State of the project 2024

[katajakasa]

Updated Oct 27. 2024

So where are we now ?

We have all game modes from the original game, including the separate network lobby. Tournament mode now mostly works, as do the network game elements. There are still bugs to be squashed in HAR movement, moves, graphics, audio etc. but we are getting closer to feature-completeness.

So why are there no new releases ?

At this point, we're just going to try to squash more bugs before we go and roll a release. But that's getting pretty close, too.

What has been happening lately ?

Some noteworthy things that have been completed lately:

1. Tournament mode was merged (by @Vagabond)
2. Network game + lobby was fixed and merged (by @Vagabond)
3. New OpenGL graphics renderer was merged (by @katajakasa)
4. SDL_mixer + libxmp based audio subsystem (by @katajakasa)
5. Metric ton of bugfixes and improvements here and there

So what next ?

These are the things we are working on, in priority order:

1, Bugfixes for graphics rendering (@katajakasa)
2. Sort out pilot and har stats and their effect on the gameplay
3. Figure out more animation tags (https://github.com/omf2097/openomf/projects/3) -- this is an ongoing effort, and is mostly discussed on our discord server. We are utilising Ghidra to reverse-engineer the old project to see what it does. This is slow and very, very, VERY tedious tediousness.
4. Overall bugfixing for everything

[Santorayo3]

Just wanted to state my support here. I love this project and really looking forward to the tournament mode. Also I'd love to see a port for the OpenDingux OS to play it on my Anbernic.

[katajakasa]

Oof, unfortunately we can't really do the ports -- we'd need to have the actual devices, and then some time to work on them... and we are already short on time just getting the game working on common hardware ;)

Still, if people want to put time to it and offer pull requests, we'll probably merge them. As long as they don't make development harder or break other platforms ;)

[Santorayo3]

Ok, thanks for the info. :)

[Santorayo3]

Also this video might be helpful to figure out what the stats in the original game do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVtDAr7dcjM

[katajakasa]

I like the comparisons on the video, it might be useful when testing out changes.

What we really REALLY need on the stats front now however are the precise formulas and numbers. For example, how do we apply agility numbers to the base numbers (and what are those base numbers anyways ?), what are the modifiers, etc.

[johnoestmannmusic]

Love what you guys are doing! Can't wait to get back into it after a couple decades - and now running smoothly on my Linux laptop ❤️

[aknight2015]

This game remains my favorite fighting game of all time. I truly hope development of this port isn't dead.

[katajakasa]

Nope, just very slow sometimes :)

[katajakasa]

Btw, note that even though we have not made any official releases for a while, we have a development builds from latest source code here https://github.com/omf2097/openomf/releases/tag/latest .

[aknight2015]

Awesome. I wasn't sure as a lot of time the "newest" build is just automatically generated using old code. I am so thrilled that this game is still in development.

[aknight2015]

Nope, just very slow sometimes :)

Yeah, I feel that.

[johnoestmannmusic]

Just as an FYI, I briefly discussed / linked to this project as part of the entry on One Must Fall: 2097 in the latest issue of Freeware Creator Magazine

[aknight2015]

I didn't even know this magazine existed. Thank you for the link.