A mission is a list of cutscenes and maps.

The game engine plays the first cutscene, then the map, when you clear the map it plays the next cutscene (or two) followed by the next map (or two or three) you get the idea.

Sound good?

To add some control to which enemies show up where on a map, regardless of structures and summoners, a value could be set for each room's difficulty.

A difficulty of 1 would only allow for low level creatures and such to be created(after the initial ones from the map are loaded), while rooms with a higher difficulty could summon stronger enemies.

Example, Scarlet/Undead Summon:

Level - Summonable units

1 - swordsmen
2 - swordsmen, archers, head tossers
3 - swordsmen, archers, head ...[click title to read more]...

So I`m trying to think about how a multi-attack ennemy might work, for now, one that has a melee attack and a ranged one.

So the thought is that it checks the distance of its target, then decides whether to use its melee or its ranged attack based on the distance. It might also be interesting to get it to check the threat level of its target, like if targeting a melee enemy, it will lean towards using a ranged attack, ie the minimum distance that it will try to use a ranged attack decreases. ...[click title to read more]...

I'm thinking that in the downloads section, user maps should get their own space. This structure would avoid having to download everthing everytime there is a change to a map or a new map created.

Hi, all.

I've been tinkering with MR Open for a a few weeks, and have been having a bit of fun. My only problem my be due to a lack of programming experience, but I wanted to know if it were possible to edit a file or set of files to allow Merlin's health to be changed from standard to a much higher value. I want to make some insanely difficult maps with magic limits and give Merlin a sword allowing him to use blasts primarily as a way to stun enemies before closing in for the kill. The issu ...[click title to read more]...

Go through level to level with Berlin searching for more powers. p.s. If you use this idea for a game please make Berlin get new powers with merlin to

Some ideas that crossed my mind as I made my map:


♦Keys & doors for more dynamic map designs

♦Destructible doodads to hide items in

♦Traps/more spider-like enemies

♦New 'ultimate' spell that has a recharge (By x time, x enemies killed or x screens cleared)

♦Enemies that are strong/weak against certain spells

♦Enemies that 'react' & change in some manner when they reach x% of health

♦Ability to add properties to enemies (More dmg, m ...[click title to read more]...

For autosummoning, there is some question of where to summon the units.

With spawn points, the map maker could set the location using a tile(or multiple)

When you enter a room containing this tile, all of your army of a certain type is summoned to your location, avoiding the limits of having one wizard at a time.

Problem: android phones come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. This means that the graphics will get stretched differently, depending on what phone is playing mr. Because of this stretching, mr will not stay looking all that sharp(aka, it will be a blurry mess)

Any thoughts on how to make sure our pixels stay sharp, or other android games which have pixelated graphics?

Okay, so I'm thinking that when attacking, units could be given a certain amount of frames in which they will finish their attack, even when hit. Ie. say you're a black orc, and you are halfway through swinging your giant axe towards the ground, and you get hit by a little sword or arrow. That axe is going to keep falling!

This would work by calculating the area of the unit's standing collision rect to describe its size. With that value, it would calculate a number of frames(starting at the e ...[click title to read more]...

Following a comment from Pheonix in [suggestion_6879] I have added a new feature to the map editor.

You can now scale the tile layers to fit on your screen.

To do this open the map in a text editor and find the bit that looks like this:

#layerDefinitions: [[#name: #backgroundPassive, #tileSet: #merlinOpenPassive,], [#name: #backgroundActive, #tileSet: #merlinOpenActive, ], [#name: #objects, #tileSet: #merlinOpenObjects,]]

This bit of text defines each of the three la ...[click title to read more]...

I'm imagining difficulty levels defining a number from 0.5 to 2 (easy - 0.5, normal/medium - 1, and hard - 2)

Then, things that change based on the difficulty level will have their numbers divided by the difficulty.

In example, say the time that a wizard can be on screen before needing rest should change with the difficulty level:
if the game is on hard, the time will be halfed, on medium, remain unchanged, and easy, be doubled.

This could be applied to powerup/leveling benefits, the g ...[click title to read more]...

Auras could be done as mines, using different bullets(ie, healing, slowdown, etc) They would appear in the objects section of the map editor, and be targetable to different teams. Energy mines would slow the game down a lot faster though...

Put the what in the where??? Are you crazy!!!???

Trust me, I'm a professional.

I want to put all the data from Merlin Open into the TMB database. With that done, it be useful to us in many ways.

A little task for Super_Merlin: write a text editor (using c+ or c# or something of the sort) which is text editor on one side, and has a tiled set of the other something like this 2 min mspaint sketch:

I'm fully wiling to add more description of how it might work and what purpose t might serve if anyone would like... and to add some extras functionality once that base is done.

Ok, it hit me now, why are the images of the backgrounds(active) so small in the selector, while enemies and passive background displays in full size? It's quite a difficult thing seeing one, and sort of difficult choosing one with a touch pad.

in the menu screen, there should be an option to set the order of summons for army summon so you can say, get monks or dwarves out and about quickly.

how difficult would it be to have mrOpen hosted on the site, and grab a random map from the collaboration bit each time you load the page?

When you click reload game when you die, it should go back to the main menu instead of trying to load a fail save.

Similarly, you should disable saving in the whole f2 menu, since it often will do something unexpected!

Also, making a file for each map also may not work since I atleast change the maps quite alot, giving again, unexpected results.

So my solution, or atleast a fast-to-make-temporary-solution-probably would be to prevent the game from loading save files alltogether.