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Sunday, January 3rd 2010, 11:59am

Geex - Game Edition and Engine for Xbox

Hello
I've been developping a 2D engine and Editor with XNA for a year now, this project is called Geex (Game Engine and Editor for Xbox)
Interesting enough for this forum, we have developped a module to import and play games from RMXP. Basically we transform RMXP Data and tileset/autotile into our format, and then the game is readable with the engine.
Of course as it's done with XNA, the transformation goes with a lot more option:

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Change the resolution
Increase the number of layer (to be mapped with the Geex Editor)
Increase the number of autotiles (to be used with the Geex Editor)
Use of the pad
More save files
Video importation
Better zoom (including map zooming)
Better scrolling (very smooth)

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And with some constraints as well

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Image size must be a multiple of 2
Image background must be transparent
Audio must be mp3, wma or wav (no ogg)
Video must be Windows Media Video, Series 9(max 1280x720)
And the biggest : we can afford custom scripts, however see below as we are going to share our code

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We are currently testing the Engine with th RM module, here are some screens (from my project):

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So why do we share this:
First because we are going to share that code with the community (as soon as all tests are done)
Secondly because we believe we can (even if its not our main objective) import your RMXP game to Xbox
And thirdly because we plan to release an editor for this engine (so far you can only map a fourth layer)

Any questions dont hesitate
We'll keep you posted

Roys and Gaetz

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Monday, January 4th 2010, 2:40am

Nice, reminds me of the Action Game Maker.
But if you can't use your custom scripts of RMXP the converting feature won't be used often I guess.

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Monday, January 4th 2010, 12:10pm

Yep
Remember that our main goal is not to build a RMXP conversion tool on Xbox, but more to develop an engine and editoor for our games. So we didn't planned on converting custom RM script to xbox. Also because I see very little "finished" project with massive inclusion of custom scripts
That being said, we'll be integrating EL commands to compensate but MORE THAN THAT we will share the code. Which means we'll have another community with c# scripters who'll be able to translate or (even more) develop new powerful routines
I suppose this is far more interesting than ruby and rgss.dll as XNA and c# .NEt is far more powerful...Thus we are pushing the limits

Also the RMXP module we made is very easy to use in order to translate from Ruby/RGSS, basically you can use the same module/class in a c# syntax, look
Ruby version

Source code

  def update_jump
	# Reduce jump count by 1
	@jump_count -= 1
	# Calculate new coordinates
	@real_x = (@real_x * @jump_count + @x * 128) / (@jump_count + 1)
	@real_y = (@real_y * @jump_count + @y * 128) / (@jump_count + 1)
  end

C# Version

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    	public void update_jump()
    	{
        	// Reduce jump count by 1
        	jump_count -= 1;
        	// Calculate new coordinates
        	real_x = (real_x * jump_count + x * 128) / (jump_count + 1);
        	real_y = (real_y * jump_count + y * 128) / (jump_count + 1);
    	}

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Monday, January 11th 2010, 4:13pm

Hello
We keep going with tests
Here are some screens
The first is a screenshot of the RMXP like Menu. Here we have a 1216*672 resolution. Positions and dimensions could easily be changed by the Maker (without recoding)

Here is an example of our zoom engine. You can zoom in and out in game.
Before

After

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Monday, January 18th 2010, 12:08pm

Hello

here comes a test screen from Geex, just to check fogs and Dialogues
I added text shadow by default in the Message window

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Monday, January 18th 2010, 3:48pm

Menu:
You need to improve the text position so (for example) "0 Ecu" is centered.

Zoom:
The Sprite which do not have 32x32 pixels full opacity (stones/mushrooms/the player) to get a border after zooming. This really should be changed.

New Screen:
Oh my god, JPG >.<
With this quality settings you can't really see anything. But, okay, I can see the fog and the message window and I think they are okay^^

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Monday, January 18th 2010, 5:47pm

Thanks
this should be no problem from centering, although the RMXP editor box is limited, which means my message window is too big for the editor -> I guess the best is to keep the RMXP size

I didn t quite understand your zoom point ?

And sorry about the jpeg but png file was too big (>1mo)

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Monday, January 18th 2010, 6:11pm

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I didn t quite understand your zoom point ?

How it looks like:

How it should look like:

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And sorry about the jpeg but png file was too big (>1mo)

You could even have used a better quality for you jpg ;)

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Wednesday, February 3rd 2010, 6:10pm

Hi

We are still moving on. Here is a little screen with a small weather effect
So far we stay above the 40frames per second rate with big maps (160*120), big tileset (>8192height), more than 300events and a 1216*672 résolution
Still I have a little cache memory issue on my small config PC, and I'd like to improve that. Well I runs ok at the moment but I can make some performance improvements still
We should be able to release for the 1st of April normally

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Thursday, February 4th 2010, 1:33pm

Hej,
very interesting project. I hope you/your finished it. Their is a great opportunity to play the games on the xbox

Exist at the moment a official English (or if not, french) page, where i can download/test your engine or find more information?

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We should be able to release for the 1st of April normally

Is that a joke? Because in Germany is the 1. April a day for jokes and fun, called "Aprilscherz" / "April joke" or is this day seriously?

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Sunday, February 7th 2010, 9:06am

@ Roys: You know (or, well, maybe you don't :) the standard frame rate of games is 59, 60 or 70 but for the 360 30 FPS is used usually.
So I think you should test it with an adjusted frame rate.

@ Krümelmonster: Nennt sich April Fool's Day ;)

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Monday, February 8th 2010, 9:35am

Yep I was expecting this question

it's not a April fool's day

About the framerate, well RMXP runs at 40 and VX at 60, XNA runs at 60...with no code/event addition...My engine runs above 40 with 160*120map, huge chipset, plane, sound, stick, high resolution etc and a low config PC. So the frame rate is not a worry at the moment

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Thursday, March 11th 2010, 4:36pm

Hello

I spent some time learning HLSL and XNA pixel shaders and here we go
here is an example where I use 2 shaders
1- To apply an RGB + saturation effect on sprite and tilemap. Meaning that I tone each picture using R G B component and a saturation component
Herre saturation is 100% so the screen is black and white

2- To create transition effect, here a spiral. That's why you can see those black borders

These options are fully compatible with RMXP events commands

See you soon
Geex Powa

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