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[Lap]

Alright, now go program the rest of the game in binary. /whip

[Acanthus117]

ah shit man I'm not a programmer

/cower

[Kusgnos]

Hey, does that mean that we'll need different sets of pngs, say, red, yellow, and green ones for the arm, leg, etc, to draw it on the screen as the player gets injured?

[Lap]

There should be an SDL function that allows applying a color over any image.

[Puck]

Fffffuuuu-

You just had to go and do that, didn't you. D:

EDIT: Hey, I'm not a stupid noob! D:

01010010 01101111 01100010 01101111 01110100 00100000 01001101 01100101 01100100 01101001 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00001101 00001010 01001111 01001101 00001101 00001010 01001111 01001101 00001101 00001010 01001111 01001101 00001101 00001010 01101111 01101101 01101101 01101101 01101101 01101101 01101101

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[Acanthus117]

what.

Why are you talking about a meditating robot?

[nenjin]

So can someone explain how to upload files to the repository through SVN?

And is Puzzlemaker the only one able to grant people access to it?

I've got it installed and all I'm interested in atm is getting some tiles on there.

[Kusgnos]

Puzzlemaker and tourresh (Lap) have admin control of it, so they can allow you.

Read the readme file in the SVN, too. I wrote it, and am proud. But if there's anything unclear, you should tell me. Here, I'll copy and paste it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So, you're here either looking to play the game, or play around with the game's code. First of all, you should already have the Windows Shell Extension for Subversion. http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ If you do and you've installed it, skip the next paragraph.

Basically, it's a client that lets you access/upload/download files from the SVN repository. Make sure you pick the right one for your computer (32 bit or 64 bit). In order to set it up, all you have to do is install it, and then when it's done, right click in your windows explorer and there should be a new option to 'SVN checkout.' This is what links that directory you're in to the SVN on Sourceforge, and lets you get all the goodies in one nicely compiled and organized structure. After you do it, it'll download the files from the SVN, and now you can update or commit, which is basically downloading and uploading from it. On to the meat.

1. If looking to edit, you can edit with simple text editors. More likely, you'd have downloaded Lua, and you can use the free editor that comes with it. http://www.lua.org/

2. If looking to play, make sure you've downloaded the TE4 engine. http://te4.org/

3. Now, go to your TE4 engine folder's modules folder, and put the crimelike folder you got from the SVN repository in there. You can just simply checkout the directory in your modules folder as well, but that'll require some wrangling, because of the way it's separated into the trunk and branches. For now, I just dumped the contents of the trunk folder into a crimelike folder in the modules folder.

4. You're done! Play! Code! Sprite! Write!

[Lap]

Gotta make a sourceforge account and tell me what it is so I can add you.


Also...did puzzlemaker just kind of get excited, post for one day and make the sourceforge account and then disappear forever? I haven't seen or heard from him in any way. Someone said he worked on Puzzle Quest. Any truth to that?

[nenjin]

He's been on the forums in the last day or so. But yeah, he basically swooped in, demanded we use an SVN, and then poofed. I think he's registered on the forums but he's never posted.

[Kusgnos]

'Bout two weeks ago he said he'd take a look at stuff, but I'm guessing he had other stuff to work on. We have a pretty good number of brainstormers...I only wish I could help out more with the math-oriented stuff. Not too familiar with thinking up systems, so I'm still learning as I go along. His SVN idea was pretty good--I think someone else before him said that we could pay money for a working SVN, so a free one is great. I don't know anything about Puzzle Quest, though.

[Lap]

His SVN idea was pretty good--I think someone else before him said that we could pay money for a working SVN, so a free one is great.

We knew we needed an SVN or github, but we were waiting to actually have something worthwhile to post there before even bothering. I didn't want to have everyone upload all these tiles and then have to move everything around. I was actually just going to use googlecode, which is also free, but they're fairly equal. The only time you pay for SVN's is if you are really concerned about privacy. If that was the case I'd just host it on my machine (which is also where the forums are).

[Lap]

City generation is now functioning! It was a huge bitch, and it just might be the hardest part of this entire project, which is great news for moving forward! Let's populate this world!



What we need now are tons of floor and wall tiles. We also need people to draw out far more ascii maps of places.

Before we get too carried away we need to  determine the scale of the world. In the screenshot above, I have the average city street as 5 tiles wide. Should it be 2? 4? 6? 8?

Keep in mind the following things will almost certainly be only 1 tile big:

Most doors
People
Items

The size of things like multi-tile furniture and beds will depend on how big we scale everything. Let's figure out the scale and then get cranking on content.

I'll be hanging out in #crimelike on irc.newnet.net if anyone has quick questions on anything.

[Itnetlolor]

Looking good. I'm impressed with the amount of development already done. I like it.

[Lap]

Amount of development should also speed up since:

1. Having a pretty looking game world brings more publicity and volunteer.
2. Existing members of the team get a morale boost knowing this game can actually be completed.
3. The map involved me going through many complex, intertwining, uncommented bits of code. Most stuff from here on out I can just code straight without having to do so much fighting with the engine.