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However, like I'm open to all interpretive things, I can be open to the idea of making the "journey" story eligible. But does it have character progress? Can it be classified as anything other than a top-view platformer with dialogue? If I add t4r4d1ddl3 now, I think it would be a despera...

Opps, I didn't realise it wasn't in the dictionary.

No, loop conditions are only checked at the end/beginning of the loop. To break out at any other time you need to use break, continue, or exit script. Note that if you want to break out of nexted loops you can pass an argument to continue and break giving the number of loops to break out of. Eg: whi...

Yes, if you want a walkabout larger than 32x40 (the size of hero battle graphics) which animates normally, then unfortunately you will need to script the animation manually. I couldn't find a script on the wiki to do that, but it's actually not bad, if you're ok with a 1-tick delay/lag. The lag is p...

For completeness, I'll mention that there is also a command line option, --no-native-kbd, which forces the engine to ignore all OS text input and do its own mapping, assuming a US keyboard layout. Using that will make the custom alt- combinations work. You can pass commandline options on Mac by runn...

Hey, creating entries on Indie DB for the most interesting OHR games is actually a really good idea. Rinku created a bunch of pages for some OHR games and the engine itself many years ago, but he made some strange choices and those are hardly representative of the best games we have today. I'm not f...

Cool, actual details about games. And what about eligible games which haven't been explicitly entered in the contest? t4r4d1ddl3 is such a game. Definitely meets the length requirement. Very nice . Master K: do you mean that the player chooses the god for the main character at the beginning? Also an...

I don't think that triggering a script via npcs is going to work for this. You want to change the layering based on the direction the hero is facing, not what tile they just stepped on. It's possible to change the order of map layers, and it sounds like that would be the best solution. There's no co...

Hmm, in that case it seems like a bad idea to either disable all of them, or even only the ones that get translated to '?'. It would be better to use something other than alt.

Oh! That explains it. On Macs, alt+* key combinations actually input various extended characters. The OHR receives these correctly, but they can't be mapped to our simple font, so it substitutes in '?' instead. Additionally, whenever the engine receives textual input from the OS it doesn't try to do...

Oh dear. (Troll Over is also last place by default) I don't know if I can get my game ready by Nov. 30th Don't forget that you effectively have until the 14th (or 15th?) It might be a good idea to loosen the rules and allow initial entries between the 1st and 15th of December rather than just bugfix...

So you mean all the alt+* and shift+alt+* key combinations don't work? Does the alt key work normally in inputtest.rpg, whether by itself or in combination with other keys?

I'm not too concerned if the translation/import/export features I described aren't used immediately, as being able to export and import is useful by itself, and it turns out there's a lot of overlap with some other neat features I wanted to add. But yes, more people need to voice an interest in havi...

Nice chart. I'm disappointed that Yandex is the top only in Russia. Best competitor to Google out there, and very popular in east Europe.

0.75 is 75/100, so the trick is to replace X * 0.75 with X * 75 / 100. Due to the operator precedence rules this is the same as (X * 75) / 100, which you might like to write explicitly. By deferring the division until last you can minimise rounding error. Now say that you have a more complicated for...