Top-Down City With Depth

[nevon]

nevon: wow... I wrote it in 0.6.2 but a) you probably use 0.6.2 and b) I don't think I've used anything 0.6.2 specific (have I?..)

Yup, I'm using 0.6.2.

Maybe you opened some Matrix program?

That's one possibility, but I think it's fairly unlikely.

[Robin]

Nevon, you are... The One...

[Thursdaybloom]

Now add shadows.

Haha, I have thought about that actually! It's a good idea which will probably end up happening, just not soon.

[hryx]

Thursdaybloom, the demo looks great.

Is there a reason why you have the player closer to the bottom of the screen, rather than the center?

Also, the perspective feels very high up to me, like looking down from a helicopter. But perhaps that's your intention.

[Thursdaybloom]

Thursdaybloom, the demo looks great.

Is there a reason why you have the player closer to the bottom of the screen, rather than the center?

Also, the perspective feels very high up to me, like looking down from a helicopter. But perhaps that's your intention.

Thanks for the feedback

I've made the focus off-centre because I feel it's more natural to be able to see more of what's happening infront of you, than behind you.
tl;dr because I like it 8-)


This is just a proof of concept demo to show that I could do it. I just used what tiles I had available and this gives it very zoomed out look. The project is currently going through a graphical make over to make it feel closer to the player.

[scirath]

Hurm, odd. Both versions are crashing on me (Windows Vista Home Premium) for all Love 0.6.x versions. Black screens on both when run on 0.5.0.

[scirath]

Hurm, odd. Both versions are crashing on me (Windows Vista Home Premium) for all Love 0.6.x versions. Black screens on both when run on 0.5.0.

Heh. Never mind that. I just "finished" reinstalling Windows earlier today, and now it's working just fine.

Leave it to a munged copy of Windows to mess up my graphics drivers. On the plus side, I'm no longer affected by that infamous power-of-2 thing! 'Course now I have to pay attention to my code/graphics to make sure I'm not boxing things up for others.

[Brons]

I'm sorry for this kick but the files don't seem to be there anymore. As a new LÖVE user I'm interested in this. Could someone rehost these files? I'd appreciate it.

[Robin]

I'm sorry for this kick but the files don't seem to be there anymore. As a new LÖVE user I'm interested in this. Could someone rehost these files? I'd appreciate it.

I put it on my dropbox: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2000007/topdowncity.love (this is the non-PO2 version, mind, so if it doesn't work for you, say so and I'll make sure a PO2 version is up.)

[Brons]

Thanks, it works. Great to see what can be done with LÖVE and to learn from it.