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Mandrake · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:48 pm Post subject: Next week I shall return.

My hermitage shall be over. And I'll have a surprise (no, not the Changeling, but a complete game non-the-less. Think Zelda....and then throw in mad ass arcade combat).

Anyway, some news since I was gone last. I'm moving to Cleveland in a month because this week I got a swank ass job doing VB programming for 4x what I'm earning now. Sweet. And, in about a week Faerie Ring Games becomes an actual company, so that's more good news and stuff.

Expect much fun.
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Sirocco · Mage Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 345

Coooooooooolness.

Mandrake · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 4:42 pm Post subject:

for those of you who don't check the news on http://rpgdx.net every day, I suggest you do so today.
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Ninkazu · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject:

I think I got something like 10 FPS. Why is it so unbelievably slow? Don't just say "Python", there has to be a better reason.

Bjorn · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 5:52 pm Post subject:

It won't run for me in Wine, but as this is PyGame, it should be be possible to run this in native Linux too, right? Would you have any idea how?

Rooter · Copyright Infringer Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 61

I get 10 FPS on my Athlon 64 3400+ w/ Radeon 9800 Pro. Awesome coding Mandrake.

Sirocco · Mage Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 345

Runs fine on my system, but we're talking Pygame here, so compatibility is obviously a huge issue. Back to Allegro for you, beetch!

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Mandrake · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 8:12 pm Post subject:

Rooter · Copyright Infringer Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 61

How embarassing for you.

Sirocco · Mage Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 345

Mandrake_lazy · Guest

speaking of Tools, how have you been lately, Rooter?

Anyway, what would be emberassing would be me braggin about the game, showing screenshots, and hten holding back development to reprogram the whole thing in a different language.

If you get past your expectations of failure and actually play it, it's a fun little game, flawed but fun. and soon, flawed but fun and finished.

I'd ratherfinish a game and have it fun and flawed then keep working on it promising to release it for five years.

I should upload that old RQ demo somewhere. It runs too fast these days, but meh, ti was neat.

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

I've found that with HWSURFACE | FULLSCREEN | DOUBLEBUF, I can get my unoptimized walkaround demo (which uses pygame) to run at 800x600x32 with 17 fps average on my 600 MHz K6-3, which is significantly faster than Crystal Quest, if still too slow to be useable. Granted, there's nothing particularily complex about the walkaround demo, but it does render the entire screen (including a multi-layer tile map, tile size 32x32) on every update. Are you sure you can't get better performance out of pygame?

Sirocco · Mage Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 345

DrunkenCoder · Demon Hunter Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 559

Ok, the game is fun sure thing but I can't stand playing it for more than 5minutes because of the speed issues. Anohow, nice work mandrake and nice seeing you're back.
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