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Sorry for the double post, but I'll do that if something important comes up every now and then.

And here is one: OpenGL renderer is complete!



Now I need to iron out the kinks and try to compile it for Windows.. oh god help me.

If anyone would care to test first stage of terrain generation on their machine, here's a 64-bit Ubuntu binary: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27714141/adwif.tar.bzip2

Run this to install the dependencies: sudo apt-get install libboost1.54-dev libopenvdb1.1 libncursesw5 libnoise0 libphysfs1 libfreeimage3

I hope I didn't miss anything.

Expect terrain to appear around you as you move around. This is terrain streaming, not a bug. In the final version terrain streaming will be used to load areas you're expected to visit (through heuristics and the world/travel map) before you reach them, I haven't implemented those algorithms yet, so it tries to generate terrain around you in a sphere with a radius of 1 for now.

If it crashes or locks up (CPU use will go down to zero) please do tell. You can use standard roguelike controls, with the exception of diagonal movement keys, arrow keys will do for now. Also, no collision is implemented yet, so you're basically omnipresent.

I've included debug symbols so that's why the uncompressed file is so large, those of you who know what those are will know what to do. Sources are on github.

The game leaves files in ~/.adwif, remove them when you're done, oh, and if you move around a lot it'll eat a lot of disk space.

If you pass --unicode as an argument it'll run in unicode mode, if you dislike the debug output it spews try to redirect stderr like this: ./adwif 2> /dev/null

Thanks!

This looks really interesting.

On the topic of houses and maps I figure you might find some of these images useful.

Too cartoon-ish but still useful, thanks a bunch!

Can you make those triangles slightly steeper with the point at the very top of the square? Looks kimda weird like this.

What do you mean?

Thanks guys! Would it surprise you that I'm not sure what "PTW" means? But I assume "play to win".

Anyway, I'm adding perlin noise to shape the terrain, still figuring out the right parameters to make the terrain look natural.



Right now it's a bit messy.

Thanks guys! I'm currently hunting for thread deadlocks. which is the equivalent to running in knee-deep mud with two dwarfs on your shoulders.. so yeah. I'll keep you posted.

Edit: Nevermind, fixed it.

Please tell me you're including all the houses...

Yes.

/*obligatory forking joke*/

Damn you! It's already starting, huh?
Good luck building it on anything but Ubuntu though, it's library-heavy.

Keep up the good work!

I'm finishing "A dance with dragons" now, so it would be a great thing to play in such game, while waiting for "The winds of winter".

By the way, do you intend to make some war between factions/squads or something like that ? It would be a great thing, if our PC could participate in some major fight, siege or castle defense.

I'm in the same situation, got bored of waiting though and couldn't get my fix so here we are.

Well, I was thinking small battles over disputed land on the travel map that you can join on either side, based on a secondary political map. But that's for the distant future, I'll need to implement group behaviour for NPCs and assign both sides their house colours.

So when will you have a playable demo ready? E.g. basic combat, item use.

Oh and how will characters improve? Level up, slow increase of skills, etc?

Probably some time next month, I'm making good progress on the map generator and just added background map streaming (map continuously generates in the background as you move). I guess my insomnia is paying off in code.

As for character improvement, there will be no overall 'level'. You use your skills and you get better at them, although the algorithm will reward you more the lower the skill is to prevent grinding. As the skill gets higher the improvement rate will decrease but the benefit of training increases significantly.

Skills will also decay with time, although you'll be able to recall them rapidly in that case.

You'll be able to learn new skills with either gold, quests, or a combination of the two. Joining a faction will also offer you special training.