So remember a few years ago when I mentioned I wanted to build a new and improved game engine that holds compatibility with existing RMXP projects, using XNA and IronRuby? I dubbed it the "Zer0 Division Engine", and it was the inspiration that started ARC?
In case you forgot.Well, while working on
Rpg.NET, I was still getting that feeling that all the shortfalls of RMXP were holding me back, so during the past few days, I have had some free time, and I decided to take a quick try at seeing what it would take to create my original idea, before it became ARC and changed to something completely different.
I just wanted to let you all know I have it running. There is still loads of things to do, but I have successfully re-created RGSS, and have a game running smoothly on the screen, with rewritten Graphics, Audio, and Input. The tilemap rewrite is superb, can can run any resolution smoothly, without any of the priority issues I ran into in my Ruby rewrite, and the Ruby interpreter puts RMXP's to shame.
I still have lots to do before I start posting anything up, namely font rendering looks like garbage at the moment, and I need to create a custom build of IronRuby to remove the "superclass mismatch" error we ran into with ARC, which was something added into later versions of Ruby.
Once I get this running stable, the sky is the limit with what can be done.