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Off-topic (Locked) / Re: Foreigners

« on: April 07, 2012, 07:00:46 AM »

Sure, maybe we should have them wear yellow stars, or, you know, put those guys in camps if they remain incorrigibly annoying to you.

It's amazing how people always start talking about Hitler when they run out of arguments.

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Other Announcements / Re: Diablo III - Permadeath Mode

« on: March 26, 2012, 06:19:24 AM »

Does anyone plan to play DiabloIII?

No. It was fun to play Diablo. It was fun to play Diablo II, when we were tired of Quake III. And now it will be fun to make fun of Diablo III . If they don't surprise us with something totally different from the teasers that we've seen so far, it will be more like a disco with monsters. Blizzard surely knows how to make money, but they don't know how to make games any more.

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Programming / Re: Java RL tutorial!

« on: March 12, 2012, 07:34:01 AM »

Java prevents you from needing to do as much work >_>.

Java only prevents you from having control over low-level operations, which may be a good thing if you are writing a coffeebreak game, or if you hate programming .

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Other Announcements / Re: Share your ideas for 7DRL

« on: March 03, 2012, 12:54:58 PM »

This idea is stolen from Every Extend Extra:

No, it's stolen from Warcraft II (although the dwarves in Warcraft II didn't get resurrected ).

This idea is stolen from Onore no Shinzuru Michi wo Yuke:

No, it's stolen from Flood:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_%28video_game%29

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Other Announcements / Re: I Have To Be The Worst Roguelike Player

« on: February 28, 2012, 07:13:07 AM »

Maybe you should just give up the belief that save scumming is evil. I did .

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Off-topic (Locked) / Re: Riot Police beating down MINORS in Spain.

« on: February 22, 2012, 06:36:42 PM »

Real heroes, those policemen.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Untitled 0.7.7 Released

« on: February 21, 2012, 07:25:28 AM »

I'm happy to announce the release of the 0.7.7 version!

Download link:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/untitled-rpg/files/latest/download
(if you cannot find the Linux version, it will be there soon)

RogueBasin entry:

http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php/Untitled

Changes:

* added diseases
* added limb damages (broken / cut off)
* new dungeon
* gameplay-related data moved to an archive file
* encountered monsters defend themselves in groups
* hero's attributes can now decrease
* food is still digested when hero is sleeping
* food left on ground is affected by time (i.e. rots away)
* remains of some monsters (like golems) are not edible anymore
* eating some things may have side effects
* a progress bar is displayed when performing a time-consuming action like reading a book
* messages while eating are differentiated and make more sense
* remains of a skeleton appear simply as "bones"
* [bugfix] necromancers no longer waste their focus points attempting to unnecessarily cast Animate
* [bugfix] no more "serpent flies" encounters (they were really hydras...)
* [bugfix] batch syntax check for U files no longer says that compilation is disabled
* [bugfix] terrain list in 'location properties' in the editor does not say 'New Terrain' anymore
* [bugfix] terrain list selection in the editor is now updated properly
* [bugfix] 'Clear Location' in the editor now works properly for all terrain types
* [bugfix] editor no longer crashes when attempting to place a lode
* [bugfix] editor no longer generates a default script for NPCs with BOM
* [bugfix] cursor in the editor is displayed properly

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Temple of the Roguelike / Re: Announcement standard?

« on: February 20, 2012, 08:08:31 AM »

P.s That standard way of spelling standardised is definitely with an 's' not a 'z' 

It's one of the standards that nobody respects, I guess. Americans invented the internet so they have the right to set standards here , although it's probably painful for language purists. I am a fanatic purist, but luckily English is not my primary language, so I happily ignore all the US/UK differences. Don't even look at texts in my game .

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Temple of the Roguelike / Re: Announcement standard?

« on: February 19, 2012, 06:34:41 PM »

A lot of people forget to add a summary of their game. I find that helps a lot.

Good point. In case of new games it would be nice to know whether: it is a coffeebreak roguelike (I don't play these), contains manga-like tiles (I don't play these either), is written in Java or requires me to install anything (why would I even bother playing these?) .

Version: 001 (First release)

This gave me the idea that each release announcement, not only the first one, should contain the release number. Version numbers we all use are not standardized in any way, one developer may use 9.99.999 for the first release and another may use 0.00.1beta for an almost complete game. Version numbers mean nothing. However, a release number would be quite a good indicator of game's maturity level. What do you think?

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Temple of the Roguelike / Re: Announcement standard?

« on: February 18, 2012, 03:34:22 PM »

We might want to decide how substantial a change must be to create a new thread instead of posting in the old one. It seems that most people who announce updates create new threads, which I find quite annoying, especially if there are two versions one right after other. Also this makes it harder to find all discussion related to the particular game.

Agree. Every game should only have one thread. It's extremely irritating to search for a particular post about particular game when there are dozens of threads about it. I hate the 'Announcements' forum for being such a mess and rarely visit it.

As of standards... I think that only one piece of information is really essential: a direct download link. People tend to forget about it and there's no force on Earth that could make me go through all kind of weird webpages and look for the damn link .

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Programming / Re: JVM vs something else

« on: February 17, 2012, 11:43:42 AM »

I don't know what kind of java programs you've run, but I've never had any problems.

You probably own newest hardware available on market. I don't, so I'm really sensitive to performance issues and I can really tell whether they are negligible or not .

Look, there is a reason why Thomas Biskup writes ADOM II in Java. The guy knows exactly what he's doing.  

Even gods make mistakes .

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Programming / Re: JVM vs something else

« on: February 17, 2012, 08:29:03 AM »

I have never seen a single Java program that was running really smooth, no matter whether it was 3D or 2D. And it's not only the amount of memory used (C++ programs use a lot of memory as well), Java is just slow. However, if you don't have much C++ experience and you care about portability, Java is still a good choice.

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Programming / Re: Bug tracking?

« on: February 10, 2012, 10:40:16 PM »

Bug tracking using a dedicated tool only makes sense when you have a team. If you work alone, it's just easier to open Notepad and write the bug down. Having to launch a browser, navigate to the BT webpage, log in and click through dozens of menus creates a tempting and dangerous idea of ignoring the bug... Which is, of course, not quite what we expect from bug tracking tools .

But in case you have a team... Mantis seems to be worth considering as it has the features you want. It's online, it's free and it hardly needs any setup. The application itself doesn't look impressive, but it's probably a matter of taste.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Mysterious Castle 1.9

« on: February 06, 2012, 09:41:02 PM »

From this board I went to www.MysteriousCastle.com and found a link to IndieDB. There I saw the "Mysterious Castle 1.8 for Windows (No Music)" link, so I followed it. It took me to some subpage with a huge "Download NOW!" button. Finally, that was what I wanted! Three levels of redirection. Not a big deal, but you could provide a direct download link. Making it easier to download you're making it more popular .

I'm used to pressing Alt+Enter to go fullscreen (that's the way the Windows console works) or F11 (as in Firefox). These would be the best keys, I believe.

Moving is simple, indeed. I think that the first time I played, the game might have hanged and just stopped receiving any input .

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Mysterious Castle 1.9

« on: February 05, 2012, 11:06:25 AM »

It's not easy to find the download link for Windows. The user interface is not very intuitive at first sight. Why do I have to press some buttons twice? It's ultra-annoying that I have to wait until the whole text message appears... Is there any button to speed it up? There should be different key for switching to full screen - maybe it's logical on OSX to press Esc, but on Windows Esc typically closes a window.

Positive comments will come when I figure out how to move my characters .