Bitter Mushroom posted:

That's a suggestion by someone who just can't switch their brain off. Pretty sure ye olde sailors were mesmerized mainly by mermaids, but who knows.

Cephalocidal posted:

Still some beta niggles (tapping the screen during loading brings up the keyboard and field modification modal, text descriptions running off the side, etc.) but it definitely feels like it belongs on a tablet. That said, two or maybe three things immediately jumped out at me. First, the tutorial text bubbles were massive compared to the tiny "forward" arrow I had to tag to proceed. Being able to tap the entire bubble would be nice, and the arrows indicating on-screen actions (backing out after purchasing the first farm for instance) could be better contrasted with the rest of the screen to jump out at players. Second/third, the navigation wheel was too large for me to comfortably use while holding the tablet - even with my bigass hands I couldn't tap "left" with my thumb without stretching weirdly. Scaling based on device might be called for, or maybe pushing the wheel further into the corner. This was all on a Sony Xperia Tablet Z. Past that, again - it really did feel like it belonged on a tablet (or enormous phone) so I think you'll probably have a compelling game once you've dialed it in a little.

Hempuli posted:

Yeah, the "tutorial" was added very quickly because at that point in time I just really wanted to get the game out; I think I'll try adding some more info screens for more specific events. The game area is kinda small so there's only one shopkeeper and he marks roughly the 50% descension spot.

There's actually an item that lets you jump on enemies; I feared the ability might be a bit overpowered, I should probably try giving it to the player from the beginning. The item throwing thing is a great point; I wanted the player to be able to manipulate the items more freely than just dropping & using, but on the other hand there's really no use in being able to throw, say, the blue chest around. I guess having thrown items knock enemies back without damaging might be worth a try!

When you say tighter controls, where do you feel they could be improved? Are they too slippery? Should the player stop in midair if arrow buttons are not pressed? I'm not happy with how imprecise the throwing aspect is so I'm going to tweak that in any case.

I made the musics by myself and this is actually my first time composing! Hopefully the two tracks currently in the game are enjoyable enough. Thanks for the feedback.

Cephalocidal posted:

Scaling based on device might be called for, or maybe pushing the wheel further into the corner.

Unormal posted:

I send you a private link to the dropbox that has a current APK via e-mail, if you promise to give honest feedback!

Unormal posted:

FYI, for the next build I've added a "small" compass size to better accommodate big tablets:

Cephalocidal posted:

I can already tell that'll be way more comfortable. Unfortunately so I won't really be in a position to verify that for a while.

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I've been approached by someone in e-mail about fixing the bugs in Incursion, and I've put a lot of thought into things recently. I have been working on a tabletop RPG of my own recently, that has nothing to do with Incursion. I'm realizing at this point that I've left it for a negligently long time, so I'm going to open-source the last stable version. (The actual current version, with 1.5+ years extra development, is still in its infancy and not a functional game. Because it has a lot of new RPG-design ideas I'm using elsewhere, I'm keeping it for now. I may try to sort out the source-code portion and give it to the community if people want; honestly I don't think it is very useful.)

This is not an effort to undercut the "Veins of the Earth" clone-project being discussed here -- it looks really interesting, and under the hood the source is probably more stable than Incursion. So, to Zireael and his or her fellow contributers, you have my blessing to take whatever you want from Incursion's design, aesthetic and/or code in your own project. Some people just want to try to do a truly stable (original) Incursion, so that is why I'm releasing it -- I discussed this in e-mail before coming back to the group and seeing your clone-project, and I apologize for the timing.

I will be releasing the source code under the Creative Commons Attribution license, with a polite and non-legally-binding request not to use copyleft or anti-commercial licences for derivative works composed primarily of Incursion unless licensing conflicts make your project unworkable otherwise.

I hope to get the source code up this weekend. That may not happen, depending on how busy I get. I have to get it to compile (into 0.6.9I) again on my own computer first, to make sure I'm even releasing the right version.

There are complications, however. The Incursion compile process is very complicated with a lot of moving parts. There's a custom scripting language involved using an old compiler-generator tool which I hacked to change it's output slightly. There's also a third-party graphics library, and a plugin for a specific version of Visual Studio, and other stuff. It's really tangled because I never expected anyone but me to work with it. I don't have the tools to compile it on my current computer. I may have to get a different computer out of cold storage to get you all the parts you'll need to make it work, and there will be some extensive instructions in terms of settings and such just to get it to compile. You will need to use Visual Studio 2008 if you want to work with this sources as they are -- it may get more platform-independent in the hands of later developers.

Fair warning: Released Incursion's sources are very, very tangled. There's a reason I eventually gave up and moved to a partial rewrite. I'm not sure what others will be able to do that I wasn't about crash-bugs, but some other things can probably be fixed.

I will not be renewing the web hosting for Incursion when it comes up, but I am happy to transfer the website and domain name to anyone interested in maintaining it in the next few months. I will be deleting the private "Incursion-L" mailing list in the next few months as well.

I want to thank everyone who took an interest in Incursion over the years, and apologize for never finishing the revised version. Up until a few weeks ago, I really thought I was always going to get back to it... someday. Now, I have one -- possibly more -- programmers interested in fixing the bugs, I realize I'm done with it and it would be selfish to keep it to myself any longer. So I'm doing this. I hope this works out well for the tiny community that's stayed interested so long.

Getting the source releasable is actually fairly complicated, because there's so many strange hacks. I may get it out this weekend, two weeks from now or four weeks from now, but it is at least coming soon.

ExiledTinkerer posted:

Pray to spaghetti code enmeshed with giant spider webs and enrobed in mysterious secret sauces:

http://www.incursion-roguelike.net/

ExiledTinkerer posted:

Pray to spaghetti code enmeshed with giant spider webs and enrobed in mysterious secret sauces:

http://www.incursion-roguelike.net/

Numeron posted:

As Im sure many of you are aware, the 7 Day Roguelike Challenge is just wrapping up this weekend. My previous three games from years gone by have been exceptionally well received, and I think this year is going to be another good one.

I present to you - Hellspace - Download here.

You've been called in to manage something of a situation at the Lazarus corporation's research and development space station. At the space dock they pretty much have poo poo under control. (Note the curved section! That was my new tech focus for this challenge, but it unfortunately didn't get into map generation a lot)



So you charge in head first and start stomping heads with your bros...



Investigating the dark sciences...



And possibly finding yourself deeper in the meat grinder than you would've liked...



Let me know what you think fair goons.

ExiledTinkerer posted:

There are complications, however. The Incursion compile process is very complicated with a lot of moving parts. There's a custom scripting language involved using an old compiler-generator tool which I hacked to change it's output slightly. There's also a third-party graphics library, and a plugin for a specific version of Visual Studio, and other stuff. It's really tangled because I never expected anyone but me to work with it. I don't have the tools to compile it on my current computer. I may have to get a different computer out of cold storage to get you all the parts you'll need to make it work, and there will be some extensive instructions in terms of settings and such just to get it to compile. You will need to use Visual Studio 2008 if you want to work with this sources as they are -- it may get more platform-independent in the hands of later developers.

TOOT BOOT posted:

That's quite surprising. Let's hope he follows through.

Numeron posted:

As Im sure many of you are aware, the 7 Day Roguelike Challenge is just wrapping up this weekend. My previous three games from years gone by have been exceptionally well received, and I think this year is going to be another good one.

I present to you - Hellspace - Download here.

You've been called in to manage something of a situation at the Lazarus corporation's research and development space station. At the space dock they pretty much have poo poo under control. (Note the curved section! That was my new tech focus for this challenge, but it unfortunately didn't get into map generation a lot)

Jeffrey posted:

1/3 of it is visual C++ 6, 1/3 of it is in turbo pascal, 1/3 is javascript that runs in a browser, and the build system is cobbled together with excel VBA macros. Good luck on those prerequisites.

Jeffrey posted:

1/3 of it is visual C++ 6, 1/3 of it is in turbo pascal, 1/3 is javascript that runs in a browser, and the build system is cobbled together with excel VBA macros. Good luck on those prerequisites.

German Joey posted:

oh, big egg on my face. ;[

my own game, that I've been working on for a couple years now, is written in javascript (most of the frontend) and python (server, which has some extensions written in C++) but has some modeling in excel and matlab, so there's 5 different languages in the repository. so, your joke it didn't sound so unbelievable to me!

Tollymain posted:

I'm curious, why do people often use multiple languages for a single game?

Unormal posted:

Unormal posted:

Unormal posted:

Congrats on the Dungeonmans greenlight madjack!

http://steamcommunity.com//sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=238293262