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johannesprix · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 9:37 am Post subject: FreedroidRPG (Linux Version)

Hi guys!

A few friends of mine and me initially cloned Paradroid for the Linux operating system. We called the clone 'Freedroid'. But after the work was done, we've started to make it into an RPG. Meanwhile a lot of time has passed, so I thought maybe it's time to post a few screenshots. The graphical style is a bit going after the Diablo series and also the stats/equipment system. Too bad, the story is very short as of now. We've even ported the previous release to the Windows operating system, but that port isn't on the public download server. When the next release comes out, I think we'll also offer some binaries, that can be run under Windows too. But we just love Linux :)

Screenshots are in the screenshots section of the project home page :) If it will load, that is :)

http://freedroid.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php

See ya, Johannes.

Rainer Deyke · Demon Hunter Joined: 05 Jun 2002 Posts: 672

Cool. Not really my cup of tea, but cool nonetheless.

johannesprix · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 4:04 pm Post subject: Thanks

johannesprix · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 12:03 pm Post subject: UPDATE: release 0.9.9 is out

Hi guys!

We've just completed and uploaded release 0.9.9 of FreedroidRPG. So far, it still runs only on the magnificent Linux operating system. If you have broadband and OpenGL capable hardware or otherwise at least a decently fast Linux machine close by, you might want to give it a try and send us some feedback, comments or even better, some bug reports about what is annoying or not working and needs to get fixed. That would be most kind.

Thanks a lot and see ya, jp.

Happy · JonA's American snack pack Joined: 03 Aug 2002 Posts: 200

I find the game as a whole extremely annoying. Mostly because of the interface; it's confusing, rather unforgiving, and really not intuitive at all. What's also confusing is the dialog. Streamlined dialog windows are so much more easier to follow.

The size of the download is simply not justified, sorry.

Also, Linux is not an operating system. Linux is a kernel.

janus · Mage Joined: 29 Jun 2002 Posts: 464 Location: Issaquah, WA

johannesprix

Bjorn · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 10:54 am Post subject:

I'll go and try out this game later today, having Slackware 9.1 running on my laptop now.

Please don't continue the Linux debate, as it's both offtopic and pointless. The definition of an operating system is not very strict, and basically waters down to enableing users to use the hardware in a convenient and efficient manner. If these users are humans, a kernel is not the OS, but from the viewpoint of programs, the kernel would be the OS.

johannesprix · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:42 pm Post subject:

Bjorn · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 11:59 am Post subject:

Hehe, that's funny.

What's not funny though, is that I'm now stuck in 640x480 after this freedroidRPG crashed on me. Here's its output:

johannesprix · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 1:06 pm Post subject:

Fooolking · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 4:49 pm Post subject:

I don't know much about coding and what not.

But I think your game has a very nice look to it.
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LeoDraco · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 9:38 pm Post subject:

Bjorn · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 10:47 am Post subject:

Ok, after being able to run it, and about the size of the game...

The speech is almost 20 MB, but does that really add to the game? I suggest this to be a seperate download for those who think it does, at least while you're releasing it to the internet.
The animation is very smooth, but have you tried making it half as smooth? It would save a lot of data as well.
16 walking directions for Tux, while it might look that tiny bit better, I think 8 would do fine. You can still allow him to walk in 16 (or more) directions, just show the picture closest to his direction. Of course he will be slightly sliding, but in my opinion the extra data doesn't justify the improvement.

It still crashed the second time I tried it in the debugger, and have emailed you the stack trace. Some more about the game though, I liked it, as well as the real time combat with the Bots. It still has a lot of small control issues though.

The dialog feels slow and unresponsive.
Clicking a crate didn't seem to make Tux walk to it.
You have to click an object two times to pick it up (first to walk to it, then to actually pick it up)
A click for each time you want to attack isn't really convenient. Look at Diablo 2, which allows you to just hold your mouse button to keep attacking, no matter if you loose the target with the mouse.
It would be nice if I could just hold the mouse button to walk somewhere as well, and not have to click each time I want to walk to the next spot. (again, see Diablo 2)
It was nice to be able to control the scrolling text with the arrows, think about making this possibily obvious from the user-interface, maybe adding arrows or even a scrollbar. You shouldn't have to read a manual to figure something like that out.
When picking up an object that makes the graphical appearence of Tux change, the game pauses while loading the new huge graphics set. This is another reason to reduce the amount of graphical data. The pause is long enough to be annoying and almost justifies a progress bar or a change of the mouse to a ticking clock or something.

So, in my opinion there's a lot of things that can use improvement, but it's shaping up to be a nice game.

johannesprix

First of all, thanks a lot for the detailed comments and stack trace!