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[Sim9]

8BitMMO is an 8bit-style 2D massively multiplayer game! Fight evil Lawyercats and engage in player vs player battle. Build a home or a castle in a persistent streaming world. Early in development, but fully playable.  Please enjoy and let me know your feedback

Update 12/28/12: All the latest & greatest updates are encapsulated in this blog post.  Check it out for a quick update

Update 1/3/12: The new user tutorial has been released!  It is my hope the new starting sequence is more fun and easier to understand.  Please give it a go, and let me know your thoughts.

I am also providing ten free codes - these will give you 250 gold in-game (equivalent to killing & looting 250 LawyerCats).  To redeem one of the codes, just type /redeem CODEHERE in the chat window.

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I had a couple requests in the SimWorld thread to talk about my most recent project, 8BitMMO.

8BitMMO is a topdown 2D MMO, where you fight other players and NPCs, and use the resulting loot to build in the environment.  It's VERY early yet, so please consider this an early, in-development build.  Right now there's only one weapon (stab things with your sword!), one NPC (slay lawyercats!), and a couple basic tilesets (build a fort!).

Also be aware it's not very stable yet, so if you manage to crash the server -- please let me know what you were doing right before it happened so I can fix. 

How to play:  No download, it plays in your browser.  Just launch 8bit.vg

Tips:

• WASD - movement
• enter - to chat
• I - Show inventory screen.  Click an item in your inventory to make it your active item
• spacebar - use active item (click sword and use spacebar to stab things)
• From the spawn point, read the signs to learn how to play
• Slay LawyerCats and collect the loot (This is a super-serious game. )
• Once you have enough loot, press H to open the shop.  Buy stuff to build with
• To build, use inventory to select an item to place in world, then press R to drop item -- click where it goes
• Advanced building tip: hold SHIFT to set Z height
• Advanced building tip: use the Z Axis Lock in the bottom right as another way of setting Z height

That's pretty much it for this build... hope you enjoy!  As in the SW thread, constructive feedback is welcome

[Rex_Nex]

Man, this is really awesome! Nice and simplistic, of course I can tell its a very early build, but overall I really like it. Really want to see you take this somewhere!

[Thendash]

I played around a bit on it and I really think that this game has a lot of potential. I'm just going to rehash what I already said on the server but, it definitely needs a lighting system or you very easily run into "Escher problems" with depth. Blocks going invisible when you're behind them would also be helpful and a line of sight of some sort so you can't see into houses when you stand under their balcony. >.> Anyways, I took some screens of the "most advanced building yet" that I made. Here they are:

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Ah look, a lovely house with a balcony, let's take a look inside...

The entrance, with a lovely regal blue carpet with real gold trim.

And the second floor that connect with the balcony.

As you can see, without shadows it's a bit difficult to tell if that balcony is above the ground or not.And without blocks turning invisible when you go behind them, it's a bit difficult getting in the door as breadbocks found.

EDIT: Oh, and you can use your inventory window "through" the store window.

[breadbocks]

It's actually pretty well made.

[TheBronzePickle]

I can't seem to make it work. Whenever I press the finish button for the registration page, it just shows the message "please wait" and stays that way.

[Gimhalos]

Hey, what api/wrapper did you use to make this?

[Aklyon]

Looks pretty neat.
Edit: I'm stuck on signup as well.

[raalph]

Stuck on signup too.

[Sim9]

Thanks for playing last night, it was really amazing to have a bunch of people on and see people enjoying it!

Rex_Nex & breadbocks - thanks!

Thendash - thanks for posting screens and making an awesome building!  I agree it's challenging to differentiate the z-levels right now, and I think lighting will make a big improvement there.

Gimhalos - I made it using c++, java, mysql, and protobuf

TheBronzePickle, Aklyon, raalph - the server was down, I've now rebooted it after (hopefully) fixing the issue which made it crash.  I also made it so people can't steal the npc spawners

[Cyahnidde]

Pretty cool little game you got so far. I'll be PMing you sometime soon with art samples, Sim9.
Good luck on the project.

Edit:
It's down again. 

[Aklyon]

Pretty cool little game you got so far. I'll be PMing you sometime soon with art samples, Sim9.
Good luck on the project.

I'd expected Deon to say this first, but hey, more art is more art.

[Megaman]

Most likely I had accidentally stolen the world when I stole the grass.

[Aklyon]

Oh yeah. If you wander north-ish enough, you end up in this huge white area surrounded by grass.

[Megaman]

Hell it's everywhere if you go far in one direction. Apparently someone beat me to the grass there.

[Sim9]

Thanks guys!  Looks like there is one more crash I need to fix in networking.  I'm going to take a look at it and will post back here when it's fixed and back up (probably will take more than just tonight)