Light7DRL is a success, in the sense that it's a playable game!
I did have quite a few ideas that I didn't get implemented, but ah well. I may return to the project later.
This year was pretty hectic for me, as real life interfering meant I didn't get to do any work on Tuesday or Wednesday and hardly any on Thursday, so in practice this is almost a 4DRL (but yes, yes, the hours have to be consecutive). The rather uncreative name of the game reflects this -- I never got to the point of having time to think of a proper name, so the codename I needed to make the github repository stayed. It's a 7DRL, and it's about light (and darkness).
The game is written in Common Lisp, so it's not quite trivial to distribute for those of you who are not running on Lisp machines (or at any rate, used to working with CL). I'm using SBCL's save-lisp-and- die mechanism for generating executables -- from what I understand, most of SBCL is packaged along with each executable, which is why the binaries are so obscenely large.
I've tested that SBCL can produce Windows binaries, so those are on their way.
Notes on playing the game: there's no in-game help, so read the README to get the control scheme. One thing that's not mentioned is that space/enter are used as general "dismiss" keys, e.g. for "more" prompts. Especially when it comes to ending the game, these are not always well signalled. If the game seems frozen, try pressing space.
Just FYI, it looks like your libtcod is dynamically linked against libpng12, which is pretty old. I'm trying to install it in a slot on my laptop as I write, but you might consider bundling that .so as well, or statically linking libtcod.
Also, if you only have 32-bit hardware, I have both 32- and 64-bit, and could make you a 64-bit build if you want, once I get libtcod on the 64-bit machine.
Looking forward to running it as soon as I have libpng12 in place!
> I've tested that SBCL can produce Windows binaries, so those are on > their way.
Nice, I may use that feature to distribute a classic-style console client when mine gets a little closer to distributability.
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I had to modify the code a bit to get it to work on Windows, partly to work around what seems to be a bug in SBCL (on Windows).
Furthermore, however, I got a gameplay bug report before I'd managed to release the Windows port, and the fix for that has been incorporated into the Windows binaries above. I haven't yet updated the Linux binaries, so be aware that those are broken until I get to them. (The newest source is in the repository, of course.)
On Mar 14, 7:16 am, vsync <vs...@quadium.net> wrote:
> Just FYI, it looks like your libtcod is dynamically linked against > libpng12, which is pretty old. I'm trying to install it in a slot on my > laptop as I write, but you might consider bundling that .so as well, or > statically linking libtcod.
Oh, thanks. IIRC I didn't build this libtcod myself, it's a beta version from the libtcod site. I'll see what I can do about including the necessary libraries.
