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The Magic Lampshade is a game that started as a school BPA competition. The four members of the team are all part of a Software Engineering Team. Our assignment is to create a game that has all of the following requirements:

Top-Down retro style RPG similar to Zelda or Final Fantasy.
Local Database support
User Login Authentication

The due date on the contest is December 31, 2011. It is not required that the game is fully functional at on the due date, however a working demo of The Magic Lampshade is to be released on that day.

At the time of this post the game has:

Working animations for characters in all directions and multiple TiledMap's.
Working code for moving from one map to another.
Basic level progression system to be extended.

At the time of this post I need:

An understanding of how to use TiledMap's Object Layer to block tiles from walking on.
An understanding of TWL.
And I have no idea what to do for a database/user login...

Anyone willing to look over my code and provide suggestions,
I understand most of what has been done is repetitive and can be optimized.
This is my first Slick game and your opinions will be considered.

I attached a link to the website for The Magic Lampshade here https://sites.google.com/site/playretrogames/
And a link to the code in a pastie: http://pastie.org/2970862

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well, first
It's your game an applet or a webstart? Something to play ? Can you give us a link? thanks!

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Anything TiledMap related, I can help you with with ease. I am pro in that area

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Liam (liamzebedee) Edwards-Playne
Cryptum

EDIT: Not a priority... but it will be webstart if you'd like to help me make one, as I lack a good host, pm me.

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Good luck. Don't be burned out if you don't make your release day. 23 days is not enough time imo.

Thanks I understand what you mean but I'm almost done coding a demo (after hard coding most of everything), what I really need is someone who can make/host a Webstart jnlp or applet.
EDIT: I can put out some screenshots if your interested.

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I could host if you want. Wouldn't be a bother, the URL would probably look like this - http://dev.cryptum.net/the-magic-lampsh ... start.jnlp

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Liam (liamzebedee) Edwards-Playne
Cryptum

That works.

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Just want to inform the people here that progress has gone slowly but progress is progress, and I'm well on the way to a beta release of the game and if anyone here wants to see screenshots, videos, or in the future a beta key, pm me, or comment this thread.

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Client will attempt to connect to server at host-localhost port- 9999.
Client recieved [Got it!] from the server
Client is exiting.
Wed Jan 18 00:53:49 EST 2012 INFO:Slick Build #274
Wed Jan 18 00:53:49 EST 2012 INFO:LWJGL Version: 2.7.1
Wed Jan 18 00:53:49 EST 2012 INFO:OriginalDisplayMode: 1366 x 768 x 32 @60Hz
Wed Jan 18 00:53:49 EST 2012 INFO:TargetDisplayMode: 800 x 600 x 0 @0Hz
Wed Jan 18 00:53:50 EST 2012 INFO:Starting display 800x600
Wed Jan 18 00:53:50 EST 2012 INFO:Use Java PNG Loader = true
Wed Jan 18 00:53:50 EST 2012 INFO:Controllers not available

"Whoever said progress was progress wasn't talking about me"

Just ran the first build of the server/client oriented version of the game. This will soon allow multiple users via a database. Stick around for details/ updates!

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