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The Children of Hurin [cancelled]


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Been slowly bringing this closer to a demo. So what's here?

- a 32x 22 playfield

- a temporary level to play in

- lite dialog system

- a working store

- items to collect (armor, magic ring, roots, helm, treasure)

- an enemy to kill (a spider)

- death screen

- title screen

- useable item (heath potion)

- enemy randomly drops treasure chests.

- score tracks # of gold pieces

- inventory system tracks what you find (here I am aiming for selectable weapons and useable items).

- Theme is based on JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion

 

controls

- Use JOYSTICK to move and attack with FIRE button.

- HOLD the SELECT button to go into inventory.

- Cycle inventory by pressing RIGHT on the JOYSTICK.

- To use potion highlight it in inventory and press DOWN the life gauge on the lower left will refill to max life.

- RESET switch returns to titlescreen

- On the "SHOP" screen FIRE is advance/confirm

and SELECT is esc/cancel. There is only one item for sale at this time.

 

The Children of Hurin prototype WIP.bin

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Cancelled game no time
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It's interesting. The character sprites are great.

 

Although, something strange happened standing on the spot on this screen. I kept picking up something whenever I pressed select (ESC on the keyboard). It happened on the chest also. Repeatedly pressing the button seems to keep adding points.

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Reminds me Simon Quest a bit,with a lot of NPCs with one liners. :D Love the design and the layout as well, suited for the VCS!
My suggestions:
-The first line of the pf is black. I may be caused by the score I guess.
-You can really kill enemies attacking from the bottom.
-Enemies are going for your feet. :D
-If you don't have 2 golds, you can only skip the "buy potion" with pressing the select switch and going to the inventory.

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We'll be featuring The Children of Hurin LIVE on today's (Wednesday) ZeroPage Homebrew stream on Twitch at 11AM PT|2PM ET|7PM GMT! Hope everyone can watch!

Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.t...ropagehomebrew/

Games:

- Star Fire (2003) by Manuel Polik of XYPE
- Kung Fu Combat (2019 WIP) by easmith
- The Children of Hurin (2019 WIP) by ultima
- Thrust+ Platinum (2003) by Thomas Jentzsch WITH Footpedal Controls!

 

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We loved this early WIP and are eagerly awaiting what comes next with the game, thanks for making it! We can't wait to feature it on the show again once it progresses some more.

 

Thanks ZPH! Hope you had fun with that. I hope to have a few more features in the demo.

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 I finally made some progress on this project a major hurdle involving an idea to trace the location of all the characters in a timeline to figure where they are at any given time. 

 

Now this was maybe a bit more involving since upon re-reading the silmarillion I read a passage from the history of middle earth books where christopher tolkien mentioned he wished he had tried rewriting the book as there were missing materials at the time it was deadlined, but with all the available writings anyone could "write their own silmarillion". So I went this route using the narrative of the silmarillion as the skeleton of the book and added missing details of the "story" from the lost tales, unfinished tales, the grey annals, morgoths ring, war of the jewels and the peoples of middle earth. And used the full book version of the children of hurin to develop a very uncompressed version of the silmarillion. 

 

So using this as my new reference I am now creating a timeline forward from the music of the ainur to the 5th battle of beleriand. 

 

Hope this explains why there has been nothing of note going on here.

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