ENIGMA Development Environment

Do you mean like a game remake or another thing or like how ENIGMA is a remake of GM (really it's an augmentation... not a remake)?

I started to develop a remake of the c64 game Wanted : monty mole : You can see how the original game looks on a emulator here :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r26norwZ_XI

I consider that i've done about 40% of the project. Even if it's a very old game, i had a lot of fun to try to understand how the game was made. For instance, every time you start a new game, a new maze is generated in the middle of the map. I spend several weeks to understand how the maze was generated. I wrote a small article about the maze generation there : http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=64877

From my point of view, game programming is really the most interesting and fun aspect in programming. You can find exciting topics like AI or 3D graphics. Soon i will start again to develop this remake in my free time. What is dangerous is that when you start to program games, it's very hard to get a life and relax. It's like you have always a thread running in the background of your head which is always thinking about how to solve problems and bugs. So even in the middle of the night, it's very hard to sleep, as you have new ideas coming out, and you want to test them as soon as possible !   
By the way it's totally offtopic. Sorry 

Hi Robert,

Thanks a lot for the update and your commitment for the project. Would it be possible to have a link for an executable of RadialGM ? I don't think everybody wants to compile the project.

If you find the game too difficult, I do have a "skip level" cheat built in, and if you want access to it, and tell you it in a PM.

Thanks for sharing the game. It's nice and works well.

I've found the following interesting code in the press_Enter event  :

    if (keyboard_check(vk_control)) {
   
        if (room_exists(room_next(room))) {
       
            room_goto_next();

Can you give me a little bulleted list of the changes like I always make in these topics? Then I'll copy and paste it into the change log.

As it was a long time ago, it's hard to remember every feature, but more or less, here is what i remember :

- In the room editor, you have now a multi-selection mode, where you can select several tiles or sprites. Then you can copy, cut and paste them. As far as i know, Game Maker studio doesn't have this feature, or it's not implemented in an easy way. Also you can select a region and fill it with tiles or sprites.
- There are three new buttons in the room's toolbar, in order to switch the following modes : 'Snap to grid', 'Add on top', 'Add multiple'. Before these modes were only available with keyboard shortcuts.
- There was an overhaul of the tiles management in the rooms editor. I don't remember of everything (c.f http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Room_Editor), but i know that before it was difficult to understand how to add or modify tiles, and with the new version, it's much more easy.

I know that i am perhaps not objective with LateralGM, as i was involved in the project, but i think it's a really useful editor now. Everybody is talking about leaving it, and doing a new one, but as we said already, the main problem is with the plugin, not with the editor itself (Well, there is also the problem of the Java swing library which is old and outdated).

Edit:
There are three zoom buttons in the tiles and sprites editors. There is one to zoom in, another one to zoom out, but what about the first one ? It doesn't seem to do anything.

Anyway I am not changing any of that now, but that is what I would have done.

I understand, but in this case, i think we should not propose translated version by default, as currently it's a mess. Let's propose the English version by default, and if the user wants another version, it should change some option.
By the way, i just loaded a project with the latest version LateralGM, and i saw that this resets the left resources window and sets all labels in english (you know : 'Fonts', 'Objecs', 'Rooms', etc)

By the way, did you see that Google is planning to use OpenJDK for the next versions of Android ? :
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/android-n-switches-to-openjdk-google-tells-oracle-it-is-protected-by-the-gpl/

Well, it's no wonder Google is trying to get rid of Oracle, as Oracle is asking huge amount of money.

But for the future, they think about using Swift :
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/04/07/google-facebook-uber-swift

Yeah, i know how it feels ! I had similar problems :



But fortunately, i had a friend who could fix this problem :



If you need help, don't hesitate to tell me, and i will give you his address also ! 

Even worse, sometimes i had to go myself deep into the code (with no comments ! imagine the horrible place !  )



To find and destroy nasty bugs :



Who said that programmer's life is not dangerous !