I have a good feeling about this next release and hope to address some of the features that I’ve left incomplete for a while. I’d like 0.75 to be something special and really take the project to a new level of completeness and quality. Everything here is subject to change but here are my initial… Read More »
Since the start of the year I’ve managed to get back up to speed and into the process of continuing the development of my Alternate Reality remake. This is based on Philip Price’s unfinished series of games originally for the Atari 8bit range of computers. Originally only the City and the Dungeon scenarios were ever… Read More »
January 2016 has passed but I hope you had a good Christmas / New Year or holiday. I’m sorry for not posting anything for such a long time. I’ve found it difficult to focus and use my time well to make the significant updates to Alternate Reality X which I’ve wanted to despite putting in… Read More »
Example Dungeon screen (672×480) from the Atari 800 Emulator As mentioned previously I was investigating a possible move to using SDL as an alternative to the SFML media library. Whilst I’m not a 100% certain I’m going to stay with SFML it’s looking extremely likely. The main reason for this is that I understand from… Read More »
As I’d said previously I wanted to review what I’d achieved with Alternate Reality X (ARX) and what I needed to do to take it a step closer to completion. I’ve given the project a lot of thought and wanted to post an update. I found some of my early AR images on the internet… Read More »
Over the last few months I have been giving a lot of thought to my two Alternate Reality related projects and with the move into 2015 have been thinking about my next steps. I think I’m now fairly clear on how I’m planning to develop during 2015. I’ve spent many years working on my original… Read More »
You may have wondered whether I had been dispatched by a Nightstalker or become hopelessly lost wandering the streets of Xebec’s Demise but I’ve simply been very busy with work and home commitments as well as the build up to Christmas and New Year. I hope you had a good Christmas / holiday if you… Read More »
Now that Release 0.2 of Alternate Reality X is available I have been thinking about what I want to tackle for the next release. To recap, with Release 0.2 I added: Three Encounter types – Thief, Master Thief and Nobleman Encounter code and interface for attacking and defending, switching weapons and conversations New 3D models… Read More »