I've taken two movies of a game being made with the Coldstone game engine. While these movies don't show off the Coldstone game editor itself, they do certainly show the kind of game that can be created with Coldstone.

Keep in mind that the graphics in these example movies are not final; even so, I think they are looking pretty nice, and give you a good idea of what Coldstone can do, and the kinds of games you can expect.

You can check out these movies on the (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/upcoming/coldstone_betashots.html")Coldstone Betashots(/url) web page, or alternately, for the lazy, I've put the direct links here: (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/upcoming/images/cs_caves1.mov")movie1 (caves, 1.1mb)(/url) -- (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/upcoming/images/cs_town1.mov")movie2 (town, 1.7mb)(/url)

Enjoy!

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Originally posted by andrew:
**I've taken two movies of a game being made with the Coldstone game engine. While these movies don't show off the Coldstone game editor itself, they do certainly show the kind of game that can be created with Coldstone.
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Wow... that IS pretty good. Geeze, you guys have come a VERY long way since the ColdStone BETA. Of course, now I won't be able to sit still for the next few months until ColdStone is released...

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Looking good.

I'm impressed by the windmill animation - it hides and shows your character. The tiles don't seem to restrict graphics height, which is very good. Walking animations are pretty smooth, and overall graphics quality is excellent.

The main problem I saw was with the dirt tile in the caves - you can see how it repeats. It would be nice if you could make an area have random generation between a few tiles, to prevent this visual redundancy. Otherwise, it looks great.

Good luck!

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Looking good. Tell everybody to keep up the good work.

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Originally posted by Talos:
**The main problem I saw was with the dirt tile in the caves - you can see how it repeats. It would be nice if you could make an area have random generation between a few tiles, to prevent this visual redundancy. Otherwise, it looks great.

Good luck!

**

Yep, those cave dirt tiles aren't final, no worries.

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Nice...

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Wow, those are really nice. The more I see, the more I think Coldstone will be able to do what I want....I am very impressed. Oh, am I supposed to be getting good sound? For some reason, I get this really annoying buzzing sound.... I get annoying buzzing sounds when games start on GR....anybody know what this is?

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**I get annoying buzzing sounds when games start on GR....anybody know what this is?
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QT5 does that. didnt know you were on GR. cya there sometime mb... what games do you play?

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Talos, I agree. Those dirt tiles are very repetitive. So are the grass tiles in the town.

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Trips over frozen FOX-CICLE as he enter the room...

Coming along very nicely since b8.5, after looking at it you wouldn't stand to hear that it has any bugs left in it.

But I guess it does ,shrug...

(starts to walk out the room,trips over sub zero sand hound)

" Damn it :mad: , who left this thing in the middle of the floor, :redface: oh... that was me, he he hee heh heh hee. "

OK DEE!!! This is something I noticed in the movies and in the old BETA - When you move diagonally, you move MUCH faster than if you move left-right, or up-down.

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chill, while we appreciate your enthusiasm, please, try to keep your posts a bit more... moderate.

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Trips over frozen FOX-CICLE as he enter the room...

Coming along very nicely since b8.5, after looking at it you wouldn't stand to hear that it has
any bugs left in it.

But I guess it does ,shrug...

(starts to walk out the room,trips over "sub zero sand hound")

"Hey, who left this thing in the middle of the floor, oh... that was me, he he hee
heh heh hee. "

Grrr, take the Fox out of it and Ill be okay. Now I would really love to be a moderator so I could delete all the spam laid down by thechill and all the other aliases used by him. This latest one is an abomination. How dare he use Fox in a derogitory manner.

DF casts a fire spell which burns theChill to death, putting an end to all his inane spamming

BTW, good work so far on ColdStone. We all eagerly anticipate the arrival of the full version.

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"The Chill" is making me consider having this web board be postable only by registered users, or banning his IPs from this web board. I appreciate his enthusiasm, but spamming is not welcome.

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Great movies! those movies are pretty cool! just think about what i could do with this editor!

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Originally posted by andrew:
**"The Chill" is making me consider having this web board be postable only by registered users, or banning his IPs from this web board. I appreciate his enthusiasm, but spamming is not welcome.

**

That's not a bad idea....it is really easy to get an account, and you would have more control.

GlueBubble had ops on #ev3!!!!

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I just hope ColdStone still lets us do low tech 2d games

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