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nataraj

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Goblin Camp game is back
« on: August 02, 2022, 03:01:46 pm »


There was a game Goblin Camp, an open source game inspired by Dwarf Fortress, created in 2010 by Ilkka Halila. Unfortunately he abandoned project at the early stage, in a year or so.
 
When I like something, I always want to poke my nose inside. Inside the code, it is software. I am software developer, I can do it. Sadly I can't do it with DF, as code is not available. So I've been looking for some point to fulfill my development passion, and I found that long abandoned project.

I managed to port it run on modern Linux systems. And prepared the release: https://gitlab.com/dhyannataraj/goblin-camp/-/releases/v0.221

Game Code is licensed under GPL3 and available at https://gitlab.com/dhyannataraj/goblin-camp

The game as it is now, does not have it's own value, but it is good for those who want to play with DF-like game development.

Hope somebody will have fun hacking it.

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Re: Goblin Camp game is back
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2022, 02:00:11 am »

I played it in early 2011, that was... yesterday i thought ?

I won’t do anything with it, i don’t have skills nor time, but i’ll check here from time to time and see if anything is going on.

Thanks and thanks for the Linux port also.
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ZebioLizard2

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Re: Goblin Camp game is back
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2022, 02:05:05 am »

Oh wow I always wondered back then why it disappeared. It was actually pretty fun to play at the time.
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Re: Goblin Camp game is back
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2022, 02:59:24 am »

I remember it was great as a concept to be in charge of the filthy gobs :D at the time, it also had some good quality of life regarding the interface and controls and was promising in the city builder genre.

Though i remember a lot of drama and trolling around this at some point, probably a reason why it was abandonned.
Nice to see the code going open source somewhere else (as its bitbucket was deleted), maybe it will attract some developers to revive it.
« Last Edit: August 03, 2022, 03:15:46 am by Robsoie »
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Re: Goblin Camp game is back
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2022, 07:55:01 am »

This is super interesting. I'm eager to look at the code.

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Re: Goblin Camp game is back
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2022, 08:05:16 am »

This is super interesting. I'm eager to look at the code.

You are welcome: https://gitlab.com/dhyannataraj/goblin-camp
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Re: Goblin Camp game is back
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2022, 12:35:38 pm »

BTW, I would appreciate help with following bugs:

https://gitlab.com/dhyannataraj/goblin-camp/-/issues/154 (If window is resized, cursor position on the map is calculated wrongly)
https://gitlab.com/dhyannataraj/goblin-camp/-/issues/156 (V2 tilesets are brocken (SDL2 issue and not only))
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