Egoboo Forum

[StPenguin]

Howdy,
Well, I was fortunate enough to stumble upon Egoboo this morning. Unfortunately, it didn't want to compile for me on Linux. However, I realized that my distro's repos had an Egoboo build in them (v2.22, I believe). After an hour or so of fun, I also discovered that there was a local (as in same computer) multiplayer feature for some of the worlds. Sweet! Any game with co-op is twice as much fun to me. However, after setting the controls and booting her up with a lady friend, I instantly became frustrated with the mouse control. It seemed to have no variation in walking speed (like keyboard) and the mouse-controlled character only moved very slowly. I realize that the multiplay features are not currently in the newest version, however, is there any way to help with this problem? Can keyboard keys be used for movement with the mouse-controlled player? Can there be 2 keyboard controlled players? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

[penguinflyer5234]

Sadly, no.
But you can use joysticks.
What version wouldn't compile for you?
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[Zefz]

Two players on same keyboard is something that I've wanted too But sadly no current egoboo supports this yet.

Egoboo 2.7.5 and later supports multiplayer again.
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[PurpleSquerkle]

Welcome, and have a cookie!

We all know mouse control is awful.
Some of us may not admit it, but we all know it.

Joysticks are the way to go. Look at thrift stores. You can get good ones for maybe five bucks.

Also, out of curiosity, how did you find us (I'm always interested in knowing these things)?
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[Chainsaw]

I remember playing multiplayer with my friends on the same keyboard in an older version of Egoboo (2.2 I think), before that red menu was added.
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[StPenguin]

Thanks for all the feedback and the warm welcome...and cookies! Interesting that the mouse movement has problems but the joystick doesn't suffer from the same issues. I'll have to find a cheap usb joystick somewhere. I tried to compile version 2.6.1 (latest stable I believe). I got the following output:
make -f Makefile.unix
gcc -Os -I../enet/include -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT -c -o camera.o camera.c
In file included from egoboo.h:40,
from camera.c:22:
/usr/include/SDL/SDL_opengl.h:45:58: error: GL/glu.h: No such file or directory
In file included from camera.c:22:
egoboo.h:414:1: warning: "CLOCKS_PER_SEC" redefined
In file included from /usr/include/time.h:43,
from egoboo.h:37,
from camera.c:22:
/usr/include/bits/time.h:34:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
make: *** [camera.o] Error 1


I have sdl1.2dev, sdl1.2imagedev, sdl1.2mixerdev, and ttf2dev installed.

[penguinflyer5234]

You need these packages (in Debian/Ubuntu):
libsdl-mixer1.2-dev
libglu1-mesa-dev
mesa-common-dev
What distribution do you have?
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[StPenguin]

I didn't have the mesa dev files, thanks for the tip penguinflyer! Those files should probably be included in the readme. It seems to have compiled successfully, however, I'm unsure where to go from here. In the readme, the step after compiling is to install as root....using the same command? that just produces an 'up to date' message...and make install is no good. I'm running PCLinuxOS 2008 Gnome. Perhaps it installs to somewhere I'm not familiar with, as it only has instructions for Ubuntu and Debian. Sorry for the dumb questions, thanks again

[penguinflyer5234]

It should have 'install' at the end. That's my fault.
sudo make -f Makefile.unix install
or
su -c 'make -f Makefile.unix install'
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[StPenguin]

compiled and installed! Thanks for all the help