Cave Noire
# Posted on Feb. 14, 2012, 3:28 a.m. by Gideon Zhi
This was a small project that was supposed to take a week at most, and ended up taking more than a month! But it's done, thanks to EsperKnight and a host of folks each helping out with tiny bits of text. Cave Noire is loosely a roguelike; you have a limited inventory, a limited set of items, and enemies that hit very hard. It's almost more of a puzzle game, about learning to dodge enemies rather than grinding levels and plowing through them. It's completely translated, too; hope you enjoy it!
# Posted on Feb. 11, 2012, 2:35 a.m. by Gideon Zhi
To make a long story short, life has been busy. I've gone back to school with a full course load for a computer science degree, and I'm still working 36 hours per week, so my free time is at a premium lately and AGTP-related stuff has been moving more slowly than I think any of us would like (myself included!)
HOWEVER! That doesn't mean I'm giving up, oh no. There's a lot of stuff happening in the background, some of which will be announced shortly. In fact, I have a release coming, hopefully this weekend! It's something small I picked up about a month ago with the hope that it'd be a simple, easy, quick project. It turned out to be a massive headache and way more than I'd bargained for, but it's been playtested and I only have one more bit to hack before it's done, and with luck that'll happen today.
More news soon, all willing!
# Posted on Sept. 22, 2011, 8:55 a.m. by Gideon Zhi
In the unlikely event that anyone reading this attends UMass Amherst, the ACM is hosting a hackathon tomorrow from 6PM 'til redeye. I'll be there, working on... something. Not sure what yet. Here's the website: UMass ACM
In the meantime, here's what I've been working on lately.
Ladystalker - The Apocalypse Engine
# Posted on Aug. 14, 2011, 2:54 p.m. by Gideon Zhi
Just a quick update to the Lady Stalker project: I'd guesstimate that roughly 80% of the techincal stuff is done - that includes rewiring interfaces, adding asm hacks, inserting various kinds of text (though not formatting said text), and so on. There's still some menu work that needs to be done and some text that hasn't even gotten touched yet, but on the whole, it's getting pretty close to being done.
I've added 24 new screenshots to the project page and threw a video up on youtube of the opening cinematic, which is now in English. Enjoy! More should be coming soon.
Rejoice - Another Aretha Kingdom
# Posted on May 17, 2011, 10:58 a.m. by Gideon Zhi
Here at Aeon Genesis, we're big fans of action/rpgs, and Rejoice is an ideal specimen! Since last Friday I've gone through and completely hacked all of the non-dialog stuff in the game, thanks in no small part to the work of everyone on RHDN's language board. The entire script has been reinserted as well, though it *is* prone to crashing. I've tossed a whole bunch of new screenshots up onto the project's page, as well as a couple of videos showcasing the opening sequence and some gameplay. Check 'em out!
Ys V - Kefin, Lost City of Sand
# Posted on May 12, 2011, 12:06 p.m. by Gideon Zhi
You can guess which is which.
Adventures of Hourai High
# Posted on April 19, 2011, 10:50 a.m. by Gideon Zhi
Fifteen years ago today, Hourai Gakuen no Bouken was unleashed upon an unsuspecting Japanese public. It does not seem to have made much of a splash, which is unfortunate because it's quite a neat little game! But today we honor its 15th birthday with a complete English translation of the title. I hope you enjoy playing it! (I'm certainly going to enjoy washing my hands of it!)
Ladystalker - The Apocalypse Engine
# Posted on April 11, 2011, 5:52 p.m. by Gideon Zhi
More news soon.
# Posted on March 10, 2011, 10:16 p.m. by Gideon Zhi
Not much news, unfortunately. I'd hoped to get Hourai out this week, but I've been bogged down by exams and assignments for school, and as such I haven't had time to work on it at all. Sorry! But yeah, AGTP was founded on March 7 1999, which I think makes it twelve years old. So hurray!
In other news, I'm going to be at PAX East this weekend. If you're there, you might see me! I'll be posting some stuff to my twitter feed as it happens and I'm planning on attending the Alexander O. Smith localization panel (Friday night... tonight really, I suppose) so those are your best chances of finding me. I'm usually wearing a Kangol driving cap and carry around a ThinkGeek Bag of Holding messenger tote, though I may or may not have it on me. I'm happy to answer general questions, but if you ask me about a project that hasn't been in my news lately, you'll probably get a "I haven't looked at it in a while, sorry" response along with whatever other info you can already find here on the website. See you there!
Adventures of Hourai High
# Posted on Feb. 2, 2011, 11:24 a.m. by Gideon Zhi
Yeah, so I wanted this out on Christmas. It was supposed to be the big surprise, the awesome gift nobody was expecting. Grumble grumble. Turns out that even though the beta had started about a week before the big day, there were a *ton* of issues with the hacking that made the game explode in all sorts of creative ways. This is largely due to the way the game was put together in the first place (sloppily.)
But I think we're finally nearing the end! One of the testers finished up not too long ago, and I think we've finally resolved the last of the crashes and cosmetic bugs. I think. No guarantees, but I'm expecting to be able to release this fairly soon.
To showcase some of the rather extensive hacking that's gone into this, I've put together a little before-and-after article on the project. It will be forever immortalized in the game's Extras section, so please peruse it! There are about thirty new screenshots on the project page, too.
Also, here's a youtube video of the game in action.
Dezaemon SFC
| Platform | SNES |
| Genre | Shooter (Creation Kit) |
| Publisher | Athena |
| Published On | Sept. 20, 1994 |
| Initial Release | June 18, 2000 |
| Latest Release | June 18, 2000 |
| Current Version | 1.00 |
