Dizzy - Escape From Castle Zaks [PROGRESS THREAD]

I've always wanted to make my own video game; it's been kind of a dream of mine.

I never expected that it would be Dizzy who would give me my start!

So, yes. I've begun work on my first DizzyAGE game, although, to be perfectly honest, it's my third attempt.

This is actually my first major attempt at programming, period! I must say that I'm pleased with how it is going. The first room has been completed, and I guess I must be feeling smug, because here it is for all of you to enjoy!

Please note that this is not a finished game in the least. It is a one-room demo of my progress so far. Call it a "Proof of Concept" demo, if you wish.

In this demo, your goal is to escape the prison cell. That is as far as I have gotten.

One thing I should tell (or perhaps warn) you all about is that the puzzles in this demo are perhaps unconventional for a Dizzy game. You might have to do some out-of-the-box thinking!

EDIT 09-01-2009: I have started my blog. In it, I will be discussing my progress creating this game.

EDIT 06-04-2010: Demo 2 has been released! Download it below!

EDIT 11-27-2015: Demo 3 released.

Download Links:

Demo 1

Demo 2

Demo 3

Enjoy!

very good! {yolkfolk}:clap: although i found it relatively easy, it's well put together, with a few nice coding tricks.

well done! {yolkfolk}:clap:

Good demo - I like it
Cant believe I actually died in a 1-room game - oh dear
took me a little while to figure out how to get the key too - but maybe thats old age creeping in for me.

Cant wait for more
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nice one - got a little poke from the troll before finding my way out - look forward to the full version {yolkfolk}:clap:

After, let's see...a REALLY LONG hiatus, I'm happy to say that I'm back to work on this game.

I've come a long way since I published that one-room demo. There are now a ton of rooms, and a lot to see and do in them. I will hopefully publish a new demo before long.

There's just one problem: There's a major bug right now where the game crashes with a gs_rand error after you lose and try to restart. It appeared fairly early on, and I can't figure out how to get rid of it. {yolkfolk}:scratch:

Besides that, things are going quite well.

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After, let’s see…a REALLY LONG hiatus, I’m happy to say that I’m back to work on this game.

I’ve come a long way since I published that one-room demo. There are now a ton of rooms, and a lot to see and do in them. I will hopefully publish a new demo before long.

There’s just one problem: There’s a major bug right now where the game crashes with a gs_rand error after you lose and try to restart. It appeared fairly early on, and I can’t figure out how to get rid of it. {yolkfolk}:scratch:

Besides that, things are going quite well.

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I think that error might be cause by waterplay/bubbles, if it's trying to divide by zero or something, it would usually cause problems when trying to restart so im guessing that could be the problem. you'll have to give us more info.

Just a thought (more of a guess because I've never used GS), could you be requesting a random number with a range of 0?

In C, and in programming generally, anything/0 (divided by 0) can't be computed and will usually cause a crash or exception. Similarly, anything%0 (the remainder of something divided by 0) will cause an exception, and possibly the same exception.

Also I know that a random number will usually first be generated as a 32-bit value ( in the range 0-4294967295 :surprise: ) and then dropped down to the range required using the % operator - so if you asked for a random number with zero range, it would probably crash - I've definitely had that problem in other programming environments :smile: