We've had many concepts for tweaking existing features and new ideas that didn't make the cut. Here's a few shots of several them. Tooltips As you can see, not having the bubble Windows 95 style tooltips was a mistake. A big one. They looked…
Proper screen scaling was added to Lode Runner several months ago but I thought I'd do a quick write up for those that like to know more of the behind the scenes workings. No scaling As you can see in the image above, the game window was previously…
Not a great deal is left to go on the project. This week I've been slowly going through my TODO list and also playing the game. This might come as a surprise to some but I don't actually play Lode Runner all that much. The December…
Like the last couple of weeks, most of my time was spent playing LAN games over the Internet with my brother. The rest was spent taking care of some bugs. The next monthly update - December's - will be uploaded on December 1st (Australian time). Usually monthly updates…
Most of this week was spent playing Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks' Revenge rewrite over the Internet. This has been a massive help in improving LAN/web games. All bug fixes this week were identified while playing these games. A name in parenthesis and in bold is the…
Special thanks to Greyfax for help with monk AI - the monks no longer jam/vibrate on spot when looking for a runner to chase. Work on LAN gaming is coming along nicely. The ability to play LAN games has been in the builds for a couple of months now…
Monks deciding which runner to eat is not working very well. Again. I've decided to abandon my attempts at replicating the Original for the time being and focus instead on getting a nice balance: working VS Original. A name in parenthesis and in bold is the finder of…
With the stack of items on my TODO list dropping each week I've finally gotten around to adding 1983/classic mode to the game. What are these rules? Both Lode Runner: The Legend Returns and Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks' Revenge had a few differences in…