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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn-based) / Re: Lords of Darkhall
« on: June 20, 2008, 12:03:42 PM »
Yeah, its a shame this is apparently no longer in development. It had much potential.
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Off-topic (Locked) / Re: What do you do for a living?
« on: May 16, 2008, 10:57:03 PM »
Software Engineer writing Call Centre Software (yes, its as boring as it sounds) using Delphi. I used to work for a major Telecomms company writing C and C++ under Solaris, I used the original Kharne to get my current job ;-)
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Temple of the Roguelike / Re: Welcome to Temple of the Roguelike Forums! (a.k.a. Introduce Yourself Thread
« on: May 15, 2008, 12:49:46 AM »I'm somewhere between Southampton and Winchester, a small town called Chandler's Ford. It's most famous for having one of the highest divorce rates in England and has also been named the wife-swapping capital of England, I'm sure the two are connected but as I don't get invited to those sorts of events I cannot be sure.
That's rather scary. I live in Bournemouth, not too far away from your neck of the woods. Bournemouth is famous for well, beaches (which I don't frequent), nightclubs (which I don't frequent), chavs (which I'm not), and err, did I mention the beaches?
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Other Announcements / Re: Kharne returns.
« on: April 24, 2008, 01:25:42 PM »
At the risk of invoking the wrath of the mods via the medium of thread necromancy, I thought I'd better reply here instead of a new topic.
I know its been a few months, I've had a lot of things going on in my personal life (all good, though), and I've done very little coding on the new Kharne since the turn of the year.
However, I've restarted coding, and to answer your questions:
1. As soon as I can. I'm going to set up a development blog to keep people informed with screenshots and progress.
2. Yeah, they will be. At the moment, they're non-persistant, for the sake of simplicity. I know there are issues wth non-persistant dungeons, I've played enough Angband for that, and I do envisage the eventual need for non-persistant dungeons so Uniques can be a lot more fearsome (like in Crawl), but for the first few releases, they'll be randomized non-unique dungeons.
3. Yes! Definitely. I happen to like using the mouse (back when I played MMOs I was a clicker). Keyboards are good also, but I like to give people the option of both. So mouse and keyboard will be equivalent.
I'd like to ask another couple of questions though, for feedback purposes. I'd be grateful for any answers and thoughts you all might have.
Firstly, I've been messing with skill curves and scalings recently, and I've switched from linear scaling to polynomial scaling for skills. The original Kharne and the abortive rewrite used AD&D/DnD rulesets, which were (DnD 3.0 especially) linear as heck. I've ditched this now for a simpler (at first glance) system akin to Crawl's. Does anyone have any preferences?
Secondarily, are graphics important at this stage in development? I'm toying with the idea of ditching graphics temporarily in order just to get a sodding beta out (*grins*) - though I do love graphics, I tend to play RLs nowadays mostly in ASCII. Note that the display engine I use doesn't care whither graphics or ASCII are used, so to add graphics back in it would just be a matter of dropping in some bitmaps in the proper place in the redistributable.
Cheers for Now,
D.
I know its been a few months, I've had a lot of things going on in my personal life (all good, though), and I've done very little coding on the new Kharne since the turn of the year.
However, I've restarted coding, and to answer your questions:
1. As soon as I can. I'm going to set up a development blog to keep people informed with screenshots and progress.
2. Yeah, they will be. At the moment, they're non-persistant, for the sake of simplicity. I know there are issues wth non-persistant dungeons, I've played enough Angband for that, and I do envisage the eventual need for non-persistant dungeons so Uniques can be a lot more fearsome (like in Crawl), but for the first few releases, they'll be randomized non-unique dungeons.
3. Yes! Definitely. I happen to like using the mouse (back when I played MMOs I was a clicker). Keyboards are good also, but I like to give people the option of both. So mouse and keyboard will be equivalent.
I'd like to ask another couple of questions though, for feedback purposes. I'd be grateful for any answers and thoughts you all might have.
Firstly, I've been messing with skill curves and scalings recently, and I've switched from linear scaling to polynomial scaling for skills. The original Kharne and the abortive rewrite used AD&D/DnD rulesets, which were (DnD 3.0 especially) linear as heck. I've ditched this now for a simpler (at first glance) system akin to Crawl's. Does anyone have any preferences?
Secondarily, are graphics important at this stage in development? I'm toying with the idea of ditching graphics temporarily in order just to get a sodding beta out (*grins*) - though I do love graphics, I tend to play RLs nowadays mostly in ASCII. Note that the display engine I use doesn't care whither graphics or ASCII are used, so to add graphics back in it would just be a matter of dropping in some bitmaps in the proper place in the redistributable.
Cheers for Now,
D.
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Other Announcements / Re: Kharne returns.
« on: October 18, 2007, 04:07:23 PM »
As its currently planned and coded, it won't be - its written using Delphi 7, and Delphi is Win32 only.
Having said that however, once I release the game (and the sourcecode) - if someone wants to convert it to multiplatform using Lazarus and FreePascal (which are about 95% compatible with Delphi), or even Kylix (the old Linux version of Delphi), I'd be more than happy for them to do so, and would help out with the process.
Perhaps at some point down the line, it could be multiplatform. But at the moment, I'm concentrating on getting it finished first.
So I guess that's a "not yet but maybe" type of answer. Sorry if this isn't the answer you're ideally looking for. :-(
Best,
Dave
Having said that however, once I release the game (and the sourcecode) - if someone wants to convert it to multiplatform using Lazarus and FreePascal (which are about 95% compatible with Delphi), or even Kylix (the old Linux version of Delphi), I'd be more than happy for them to do so, and would help out with the process.
Perhaps at some point down the line, it could be multiplatform. But at the moment, I'm concentrating on getting it finished first.
So I guess that's a "not yet but maybe" type of answer. Sorry if this isn't the answer you're ideally looking for. :-(
Best,
Dave
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Other Announcements / Re: Kharne returns.
« on: October 18, 2007, 09:38:44 AM »
That would be the ideal solution, but to be honest, the graphics are almost an afterthought in this iteration of Kharne - I playtest and debug mainly in ASCII mode.
Which is ironic, considering how 6 years ago I was very anti-ASCII *grins*.
Best,
Dave
Which is ironic, considering how 6 years ago I was very anti-ASCII *grins*.
Best,
Dave
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Other Announcements / Re: Kharne returns.
« on: October 17, 2007, 11:28:59 PM »
Hey folks,
just a quick hello - I'm glad people remember the old game. I learned a lot programming it back in 2000 - in fact I got a job out of it *grins*.
With any luck, the revamp will result in a playable demo at least in the next few weeks.
Some Differences between the old Kharne and the new Kharne:
1) The new one is much much more efficient and less of a pig to run. The code as a consequence is much much better than the previous version.
2) The game can be run in Tiled or ASCII mode.
3) The ruleset/game engine is no longer pure AD&D - rather it is a cross between the Crawl system and DnD 3.5
4) Permadeath is built in this time.
5) There are 9 dungeons, each 10 levels deep. Each dungeon has different graphics, difficulty, structure and themes.
6) The GUI is now much more standard and windows-compatible.
So far, I've coded:
Character Creation
Dungeon Generation
The Game Engine
Item Handling
next on my list is Magic and then Monsters and then Persistance, and after those are done, I'll put a version out for public consumption.
Just to whet your appetite, here's a couple of in-dev screenies (I'm doomed now - I have to finish it since I've put screenshots out!):
ASCII mode:
http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ss1ek5.gif
Graphics mode:
http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ss2wy0.gif
Cheers,
Dave
just a quick hello - I'm glad people remember the old game. I learned a lot programming it back in 2000 - in fact I got a job out of it *grins*.
With any luck, the revamp will result in a playable demo at least in the next few weeks.
Some Differences between the old Kharne and the new Kharne:
1) The new one is much much more efficient and less of a pig to run. The code as a consequence is much much better than the previous version.
2) The game can be run in Tiled or ASCII mode.
3) The ruleset/game engine is no longer pure AD&D - rather it is a cross between the Crawl system and DnD 3.5
4) Permadeath is built in this time.
5) There are 9 dungeons, each 10 levels deep. Each dungeon has different graphics, difficulty, structure and themes.
6) The GUI is now much more standard and windows-compatible.
So far, I've coded:
Character Creation
Dungeon Generation
The Game Engine
Item Handling
next on my list is Magic and then Monsters and then Persistance, and after those are done, I'll put a version out for public consumption.
Just to whet your appetite, here's a couple of in-dev screenies (I'm doomed now - I have to finish it since I've put screenshots out!):
ASCII mode:
http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ss1ek5.gif
Graphics mode:
http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ss2wy0.gif
Cheers,
Dave