Here’s my UI Test app working in the iPhone simulator:
Test App in iPhone simulatorI’m still having some issues with screen resolution, but I think that is mostly a simulator issue. This is an especially big step because I switched from my previous OpenGL renderer, to using a Met…
Check it out!
ACotGK on MacOSUp and running on MacOS! Still some issues (so many issues!), but getting there. iOS after that.
The Accursed Crown of the Giant King is an old school role-playing game, single player, party based. It will be released in 2020 for Windows, Mac, and iOS. ACotGK is by Merry Prankster Games, and you can get more information at https://prankster.com/acotgk.
I’ve just finished up the conten…
One of the new features of Accursed Crown of the Giant King, vs. its predecessor Temple of the Abyssal Winds, is the “People Journal”. Here you can view everyone you’ve talked to, with all of their dialogue and their last location.
People JournalHonestly it’s a little…
The Accursed Crown of the Giant King is an old school role-playing game, single player, party based. It will be released in 2020 for Windows, Mac, and iOS. ACotGK is by Merry Prankster Games, and you can get more information at https://prankster.com/acotgk.
The party hunts for a missing ranger. …
Not much to report this week; just working on filling in random quests for chapter 2. Here’s a screenshot of my test party battling an ogre:
Ogre battleFor more information about The Accursed Crown of the Giant King: https://prankster.com/acotgk
The Accursed Crown of the Giant King is an old school role-playing game, single player, party based. It will be released in 2020 for Windows, Mac, and iOS. ACotGK is by Merry Prankster Games, and you can get more information at https://prankster.com/acotgk.
For this video, the party comes upon a…
Ran into an interesting bug in Accursed Crown of the Giant King today. The spell Scare was unexpectedly lasting 0 seconds.
Beldegon casting the Scare spell (somewhat inexplicably on his own party member).The Scare spell inflicts fear on the target, and should last for 30 seconds. In the case…
The Accursed Crown of the Giant King is an old school role-playing game, single player, party based. It will be released in 2020 for Windows, Mac, and iOS. ACotGK is by Merry Prankster Games, and you can get more information at https://prankster.com/acotgk.
This week I’ve been cranking thr…
I ran into a fun bug in Accursed Crown of the Giant King today, and thought I’d share. See the door in this screenshot:
The locked door to the chaos temple of Thunor.When you come upon this door, if you have the Fire key and the Ice key, you should be able to open the door. That works …
The Accursed Crown of the Giant King is an old school role-playing game, single player, party based. It will be released in 2020 for Windows, Mac, and iOS. ACotGK is by Merry Prankster Games, and you can get more information at https://prankster.com/acotgk.
I’ve switched to doing a video e…
I got an email from them:
Your app, Temple of the Abyssal Winds, app Apple ID: 816495128, does not follow one or more of the App Store Review Guidelines.
Turns out there isn’t a problem with my app, it just hasn’t been compiled and submitted “recently”. So now I have…
The Accursed Crown of the Giant King is an old school role-playing game, single player, party based. It will be released in 2020 for Windows, Mac, and iOS. ACotGK is by Merry Prankster Games, and you can get more information at https://prankster.com/acotgk.
In this week’s video, the party …
The Accursed Crown of the Giant King is an old school role-playing game, single player, party based. It will be released in 2020 for Windows, Mac, and iOS. ACotGK is by Merry Prankster Games, and you can get more information at https://prankster.com/acotgk.
This week’s progress: Chap…
The Accursed Crown of the Giant King is an old school role-playing game, single player, party based. It will be released in 2020 for Windows, Mac, and iOS. ACotGK is by Merry Prankster Games, and you can get more information at https://prankster.com/acotgk.
This video demonstrates the party unse…
The Accursed Crown of the Giant King is an old school role-playing game, single player, party based. It will be released in 2020 for Windows, Mac, and iOS. ACotGK is by Merry Prankster Games, and you can get more information at https://prankster.com/acotgk.
This video demonstrates the party batt…
I’ve been playing a bit of FTL lately ( https://subsetgames.com/ftl.html ); great game:
The way my FTL games often end…It occurs to me that the engine I use for Accursed Crown of the Giant King could pretty easily adapt to play a similar sort of roguelike:
- Any given play-throu…
The Accursed Crown of the Giant King is an old school role-playing game, single player, party based. It will be released in 2020 for Windows, Mac, and iOS. ACotGK is by Merry Prankster Games, and you can get more information at https://prankster.com/acotgk.
This video demonstrates the party defe…
No video this week; I’m in the middle of a big update of Annun City, the main town in Chapter 2 of the Accursed Crown of the Giant King. I like to make videos as part of testing an area, and the area has been in flux all week.
So in lieu of a video, here’s an in-progress screenshop o…
This video demonstrates a difficult Chapter 2 battle against some spectral undead:
The party is not well optimized for this difficult fight, and suffers casualties against the wraiths. Ouch! More videos in the weeks to come.
The Accursed Crown of the Giant King is an old school role-playing game, sin…
This video demonstrates a difficult Chapter 2 battle against some spectral undead:
The party is not well optimized for this difficult fight, and suffers casualties against the wraiths. Ouch! More videos in the weeks to come.
The Accursed Crown of the Giant King is an old school role-pla…
I really like procedurally generating levels. As a programmer, if I can design a level by hand once, I’d much rather just take those rules that I used to design the level, put them in a program, and then I can generate a bunch of levels automatically!
Of course it isn’t so easy. Putt…
Here is a video demonstrating character creation in ACotGK. The player starts up the game, and goes through the dialogs, choosing gender, race, class, etc. You may find it mildly interesting; I should have more interesting videos to follow.
From my perspective, this was an exercise in g…
Something like 10 years ago, when I started seriously working on the SENG code that is behind my Merry Prankster RPG games (still going!), I needed a source control system for the code. At the time, Subversion ( https://subversion.apache.org/ ) was the safe, standard open-source SCS. However, I …
Omega is an old, rare console-mode roguelike game. I first compiled and made available a version for Windows in 2003. Since that is now quite a long time ago (!), I’ve gone ahead and released a new version put together with more modern tools. You can check out more here:
Announcing… “Accursed Crown of the Giant King”! Here’s a teaser trailer:
- An Old School Role Playing Game
- Single Player, Party Based
- Coming 2020
- For Windows, Mac, iOS
- https://prankster.com/acotgk
Welcome to the re-launched Merry Prankster Games website! Not much else to announce now, but stay tuned.
So for the past year or so I've been noodling around with the sequel to "Temple of the Abyssal Winds", tentatively called "The Accursed Crown of the Giant King". Here's a screenshot:
I'm happy with the engine, game system, and graphics improvements I've made over that time. The game itse…
Announcing version 5.0 of the classic-style role playing game Temple of the Abyssal Winds! Temple of the Abyssal Winds is available on Windows, Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Chapter 1 is free to download and play for all platforms, and chapters 2-6 are available for purchase, as in-app purchases or on the…
Temple of the Abyssal Winds, the classic-style single player role-playing game, now with Mac support!
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You can download it for free in the Mac App Store, or get more information (including for Windows) on the TotAW website:
