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Re: Fight or Perish

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Payne via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Fight or Perish is a free software clone of Gauntlet. It never > really progressed past a prototype from the original creator. I've > been working to fix it up. I've written an Open Game Source article > about my work. Man, that brings back memories of playing Gauntlett with my friends after our explorer post meetings at Nathan's in NY. "Elf needs food... badly!" was and is a favorite line from that game. > https://identicalsoftware.com/games/fop I read some of your articles as well, first I've ever heard about the Roguelike Challenge, which was exciting because "Crawl" is one of my favorite games of all time, and my kids roll their eyes when they find me playing it in all it's ASCII glory. I play very 0.18 usually, I don't like the change they made to later versions to make the walls dark blue, which I find is really hard to see on screens. Blue is a hard color to do well I find. So I've been slowly playing around with hacking crawl to do new things, but mostly I just play. Badly. But I do want to fix the change where they got rid of the square cursor, and now they just bold tiles which is much more difficult to see. At least to my old old eyes. :-) Thanks for sharing Denis! I'll have to try some of these out at some point. John

April 8, 2023

Fight or Perish

by Dennis Payne

Fight or Perish is a free software clone of Gauntlet. It never really progressed past a prototype from the original creator. I've been working to fix it up. I've written an Open Game Source article about my work. https://identicalsoftware.com/games/fop -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi

April 7, 2023

Shippy 1984

by Dennis Payne

I was playing around with Shippy 1984. It is a Space Invaders/Galaxian style game. It is available on Fedora. It's pretty ugly. I decided to play around with a graphics update. Not all of the changes are in git yet. Some refinement is still needed. https://youtu.be/ZAzFP90lgW0 -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi

April 7, 2023

Re: X11 app on Windows

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Zori" == Zori Babroudi via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Last meeting I mentioned that I was using WSL + an X11 app to develop on windows. > Here is the X11 app I use. > https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NLP712ZMN9Q > It lets me easily run gnome-terminal and other apps remotely. Thanks for the reminder, I'm looking at this and I'm tempted, but I might first try WSL to see if that will do what I need for now.

March 21, 2023

Re: X11 app on Windows

by Joe Sherman

This is the one I was using before I switched to MobaXTerm. http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ It worked ok. I had to set an export to set the default display before it would work but otherwise it was ok, and free. I think it is probably more powerful than I realize but haven't had the time to dig in yet. Plus my WSL install is all mangled currently (another WIP for me). Right now MobaXTerm just works for me so going with it until I can swing back around and absorb this one more. On Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 8:12 PM Zori Babroudi via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Last meeting I mentioned that I was using WSL + an X11 app to develop on > windows. > > Here is the X11 app I use. > > https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NLP712ZMN9Q > > It lets me easily run gnome-terminal and other apps remotely. > > [image: image.png] > > <Z> > > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/UFVWA… >

March 21, 2023

Re: X11 app on Windows

by Chuck Anderson

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 08:11:52PM -0400, Zori Babroudi via WLUG wrote: > Last meeting I mentioned that I was using WSL + an X11 app to develop on > windows. > > Here is the X11 app I use. > > https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NLP712ZMN9Q Thanks. > It lets me easily run gnome-terminal and other apps remotely. I run graphical apps via X11 all the time but I don't know why you'd want to run a character terminal remotely when you have a perfectly good local character terminal that you can SSH from...

March 21, 2023

X11 app on Windows

by Zori Babroudi

Last meeting I mentioned that I was using WSL + an X11 app to develop on windows. Here is the X11 app I use. https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NLP712ZMN9Q It lets me easily run gnome-terminal and other apps remotely. [image: image.png] <Z>

March 21, 2023

Re: Okay LÖVE is really cool.

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Payne via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Godot engine is very good. I have created new games with that one. I > did Pinball Disc Room and Learning Basic on Mars in it. It does do > 3D unlike Love but I haven't played with that yet. I don't recommend > writing a game engine if you want to make a game just use > Godot. Granted even though I recommend it, I have created my own > engine for a game even after playing with Godot. The sign of a true programmer! Making their own game engine, "because". Well done all around, this was a fun set of things to see on a monday morning. > On Mon, 2023-03-20 at 08:42 -0400, Tim Keller wrote: > My buddy pointed me at this as well: https://godotengine.org/ > Tim. > On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 10:52 PM Joshua Stone <joshua.gage.stone(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On a similar note, you might find these useful for learning how to package Love2D games: > https://github.com/MarvellousSoft/MarvInc/pull/268 > https://github.com/a327ex/BYTEPATH/pull/12 > - Josh > On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 8:51 PM Joshua Stone <joshua.gage.stone(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, it pulls the pre-packaged files org.love2d.love2d as a base app which includes > the Love2D runtime and its dependencies: > https://github.com/flathub/org.love2d.love2d/blob/master/org.love2d.love2d.… > Good catch on the copyrighted sprites. I've updated the manifest. > On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 7:02 PM Dennis Payne <dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com> wrote: > Does the runtime automatically include love? I don't see anything in the yml that > install love. I've been meaning to look into building flatpaks but haven't had the > chance. > The version you are building has the copyrighted sprites I've removed. I do not > recommend that. If you want to put it on flathub I would use my version. > On Sun, 2023-03-19 at 18:22 -0400, Joshua Stone via WLUG wrote: > I've created a flatpak manifest for this game: > https://gist.github.com/joshua-stone/a8fab26c64f4589baaef912cf34108e9 > Upstream should eventually include desktop icons (PNG or SVG) as well as > metainfo files, but this technically works for local builds. Testers welcome! > - Josh > On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 3:01 PM Dennis Payne via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > wrote: > I have not written a new game using the game engine. I have modified > Marvellous Inc, Bytepath, Mari0 and Lady Bug which use the engine. If you > want make a 2D game, it is a reasonable choice. I could put together a > talk if you like. > On Sun, 2023-03-19 at 13:03 -0400, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote: > Per the post that Dennis made about his porting of Lady Bug using > the LÖVE framework, I started looking at it. > It's pretty damn cool and it looks like the barrier to entry to making > simple games, etc. is really really low. > I think it might be worth a talk. > Tim. > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > constituents as "consumers". > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/YVGW5… > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/CUR3I… > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/2BEQ7… > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/NO5LA…

March 20, 2023

Re: Okay LÖVE is really cool.

by Dennis Payne

Godot engine is very good. I have created new games with that one. I did Pinball Disc Room and Learning Basic on Mars in it. It does do 3D unlike Love but I haven't played with that yet. I don't recommend writing a game engine if you want to make a game just use Godot. Granted even though I recommend it, I have created my own engine for a game even after playing with Godot. On Mon, 2023-03-20 at 08:42 -0400, Tim Keller wrote: > My buddy pointed me at this as well: https://godotengine.org/ > > Tim. > > On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 10:52 PM Joshua Stone > <joshua.gage.stone(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On a similar note, you might find these useful for learning how to > > package Love2D games: > > > > https://github.com/MarvellousSoft/MarvInc/pull/268 > > https://github.com/a327ex/BYTEPATH/pull/12 > > > > - Josh > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 8:51 PM Joshua Stone > > <joshua.gage.stone(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yes, it pulls the pre-packaged files org.love2d.love2d as a base > > > app which includes the Love2D runtime and its dependencies: > > > > > > https://github.com/flathub/org.love2d.love2d/blob/master/org.love2d.love2d.… > > > > > > Good catch on the copyrighted sprites. I've updated the manifest. > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 7:02 PM Dennis Payne > > > <dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com> wrote: > > > > Does the runtime automatically include love? I don't see > > > > anything in the yml that install love. I've been meaning to > > > > look into building flatpaks but haven't had the chance. > > > > > > > > The version you are building has the copyrighted sprites I've > > > > removed. I do not recommend that. If you want to put it on > > > > flathub I would use my version. > > > > > > > > On Sun, 2023-03-19 at 18:22 -0400, Joshua Stone via WLUG wrote: > > > > > I've created a flatpak manifest for this game: > > > > > > > > > > https://gist.github.com/joshua-stone/a8fab26c64f4589baaef912cf34108e9 > > > > > > > > > > Upstream should eventually include desktop icons (PNG or SVG) > > > > > as well as metainfo files, but this technically works for > > > > > local builds. Testers welcome! > > > > > > > > > > - Josh > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 3:01 PM Dennis Payne via WLUG > > > > > <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > > > > > > I have not written a new game using the game engine. I have > > > > > > modified Marvellous Inc, Bytepath, Mari0 and Lady Bug which > > > > > > use the engine. If you want make a 2D game, it is a > > > > > > reasonable choice. I could put together a talk if you like. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 2023-03-19 at 13:03 -0400, Tim Keller via WLUG > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Per the post that Dennis made about his porting of Lady > > > > > > > Bug using the LÖVE framework, I started looking at it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It's pretty damn cool and it looks like the barrier to > > > > > > > entry to making simple games, etc. is really really low. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think it might be worth a talk. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Tim. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who > > > > > > > refers to their constituents as "consumers". > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > > > > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > > > > > > > Create Account: > > > > > > > https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > > > > > > > Change Settings: > > > > > > > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > > > > > > > Web Forum/Archive: > > > > > > > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/YVGW5… > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > > > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > > > > > > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > > > > > > Change Settings: > > > > > > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > > > > > > Web Forum/Archive: > > > > > > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/CUR3I… > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > > > > > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > > > > > Change Settings: > > > > > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > > > > > Web Forum/Archive: > > > > > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/2BEQ7… > > > > > > > >

March 20, 2023

Re: Okay LÖVE is really cool.

by Tim Keller

My buddy pointed me at this as well: https://godotengine.org/ Tim. On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 10:52 PM Joshua Stone <joshua.gage.stone(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On a similar note, you might find these useful for learning how to package > Love2D games: > > https://github.com/MarvellousSoft/MarvInc/pull/268 > https://github.com/a327ex/BYTEPATH/pull/12 > > - Josh > > > On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 8:51 PM Joshua Stone <joshua.gage.stone(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Yes, it pulls the pre-packaged files org.love2d.love2d as a base app >> which includes the Love2D runtime and its dependencies: >> >> >> https://github.com/flathub/org.love2d.love2d/blob/master/org.love2d.love2d.… >> >> Good catch on the copyrighted sprites. I've updated the manifest. >> >> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 7:02 PM Dennis Payne <dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Does the runtime automatically include love? I don't see anything in the >>> yml that install love. I've been meaning to look into building flatpaks but >>> haven't had the chance. >>> >>> The version you are building has the copyrighted sprites I've removed. I >>> do not recommend that. If you want to put it on flathub I would use my >>> version. >>> >>> On Sun, 2023-03-19 at 18:22 -0400, Joshua Stone via WLUG wrote: >>> >>> I've created a flatpak manifest for this game: >>> >>> https://gist.github.com/joshua-stone/a8fab26c64f4589baaef912cf34108e9 >>> >>> Upstream should eventually include desktop icons (PNG or SVG) as well as >>> metainfo files, but this technically works for local builds. Testers >>> welcome! >>> >>> - Josh >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 3:01 PM Dennis Payne via WLUG < >>> wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: >>> >>> I have not written a new game using the game engine. I have modified >>> Marvellous Inc, Bytepath, Mari0 and Lady Bug which use the engine. If you >>> want make a 2D game, it is a reasonable choice. I could put together a talk >>> if you like. >>> >>> On Sun, 2023-03-19 at 13:03 -0400, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote: >>> >>> Per the post that Dennis made about his porting of Lady Bug using >>> the LÖVE framework, I started looking at it. >>> >>> It's pretty damn cool and it looks like the barrier to entry to making >>> simple games, etc. is really really low. >>> >>> I think it might be worth a talk. >>> >>> Tim. >>> >>> -- >>> I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their >>> constituents as "consumers". >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >>> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ >>> Change Settings: >>> https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ >>> Web Forum/Archive: >>> https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/YVGW5… >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >>> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ >>> Change Settings: >>> https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ >>> Web Forum/Archive: >>> https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/CUR3I… >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >>> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ >>> Change Settings: >>> https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ >>> Web Forum/Archive: >>> https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/2BEQ7… >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Dennis Paynedulsi@identicalsoftware.comhttps://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi >>> >>> -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

March 20, 2023