Not sure if this is what we had in mind for the sequel though :-) http://www.darklands.cx/index.shtml http://freshmeat.net/projects/darklands/ - DC [Non-text...
... What? Heretic! ;-) ... If I leave *any* game for more than two weeks it's really hard to get back into it. I'm currently experiencing that in Septerra...
... Yes. If you hand a non-programmer Lua and some good documentation, they can figure it out in very short order. Hand a tolerably decent programmer Perl,...
... With 95+ polearm and 20-25 ride, I can win about 5-10% of the time. Maybe it's just the way I play, but I have a very hard time increasing my ride skill....
... time. ... increasing my ride skill. (or maybe it's the fact that I stick to cities and river rides, for that 1Fl reward ;-)) But I recall when I ...
DC, one other thing that would be easy to add to the character editor is the ability to change the "city_contents_seed" (word at 0x64). This is what...
Having slept on it I have some new input. First and foremost I don't think one should exclude another. If done correctly the game should support different...
... Regex are great! But ah, are you sure we're talking about the same thing? Perl and Python are vastly different different languages. Python is almost like...
... They're both scripting languages, though. ... Ah, well, some Perl affectionados will say Perl can be like that, too. Just with a wee bit more syntactic...
King arthur's time would work too. You have massive political instability, what with the Saxon in vasion, the Picts up north, and the remnants of the Cymry in...
In a message dated 4/1/05 7:01:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... I like it! Best suggestion yet! ... So what is wrong with that? It seems you are throwing in...
... And while we're brainstorming, there is great potential for future history or post-apocolyptic/wastelands game settings. I wouldn't recommend them at first...
... successes. ... Wheeeee!] ... generating. ... I had actually thought of post-apocalypse settings, as I was a great fan of the "Fallout" games. However,...
... I was thinking about this. I will add it because it is pretty simple. I hope to add the character image display to the editor this weekend so I will add it...
... Again a heavy snip. Material at least fictional on this era is not as hard to find as it may seem. We can always turn towards Mallory and the excellent...
... as ... and the ... the ... is ... the ... century ... what we ... Arthur. ... point ... Gawaine, ... whats ... The "Game Engine" can be called any darned...
everbodies ideas for a new game sound much good, but where can i get a working copy of the orignal? does the it work on xp pc machine computer? i saw a group...
Ebay is probably your best bet. The game with 4 other games is the CDROM version. If you want to see what's missing froma CDROM version, check out this...
We try not to say this TOO loudly, but several "abandonware" sites have been carrying copies of DL lately. We're not sure how they get away with this....
... Ah, well, the "default" file in the saved game directory is basically a blank game. Also, the darkland.loc file is a clean copy (although with zero local...
... The other nice thing is that that seed controls the names of everyone, like raubritters. I get sick of raubritters with exactly the same name springing up...
I can't recall if anyone has mentioned it recently, but what of St. Patrick and the Druids? (Not quite Tom Petty & the Heart Breakers but...) If I remember...
... I object, on the ground that "naginata" is sorely setting-dependent for a generic engine. I'm for something in the mood of "Openlands", "Darkworlds", ...
... I remember this. I did some testing on which versions of Dosbox were causing the problem(0.61 was the culprit as I recall, it was a bug in the EMS memory...
... I have already added the seed editing ability (took all of 5 minutes). Hopefully today I will get the the character image viewing finished, then I can...
... At this point in the thread I have to say my vote in the name poll was for "I don't care what it's called, I just want to play the thing" :-) I do like...
[SNIP: Me elaborating on material in Arthurian Britain and suggesting a neutral name] ... Pardon my snip, but it seems to me that we largely agree then. I'd ...
... suggesting ... has ... to ... Excuse me for being too critical, but I should point out that the industry standard is to describe the game engine after the...
been very busy with alot of stuff and looking for a game just like DL. doesn anyone have any suggestions. I don't have any games in my comp and i can't get...
