Rocks'n'Diamonds

For a complete list of changes, just have a look at the Git log (normal log, not shortlog): https://git.artsoft.org/?p=rocksndiamonds.git;a=log (It's not up-to-date though... I should push the last changes, too, which, for example, added drag-and-drop support for level set packages in zip files, whi...

EDIT: I have a hunch that the auto-increment level feature might have something to do with this. One time, on a different set, I saved a score for Level 0, and it was only reported for Level 1. Yes, that's exactly the cause for this "score bug". It was accidentally introduced with the "auto-increme...

First of all, I'm happy to hear that you plan to do a new tutorial level set! :-) Although I think that the existing two tutorial sets are very good, it is correct that they do not introduce all existing game elements, but only a part of them (which is fine, of course). It might even be just too muc...

Holger have changed all C-Comments /* xxxx */ to C++Comments // even in CONF-Files and even after #define and other preprocessor commands. Bad to merge, with "Meld" merging is more or less possible. Not sure what this has to do with Git ignore files, but: If you simply use "git merge" instead of th...

My build directory is littered (by my own actions) with things like rocksndiamonds-sdl2 and rocksndiamonds.old. Mine too! :D Solution: Put all those files (file patterns) into the file ".git/info/exclude". (On my system, this is a symlink to "../../.gitignore.private", so I have the public and the ...

Fixed!

This option was more or less only working correctly for Mirror Magic style levels (where it came from), but I've added all those elements now which also count as "gems" in other engines (including walls containing gems).

was this ever resolved outside of the forums? Unfortunately, no, although I tried hard over the years. From what I understand, Holger took this guy's Emerald Mine engine, directly translated it into C, and put it into RnD when the author explicitly stated he wasn't okay with it. No, this was not th...

In Diamond Caves, stacked magic walls act just like EM magic walls. I think this is true for most, if not all EM style elements in the DC engine; it tries to emulate them as close as possible, so that valid EM levels are also valid DC levels. Regarding the handling of stacked magic walls and elemen...

Thanks for your observations! Regarding behaviour of the R'n'D game engine, it should be mentioned that it was never intended to be 100 % compatible with existing game engines of "classic" BD/EM style games, but only to be similar enough to play levels that do not depend on special game engine trick...

Actually, this level is completable in singleplayer mode. That's what you need to do in settings before starting the level: 1. Choose the preferred player as player 4 (blue guy) 2. Turn on the teamwork mode if you haven't 3. Turn on the network game mode 4. Visit the level just to check if you can ...

Your graphics set looks very good, and should definitely be added to the Android package as one of several alternative artwork sets that are better suited for tablets or phones than the default R'n'D artwork set "gfx_classic", for several reasons: screen aspect ratio of, for example, 16:9 (can also ...

The problem is already fixed in the Git repository.

It also happened when test-playing from the level editor...

Good to know that it works for you now! :) Regarding the use of macro identifiers, in this case I prefer to have a clear, visible reference to the name of the array that is iterated in those loops rather than using a "magic constant" for which it is not immediately clear from where it comes and whic...

I have no freakin' idea how it was possible that such a hair-raising graphical bug was overseen by the R'n'D quality assurance team (well, that's me) and made it to a release version.

Sorry! This will be fixed in the next R'n'D release!

Thanks, BrownSky, for pointing out in another post that I haven't answered this one yet -- here we go! First of all, I think this is indeed a goot idea, maybe even a very good one! In fact, such a "special multi-player level modification mode" would work better on some and worse on other levels -- b...