[Hajo]

Original announcement and downloads:

http://www.simugraph.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=11&t_id=30

Feedback is welcome :)

Edit: The last version didn't spawn a single feedback message. I'm kind of wondering. Too many updates, too little changes in between? Too off-topic? Too boring? Too buggy? Just nothing-to-say-about-it?

I mean, the project lives on feedback. If I don't know what's wrong with it, I can't improve it :(

Edit 2: I don't bite :) I also promise not to start a flamewar if negative feedback is posted. I wouldn't be happy but then at least I know what's wrong.

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Release notes for H-World 0.3.13.0

This release is mostly a cleanup and finetuning release. Most improvements were done for the mouse control. First I was unsure if the changes rectify a new release but it looked good, so I released it :)

New featurs

- Fullscreen mode (use -fullscreen command line parameter)
- Further improved mouse control
* Click follower to give orders or inspect the follower
* Click items on map open contect sensitive menu (e.g. open, get it)
* Click on self opens inventory
-> functionality can be expanded by Lua scripts
- Small popups for "mouse over item" on main map view
- Lua support to handel "leftovers" on death of a being
- New item: human bones

Improvements

- Minimap now displays fountains in blue and stairs/teleports in bright orange
- Destroyed skeletons now leave bones
- killed mules now leave a drumstick
- Reworked the dialog windows once more. Still not perfect :(
- changed village people and PC images a little bit

Fixed problems

- birth/load game screen background is now properly refreshed if the windows are moved around
- fixed a strange kind of crash in pack weight calculation

Downloads

Windows version (~1080KB):
http://h-world.simugraph.com/data/h_world_demo-0_3_13_0.zip

Linux version (~940KB):
http://h-world.simugraph.com/data/h_world_demo-0_3_13_0.tar.gz


Chronological list of changes since the last release

01-Nov-04:
NEW: added "on_thing_clicked" command hook
NEW: clicking a follower -> inspect/command
NEW: clicking a container -> get/open
NEW: clicking on self -> open inventory
NEW: destroyed skeletons now leave bones
NEW: mini map now shows fountains in blue and
stairs/teleports in bright orange
CHANGE: more finetuning for mouse control

31-Oct-04:
NEW: support for -OPENGL and -fullscreen command line
parameters
NEW: improved opening and getting items by mouse click
NEW: new item: human bones
FIX: fixed a strange kind of crash in pack weight
calculation
CHANGE: changed village people and PC images a little bit

30-Oct-04:
NEW: support for "leftovers" on death of a being
NEW: simple "on mouse over" descriptions for main map view
NEW: killed mules now leave a drumstick
FIX: background of birth/new game screen is now repainted
properly if windows are moved around

28-Oct-04:
CHANGE: dialog view now uses button class for replies

27-Oct-04:
CHANGE: dialog view should use button class for replies

[Bjorn]

I might as well give a reason for not giving feedback at the moment. It's mostly because my time currently goes to other things than checking out people's projects, and also because I already checked out 0.3.10.

[Hajo]

Thanks for the message Björn. You've explained your points of view already and I understand them. I understand that you don't want to comment each version.

But there are a lot more regular members. Some threads create a dozen messages a day. But mine seem to be uninteresting. E.g. the 0.3.12 got only 44 views over a week, and no response. (Probaly 20 of the views are from myself, checking if there really is no response).

Some other threads get 40 views per day and lots of responses. Do I need to use more catchy topic titles? Or did I scare away all potential visitors with my former messages?

Should I ask for an official review? Is this too dangerous in the current state of the project? (E.g. immature project = bad review results)?

[Bjorn]

I can't really comment on why your project would be uninteresting, but because each new post usually generates a lot of views, one can't really compare the number of views your thread gets with threads that do get responses.

You could apply for an official review, but we'll need to appoint official reviewers first. :-)

[biggerUniverse]

I downloaded and tried the latest version, I don't have much time, but I thought I would at least try. The first thing I found was that I had no mouse cursor. That was hard to work with. Also, in battles and even moving, it's very fast. Sometimes things would happen to quickly to react. Other than that, it seems very interesting.

I love debug printouts! (and pants)
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[Hajo]

No mouse cursor? What OS and mouse (driver?) do you have?

I've made tests on Windows XP and SuSE Linux 7.0, both had a mouse cursor inside the game window.

Currently the keyboard interface still seems superior if you need to do things precisely, e.g. entering moves while in a battle. You can press '#' to turn to a gridded display, that might help to move more preciselsy, too.

Movement being too fast: I need to work on that. Currently there is a fixed 50ms delay per square + a computer dependand amount. If your machine is faster than mine, you move at 50+10ms per sqaure, while I'm probably moving at 50+30ms per square. I'll try to measure the variable time and adjust the fixed delay to get a constant delay on all systems (except the very slow ones).

What's with the pants? You could try a skirt, but I agree the choice of legwear is somewhat limited currently :)

Thank you for the reports. I'm a bit clueless about the missing mouse, I couldn't reproduce the problem, and I don't know what to do to fix it. I'll take care of the timing issue.