As you all might have noticed, Tales of Dagur: Coluseum was not released on the neoflash summer coding competition.
There are several reasons that prevented us from release:

1. The Jim Interpreter used as a scripting engine was full of memory leaks and wasn’t stable for use as a main scripting engine. After weeks of debugging, I simply gave up and switched to Arena, which is working great. I had to re-write most of the scripts to the new language which took me a lot of time.
2. I was a single coder. Even though I had two of my friends helping me on this project code-wise (DarkEz and strager), they were both missing most of the time for personal reasons.
3. There was too much to code and test, and I did not have enough testers and helpers on this project, even though I have been asking many times for people who wants to contribute.

All I can offer now are screenshots from the ‘final’ piece which will not be released for you until further notice. I Thank you, DS scene, for your "help" and "support" for this project, that brought it to be what it is now – nothing. I would also like to thank my current team – for their great effort and willingness to push this project to it’s edge when the deadline was approaching even though we knew we had no chance of making it.

Enjoy the screenshots, I hope you now understand what potential this game could have if I got a little more help.

Of course we are far from complete, and we still need help if we want to be able to make the game as good as we plan on doing.
If you want to help, in any way you think you can, please consider contacting me in one way or another. If you want to meet the current development team, or stay updated in the latest of our ideas and suggestions, you are more then welcomed to join #ToD2 over EFnet – where the team is always active, and releases daily output from nearly every aspect.
What we really need currently, is mostly co-coders and story writers.

Just to tease you with what we have currently, I will throw some concept art over your direction:

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Images are copyrighted to drZool and the ToD team.

Second, I want to show off my progress with some screenies.
Layered tiles were implemented with FluBBa’s help – huge thanks flies to his direction!

The FPS you see on the screenshots are close to original results on HW. but since dualis refuses to emulate in full speed – add another ~6FPS to get the original results on real HW.

Low FPS on games occures because of a poor NEC CPU core implementation. Don’t you worry, it will be much better :)

Look forward for a release soon.

But unfortunately, it can’t start ToD II without a story line! So feel free to write a game story and send it over to me at Lir_a_Nun_a@Gm_ail.com (remove junk) in a .txt format, as well as question/suggestions.

Edit: You  can also visit the crew in the IRC channel #ToD2 on the IRC netwrok EFnet

The NeoFlash Spring Coding Competition is ending soon (It lasts untill the 20th, This month) And that’s the date my RPG will finally be released, Along with the full sources, for those who are intrested. (Source only. No Graphics or Music)