it earlier... flashed dsl with sc lite and a 2gb micro sd. I was surprised it run .gba, as I had no idea it was capable of that. Any ideas?
A couple more glitches I found (I have had plenty of time to analyze the early parts of the game, as they are all I can play right now)
-Possible issue for ur contest (maybe u have been informed): if you find a powerup, but don't take it (I don't wanna say where it is.... eeeh!) and then leave the screen it is in, when you come back it is no longer there. I can pm u more bout this one if you don't already know.
-Other thing I noticed (very small glitch) is that in some side facing doors (maybe just left facing?) you can walk into it so that you are partway in the wall next to it. Nothing major.
#156381 - rodif - Fri May 09, 2008 3:57 am
congrats man, high quality work.
#156382 - another world - Fri May 09, 2008 4:31 am
i found a heart powerup by shooting a bush with an arrow, and did not have the dynamite needed to reach it. i made a mental note of the location for later. now that i have found where to purchase dynamite the powerup is no longer there.
this means i have to start over now to 100% the items, correct?
i guess you can't really call this a bug, because i did not get it. perhaps you can think of it as though someone else happened along and did get it. if anything this makes 100%-ing the items that much harder. was this design intentional?
a few suggestions i have so far:
in options select the map then exit options, next time you enter options it should be at the map. leave it on the last thing the user looked at.
item percentage display.. so we know how we are doing =)
bugs:
sometimes doors don't shut and when i walk into what appears to be an open door i get stuck. i can't always reproduce it but it did happen a few times in the tomb dungeon.
hobgoblin sentrys will sometimes pause and then go into their pattern of movement when first entering a screen. i'm not sure if this is a bug or something intentional.
the item shop south of treasure cave, walking back up towards treasure cave following the water closly i get stuck just below the area where the bolder was blown up. right when the screen transitions and the water line sticks out with two small bits of land to my right and two grates under the rock infront of me. i am unable to move or get out of this area, it does happen every time as well.
ok back to playing! =)
-another world
#156383 - gauauu - Fri May 09, 2008 5:22 am
| tepples wrote: |
| Might the publisher of this film disagree with your game's title? |
They could disagree, but this was based on a pencil and paper role-playing game of the same name that came out years before the film.
| Alphanoob wrote: |
| -how do I save? I click save and continue, play for a little,and then when I turn my DS off, I end up back at level one. Am I doin something wrong? |
Hmm...that's a problem. You say you are playing on your DS with micro SD? The save feature is designed to work with gba cartridge saves, I have no idea if that's compatible with what you are playing on. (probably not? -- unfortunately).
I'll have to look into seeing if there's an easy way to make a build that can save correctly in that case. If anybody knows a good way of dealing with this, I'd love to hear it.
| nsm333 wrote: |
| is it possible to get this to run on the ds? i mean as a .nds file. |
I don't have any intentions right now of making a ds port (I don't own a DS, and don't have the budget at the moment to get one). Sorry.
| Alphanoob wrote: |
| -Possible issue for ur contest (maybe u have been informed): if you find a powerup, but don't take it (I don't wanna say where it is.... eeeh!) and then leave the screen it is in, when you come back it is no longer there. I can pm u more bout this one if you don't already know. |
| another world wrote: |
i found a heart powerup by shooting a bush with an arrow, and did not have the dynamite needed to reach it. i made a mental note of the location for later. now that i have found where to purchase dynamite the powerup is no longer there.
this means i have to start over now to 100% the items, correct?
i guess you can't really call this a bug, because i did not get it. perhaps you can think of it as though someone else happened along and did get it. if anything this makes 100%-ing the items that much harder. was this design intentional?
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Hmmm...it wasn't entirely intentional, no. I realized the behavior was there, (and didn't spend the time fixing it because I figured that if the player wasn't going to grab the item, it was his tough luck)...but I forgot about the case where you were blocked from getting the item, so it'd be gone when you came back.
I guess it would mean you'd have to start over to get 100%. But I'll tell you what...if you're above 90% when you finish, and that happened to you, send me the screenshot at > 90%, and tell me where that item was, and I'll count it for the sake of the contest ;-)
| another world wrote: |
| hobgoblin sentrys will sometimes pause and then go into their pattern of movement when first entering a screen. i'm not sure if this is a bug or something intentional. |
That's intentional...they don't start running around until they've "seen" you (faced toward you).
Thanks for all the other feedback, and bug reports! I'll probably push out another build with the easy and/or critical bug fixes (such as the tiles where you get stuck that Another World mentioned).
#156398 - Alphanoob - Fri May 09, 2008 1:06 pm
lol, I had the same problem another world. Difference is, I didn't even know what was needed to get there (I was thinking power bracelet or something...). I guess I will see how far I can get in one sitting and just see how fast I can beat the level or two, lol. This game kicks!
#156404 - silent_code - Fri May 09, 2008 1:17 pm
@ AN: if emulators are allowed, use vba. that way you'll be able to save. :^)
#156418 - gauauu - Fri May 09, 2008 3:21 pm
| silent_code wrote: |
| @ AN: if emulators are allowed, use vba. that way you'll be able to save. :^) |
Yup, they're allowed.
Edit: although I've been warned that Anguna doesn't work on the gamecube version of VBA.
#156435 - nsm333 - Fri May 09, 2008 8:06 pm
ok, gauauu, that's fine. i'll just play it on an emulator. yet another reason for gba emulators on the ds...
#156445 - another world - Fri May 09, 2008 9:54 pm
bug report:
the room in the desert dungeon right before the blue key door has 3 wisps. the one at the top always spawns stuck in the left most column. i'm not sure if this is by design.
i've found a few more spots where i get stuck along the water. i'm assuming then, as its not localized, that it has something to do with how the collision detection is coded for water.
back to playing!
-another world
#156447 - gauauu - Fri May 09, 2008 10:11 pm
| another world wrote: |
| the room in the desert dungeon right before the blue key door has 3 wisps. the one at the top always spawns stuck in the left most column. i'm not sure if this is by design. |
Nope, it's a bug. I'll fix it.
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| i've found a few more spots where i get stuck along the water. i'm assuming then, as its not localized, that it has something to do with how the collision detection is coded for water. |
If you remember where they are, please let me know. The problem is basically that, as I tried to make coastlines look interesting, I didn't always do a good job of lining up the coasts between screen boundaries.
#156455 - another world - Sat May 10, 2008 1:28 am
the item shop south of treasure cave, walking back up towards treasure cave following the water closly i get stuck just below the area where the bolder was blown up. right when the screen transitions and the water line sticks out with two small bits of land to my right and two grates under the rock infront of me. if i walk up into this area i am unable to move or get out of this area, it does happen every time.
the other one happened just below where you start the game above the lake dungeon. it was near the left when you come up following the water line to go right with the water below you.
i will spend some time trying to get stuck and provide you with some photos of my nds.
back to looking for the magic boots!
-another world
#156464 - gauauu - Sat May 10, 2008 4:31 am
| another world wrote: |
| the item shop south of treasure cave, walking back up towards treasure cave following the water closly i get stuck just below the area where the bolder was blown up. right when the screen transitions and the water line sticks out with two small bits of land to my right and two grates under the rock infront of me. if i walk up into this area i am unable to move or get out of this area, it does happen every time. |
Yup..I found what you're talking about. It's fixed in my codebase, for the next bugfix release...
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the other one happened just below where you start the game above the lake dungeon. it was near the left when you come up following the water line to go right with the water below you.
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Cool...I'll look for this one to fix as well.
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| i will spend some time trying to get stuck and provide you with some photos of my nds. |
Don't worry about photos of those two spots, but if you find others, yeah, photos are great.
Thanks!
back to looking for the magic boots!
-another world[/quote]
#156485 - Alphanoob - Sat May 10, 2008 5:28 pm
@silent: thanks for the tip. I can save now! =)
#156519 - another world - Sun May 11, 2008 3:29 am
i have to ask... do items like the 3 potions count towards the 100%? do i need to have 1 of each key, all 3 potions, etc at the end of the game?
cheers,
-another world
#156531 - gauauu - Sun May 11, 2008 10:28 am
| another world wrote: |
i have to ask... do items like the 3 potions count towards the 100%? do i need to have 1 of each key, all 3 potions, etc at the end of the game?
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Nope..the things that count are the life/attack/armor powerups, and having found the bow/arrow, traps, boots, dynamite, and ring. The quantities of keys, potions, arrows, and traps don't matter.
That being said, as of tonight, there is now a winner, one of the guys from the http://www.tehskeen.com/ community.
#156536 - nsm333 - Sun May 11, 2008 12:47 pm
darn. lol. good job.
#156609 - another world - Sun May 11, 2008 10:11 pm
darn if only life didn't get in the way of me gaming for hours straight these days. i was spending time mapping areas to find everything. as it is i'm only at 88% with that 1 item that i found but could not reach early on!
good job to the winner! =)
gauauu: i wrote a review of your game for the weekly "temper post" over at gbatemp.net. please read it over and if any information is incorrect let me know so i can get it corrected. i hope the review brings you many more downloads!!
bug report:
the area i said where i first got stuck by the water, near the grates south of where you blow the rock up, i've found 2 bugs.
the first is the tree all the way to the left just below the rocks has no trunk, it is just the top half!
using the magic boots if you walk up towards the grates you can walk up under the rock. not sure if this is intentional.
in addition, by the desert at the bottom of the map where the river spills off screen between the cliffs, using the magical boots you can walk under the cliff towards the next screen. i thought at first that something might be hidden there but now i think perhaps its just a collision detection bug.
cheers!
-another world
#156637 - gauauu - Sun May 11, 2008 11:33 pm
Thanks for the great review...it looks good :)
And thanks again for the bug reports...now I've got more work cut out for me :)
#156706 - Alphanoob - Mon May 12, 2008 11:00 pm
=) I figured out how to save! I went to the sc home page and downloaded some software to patch games for the sc. I then patched your game to allow real time save and can simply do the whole L-R-B-Sel save method now. I am so happy!
#156710 - dantheman - Tue May 13, 2008 3:50 am
GBA homebrew usually doesn't need to be patched with the Supercard patcher. In this case, you could have simply used the "QPC Method" to save, and I would have suggested that earlier if I had known you were using a slot-2 Supercard. In essence, the QPC method is used to save the contents of GBA SRAM to a *.sav file on your card by using the Saver tab of the Supercard menu. Save the game, turn off the system, quickly turn it back on in GBA mode before the SRAM is lost, press Right to get to the Saver tab, navigate to the *.sav file, and hit A twice.
#156824 - no2pencil - Wed May 14, 2008 8:47 am
I will be downloading this game for sure, it looks amazing.
Reminds me of Gargoyles quest for the GAME BOY. Oh the hours I spent playing that game!
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#156863 - gauauu - Wed May 14, 2008 10:38 pm
Just FYI, I posted an updated version on my website that fixes a few of the bugs that people have brought up. Not all are fixed yet....
#156881 - Alphanoob - Thu May 15, 2008 1:37 am
dunno if you fixed these two or not, but here are a couple things (Small, like usual) that I have noticed.
-On side facing doors you can walk partway through the door frame, placing yourself within a wall a little (not as bad as one I found in a *commercial* lotr game for the gba, where you would get stuck in place if you didn't move out of the door fast enough, or get stuck outside the wall.)
-you can see your sword on the other side of a wall on the bottom of the screen and slash. small, but it is there (maybe just a super strong sword?)
#158996 - gauauu - Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:42 pm
Just FYI, I just posted version 0.95 which fixes a new bug from 0.94, where if you leave your subscreen on the map, go into a cave, and press start, the game freezes. yikes!
#159149 - sgeos - Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:09 am
Just out of curiousity, are you handling bug reports through email, or do you have some sort of tracking systems set up?
-Brendan
#159181 - gauauu - Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:21 pm
Just through email. I debated setting up a bug tracker system, but didn't expect to see enough activity to make it worth the setup overhead. Whether or not that was the "right" decision, I'm still not sure.
#159194 - sgeos - Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:22 pm
Do you want the experience of setting up a bug tracking system? If not, unless you start getting wild amounts of email, I think not setting one up was the "right" choice.
-Brendan
#159673 - Chano Marrano - Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:05 am
I have just finished Anguna 0.95 with a 88% of items collected. Your game rocks!
Besides scrolling glitch, I haven't seen any other bug. The game is a bit short, but also it's very polished and fun.
gauauu, have you stopped working on the GBA?
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#159701 - gauauu - Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:30 pm
| Chano Marrano wrote: |
| gauauu, have you stopped working on the GBA? |
For now, other than Anguna bug fixes, yes. I'm currently working on porting anguna to DS (Which should be pretty straightforward, but I don't get as much coding time nowadays as I used to, so it's not quite as fast as I'd like). After I finish that, I don't know what's next -- I definitely haven't given up on the GBA or anything, but there's so many other interesting things to work on, that I don't know what I'll end up spending time on.