Egoboo Forum

bgbirdsey · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:00 am Post subject:

It might be a good idea to "rate" the different starter modules according to difficulty?

There is a star system in place, does that show up in the module starter section? If it does, but people continue ignoring it, we could use text phrases instead of stars: 1 star = "Too easy.", 5 stars = "Are you insane?!?!?!"

The thing that is a bit disappointing about "dumbing down" the module difficulty is that each of the modules is easily beatable if you know the trick, and brute force is almost never the solution. This is the way it SHOULD be, but I think it is a bit frustrating for new players.

Maybe there could be some kind of "intro" that shows the strengths and weaknesses of the various classes, and gives a hint on the tricks? Or maybe there could be an in-game help screen that would give one important hint about the module's trick?

The real problem with the Adventurer starter is that Mim's and Brom's AI are not very good. I've always had problems (even from the earliest versions) keeping them with me and not getting them stupidly killed. In fact, I don't think that I have ever killed the Mum and had Mim and Brom alive at the end...

Zefz · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:18 am Post subject:

I could try to improve their AI with som additional scripting. Their script is very outdated, from Egoboo 1.00 or so.

And what about an intro video? (One of these videos which play when you start the game). I'm not sure, but SDL should support PlayVideo() or something like that. The video could show each class doing what they are best at.
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bgbirdsey · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:57 am Post subject:

I was thinking about that, but we would almost have to have some way of doing scripted animations. The current scripting language sould be used, but it is so (relatively) hard to write a working script and to handle timing that I'm not sure it would be worth it.

If we could manage to script it, then we could use fraps or something (maybe even the screenshot?) to dump the frames to disk and then combine them into a video. One problem is cimbining text and the video (not too hard) doing voiceovers and music?

That sounds like a big, cool project.... any takers?

Jarramundi · Lumpkin Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 33

Yep, it's definitely a bug. When I finish the level, kill the mum grub etc. I get the victory msg. Then when I exit. There is no sign anywhere of an export or save file or anything. Also, when I restart the same level, it spawns me straight into a wall and I die every time until I restart my machine!

I'm convinced it's because egoboo does not have permissions to write to my file sytem. I can't even save a screenshot for the same reason. I'm going to talk to the ubuntu forums to see if there is a way around this.

Axel · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:39 am Post subject:

Jarramundi, please read this thread until your eyes bleed or until you learn the rules, your choice:
Topic =)
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Jarramundi · Lumpkin Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 33

Are we cool?
No more double posts... I never knew that it wrecked your head so bad.

Can we continue? Smile

Agent of Dread · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject:

Sure thing. Smile

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Jarramundi · Lumpkin Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 33

I had to add into the terminal:
sudo chmod a+rw /usr/share/egoboo

To give that file read/write permissions, otherwise it cannot save any data in the file system. I'm going to play now and beat that damn mum grub again!!! and see if we get a result.

penguinflyer5234 · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject:

It should only write to ~/.egoboo!
Can you copy what's in /usr/bin/egoboo?
(Use code tags)
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Jarramundi · Lumpkin Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 33

There is no /egoboo in /usr/bin Confused

If you meant /usr/share/egoboo then here it is.

penguinflyer5234 · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:57 am Post subject:

There should be a shell script with the file name 'egoboo'!
Is it in /usr/games?
Version 2.7.7 and 2.6.0 and the newest versions but they do not support Linux yet.
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Jarramundi · Lumpkin Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 33

Nothing in /usr/games either....

Wait here it is, sorry it was in /usr/bin Embarassed

I was looking for a directory /usr/bin/egoboo and obviously not finding it because it's not a directory.

Ok so this is a shell script. What can I do with this? Can you turbocharge it for me penguinflyer? Should I chmod it?

Zefz · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:23 pm Post subject:

penguinflyer5234 · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:42 am Post subject:

Jarramundi: Can you copy it here?
Zefz: 2.7.7 does run slowly, I think it's something to do with it not doing the SDL stuff every time it does the main function...
2.6.0: I recompiled without the -lSDL_image and it still gives the same error.
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Jarramundi · Lumpkin Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 33

Man I'm not even sure how to open it...
Hey at least I'm learning right?
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