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- Thu Jun 09, 2022 1:21 am
- Forum: New Ideas
- Topic: An option to lock changing orientation on Android
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9493
Re: An option to lock changing orientation on Android
There are endless issues with the 'easy to use' orientation switch in Android. It really would be better for the game to have its own control. The version of Android I'm using has a setting where orientation doesn't automatically change when rotated; instead, a little symbol appears in the corner, w...
- Thu Jun 02, 2022 12:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Problems with the two baked-in tutorials
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7933
Re: Problems with the two baked-in tutorials
I think those two tutorial sets are Historic Artifacts and don't need any changes. They are what they are, from the times they came from. (I'm a little inconsistent on this, because if there's a Historic Levelset where some of the levels are unplayable due to original design errors -- never were pla...
- Mon May 30, 2022 1:28 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Recovered parts of the RnD Files Archive!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8109
Re: Recovered parts of the RnD Files Archive!
Your .sig here points to deceased www,zomis,net/rnd (which redirects to rnd,zomis,net which is not home)... Thanks for uploading these. I'm stoked that my archive.org mining gave you enough metadata to find most of the files! Since you've been active, Holger has integrated a global 'high score serve...
- Wed May 25, 2022 2:54 am
- Forum: Level and Artwork Design
- Topic: The World Making Challenge
- Replies: 53
- Views: 134279
Re: The World Making Challenge
According to https://web.archive.org/web/20070328223 ... =10&page=3, its title was 'The world 2x2 with things (095.level)', size 45kB -- maybe those details help you find it in your slushpile?
- Wed May 25, 2022 2:37 am
- Forum: New Ideas
- Topic: Store game state on server
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7370
Re: Store game state on server
It does seem like your server already has most of the state, lacking only 'what levelset was I just playing' and 'what are my settings', more or less. And, of course, a login / authentication mechanism. Overall it looks like missing stuff is (from user's ~/.rocksndiamonds/ or equivalent): - scores/....
- Fri May 20, 2022 10:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Multiplayer types
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7360
Re: Multiplayer types
yes IPX: multiple players can join a game via IPX protocol, e.g. LAN yes TCP/IP: multiple players can join a game via TCP/IP protocol, e.g. the Internet IPX is an old network protocol (used by Novell Netware, back in the day). While it would technically be possible for LAN games to use it today (th...
- Fri May 20, 2022 10:30 am
- Forum: New Ideas
- Topic: Various Tidbits
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13515
Re: Various Tidbits
'How many gems left' is the halting problem... It could be useful in some very simple cases. But so many things in RnD can change gem counts; and some level designs have things like unreachable gems as decorations outside the reachable play area. And again, coding a simple 'reachability' algorithm c...
- Mon May 09, 2022 5:19 am
- Forum: New Ideas
- Topic: Various Tidbits
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13515
Re: Various Tidbits
How to show larger explanation text: - by keyboard: hit '?', explanation of currently highlighted item pops up - by mouse, long-click on item and explanation pops up - by touch, long-press item Explanations on the bottom line could still exist. If it's short enough, just display it. If too long: Loc...
- Fri May 06, 2022 11:01 pm
- Forum: New Ideas
- Topic: Various Tidbits
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13515
Re: Various Tidbits
This 'hover description' idea sounds excellent to me! Could be in effect on all settings screens, possibly also the main menu. On mouse / touch systems it could follow the mouse / finger until something's officially selected (clicked / touched); then follow the focus (highlighted item, like 'Count s...
- Mon May 02, 2022 12:57 am
- Forum: Bug Reports
- Topic: Player's "use level start element" property does not appear to do anything
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1633
Re: Player's "use level start element" property does not appear to do anything
(And yes, I do think about something like this, like a series of little tutorial texts for R'n'D, written in a new section in the forum and linked to from a documentation page on the R'n'D web site, so these tutorial texts could directly be discussed in the forum, and questions could be answered th...
- Wed Apr 20, 2022 7:56 am
- Forum: Level and Artwork Design
- Topic: My levelset- 150 levels!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21772
Re: My levelset- 150 levels!
I'm not sure how Holger (or this bbs software) feels about 100+MB uploads. I repackaged it from .zip(143M) to .7z(111M); then converted the .wav music files to 320Kbps .mp3, giving a final archive size of 18M. But not what the original author intended.
So, not sure what to upload...
So, not sure what to upload...
- Mon Apr 18, 2022 1:08 pm
- Forum: Level and Artwork Design
- Topic: My levelset- 150 levels!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21772
Re: My levelset- 150 levels!
I have copies ... can make available, not today
- Wed Mar 23, 2022 2:37 am
- Forum: New Ideas
- Topic: Additional pre-created queries for best scores server
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7392
Re: Additional pre-created queries for best scores server
Prompting on completion would be annoying, of course... Inside the game, where might you see a level (a) which you haven't completed; (b) which you have? (a) (1) in the main menu, as the currently focused level of the current levelset (a) (2) inside the game (in active play / pause / etc) upon retry...
- Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:47 pm
- Forum: Bug Reports
- Topic: single_step flag timing
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2019
Re: single_step flag timing
This would have been with the EMC engine -- would you have noticed if it would happen there? (Not tested current version for this, don't know if it's still happening...)
- Thu Feb 10, 2022 6:41 am
- Forum: Level and Artwork Design
- Topic: 3D Maze
- Replies: 23
- Views: 36818
Re: 3D Maze
(I'm aware that you could do a series of edits which result in level versions which only work with a series of different engine versions, making a towering mess. I don't suggest to try to deal with that. Just pretend there is such a thing as an 'original environment' under which a level originally w...