[johannesprix]

Hi guys!

We've just completed the 0.9.10 release of FreedroidRPG, a single-player graphical rpg. For the first time in FreedroidRPG history, this release also comes with an 'official' Windows port.

Instead of posting the detailed changelog here, it seems more proper to issue a deep thanks to all the many people who helped in making this release. Some of them really went out of their way to create something, and that's simply outstanding.

As always, help and contributions and feedback are very welcome. The download size is now over 70 megs so sorry, you will need some broadband internet access somewhere. (It's a *graphical* rpg after all).

I hope we've also been able to fix most of the citicism about the previous 0.9.9 release (see the other forum thread), which was only available for the GNU/Linux operating system.

Thanks for your attention and see ya, jp.

[Bjorn]

A link to the project page is always a good thing. :-)

I'm downloading the Linux version now, will try it out tomorrow after I get some rest.

[Bjorn]

After playing it a while, talking with people in the town, until suddenly killed by the strongest man, the biggest improvement I'm aware of is the movement. The indicator of where I'm going is a real help and opening chests or picking up items went all pretty well.

A few things went wrong while talking to people that had audio, them saying different stuff than what was written to the screen, but I guess that's known already. I did think that the parts with added voice were quite nice.

Some rendering errors exist, for example I see lines between the tiles that vary in intensity. Also, Tux walking along a corner or wall end doesn't always render properly.

I get around 12 fps on my 2 Ghz Celeron. At startup, it reports to be using Mesa, so maybe that could be the reason. Now I'm not sure if hardware accelerated rendering is enabled, how can I check that?

[johannesprix]

Thanks for the helpful comments and encouragement. The movement now at least should find it's way around some obstacles and that automatically :) Attacking enemies might be a lot easier still...

However, the OpenGL setting is always a pain under Linux and also under Windows. Windows XP e.g. comes with drivers, but those only do software rendering. Usually you must download some driver from your card vendor. In my case it was 9 megs of download from nvidia. But those guys at least offer some drivers for Linux, much like ATI. But other vendors are not always as nice. I don't know anything about Tungsten. But they should at least provide some OpenGL drivers (with hardware acceleartion) for Windows. However, even if there are no OpenGL drivers (other than software rendering) you can still try to start it will command line switch -n, which will use SDL instead of OpenGL, which isn't very much hardware-accelerated, but which should still be faster than OpenGL software-rendering.

Well, the voices need a lot of updates. It's in progress. If there are any voice actor volunteers listening with a micro and who know how to record a wav file, this is your chance to become an rpg character :)

Thanks and see ya, Johannes.

[Guest]

[Bjorn]

I thought I had, and the above seems to show at least DRI is working. It would be nice to get it faster, but I don't have NV/ATI, I have this low-power shared memory Intel card. I tried installing the Intel Linux drivers, but my X wouldn't start with them.

[Georg]

I played your game, and I'm impressed! You did a hell of a job there!
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[johannesprix]

[Guest]

Try 3Ddiag to tell you if you have hardware acceleration on Linux.

[Bjorn]

I tried searching for it but it seems only available as RPM from SuSe? I'm not sure if I can install that on my Slackware system.

[johannesprix]

B/w, I've just uploaded release 0.9.11 for win32 and Linux. Well, hope this thing works. Download size for win32 went down by 18 megs due to better compression used. Next time, we'll also use this better compression for the Linux package, for sure. Any comments/reviews/feedback welcome.

See ya, jp.

[johannesprix]

Hi guys!

Now version 0.9.12 of the game has been released. The download size is down to 60 MB or less. Our call for help with the content (i.e. plots, sub-plots, quests, characters, items, world, map,...) is still valid!!! The download link is

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54521&package_id=58238

The .exe is self-extracting and has ready-to-run executables (for windows users). The .bz2 is for Linux users and has all the source code and must be compiled the usual way (./configure, make, [make install]).

Well, that's about all there is to say.

Thanks for your attention and see ya, jp.

[white_door]

pretty cool, any timeline as to when multiplayer support will be back it?

[johannesprix]

[white_door]

hehe personally I just want to be able to play it on a LAN, and couldn't care less about internet play. I can see how having the single player more complete is important though.

Having the broken multiplayer mode is just so cruel, maybe you could hide the menu option? since we all really wanted to play it that way. Even so, I showed it to people at the last annual LAN party we had, and I think most people ended up leeching it off my machine...