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DeveloperX · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:35 am Post subject:

Okay, I know its deadline time, so I am going to submit my final final release 3.17.2008 as my entry for judging.

I patched a major bug that mages encountered.
I added a second sidequest.
I added 3 new items (for the sidequest)

So, grab it from my project page

http://devxcode.googlepages.com/rpgs

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if you grabbed the final final, and your game crashed when trying to use items in battle and you had no items in your inventory, then re-download the zip again. I patched the exe. Was a small oversight.
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http://devxcode.googlepages.com/SAWD3.17.2008.zip
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ManaTroph · Monkey-Butler Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 57

well if i have till midnight to post my entrie i can probably have something verry basic for combat, as in regular attacks only, no spells or abilities. and as for having any flow to the game there won't be, because i don't have key items done or the ability to interact with the dungeon aside from moving around.

besides this is by no means a sopisitcated project (not at the moment anyway). compared to the other entries it will likely suck big time, but i didn't enter cause i thought i had any chance of of winning since it is my first attempt at a real rpg.

well let me know how long i have to post my entrie and i'll see what i can do.

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well thats it i'm out there was just no way i was gonna have a working combat system (to any degree). But the project will remain in the projects section of the site as i have been working on it quite a while before i heard of the contest and will continue to work on it for quite some time to come as i have semi-grand plans for it.
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DeveloperX · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject:

I am currently porting SAWD to Allegro so that more people can enjoy it.

So far so good. :D
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DeveloperX · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject:

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

Impressions of SAWD, 3.17.2008 version:

It looks like this if Windows is set to Japanese. Runs fine in full-screen though, unlike any of my Japanese command-line programs. I blame Microsoft for both.
At the start and end of combat I get an error message. "SetConsoleWindowInfo failed! Error: 87". This only seems to happen in windowed mode, so it may again be related to running Windows in Japanese mode.
Some flickering caused by the cursor flying across the screen. This could be avoided by writing directly to video memory. I think there's also some way to turn off the cursor entirely.
The end-of-combat summary is annoyingly slow.
Damage numbers get ridiculously high. I killed all the thieves with a single hit each, rested, went outside, and was killed by a single hit from a poisonous plant.

Edit: on second thought, writing to video memory directly might only work in a true DOS program, which SAWD doesn't seem to be. Still, you'd think there was some way to update a console window without moving the cursor around.

DeveloperX · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:29 am Post subject:

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

The flickering was caused by the cursor. If you disabled the cursor, then Windows must have re-enabled it when switching to full-screen mode. Probably another side-effect of Japanese mode.

ManaTroph · Monkey-Butler Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 57

DeveloperX · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject:

DeveloperX · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject:

....okay, what is going on here?

Its the 18th now.....

When does voting start?

Does Bjorn have to enable it or something?
Is it just me or does anyone else think that we need more people who can keep up on this sort of thing around here?

Either the contest system should automatically enable voting when the contest is over or we need someone to pay more attention...
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BadMrBox · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject:

The only one who can fix the voting/contest stuff is Bjorn who hacks the database.
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DeveloperX · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject:

RedSlash · Mage Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 331

Wow, these games look really good! I would love to try them out, but unfortunately my PC went for a hard crash over the weekend and now I'm stuck with my Mac only. Unfortunately, wine didn't work for the games. :(

DeveloperX · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:55 am Post subject:

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

Kanjiland is written in 100% platform-independent Python. It already runs on OS X, I just need to repackage it. Give me a day.