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Re: Merry Christmas, happy new year and so on

Steven Coombs — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:00:11 -0000

Liked the redboxdesign site - great layout and style; it's always so strange to see a Wordpress site without a blog present (but I'm assuming that will be the trend from now on).
Did get a weird oddity - there was an error message about the twitteroauth.php not being within the allowed directories for the site (it was at the bottom in grey text) - but only the first time I went to the home page.

Re: Multiplayer!

Andyatyeo — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:52:54 -0000

Yeah you go - Sep.
I was starting to think you were having too much fun in the "real" world to put together a web based multiplayer Chaos game for our delictation.
by the way it is a good project you got going here - if for some reason you never got round to it, I would be forced to stop lazing around on the weekend and do it myself because Chaos DESERVES to be online.
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Re: Merry Christmas, happy new year and so on

SEPTiMUS — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:57:00 -0000

Indeed it's not!

Re: Merry Christmas, happy new year and so on

andyh — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:40:09 -0000

Hooray! It's not dead!

Re: Raise dead

Biggz — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:19:38 -0000

I still follow! Does this mean i should check Twitter for your updates more often? :P I think I did the other night and there were no updates for months!

Re: Chaos Enhanced

MacDeath — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:51:59 -0000

That's really good, love it. I was toying with a remake of Chaos now I've finished Dungeonquest. I made a board game of Chaos using Heroscape hex pieces, DM miniatures and home made spell cards borrowed from the original concept and from MTG, works really well. Keep up the good work.

Re: Chaos Enhanced Enhanced

LunaVorax — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:09:17 -0000

This Chaos remake is some heavy shit ! It's truly fantastic.
It really lacks online playing to play with friends and stuff, unfortunately.

Re: Chaos Enhanced Enhanced

davek — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:05:35 -0000

Hi, I've just stumbled across your site while looking up stuff about Julian Gollop. As an old school speccy fan of Chaos and lords of chaos, I have to say that your little project here is great. Well done, the old sound effects just brought it flooding back :)

Re: Progress

Andy — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:32:07 -0000

Great news, I'd be certainly interested in playing around with the code if you open up the svn.

Re: For people with Javascript-shaped eyeballs

Andy — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:24:31 -0000

A few years ago a wrote a small script to dump all the gfx, stats, and other information from a Chaos spectrum snapshot (uncompressed .sna file). You may find it useful.

http://docs.google.com/View?id...

Source here:

http://pastie.textmate.org/pri...

Re: For people with Javascript-shaped eyeballs

SEPTiMUS — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:47:56 -0000

Cheers Andy, I lost the source where I got the original stats from (one of those many cases of really useful pages disappearing from the net and being replaced with a crappy portal/search site)

Re: For people with Javascript-shaped eyeballs

Andy — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:48:45 -0000

Some quick observations:

* Ghost and Spectre - I may be wrong here, but I don't think these units block LoS.
* For completion you may want to include the (unused) Troll definition used in the original game: magic resistance: 4, balance: -1, ranged combat: 0, defence: 8, movement: 1, manoeuvre: 1, flying: false, mount: false, cast_range: 1, range: 0, combat: 4, cast chance: 6 (0.7 using your definition).

Re: Belated excuses

SEPTiMUS — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:16:40 -0000

I can see why so many people have given up with Chaos remakes, especially when trying to implement multiplayer - it's deceptively complex. All of this planning and theorising really does help though. Thanks and merry Christmas Andy!

Re: Belated excuses

Andy — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:33:29 -0000

Yeah, there's a bit of scope for cheating from dishonest clients if they know the entire state of the board, i.e. which creatures are illusions.

Re: Belated excuses

SEPTiMUS — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:40:54 -0000

The way I see it working is that a user makes their move - their client 'predicts' the outcome of the move from its version of the board (which will in 99.99999999999% of cases be the correct version, unless there's a bug or the user's cheating) and shows the move. In the background, the client sends the server its move (if it's a land move then it sends an array of tiles it passes) and the server verifies the move. If all's ok, the server responds with the end location of the move and all's well with the world. If it's not ok, the move is retracted and the client should then respond by asking for a full refresh of the board from the server (this is open to optimisation)

I've also compressed each unit on the board into just a few bytes and combined it with gzip, so the JSON that's going back and forth will be very compact. Even on a large board, with 8 players and several gooey blobs and magic fires doing their start-of-turn spread phase, there shouldn't be a lot of data being thrown around.

I may play with other ideas too - such as doing a user's entire move client-side (using a common seed and index for any rolls) and then submitting it all in one go at the end of the turn. It's a tad less secure, as an unscrupulous player knowing the seed and index can potentially predict future outcomes of rolls, but it's a possibility to be explored.

Re: Belated excuses

Andy — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:29:13 -0000

Sounds good, I'd be interested to discover how much game logic would be handed over to the client, for example making a HTTP request every time a creature/wizard moves may suffer from latency problems, so presumably the movement/engaged/manoeuvre rules would be handled by the client and updated server side after a certain amount of moves are chunked and/or completed?

Re: Chaos Enhanced

Spin O'Chicken — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:23:57 -0000

Oh, the links being in white is related to the centre slider at the top, apparently. I can fix that part. Can't seem to fix the grey on grey on the comment form though.

n00b alert :/

Re: Chaos Enhanced

Spin O'Chicken — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:22:40 -0000

The CSS on these pages makes my eyes ejaculate pain and suffering. You can't read links, they're in white on off-white. You can't read the labels for fields for the comment form, it's in grey on grey. Either this is a hideous mistake, a bug, or you're the worlds most evil web designer who plans to take over the world by turning people's brains into slop...

Re: Chaos Enhanced

SEPTiMUS — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:55:52 -0000

Thanks! Work continues at a slow pace - it's hard to say when the first version will be released but when it is, it'll be well announced!

Re: Chaos Enhanced

aza — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:35:34 -0000

This looks very nice indeed! Im looking foward to the full verison...hows the progress going mate???

Re: Chaos Enhanced

SEPTiMUS — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:50:44 -0000

I've added the screenshot myself (as you no doubt have seen!) but feel free in the future to use any screenshots, text or whatever that I post on here.

Re: Chaos Enhanced

Duncan Timiney — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:18:45 -0000

Septimus, can I use the above screenshot for the Wikia?

Re: Chaos Enhanced

Duncan Timiney — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:54:55 -0000

Hi Septimus, I have added this to the list of Chaos remakes at

http://chaosremakes.wikia.com/...

Glee!

Re: The Krypton Refactor

Gaz — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:41:56 -0000

Sounds good...

Re: Chaos Enhanced

SEPTiMUS — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:42:52 -0000

Yes this is still an active project, and the initial platform will indeed be Flash, though the plan is to develop a server that can drive client versions for many platforms. This will come after the initial release, however the client's internal workings will for the moment emulate a server (in much the same way many fps games work, where the client connects to the server internally to play single-player)

By all means get in touch! My email address is 'septimus' at this domain (I'd be more explicit than that but I'm wary of spam at the moment until I put an obfuscator into Wordpress!)