revolutionsoftware / ndsrpg

An open-source RPG written in C/ARM assembly for the Nintendo DS

NDSRPG

An free/open-source RPG written in C/ARM assembly for the Nintendo DS

To clone the entire project you need to use git clone --recursive https://github.com/RevolutionSoftware/NDSRPG.git.

Coding-style:

C Standard: C11

C++ Standard: C++11

Tabs: 4-wide

Indentation: Tabs

Aligning: Tabs

Code should have a prefix-comment

e.g:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

// function `fun` does _this_ and ~that~ ...
int32_t fun(uint32_t limit)
{
	for(int32_t i = 0; i < limit; ++i) {
		if (i % 2 == 0) {
			printf("%d is even\n", i);
		} else {
			printf("%d is odd\n", i);
		}
	}
	return 0;
}

ndsrpg's Issues

Regarding declared and defined variables inside if-statements and a while loop.

Test if having them declared outside the while-loop makes the "saves the value inside" out of scope or not.
E.g, does it have to be declared and defined this way or not?

Typewriter effect

Option for text to come up at a fast or slow pace depending on user settings.

Message/Event handling system

We will need a way to handle events like dialog advancing or for example if something triggers an event occurs.

I think we could use function pointers to implement this.. But I'm somewhat worried that it might be more work for the Nintendo DS (run-time stuff vs compile-time stuff) than if we were to do it a bit more complicated way (as if function pointers aren't complicated enough).
I guess we can't escape the fact that we need run-time checks though..

Sprite doesn't work with current code

As the title suggest, I've messed something up badly, I switched out the example sprite and boom, no more working sprite.

Use Tkinter to edit individual tile data for map editor

Rather than try to create dialog boxes and stuff using Pygame, use Tkinter to more easiliy edit tile data.

Data types used u16 vs u32

https://github.com/RevolutionSoftware/NDSRPG/blob/master/source/main.c#L17 should be using a uint32_t if I understand the guidelines correctly about performance..
We can look in to this later I suppose.

Animation looks...

Not good, we need to fix it to not look weird. It's like it's dragging it's feet along or something.

TODO loading/scrolling a tilemap

Chickendude

Moving a player/object on screen

add

Create delay routine to wait for vblank or hblank

Just a simple routine to call whenever we need a short delay (like in the typewriter effect or for debugging).