Notices by TheMightyGlider (themightyglider@gamemaking.social)

This week I've finished a quest log feature for #rba . I did not plan to add this to the next release but realised it would be a good feature to lead people through the game a bit more.
I think this was one of the main problems of past versions. New players did not understand what to do. I hope the upcoming release will fix this.
Now there are only two more points on my todo-list:
- adding one more quest
- adding some missing SFX

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#TIL The famous author H.G. Wells (War of the words, The Timemashine) published a book called 'Little Wars' in 1913.
This was the first printed ruleset for a tabletop wargame with miniatures ever and makes Wells the grandfather of games like Warhammer and BattleTech.

At the internet archive they have a nice scan of 'Little Wars':

https://archive.org/details/littlewarsgamefo00well/page/1

@blueberrysoft
The current release came out this year and their forums seem to be very active as well. So, I guess the project is healthy. 😁

Anyway I think I'm going to try out Haiku OS on the same mashine as well. I'm curious about this free non-Linux OS for quite a long time and the hardware specs seem to be good enough to run it.

I own a old netbook: 32bit, intel atom processor, 1gb of ram. To modern standards this thing is really slow.
Past weekend I installed Puppy Linux. I need to say it's awsome how many things still work well on this old hardware. Before I had Ubuntu Mate run on this mashine and it took ~800mb of ram without running any app. This means starting a big tool like firefox overfloaded the ram and slowed down the whole mashine. Now Puppy only takes only 134 mb so even firefox runs okay on most pages.

Far too long since my last post here.

Time to show you a few fresh screenshots from #rba .

I reworked elfish fortress a little bit and here are some impressions for you!

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@abundance
Very nice idea! I think I'll try this out myself. Thx for posting this tutorial.

@notimetoplay
THX!
I'll try it as soon as I can.

A nice side effect of this addition is that now mobs can act as heat sources as well. Fire monsters that are able to burn the doors and furniture of your shelter sound like a cool challenge for the later game.

Past weekend I've added one more pet to RogueBox Adventures.

This one is a little fire creature and a bit more difficult to handle then the other pets because it can burn flammable objects it comes close to. On the other hand it is very powerful because it can burn (instakill) most hostile monsters.

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@notimetoplay
Just saw the screenshot of your tool. Looks like it could be very handy if I want to create static areas for my game (roguelike).

Is your tool foss? Could you offer any link to a repo or something?

@tealturtle
I'm almost sure this thing will flop...

ATARI has not such a strong fanbase as Nintendo, which started the whole retro hype with the (S)NES mini.

Furthermore this thing is far too expansive.

Almost #weekend !

Time to switch into #gamedev mode.

I'll try to push the changes, I've made to #rba during this week, tonight. This means new BGM made by 'Visager' and a reworked credits screen. 😁

Furthermore I plan to add one more quest this weekend. If this quest is done I only have to do one more quest, two pets and four items before I could think of the next release.

I hope I'll be done with everything before this month ends.

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Here are some fresh screens for you!

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