Grimoire: Will it be released this year?

[SkeleTony]

Those portrait pictures in Grimoire are inexcusably BAD. That bitch needs to go back to art school or pick up some Burne Hogarth books or something.

 

[Norfleet]

Did anyone else get seized by an urge to type "LOAD "*",8,1" at that prompt?

 

[aboyd]

Some people are too optimistic.
Or naive.

Are you referring to the people who are posting about how sad they are that Grimoire missed it's release date again?

Or are you referring to the people who believe those posts are genuine?

 

[Atomic]

I am referring to those who believed that it was gonna be release today (or any other day in their lifetime).
And yes those people exist no matter how few they may be.

 

[neilsouth]

No, it's not done yet. Coming along nicely, though. I think Corwin's suggestion it be released on April 1st is still a good idea.

I've been working on it every single day for five months. It's come a long ways since I put the new scripting engine in for the NPCs and had the formidable task of redoing all NPC logic in the new script language.

Doing all the game logic for NPCs as scripts according to the original scenario has been a lot of work for one person. About 32 out of the 64 NPCs in the game have more than a thousand lines of scripting now. From complex quests to training they can give us, wishes they grant, context dependent behaviours, etc.

The scripting language has been working great with few qualifiers. It's better than my original byte-code engine, better than Simkin, best thing I have used to do the NPCs.

All the critical logic involved with NPCs is done and the critical bugs involving lost inventory have been fixed. I broke critical and non-critical items into two separate inventories to make sure there is a good separation between the two at all times. The only way a critical item can come out of NPC inventory is if script logic takes it out or it is stolen by one of the thieves in the party.

I have a lot of talk controlled by Charm or Beholden factors, conduct that relies on our amity shared with NPC, Mindread keywords that reveal other branches of discussion, things like that.

So completing it soon is not a hoax.

The original DOS beta has been widely distributed on the internet in the past few months and people seem to enjoy playing that, so I think they'll have a pleasant surprise when they see this current version. Much that was a problem in 1998 is fixed now. Obviously. Including huge things like ... all the artwork, for example. A pretty big "bug" to fix.

I've been rendering a few monsters myself with a cartoonish look to them to fill out a couple of creatures still lacking. They look okay despite being renders.

http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthre ... 413&page=2

Not done yet , April 1st LOL

 

[Hümmelgümpf]

I love Cleve's sense of humour.

 

[Kingston]

HAHAHA

 

[Higher Game]

I bet my whole stash of hardcore furry porn that Duke Nukem Forever comes out first!

 

[obediah]

I bet my whole stash of hardcore furry porn that Duke Nukem Forever comes out first!

I'd take you up on that bet, but I'm a bit uncomfortable about my great-grandchildren receiving a hard drive full of furry porn in 175 years.

 

[Andhaira]

Wow, my first thread! This brings back memories.

 

[catfood]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=36388

No, seriously.

 

[NotAnAlt]

Wow, my first thread! This brings back memories.

Damn you. I saw the link to beta and got all excited i'd finally found it.