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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Shadow of the Wyrm 0.4.1 (formerly Savage Lands)

« on: September 20, 2015, 07:55:03 AM »

Don't worry - I won't be putting this on Steam, or making this non-free.  I don't like the direction roguelikes have taken recently, guided by developers more familiar with the indie game/Steam tradition.  I want this to be a roguelike in every sense, so it'll be free-as-in-cost, and once I finish putting a reasonable website together, I'll include a link to my BitBucket repository as well.

Thanks! I'm very happy that this roguelike won't go on the dark side like ADOM and other roguelikes.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Shadow of the Wyrm 0.4.1 (formerly Savage Lands)

« on: September 19, 2015, 07:18:34 PM »

I heard that you want to make this game like "do whatever you want" game so you should try elona plus and learn from elona If you want to make game like that and also GIMME MOA of interactions and implement dialog screen where you can choose what you want to say, also you need to add alignment(Who doesn't want to be evil ),multiple endings but that much later, add skills which player will learn by doing stuff linked to that skill,Random events- I need that,implement crafting and building,later in game in specific dungeons player will find schemes of guns,rifles and all that good stuff,random artifacts this is important too,random quests, jobs (like quests but they could be done infinite times),and after defeating the main boss in the game you are teleported to another world (but this time deus ex like world) where there will be illuminati,aliens,future equipment,new stuff to discover,new skills,no gods (only factions),cybernetics and of course the MUCH BIGGER new world.
And also one of the most important things factions, you can join every faction from super evil through minor evil to ultimate good factions have they own equipment schemes,magic,and everything
You can create your own faction,you can create your own flag,manage armies,raid cities and other factions and then rule the world.
If you will be able to do this this roguelie will be better than every roguelike and you will have a lot of money from donations of course AND DON'T EVEN TRY TO GET THIS GAME ON STEAM AND MAKE IT NON-FREE!!!

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Shadow of the Wyrm 0.4.1 (formerly Savage Lands)

« on: September 19, 2015, 05:41:58 PM »

I think you have a large display - 94x25 according to the stack details.  Can you try reducing your prompt to 80x25 and seeing if that works?

Let me know if that works for you.  If it does, I'll get this fixed and included in the final v0.4.2.  This looks like a bug in my map display code.

IT WORKED HAHAHHAAH!!!
JUST LOOK AT IT

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Shadow of the Wyrm 0.4.1 (formerly Savage Lands)

« on: September 19, 2015, 05:38:52 PM »

I noticed in your first two memory dumps that your SOTW directory had a space in the name.

My directory also has a space in the name and I'm on a Polish locale. So it's not either of those.

Aleksanderus, do your Windows user name or the path SotW is in contain Polish diacritics?

No I checked it and no polish letters like ę or ó and other letters which are from poland.

Okay, I can open this in VS now and step through the stack.  This is super helpful - hopefully it will let me figure out what the issue is.  I don't have any more time today (have to do real-world adult stuff), but I will look at this first thing tomorrow morning.

And if you have feature requests, that's fantastic!  You can post them here, or PM me here or on reddit (I'm jcd748 there as well) and I'll add them to my suggestions file.

Very good that you are open to features becouse I have got A LOT of them

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Shadow of the Wyrm 0.4.1 (formerly Savage Lands)

« on: September 19, 2015, 05:07:15 PM »

I noticed in your first two memory dumps that your SOTW directory had a space in the name.

My directory also has a space in the name and I'm on a Polish locale. So it's not either of those.

Aleksanderus, do your Windows user name or the path SotW is in contain Polish diacritics?

No I checked it and no polish letters like ę or ó and other letters which are from poland.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Shadow of the Wyrm 0.4.1 (formerly Savage Lands)

« on: September 19, 2015, 04:34:31 PM »

PDB is the debug symbol database.  It's something I included in the latest build. 

I just went out for a bike ride and thought about your problem a bit.  You're able to get into the game, and select a race, class, etc.  So you're able to load the main game XML.  But the issue seems to be map-related.  So perhaps the maps aren't being loaded and the issue you're seeing with the memory violations is attempting to access a null MapPtr (shared pointer to a Map).

I noticed in your first two memory dumps that your SOTW directory had a space in the name.  Mine have never had that.  This is a shot in the dark, but can you try opening the latest build to e.g. "c:\sotw" and see if you're able to run the game and enter maps?  I'm wondering if the map loading code is not able to handle directories with spaces in them.

Thanks for the latest dump - I've saved it and will take a look at it tomorrow morning to see if I can get closer to figuring this thing out.  I really appreciate your patience.  I know this must be frustrating!

It isn't frustrating I just want to play this awesome game
And also I will send you email with something what I hope will be next feature.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Shadow of the Wyrm 0.4.1 (formerly Savage Lands)

« on: September 19, 2015, 03:37:58 PM »

Made a few small tweaks - here's a new version:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/60w42akqmpvbvvv/ShadowOfTheWyrm-0.4.2-current-PDB.zip?dl=0

This time can you run "procdump -ma -e sotw.exe"?  The "-ma" option should include a larger memory dump, which should hopefully give me additional details...

Basically, all I'm getting right now from the dump is that you're accessing invalid memory.  I'm trying to figure out why exactly that is, and where, so I can investigate and make a proper fix for the next version.  Sorry this is turning into such a hassle, but your help is hugely appreciated!

Ok here's dump file again this time I turned admin privilages both in dump program and game and maybe I see a problem with dump file
and link to new dump file https://www.dropbox.com/s/vi91zk1p7r29vxc/sotw.exe_150919_173025.dmp?dl=0
And also this dump program created PDB file what this file does?

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Shadow of the Wyrm 0.4.1 (formerly Savage Lands)

« on: September 19, 2015, 02:53:54 PM »

I'm able to open it, but can't seem to load things properly.

Can you do me a favour?  I've created a release build of the latest 0.4.2, with PDB:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/60w42akqmpvbvvv/ShadowOfTheWyrm-0.4.2-current-PDB.zip?dl=0

Can you repeat the process and send me the file again?  Hopefully then we're both working off the exact same version and then Visual Studio will give me more details.

Still the same and here's the file and also I'm quite enjoying our cooperation https://www.dropbox.com/s/x6z442aovwz0lqn/sotw.exe_150919_165057.dmp?dl=0

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Shadow of the Wyrm 0.4.1 (formerly Savage Lands)

« on: September 19, 2015, 02:34:15 PM »

So I first run the game:



Then I run procdump (open a cmd prompt, then "c:\procdump\procdump.exe -mp -e sotw.exe", or wherever you installed procdump):



The window stays open as long as sotw.exe is running.

Oh ok I've got a dump log It's pretty big for a text file! And i need to wait becouse uploading from computer to dropbox is pretty long
Nevermind here's dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t5o9zue1v0t7vuy/sotw.exe_150919_163148.dmp?dl=0

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Shadow of the Wyrm 0.4.1 (formerly Savage Lands)

« on: September 19, 2015, 02:20:52 PM »

I'll see what I can do.  I can certainly try to add more logging and hope it gets hit when catching the exception.

In the meantime, can you install procdump (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900.aspx), start sotw.exe, and then run "procdump -mp -e sotw.exe" in another window?  This should create a dump that if you send to me I can open in Visual Studio to try to see what's wrong. (if you put it on Dropbox or something similar, that'd be perfect)

Unfoartunately I don't know how to use I did everything what you wrote in the cmd and it says: Dump count not reached

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Shadow of the Wyrm 0.4.1 (formerly Savage Lands)

« on: September 19, 2015, 01:50:46 PM »

I just happened to have the site open while doing some development this morning!

Out of curiosity, can you change your regional settings to something like US English, CA English, UK English, something like that, and see if it helps?  I do have language-specific resource files, but currently there's only one and the game is defined in swyrm.ini to use the English resource strings.

But I'm wondering if there's something specific about the regional settings that might be causing it.  Worth trying, anyway!  It's weird that you're unable to get past the world map while others are able to explore with no issues.  Strange...

Nothing, still crashing I changed every regional and keyboard language setting and nothing. In the new version you NEED to add a crashlog that would be VERY usefull

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: rng clrc - out now (First release as v0.5 Beta) ARRP

« on: September 19, 2015, 01:22:30 PM »

Pretty fun roguelike but a little unbalanced (rat can kill an orc) but still I really enjoyed it playing

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Shadow of the Wyrm 0.4.1 (formerly Savage Lands)

« on: September 19, 2015, 01:18:25 PM »

I've found a bug. When I created a character i was on the worldmap and pressed > and the game just crashed I tried A LOT of times again and the same bug so I couldn't do more than walking on the world map so please fix this bug becouse I want to try this game.

Hi Aleksanderus,

There has been a report of a crash bug from another user that I'm trying to track down, so I'm wondering if this is somehow related.

Can you provide me with as much detail as possible:

- What tile were you trying to enter?  the town, the dungeon, someplace else?
- System specs: how much memory do you have free?  are you running natively under Windows?  Under Wine on Linux?  Something else?  If you're under Windows, are you running as a user with admin privileges, or no?  What directory did you install to?
- If there's anything else you can think of, please include it!

Oh that was a quick response  .
So I was trying every tile on the island and every attempt ended by crash
Memory of my C: drive? I've got more than 5 gb of memory. I'm using windows, I tried running under admin privileges and nothing worked,I installed it on my folder on desktop.
I checked log files and they were completely blank
Maybe It's becouse I live in poland and my region settings are polish, I don't know.
I can provide you with more specific information if you want but you will need to tell me which information you want to know.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Shadow of the Wyrm 0.4.1 (formerly Savage Lands)

« on: September 19, 2015, 01:01:55 PM »

I've found a bug. When I created a character i was on the worldmap and pressed > and the game just crashed I tried A LOT of times again and the same bug so I couldn't do more than walking on the world map so please fix this bug becouse I want to try this game.