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		<title>Tile engine is go!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homemade tile engine! Click to play. Move: Arrow keys, or WASD Shoot: Mouse button, or IJKL Make sure you grab a weapon in room #2, so you can shoot the orcs. Currently, there are 9 rooms for romping. Not one pixel of the art should be considered "final". Most sprites &#38; tiles have a ColorMatrixFilter [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Homemade tile engine!<a href="http://zacharcher.com/lab/20080711_roomhack/RoomHack.swf"><br />
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<p><a href="http://zacharcher.com/lab/20080711_roomhack/RoomHack.swf"><img src="http://zacharcher.com/lab/20080711_roomhack/roomhack_screenshot.png" alt="screenshot" width="324" height="324" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://zacharcher.com/lab/20080711_roomhack/RoomHack.swf">Click to play</a>.</p>
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<li>Move: Arrow keys, or WASD</li>
<li>Shoot: Mouse button, or IJKL</li>
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<p>Make sure you grab a weapon in room #2, so you can shoot the orcs. Currently, there are 9 rooms for romping.</p>
<p>Not one pixel of the art should be considered "final". Most sprites &amp; tiles have a ColorMatrixFilter that "skins" them with four particular colors (see <a href="http://blog.zacharcher.com/2007/10/13/understanding-colormatrixfilter/">my post detailing this technique</a>). In some respects, this is wonderful, as the colors can be randomized, and it's easy to change the palette of an entire room. Unfortunately, to maintain retro look &amp; feel, I chose the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_videogame_consoles_palettes#Atari_2600">Atari 2600 palette</a>. The dark colors are over-saturated, the pastels are unexciting, and the hue distribution is completely wrong (nearly half the colors could be considered "green"). This will be dealt with.</p>
<p>An <a href="http://blog.zacharcher.com/2008/05/24/flash-10-is-go/">earlier screenshot</a> shows some vector art. Unfortunately, the vectors currently require Flash 10. I've disabled this feature... <em>for now</em>.</p>
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