Homebrew [WIP] LOVE - A Visual Homebrew for Fallen Humans

[CeeDee]

[V0.09] is out!

Try this QR code with FBI and tell me if it works :'v

Changelog:
-Multi room support
-added broken hallway (total of two whole rooms! wow!)
-redid object coordinates for collision
-fixed collision stuff
-room fade transition
-fixed diagonal movement
-probaby some bugs fixed hopefully
-tiny easter-egg

(tl;dr you still do pretty much nothing<3)

Nice!

The QR code worked fine using FBI.
Game didn't though -

Oops, a Lua error has occured
Press Start to quit

./start.lua:10: attempt to index field 'noise' (a nil value)

 

[XavyrrVaati]

Nice!

The QR code worked fine using FBI.
Game didn't though -

Oops, a Lua error has occured
Press Start to quit

./start.lua:10: attempt to index field 'noise' (a nil value)

You need to dump your DSP firmware for homebrew cia audio support. Run this from HBL and then it should work. https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-dsp-dump.423860 or https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-dsp-firmware-dumper.402108/

 

[CeeDee]

Noting a bit more, now comparing it to the official UNDERTALE game...

- Nice touch screen easter egg!
- Physics are still off, though I do get this will take time. Try a speed of 1.25x to 2x the current speed, experiment a bit. If physics are too odd, battles (if they're ever implemented) would be a bit different.
- That might be why the walking down/up look so odd to me...
- Collision is a bit off between LOVE and UNDERTALE. Try hitting the right wall of your bedroom on both.
- I can walk right past warp points/bariors (under the cutoff rug, to the left or right of the door)
- No way to turn the lamp off, literally 0/10 worst port even though this isn't even really a port
- No way to return to menu.
- No text SFX music on the intro. (I forgot which it was, I'm an idiot.)
- Pressing A to pause/unpause takes a bit too long.

Now, I'm not trying to be demanding or anything, just trying to think of ways for you to improve the homebrew!

 

[XavyrrVaati]

- Nice touch screen easter egg!

iT'S KILL OR BE KILLED

- Physics are still off, though I do get this will take time. Try a speed of 1.25x to 2x the current speed, experiment a bit. If physics are too odd, battles (if they're ever implemented) would be a bit different.

Good news is that it's just changing numbers, tbh I'm just trying to add content and avoid adding bugs lol, but I'll try to make it more accurate.

- Collision is a bit off between LOVE and UNDERTALE. Try hitting the right wall of your bedroom on both.

Something something I was lazy<3 Please note though that I don't intend on making wall collision coords being 100% faithful. Unless I run out of things to do lol.

- I can walk right past warp points/bariors (under the cutoff rug, to the left or right of the door)

STOP CHEATING LOL. I'll fix that next build lol. It's an easy fix.
Visualization of collision set up:

Spoiler

I'll just have to make the bottom ones overlap like the blue ones in the upper-right.

- No way to turn the lamp off, literally 0/10 worst port even though this isn't even really a port

Will be added in the next release. It's the 'interaction update'. Probably.

- No way to return to menu.

Two words: Interaction. Update. Needs moar menus.

- No text SFX music on the intro. (I forgot which it was, I'm an idiot.)

This is currently a restriction of LovePotion. @TurtleP is working on implementing audio streaming, so for now I can only have a few sfx and like one bgm :'v

- Pressing A to pause/unpause takes a bit too long.!

I noticed awhile ago, it's super annoying. I'll look into it to see if it's a LP bug or my bad programming lolololol.

P.S. Don't break up quotes, it takes forever lol.

 

[XavyrrVaati]

FINALLY. V0.10.
As usual, this isn't done, but I added several small things. Feel free to try it out and see how little there still is to do in it. ;u;
Changelog:

After a long break, I've done quite a bit of stuff today:
-fixed main font, no longer blurred.
-broke the intro font, will be fixed when LP font bug is fixed.
-adjusted movement speed to better replicate Undertale.
-fixed collision in several spots.
-started implementing the pause menu (press start, just visual; can't interact yet)
-started base for interaction code, pretty close to being done.
-modified a lot of internal workings.
-redid direction code to be accurate when compared to most 2D games.
-added functions for telling if a key was pressed or is being held, enabled the above.
-some other stuff probably.

CIA QR Code:

Happy late birthday Undertale

 

[CeeDee]

Nice!

Gonna list some bugs, nitpicks, oddities, and comments I have.
- Toriel's "z" on her menu sprite is still a bit odd looking.
- "undergound" typo
- The intro font is spaced less than in UNDERTALE.
- There are still minor inconsistencies with walking graphics. Holding up and left/right on a wall in UNDERTALE makes left/right graphics appear, while in LOVE it keeps the up graphics. Same goes for walking on a right wall, holding right and pressing up or down changes graphics to up or down in UNDERTALE, but not in LOVE.
- in the Pause menu, it shows

Spoiler: Spoilers

Frisk as the player's name. Which would be reasonable if this were a hard mode run. And I'd say it is, you've been locked into Toriel's house with no access to anything past the hallway.

 

[XavyrrVaati]

Nice!

Gonna list some bugs, nitpicks, oddities, and comments I have.
- Toriel's "z" on her menu sprite is still a bit odd looking.
sorry ;;
- "undergound" typo
fuuuuu-
- The intro font is spaced less than in UNDERTALE.
see the changelog: intro font was replaced with the more widely used in game (and not mono spaced) font 8bitoperatorJVE, LP can only handle 2 fonts right now afaik, though @TurtleP seems to have worked around it.
- There are still minor inconsistencies with walking graphics. Holding up and left/right on a wall in UNDERTALE makes left/right graphics appear, while in LOVE it keeps the up graphics. Same goes for walking on a right wall, holding right and pressing up or down changes graphics to up or down in UNDERTALE, but not in LOVE.
LOVE respects whichever key you pressed first as your primary direction, until it's released. I won't fix that, it works as intended : P
It's more betterer.
- in the Pause menu, it shows

Spoiler: Spoilers

Frisk as the player's name. Which would be reasonable if this were a hard mode run. And I'd say it is, you've been locked into Toriel's house with no access to anything past the hallway.

Placeholder, unless I decide to force it. Probably gonna add a text input for it if/when saving becomes a thing. Thanks for the feedback, I was waiting for someone to actually reply to the update ;-;

 

[CeeDee]

LOVE respects whichever key you pressed first as your primary direction, until it's released. I won't fix that, it works as intended : P
It's more betterer.

But... consistency!

 

[XavyrrVaati]

But... consistency!

But Better. Besides, that's how it SHOULD work Andittookmeserveralhourstocodeitsoimnotfixingorbreakingitlmao

 

[CeeDee]

But Better. Besides, that's how it SHOULD work Andittookmeserveralhourstocodeitsoimnotfixingorbreakingitlmao

Eh, no complaints. It plays like it should either way despite graphic inconsistencies. And it's really well made!

 

[XavyrrVaati]

Eh, no complaints. It plays like it should either way despite graphic inconsistencies. And it's really well made!

Thanks! You should see the clusterfunk that is the source code. :'D

 

[CeeDee]

Thanks! You should see the clusterfunk that is the source code. :'D

Hah, I tried making a LOVE program once to display an image to both screen. I got it to display an image to the bottom screen.
It doesn't help that I have no idea how to do anything...

 

[XavyrrVaati]

Hah, I tried making a LOVE program once to display an image to both screen. I got it to display an image to the bottom screen.
It doesn't help that I have no idea how to do anything...

All you have to do is tell it to draw to the top screen and then to draw to the bottom

function love.draw()
 love.graphics.setColor(255, 255, 255, 255)
 love.graphics.setScreen('top')
 love.graphics.draw(img, x, y)
 love.graphics.setScreen('bottom')
 love.graphics.draw(img, x, y)
end

Really though feel free to ask for help in the LovePotion thread, even if development is almost dead, I'm sure people will help. Myself included.

 

[CeeDee]

Cool! Thanks!

 

[Deleted-379826]

Wow this is pretty cool, what I love about it is that it is so smooth, also am I doing something wrong or are you supposed to only be able to see the bedroom and part of the hall?

 

[Omegadrien]

Wow this is pretty cool, what I love about it is that it is so smooth, also am I doing something wrong or are you supposed to only be able to see the bedroom and part of the hall?

XD For now, we can only see the bedroom and the lobby...

 

[XavyrrVaati]

Wow this is pretty cool, what I love about it is that it is so smooth, also am I doing something wrong or are you supposed to only be able to see the bedroom and part of the hall?

Yes the only two rooms right now are the bedroom and part of the hallway. I'm focusing on interaction coding right now (right now I'm at work haha), so when that's done I'll start adding more areas. But thanks! It currently runs over 60fps, unlike Undertale which runs capped at 30. I hope it stays pretty high but we'll see.

 

[XavyrrVaati]

Damn double post gg

 

[Deleted-379826]

Yes the only two rooms right now are the bedroom and part of the hallway. I'm focusing on interaction coding right now (right now I'm at work haha), so when that's done I'll start adding more areas. But thanks! It currently runs over 60fps, unlike Undertale which runs capped at 30. I hope it stays pretty high but we'll see.

Yep! Outstanding work . Looking forward for more to come!

 

[XavyrrVaati]

I doubt someone will try to download this in the next 24 hours, but just in case...

All download links will be down until tomorrow night. I moved the old repo, and made a new one that isn't a fork of LovePotion with LOVE files. Instead I have only LOVE files on it now.
I also added a proper license and such and credit for content. Check it out here if you want: https://github.com/Xavyrr/LOVE

You can still access the old repo here: https://github.com/Xavyrr/LOVE-OLD-
However the old download links do not work.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

 

[Ichiriki]

I don't understand how to install the LOVE :\

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I don't understand how to install the LOVE :\

i mean, the qr code doesnt work