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[lAt this time we cannot distribute a version of the game which allows module compilation. The original plan was to do so.  But it's not possible, because the script compiler contains GPL code, as the compiler compiler that was used to make it, is GPL and has a small "runtime" that is GPL licensed.  This means we cannot distribute binaries with this code in it, as the GPL does not allow it.

If you're talking about GNU bison, its license specifically allows its output to be used in non-GPL "non-free" software.

In more general terms, you're allowed to distributed GPL software as binaries as long as the source code is also made available. (link)

From the GW thread about it:

I have already made changes to restrict players to a 9x9x7 sector box in the Shores of Hazeron galaxy.

567 sectors, though that's a temporary measure.

You probably don't need to keep other processes off it anyway. As the CPU load of DF increases, it'll crowd other things off the core, I suspect.

Beta testing.. there's a couple of milestones to go before then, really, but I will be looking for contributors to make metatiles and such. (Or if anyone feels generous and wants to draw some more tiles..) Anyone interested could take part in the testing, when I've got it to a point where I'm willing to draw a line and call it 1.0.

I'd thought about dynamic lighting and diurnal cycles, but that's been pushed back up the agenda for the moment.

There's no mobiles of any kind in yet. That's the next stage, really.

Progress on milestone two:

The metatiles are now built up into a small (117x117 tile) map to test generation.

Next bits:
Basic map display
Guy moving around the map
Remembering seen areas
Facing / LoS

Java's 2D graphics API is very easy to use but the main advantage of it for me is its similarity to C++. Python is different in various fundamental ways, and I had trouble getting my head around it. Java IDEs are at  a higher level of development than most C++ IDEs I've seen - I favour Eclipse myself - and the GUI design tools make things easy for a lazy swine like myself.

The soil before the headstone quivers, and a hand, all decaying, rotten flesh, reaches up...

Sorry about this egregious bit of thread necromancy (though it does seem somewhat apt in a discussion of a game about the walking dead...) but I have shocking new data relevant to this conversation. Maybe everyone who was interested in this back in the day has moved on, but..

Only nearly 2 years after I started thinking about this project, work has resumed. The language has shifted to Java, but progress goes on.

In what has become traditional for my projects of this sort, I've started with an editor.

Progress on "Game Involving Zombies":

MILESTONE ZERO: first iteration design complete

MILESTONE ONE: City 'metatile' editor, map tile editor, metatile / tile viewer 80% complete      
   
MILESTONE TWO: "A guy moving around the map" pending

[ June 09, 2007: Message edited by: Harlander]

[ June 09, 2007: Message edited by: Harlander ]

Things haven't been whooshing along particularly  quickly for various reasons, not least a lot of Nethack games, including one where I came within a hair's breadth of ascension, falling to an Archon's blade on the Elemental Plane of Fire. At the moment I'm still struggling with putting walls on the inside of buildings, or, as I've pretentiously termed it, 'internal space partitioning'. I'm thinking of using some kind of recursive crawler to fill in the inner walls, as my attempts at randomly blatting down walls inside buildings with a few constraints has lead to an annoyingly large number of three-square-thick internal walls with no way to pass through.

edited to add:
I just had a simpler idea.

Function name of the day: howManyOfTheseAroundIt()

[ November 06, 2005: Message edited by: Harlander ]