ENIGMA Development Environment

Religions are always right and anyone who doesn't agree with them are going to hell

That's traditional and dogmatic religions. But in every religion, you have mystics who talks about the same spiritual experiences.

So in my personal opinion religion will loose more and more influence until goes extinct in the age of reason

I doubt it, as human being is not only a logical being, but he has got also an heart with feelings, and science will never talks directly to human heart. But it's not its goal, and this doesn't mean science isn't wonderful. But i hope that 'dogmatic' religions, who reject science facts, will loose more and and influence.

If we speaks about science and religion, as the title says, everyone is always right, but everyone is not talking about the same thing. The problem is that religion talks about transcendental world and rejects science discoveries, especially evolution, and science recognizes only material world. So they have both partial truths, but they are dogmatic, because they don't recognize others partial truths. The goal is to integrate both visions. I was influenced by Ken Wilber, an american philosopher, who tries to reconcile these partial truths. If you want to know more about his vision about science and religion, i  recommend to read his book, 'Marriage of sense and soul' : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marriage_of_Sense_and_Soul:_Integrating_Science_and_Religion

In some of his books, he talks also about the theory of 'Spiral Dynamics' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics). It has transformed my world vision. This theory says that human being evolution goes through specific values systems, which are adapted to their life conditions. When an human being goes through a new values system, it gives him new possibilities to understand his world. The tragedy is that very often he thinks his world view is the only valid one. But world views, are only views, nothing else !

It was fine before he came here.

Sorry, but it was not fine. I feel gratitude for all developers who spent their time on this project, but one year ago the project was very buggy. I tried very hard to develop my game with ENIGMA, but it had a lot of problems. I don't say GM is bugs free of course, but it's better. I am sure i am not the only one who feels the same. There is no wonder, if ENIGMA was not very successful so far, it was mainly because it had a lot of bugs. Anyway i am not complaining as it's free project, but if we want ENIGMA to become successful, we have to face reality.

TheExDeus:
I don't want to spend my time quarreling about this, as it seems that almost all developers are already doing it, but for example when i remember the following post : http://enigma-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=1245.0 ,where Robert posted in may an update with a changelog of 66 items, mostly bugs fixing, it seems to me that was very useful for the project. So i don't understand when you say that Robert is not doing anything useful for the project.

When i try to run your game, it displays an error message : 'MSVCR100D.dll missing'. Would it be possible to include this dll with you package ?

Hello db,

I tried to run your game, but unfortunately for me it crash in the beginning. I use Windows 7 64 bits.

Excellent ! You've kept your promise. I don't have enough time right now to test the new enigma, but  i will definitely test it in the future. Thanks again Robert and all people working on this project for all your efforts. 

Project description :
Son of blagger is a platform game made in 1984 for the commodore 64. It was written by Anthony Crowther (c.f http://www.the-commodore-zone.com/articlelive/articles/12/1/Tony-Crowther/Page1.html)
Anthony Crowther was a famous programmer at that time, as very often he was writing alone his games (doing programming, graphics and music). He was also a very prolific programmer, as he could write games in a few weeks. I was a fan of Anthony Crowther and i decided to make a remake of 'Son of blagger'.
As i wanted the remake to look and behave as much as possible as the original game, i spent a lot of time doing reverse engineering of the C64 executable. I updated the graphics by smoothing them and adding light and shadow effects. This is the first time i tried to program a game.

Gameplay:
The goal of the player on each level is manipulate Blagger, a burglar, to collect the scattered keys and then reach the safe. The keys must be collected and the safe opened in a set amount of time. Blagger can walk either left or right, or jump left or right. He must avoid monster and deadly objects.

Keys :
Left and right arrows to move and space to jump.

The player can't make 'double jumps', except if he is on a slide. Beyond a given distance, the falls are deadly, except if he is on a slide.

Progress :
I consider the game is 80 % finished. The game engine is done, but i need to add an animation when the player has finished the game. Also i would like to add some options to modify the keys mapping, the sound and the possibility to use a joystick. I would like also to add some new levels.

Windows installer:
https://tinyurl.com/ybld45oy

Source code of game maker studio version :
https://github.com/egofree71/son-of-blagger-with-game-maker-studio

Play javascript version :
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29802501/son-of-blagger/index.html

Source code of javascript version :
https://github.com/egofree71/son-of-blagger-with-javascript

update (24.10.2013) : new version with full screen mode. When you are playing, just press enter to switch on/off full screen option.

Update (15.08.2015):
By default the game starts in full screen mode. You can switch off/on full screen mode with alt + enter (This the default keys in Game Make studio).
Also i made a javascript version with the Phaser framework. I decided also to share the source code of the game maker and javascript version.

Interesting, but it's too bad there is no sprites and maps editors included.