It's a bit more more complex, but I once made a hexagon map by looping through the map like you would if you were inserting enemy/item sprites, but instead inserted hexagon-shaped FlxSprites. The trick is, every other row, you add an offset equal to half of the tile width.
I'm trying to build a game with embedded resources on Windows, but it keeps stalling out when building the resources.cpp file. Between map files, images, and sounds, there are a lot of files, but the same build is compiling just fine on my Mac. Admittedly, my Mac is a lot faster and not a laptop I bought for $200 last Black Friday, so that may have something to do with it...
But I digress. Is there some way I can get past this sticking point in the compilation?
Update: it's not freezing, just taking a while. Between prioritizing the cl.exe process and good ol' fashioned patience, I've been able to compile.
I'm in the midst of getting a HaxeFlixel game ready for Steam, and the most prominent way I've seen to handle this is SteamWrap. https://github.com/dukope/SteamWrap
Is this the right way to incorporate the API? I wasn't sure, since it was last updated about 4 years ago - I wanted to make sure there wasn't some other preferred way to do it before tangling myself up in that.
Thanks - looks like matrices are going to be the best shot I have at this. I used the version of it on the HaxeFlixel tutorial, and it's running pretty smoothly. To get better control of the palette, I changed the spritesheet palettes from shades of gray to #F00, #0F0, and #00F, so that I can change them to anything I want. The black/dark gray stays more or less the same, but I can invert the matrix to make it lighter if I want, so this will suffice for now.
I've done something like that by adding a single-color sprite and setting the blending mode to multiply, but ideally, I'd like to have a more robust palette than light red/red/dark red/black.
Suppose I have a game with a four color palette, and I want to be able to change what these four colors are without having to perform a replaceColor on every sprite on screen (which at this point in the project, takes about 15 seconds). Is there some kind of filter or shader I can implement on a camera-wide basis that'll change one of the colors into another color I can specify?
Fist's Elimination Tower is now on Steam Greenlight! Hopefully I can get in just before Greenlight goes down forever. Click here to vote for it!
I put together a trailer for Fist's Elimination Tower, and you can watch it here!
I felt that I had one more jam game left in me before I resumed development on Fist's Elimination Tower, so I made Beat Nebula, a game that's designed to be played with either the Donkey Konga bongo controller or the Taiko Drum Master controller (in fact, there are two playable characters, each of whom wields one such instrument). It's a pretty bare bones game, partially because it controls with only 2 buttons, and part because I only had a week to make it and I spent way too much time on the title/menu art. If you don't have the right drum controller and adapter, it can also be played via keyboard - it's not as fun that way.
I took part in GBJAM 5 last week, and my team made a spooky farming sim in HaxeFlixel called Reap What You Sow. You own a plot of farm land next to a graveyard, and you have to explore it to find new haunted crops to grow, and then cut them down (essentially, what it says on the tin). Since it's a jam game, it's a little buggy, but I might return to it later, after I finish Fist's Elimination Tower.
