Shandalar Clone

[Marek14]

Well, there are still a few unresolved issues. For example, Terravore might need a theme deck, but I'm not sure how it would look... lots of land destruction, and playing fetchlands?

Or Lord of Extinction -- will it be OK without a specialized theme, when it just lets the graveyard fill by itself?

Basically, the graveyard cards need more thinking, I think.

I will update the file as new releases come.

[Rob Cashwalker]

not EVERY card needs to be used.

[friarsol]

I agree that not every card needs a theme deck. We could just stick with a small amount for now, and bring it upwards as we fill out more decks. Something like Terravore thematically fits in a WG Knight of the Reliquary/Armageddon deck.

[Marek14]

Also, I was wondering about the morph cards. I included "morph" as a theme, since a deck can benefit from having many different morph cards in it -- it makes it harder for opponent to guess them. But maybe morph cards could be encountered in either face-up or face-down version, where face-down would have a five-color deck with morph theme, and face-up would have standard deck for that particular creature

[DennisBergkamp]

I've been experimenting with a bunch of things...
One thing I got working now is a day-night cycle, but I'm not sure if I'll end up using it (it increases load time by a factor of two since it has to load a second background which represents the "night" bg image). Perhaps I could somehow apply different color palettes to the same background image within java and accomplish the same thing with better performance.

Anyway, I'm pleased the way it looks, just not pleased with the extra load times.

[mtgrares]

The screenshots looks very good, almost like a commercial videogame.

[DennisBergkamp]

The background is nice I suppose, but I don't think it's anywhere near commercial video game quality. Maybe 20 years ago

Anyway, I've been looking around online to see if there's anyway to change the color palette to a GIF within Java (and I KNOW there has to be a way), but still haven't found a solution that makes sense. Does anyone else have experience with this?

[Rob Cashwalker]

In VB, I would change the drawing pen mode to mix colors. Then draw a filled box (across the whole dimension) in a blue color.

I would look for Java raster operations to apply filters or gamma correction... ImageMagick comes to mind, since I happen to be playing with it for a work project...

[DennisBergkamp]

Ahh, yeah I've been using imagemagick for concatenating the animation sprites for this thing.
I'll search for those terms, and see if I have more luck

[DennisBergkamp]

I have done the following steps:

1. extracted the color palette from photoshop (.act file).
2. opened the .act file in a hex editor, and exported these numbers into decimal values.
3. from these decimal values, I generated three big static arrays (R, G, B).
4. created an IndexColorModel using these arrays, and applied it to the original image.

And... well, the colors are all messed up now I guess for now, I'll just use the two separate images.

[Rob Cashwalker]

Point me the java docs for the graphics packages that you're using, and I'll see if I can come up with any better suggestions.

[DennisBergkamp]

Hmm, I don't think I'm using anything special (I'd have to double check though).

Just:

Image
BufferedImage
IndexColorModel

I read in the GIF file (and end up with an Image), then I apply the palette to the IndexColorModel, and from those two I generate the BufferedImage, which is drawn to the screen.

[DennisBergkamp]

I've been copying a bunch of stuff from the regular fantasy quest mode, but a lot of things will be different also:

Credits -> Gold (just a rename).
Winning cards after a match -> Winning a 15-card booster pack after a match (see screenshot).
Winning random rares after a match -> Finding random rares as treasure while exploring the map.

I'm also thinking of giving the shops a big overhaul, certain towns will only have certain shops, and the pet shops will be different (you'd only be able to buy the bird in a "white" town, only the wolf in a "green" town, etc. etc.... this also means you can buy pets out of the current order).

[Chris H.]

I've been copying a bunch of stuff from the regular fantasy quest mode, but a lot of things will be different also:

Credits -> Gold (just a rename).
Winning cards after a match -> Winning a 15-card booster pack after a match (see screenshot).
Winning random rares after a match -> Finding random rares as treasure while exploring the map.

I'm also thinking of giving the shops a big overhaul, certain towns will only have certain shops, and the pet shops will be different (you'd only be able to buy the bird in a "white" town, only the wolf in a "green" town, etc. etc.... this also means you can buy pets out of the current order).

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Are you planning to make this an addition to the fantasy quest mode? Or will this become a 3rd quest mode?

[Rob Cashwalker]

Cool!

If you want to continue the attempt to darken the existing map, check out this gamma correction code out:
http://www.acme.berkeley.ca.us/resource ... Gamma.java