7DRL Success - A Most Peculiar Adventure

Antagonist

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Mar 14, 2010, 12:25:32 PM3/14/10

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We present to you - A Most Peculiar Adventure!

A 7DRL exploring the themes of identity, ego and madness by Ido
Yehieli, Charl van Deventer and Whitaker Blackall:

http://tametick.com/ampa/

Requires java and a non-ancient graphics card.

Works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

-Ido, Charl & Whit.

Darren Grey

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Mar 14, 2010, 6:32:40 PM3/14/10

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Completed on first try. Not exactly sure where the challenge is
actually. The look is very cool though, and I love the atmospheric
sounds.

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Darren Grey

Ido Yehieli

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Mar 14, 2010, 7:05:58 PM3/14/10

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On 03/14/2010 23:32 , Darren Grey wrote:
> On Mar 14, 4:25 pm, Antagonist<landon.skyf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Completed on first try. Not exactly sure where the challenge is
> actually.

Making the game non-challenging was one of the design goals.

Think of it as an ambient, zen-roguelike: it is more about the journey
than about the destination :)

-Ido.

Darren Grey

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Mar 14, 2010, 8:31:58 PM3/14/10

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Ah, that explains it. I kept thinking the job might be to avoid the
lights that kept popping up about the place... Well, was enjoyable
anyway :)

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Darren Grey

Ryan Szrama

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Mar 14, 2010, 9:23:12 PM3/14/10

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Hmm, just tried it on my Win XP machine w/ the latest Java and an
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 w/ 128 MB RAM. Got this error on launch:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected reply from
glCheckFramebufferStatusEXT: 36061
at
rendering.RenderableTexture.checkFBOCompleteness(RenderableTexture.java:
110)
at rendering.RenderableTexture.initFBO(RenderableTexture.java:36)
at rendering.RenderableTexture.<init>(RenderableTexture.java:18)
at rendering.GPUDisplay.init(GPUDisplay.java:117)
at rendering.GPUDisplay.<init>(GPUDisplay.java:87)
at rendering.GPUMapDisplay.<init>(GPUMapDisplay.java:36)
at rendering.GPUHexMapDisplay.<init>(GPUHexMapDisplay.java:15)
at core.HexRLEngine.init(HexRLEngine.java:206)
at core.HexRLEngine.init(HexRLEngine.java:188)
at game.HexRL.init(HexRL.java:177)
at game.HexRL.main(HexRL.java:238)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Ido Yehieli

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Mar 15, 2010, 4:04:41 AM3/15/10

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On 03/15/2010 02:23 , Ryan Szrama wrote:
> Hmm, just tried it on my Win XP machine w/ the latest Java and an
> NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 w/ 128 MB RAM. Got this error on launch:
>

I would guess the problem is with your graphics card's support for
FBO(or lack thereof)- the 5200 is quite an old card and it was a low-end
card 7 years ago as well (although I think it *theoretically* should run
on it - if I am not mistaken it was the very first card from NVidia to
support Opengl 2.0).

Antagonist wrote the rendering code, and it achieves its prettiness by
making heavy use of shaders- that sets an apparently
not-quite-low-enough lower bound on the graphics cards needed to run it.

Still, most graphics cards from the last 5 years should be able to
handle it.

-Ido.

Antagonist

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Mar 15, 2010, 4:40:51 AM3/15/10

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> > Hmm, just tried it on my Win XP machine w/ the latest Java and an
> > NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 w/ 128 MB RAM. Got this error on launch:
>
> I would guess the problem is with your graphics card's support for
> FBO(or lack thereof)

This is it exactly. Its possible to refactor the code to use PBuffers
when FBOs are unavailable, but I was worried about performance and the
issue that I don't know how many cards there are that would fail on
only the FBOs and none of the other features I use like Shaders or non-
power-of-two-textures, which makes this case special.

This is fixable as I mentioned, but beyond the scope of a 7DRL. I'll
make a note however to add the PBuffer fallback support should I use
this engine for another project or when I release it as a standalone
engine.

That said, I am very interested in any error reports you guys
encounter. Especially with OpenGL 2.0 capable ATI or Intel cards who
have been the bulk of the error reports so far.

edenicholas

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Mar 15, 2010, 6:14:01 AM3/15/10

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Congratulations! Very interesting and peculiar. I didn't think about
identity, ego, or madness, however. I did think about how neat the
visuals are, and ruminated about the choice of facing plus hexes. I
especially liked the auto-zoom when exploring, it made a nice transition
when entering a cave. Overall, a nifty little game.