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[magellan]

A month or so ago, I thought "You know what would be cool, a post apocalyptic roguelike?" Started coding a bit, and was dead set to have vera lynn: we'll meet again as starting screen background music.
But looks like this niche is now in better hands.
Congratulations!

[unormal]

A month or so ago, I thought "You know what would be cool, a post apocalyptic roguelike?" Started coding a bit, and was dead set to have vera lynn: we'll meet again as starting screen background music.
But looks like this niche is now in better hands.
Congratulations!

Thanks! I really like prospector, great concept. The other idea for a roguelike that I was considering was a space exploration game (ala starflight, planet's edge, etc), but you had it covered

[Keiseth]

As fun as the game is, I really have to compliment the writing and setting. It's totally alien, and yet hauntingly familiar at times. The use of mostly unique creatures and the use of fresh water as currency is all very immersive and welcoming-- we have already far too many Roguelikes with Warrior/Rogue/Thief, and kobolds and goblins. I can't wait to see it develop even further.

In short, this is really good!

[Grishnak]

God dammit, this game has crashed 3 times, and I have yet to even move around. One crash before the game even finished firing up, one crash during char generation, and yet another crash just after char generation. GRRRR

Edit: Jesus fucking christ, I have tried all 3 binarys that the game has supplied, and I cannot get past char generation without some kind of crash, what in the shit is going on.

[unormal]

God dammit, this game has crashed 3 times, and I have yet to even move around. One crash before the game even finished firing up, one crash during char generation, and yet another crash just after char generation. GRRRR

Edit: Jesus fucking christ, I have tried all 3 binarys that the game has supplied, and I cannot get past char generation without some kind of crash, what in the shit is going on.

What is the crash? There's no exception text?

[Grishnak]

Its different every time, 2 of the crashes had no error messages, just the application completely crashed.

[Tnx]

The people asking about shopkeepers restocking.. Yes they do restock, I don't understand why you would kill argyle for his stuff... you can easily buy out his shop with like two crocodile corpses.  Getting that is sooo easy.  Anyways, I restarted my praetorian and started with a vibroblade worth 800 and a SOLAR cell.  Awessommee.

[Singularity-SRX]

Thanks for the tip, but it seems nobody actually has enough money to buy a single corpse off me
AND IT'S 200 DAMN POUNDS

Btw nice, i started with a vibro dagger with a <low> chem cell in it

[Tnx]

Well you should really be using those corpses to trade for useful things.  I always buy all shotgun/lead ammo/artifacts/nades... then I buy out whatever else is relevant (in my case, tinkering stuff).  Any left over you use to buy nuggets.

[Ozyton]

Okay I'm trying the game out now, but the aspect ratio/screen size is wonky and makes the ascii look like shit. Is there a way to run the game so that it makes the tiles their native size, or something?

[unormal]

Okay I'm trying the game out now, but the aspect ratio/screen size is wonky and makes the ascii look like shit. Is there a way to run the game so that it makes the tiles their native size, or something?

Hit escape in game and select 'r' to reset your aspect ratio. Also try the "-filter" command line parameter.

[Ozyton]

Hit escape in game and select 'r' to reset your aspect ratio. Also try the "-filter" command line parameter.

I've been trying to do that, but that just makes the window adjust its height. It doesn' make the whole window adjust to make the 10x12 tiles actually 10x12

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by command line. if you mean make a shortcut and add that, it doesn't do anything.

EDIT: oh yes, I hit a button (dunno which one) and it removed the fog of war or something and that seems to be cheating, but I can't get it back to normal. wtf? (it was one of the logitech G15 buttons)

[Frumple]

Whoo, beat me to it. EDIT: Except not. Are you running the stuff from the .exe or the .zip, Ozy? Running right off th'zip's XRL.exe doesn't seem to be giving me trouble, so it might help if the .exe's installation method is making something go wonky.

If you're here, unormal, have you considered putting up an announcement/page on roguebasin or dropping a line at the roguetemple forums? Might get some more playtesters on board.

Also, I got this bug doing silly things with a 100+ level character, after gaining a junkload of skills. Dunno if it'll help, but what the error message spat out is in the spoiler.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

  Turn:System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
   at ConsoleLib.Console.ScreenBuffer.get_Item(Int32 r, Int32 c) in X:\Documents\Programming\C#\XRL\ConsoleLib\ConsoleLib.Console.cs:line 381
   at ConsoleLib.Console.ScreenBuffer.Write(String s) in X:\Documents\Programming\C#\XRL\ConsoleLib\ConsoleLib.Console.cs:line 662
   at XRL.UI.Sidebar.RenderAbilityStatus(GameObject Player, Int32 xp, Int32 yp, ScreenBuffer _Buffer) in X:\Documents\Programming\C#\XRL\XRL Application\Game Core\UI Elements\XRL.UI.Sidebar.cs:line 763
   at XRL.UI.Sidebar.Render(ScreenBuffer _ScreenBuffer) in X:\Documents\Programming\C#\XRL\XRL Application\Game Core\UI Elements\XRL.UI.Sidebar.cs:line 721
   at XRL.Core.XRLCore.RenderBaseToBuffer(ScreenBuffer Buffer) in X:\Documents\Programming\C#\XRL\XRL Application\Game Core\XRL.Core.cs:line 1436
   at XRL.Core.XRLCore.RenderBase() in X:\Documents\Programming\C#\XRL\XRL Application\Game Core\XRL.Core.cs:line 1475
   at XRL.Core.XRLCore.PlayerTurn() in X:\Documents\Programming\C#\XRL\XRL Application\Game Core\XRL.Core.cs:line 1317
   at XRL.Core.ActionManager.RunSegment() in X:\Documents\Programming\C#\XRL\XRL Application\Game Core\XRL.Core.ActionManager.cs:line 266

EDIT: Oz, hit F9. Either that, or scroll down to the bottom of the keybindings (esc->k) and change Explore-somethingZone to whatever's more comfortable. Terribly helpful for finding that bloody glowpod(pad? Bah.) merchant.

[Ozyton]

I'm using the thing that came with the zip, it starts off all dumb and shitty so I don't know what they were thinking when they programmed in the wrong window size. Is there a way to type in the window size value thingy somewhere? that would be awesome.

So, that F9 thing isn't cheating?

[Frumple]

No, it's definitely cheating

The swamps hurt my eyes, though, so I don't let it bother me. Technically, the bigger cheat I'm running is the 'indicate overland encounters on the main map' debug option, which is just awesome. I can hunt down caves/ruins/neat junk without having to spend 2-3 hundred megs of zone creation in the process.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I've learned that the merchant is always within 1 square of Joppa, but which square changes from game to game. Said thing's terribly useful, since it usually carries a glowsphere of some variety and holy-hell are those things an improvement over torches.

Dunno about the window-size whatsit. Maybe try the installer, since other posts seem to indicate it comes with a few shortcuts or something that might help out. I'unno, wish I could help yeh more, but it's not giving me any trouble (insofar as looks go. Plenty of crashes and game-stopping bugs ).