Sigh... It pains me to show this...
Here are the errors from your tech demo.
Ah, crap. This happening to anyone else?
I'm gonna stick my neck out and say it looks like an issue with your graphics card, cb43569. There were no problems on the cards I've tested it with (64MB up to 512MB) but, to the best of my knowledge, they were all ATI Radeon. I used to have an Nvidia 256MB card and had some problems with Game Maker. I suspected it was a driver problem, but I upgraded before ever sorting it out... Have you got the latest drivers? You can get them
here.
If it's not the drivers, I don't know what I can do about it, mate...
But thanks for your kind words. And thanks to everyone for your support and encouragement - it's appreciated. I took a break from the project last week (we don't get much sunshine in the UK so we have to make the most of it!) but picked up where I left off yesterday. Those whose PMs I haven't replied to yet - sorry, I'll get round to it shortly. ;D
Work has started on building the first dungeon:
As you can see it's a lava dungeon. Got the bones of 10 rooms built so far, the rest are sketched out on paper. The idea behind this dungeon is that it's a temple being dug up by a bunch of archaeologist-types: conveyor belts and pulleys move excavated rock round the temple which Link can hitch a ride on, using the dungeon's signature item - the boomerang - to stop/start, change direction etc. The dig has woken the temple's guardian which is terrorising the local inhabitants, so it's up to Link to venture inside, rescue the trapped archaeologists and slay the monster. So, business as usual.
Another update soon...
Cheers,
KM
Edit:
I've put the demo on a second host as some people seem to be having trouble downloading it...
Mirror 1Mirror 2