Whizbang Laboratories | Escape From Hell | Activity http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/ Activity feed for the group, Escape From Hell. Sun, 06 Dec 2020 22:18:56 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.4.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e089de00e8d57431e0171166e9a91dd6 Whizbang replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-138 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:55:23 +0000 Here’s a progress update, with added to-do items..

General inventory system (Different types of items like weapons, potions, quest items, monster drops that can be sold to shop) Done. Potions and other consumables still to come.
Specific drops from certain monsters – This is already part of the game, just no entered into the DB, except for…[Read more]

]]> 944a702d205f3a67b0d64ed39f2ff502 Whizbang replied to the topic Explore Map Mod in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/explore-map-mod/#post-125 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 18:46:37 +0000 I am not sure I ever directly thanked you for this mod.

So, thank you. It made a huge difference in the look and feel of the game.

]]> 515ca7fde8cd64a96855dca33921e2a8 Whizbang replied to the topic Open Call for Story Submissions in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/open-call-for-story-submissions/#post-124 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:32:34 +0000 Note that I have begun to implement my own story. This does not mean I won’t instantly drop my own tepid writing in favor of something else. The call for submissions is still wide open.

]]> 64489e05eb1344e0b7002b7f24cfdf39 Anonymous joined the group Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/154/ Wed, 07 Oct 2015 04:37:00 +0000 0 ed20fcba65e8adc8b87e286dc9cfdfa0 Whizbang started the topic Open Call for Story Submissions in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/open-call-for-story-submissions/ Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:57:04 +0000 The story for this game is, currently, the stock one that came with the engine/template.  If anyone has ambitions of writing a new one, feel free.  Honestly, the idea of tediously making entries into the Story table bores me to death. So, I call to all (three? four?) of you to submit your own story. 🙂

The SQL dump for the current Story table i…[Read more]

]]> ed20fcba65e8adc8b87e286dc9cfdfa0 Whizbang started the topic Open Call for Story Submissions in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/open-call-for-story-submissions/ Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:57:04 +0000 The story for this game is, currently, the stock one that came with the engine/template.  If anyone has ambitions of writing a new one, feel free.  Honestly, the idea of tediously making entries into the Story table bores me to death. So, I call to all (three? four?) of you to submit your own story. 🙂

The SQL dump for the current Story table i…[Read more]

]]> 6cecf0fe63c32659c60a5fd7b407a081 Whizbang posted an update in the group Escape From Hell: The fight GUI got some love. Let me know what you think. […] http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/148/ Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:45:01 +0000 The fight GUI got some love. Let me know what you think. 🙂 http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Fight-Example.jpg

]]> 0 486292e5170f8d0b6a22128e883168be Whizbang replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-118 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 20:32:42 +0000 Also on the To-Do is re-work guilds to allow things like item discounts, item storage, buffs, and maybe item enchantment/smithing.  Also, there is a Library mod (as players encounter different monsters, it catalogs various data in a library and notes who discovered what about which monsters) that I’ve been meaning to install.  It’d be neat to gi…[Read more]

]]> 7e88e49ff8e46f9c03f8389c0ba6dd27 Whizbang replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-117 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:44:16 +0000 Ok. Towns now have sticky items. They are only regenerated every 12 hours. I will work next on having specific items always available.

Also to come is enchanting/smithing to add modifiers to owned items.

]]> d4bacd027b8619422c57ae14077405cf Whizbang replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-113 Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:04:03 +0000 As the vote stands, it is 2 to 1 for if(rand(1, 15) < max(1, $fightsteps)). The motion is carried.

]]> 3712b9dd9614be6787ee637234f7e62b Nancy replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-112 Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:30:08 +0000 As Zenith said if(rand(1,15-$fightsteps)==1) doesn’t increase the chance of a fight linearly so while you are still guaranteed a monster fight after 15 steps you will be more likely that you wont get a fight before 10. I don’t mind either method but that is mostly because I like the idea of being able to walk 10 step without a monster fight.

]]> 44b30a7c65963e3c42d58d5675e1474e Whizbang replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-110 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 20:57:08 +0000 So, what should be worked on next, in your opinion?

General inventory system (Different types of items like weapons, potions, quest items, monster drops that can be sold to shop)
Specific drops from certain monsters
Common and rare drops
Send tradeable items in mail or trade items between players
Graphical explore with different types of…[Read more]

]]> e239d841c874f49e380e8382403d6428 Whizbang replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-108 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:19:37 +0000 I went with if(rand(1,15-$fightsteps)==1)

This gives the first step a 1 in 15 chance of a fight (where $fightsteps = 0). The second a 1 in 14 chance. Third step is 1 in 13 chance. And so on until the 15th step is 1 in 1 chance of a fight.

I may make it 10-$fightsteps if it seems walking suddenly becomes easier. The chance was 1 in 5 for every…[Read more]

]]> 74bc56f060f83cc4763e8527687b84f5 Whizbang replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-108 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:19:37 +0000 I went with if(rand(1,15-$fightsteps)==1)

This gives the first step a 1 in 15 chance of a fight. The second a 1 in 14 chance. Third step is 1 in 13 chance. And so on until the 15th step is 1 in 1 chance of a fight.

I may make it 10-$fightsteps if it seems walking suddenly becomes easier. The chance was 1 in 5 for every step, previously.

]]> 2c12bc75e7a231bde7169c6c4486cb3d Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-105 Sun, 20 Sep 2015 21:54:40 +0000 Actually, I just realized that the above code can be simplified to if(rand(1, 15) < max(1, $fightsteps)), which I believe does the same thing.

]]> 2336874e412862a2503ba8e949c84eee Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-103 Sun, 20 Sep 2015 02:36:51 +0000 In regards to monster fight probabilities, I think if(rand(0, 14)/15 < max(0,($fightsteps-1)/15)) would work, changing 14 and 15 as needed.

That way the chance of fight increases linearly rather than being 50% at 13 steps and only 20% chance at 10 steps.

Side note: I’m used to languages such as javascript, python, and perl where one can generate…[Read more]

]]> 9db511565e0c9698e460d7d376746eb2 Junebug joined the group Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/128/ Tue, 15 Sep 2015 01:48:27 +0000 0 6aa5eabfcb0d3d0a014df4b773a38461 Nancy joined the group Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/121/ Sat, 12 Sep 2015 06:58:10 +0000 3 6b538447151f2088f006d816c3d9bc11 Zenith started the topic Explore Map Mod in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/explore-map-mod/ Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:12:28 +0000 This mod displays the terrain around the player when exploring. It also adds support for sub-areas of realms.

Installation instructions and documentation are in the Installation_Instructions.txt file in the attached zipfile.

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/apbsUG3

]]> 138c92735346677356890eb41fbda7b6 Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-99 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:22:54 +0000 I’m thinking that for controlling monster encounters more finely, there would be a table of encounter regions, with a world id, a rectangular area with min and max latitude and longitude, and a monster group id specifying the monsters that are encountered in the region.

Then there would be a table of monster groups, where each group has one or…[Read more]

]]> 0c22591fc1e5bb9145ecd2b9af1d72f0 Whizbang replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-95 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 18:19:42 +0000 One option is to store your data in a bitmap. Each color corresponds to a terrain type. Then read the pixel color using imagecolorat(). That way you can quickly fill in large areas of the map with a paintbrush.

For instance, yellow = desert. Grab a random image from the Desert folder. If you want to map specific images to specific tiles, color…[Read more]

]]> 1547a6fda7a41b5f4e8ef713544950f5 Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-86 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 08:42:43 +0000 I have everything coded for the explore images except the part that loads the map data, as I still need a good format to store the map. There’s three main possibilities I can think of at this point: A binary bitmap-like file storing an array of terrain ids, A csv file storing an array of terrain ids, or storing the terrain ids in the database with…[Read more]

]]> 4d9ffc15e2d4838b1f76350ac0da74fb Benjamin replied to the topic Inventory System in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/inventory-system/#post-85 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 03:09:31 +0000 Yea, I would love to have an inventory. That would be cool.

]]> 135e0e14e25528dfe237c21334f8d41c Benjamin posted an update in the group Escape From Hell: Woa, no spam filter? What if I was a spam bot? http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/78/ Wed, 09 Sep 2015 03:06:01 +0000 Woa, no spam filter? What if I was a spam bot?

]]> 2 683fdd2b24f8c24db75430b915b5eb8c Benjamin joined the group Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/77/ Wed, 09 Sep 2015 03:03:46 +0000 0 70b5cf6838b5bb01206bd39e3cf160ef Whizbang replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-82 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 23:17:59 +0000 I am thinking the easiest way to do this is add a Parent field to the Worlds table. Then a simple teleport mod can be made to transfer the user to the sub-world based on user location. For towns and such, the world size would be fairly small. Then tie town events to location.

Is that in line with what you were thinking? The key would be detailed…[Read more]

]]> 6afa95713f68aea51938467583c2906f Whizbang replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-80 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:59:28 +0000 I like this. I think navigating should occur entirely within the central panel. The left-bar would still show the realm map and coordinates. The center panel would display a sub-map and coordinates. Preferrably the map would be large and detailed.

There would need to be a check to disable realm navigation if the user is in a sub-area, though.

]]> 88ff1303671593724636bab50f7d8d30 Whizbang replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-79 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:44:21 +0000 I am thinking, for this, storing it in the DB, but instead of entering each coordinate individually, enter in the starting coord and then a width and height. Then just check if the user is within that area.

]]> a7b56c6dbc9111fef56a64819b4ebd33 Whizbang replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-76 Sun, 06 Sep 2015 14:18:53 +0000 Good stuff.

I’ll respond in detail Tuesday. I have a pretty full weekend.

]]> cc7e282299c0c655ded603a1f95d01b4 Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-75 Sun, 06 Sep 2015 12:53:51 +0000 After objects are working, NPCs could be implemented on top of the object system, since objects would be able to define what happens when the player interacts with them. Initially NPCs would do nothing, but they could later be integrated with the inventory and quest systems.

Another thing to take into considering with respect to areas is monster…[Read more]

]]> 89d55d7781af9d80ededb779bb41fae6 Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-74 Sun, 06 Sep 2015 12:03:47 +0000 After the map and area systems are done, the next step would probably be to implement objects, where objects are anything that exist on a tile in the world, like an NPC, obstacle, or treasure chest. Objects would exist in a table similar to gateways, with the area, latitude, longitude, plus fields such as the image to use, and whatever is needed…[Read more]

]]> f15755fc8a0e5500a568a949f03d91a6 Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-73 Sun, 06 Sep 2015 08:18:32 +0000 Second thing would probably be to make enter-able areas. Any given town, building, dungeon, or whatever other area would be stored in an areas table in the db, where each area has its own map (grid of terrain types) and a realm that its in. Each area would have its own latitude and longitude system. To get between areas, there would be a table of…[Read more]

]]> 35033fbeaf3b2214a1d1d03aa36c3d76 Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-72 Sun, 06 Sep 2015 04:10:04 +0000 The first thing I’d like to do is make the explore screen display the terrain of the area around the player. The only question is whether to store the map data in a file per realm (with the terrain types in a grid) or in a db table like (realm, latitude, longitude, terrain), with a row for each tile.

]]> 59e5b45dc948a274eebbbd58a880e842 Zenith started the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/ Sun, 06 Sep 2015 03:00:16 +0000 I brainstormed a list of things that might be worth adding. I realize that it would probably be overly ambitious to try to do them all, and they’re probably not all good ideas anyway. I would be willing to a lot of the coding necessary.

General inventory system (Different types of items like weapons, potions, quest items, monster drops that can…[Read more]

]]> 96aeb51d6a54f90a016dfb8e8b57a390 Whizbang posted an update in the group Escape From Hell: AAAAAAAHHH! FUCK! I was working in the File Manager, going […] http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/46/ Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:50:17 +0000 AAAAAAAHHH! FUCK! I was working in the File Manager, going to change the way the Babble Box works, when my 18month-old son drove his car accross the edge of my keyboard and managed to hit the DELETE and ENTER key before I could stop him. Escape has now been deleted!

FUCK!

I have a backup of the files, but it doesn’t include anything changed…[Read more]

]]> 3 884a0acc5d723f391d4e58b2f445013a Zenith replied to the topic Babblebox archive in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/babblebox-archive/#post-68 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 11:12:49 +0000 Use the files in this post instead. The previous ones had an off-by-one error that prevented the latest babble from appearing in the archive.

]]> e1c52821352a267f2f6639dcebcab76f Zenith replied to the topic Babblebox archive in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/babblebox-archive/#post-66 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 10:18:28 +0000 The diff file is attached to this post with the extension renamed to .txt because the forum software is being stupid.

]]> 355bbce07502741f389a60a9e379a8e0 Zenith started the topic Babblebox archive in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/babblebox-archive/ Sat, 05 Sep 2015 10:17:24 +0000 I created an archive for the babblebox to view past babbles. Note that it will only show old babbles from at least when it’s installed since it removes the code that deletes old babbles from the database.

Both a zip file containing the changed files and a diff file are attached (hopefully).

]]> 993ec981030ea0bbdc2efe3c96b77527 Zenith started the topic Inventory System in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/inventory-system/ Sat, 05 Sep 2015 06:57:04 +0000 Would there be any interest in creating a general inventory system? Items from the shop and item drops would go into it, from where they could be equipped. It would also hold items that aren’t weapons or armor, like healing/mana potions and quest items.

If so, I’ll probably brainstorm some implementation details here.

]]> 6de406936f4add42e1d4b25c22491406 Zenith replied to the topic Circular Images in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/circular-images/#post-61 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 02:38:57 +0000 Trying again

]]> aea922e3766bcdb67b8daba7481b41d7 Whizbang replied to the topic Circular Images in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/circular-images/#post-60 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 01:07:29 +0000 I don’t see an attachment. Try again?

]]> 0e49f01822f8f107ebda3128c482be02 Zenith started the topic Circular Images in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/circular-images/ Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:52:55 +0000 I made the corner’s of the town images transparent so they’ appear as circles instead of squares. The 9 town image files are in the attached zip file.

]]> 1d927dd2f24c7e42738e483b881be492 Zenith joined the group Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/31/ Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:43:47 +0000 0 4e9dd41a89400c7cc330a5ee462c2d88 That other guy joined the group Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/27/ Fri, 04 Sep 2015 22:44:15 +0000 0 6b21374e921f4599bd4f406e14d4d892 Whizbang posted an update in the group Escape From Hell: Ok, getting back into this game. I have fixed/updated the […] http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/20/ Fri, 04 Sep 2015 13:42:55 +0000 Ok, getting back into this game. I have fixed/updated the map and various other glitches that cropped up. I have also enabled colored names in the Babblebox.

To-Do:
Explore images
Fight Images
Drop-only items, prefixes, and suffixes
Change Travel to Teleport and then make it so you can only purchase Teleport abilities to a specific town once you…[Read more]

]]> 2 d4a20f4e1dd532d01a7ea8c00902abf1 Whizbang posted an update in the group Escape From Hell: I'm cooking up a good Story+ mod. It will allow for […] http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/8/ Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:46:23 +0000 I’m cooking up a good Story+ mod. It will allow for side-quests and quests with multiple points to visit. I am envisions something like “Go find X item, it MIGHT be in any one of these 10 places”, and the player has to go visit each place on the map until they find the right one. I am still figuring out how to force the user to visit all the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a52b955a550d952e198cba788d01dc54 Whizbang started the topic phpMap mod for Dragon Scourge in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/phpmap-mod-for-dragon-scourge/ Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:09:44 +0000 The phpMap files and install instructions can be downloaded here: http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/phpMap.zip

Mod Title: phpMap
Mod Author: Tim Edgar (Whiz/Whizbang)
Date Created: 3/23/2014
Date Last Modified: 3/23/2014
Version: 1.0
Game Version: Dragon Scourge Beta 5

Difficulty: Very easy to install. May take a bit…[Read more]

]]> 5cb856b47890c93f5ea0304944e21aae Whizbang posted an update in the group Escape From Hell: Ok, phpMap is now installed. I think I'll do the stories mod next. http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/1/ Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:40:20 +0000 Ok, phpMap is now installed. I think I’ll do the stories mod next.

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