Troy sent me an email asking if I could ask you guys to help trial his latest game Dirk 2, message is below with download link.
QuoteHello, everyone!Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Dirk Dashing 2 is almost ready for its pre-order release, and I could
use a little help testing the Linux version!
I'm using a new Linux installer this time around, and I want to make
sure it works. I recently became aware that my Bitrock installers (which
I used for my other games) were crashing on Fedora 15, and although the
latest version of Bitrock fixes the problem, I can't afford to upgrade.
So I've switched to InstallJammer. This is my first installer I've made
with it. I've already found and fixed a lot of initial issues that my
testers found, but now I want to open it up to test on a wider set of
distributions.
In return, you get to play through the demo a week ahead of it's
official pre-order release. Let me know if you find any bugs, and feel
free to comment on the game itself - especially if you like it (I could
use the encouragement)! Suggestions are also welcome, though bear in
mind that any enhancement requests probably won't make it into the
initial beta release.
You can download the demo beta from here:
http://www.mygamecompany.com/downloads/dirkdashing2setup_linux
The game uses OpenGL, and requires the use of accelerated graphics
drivers. It's 32-bit, so if you're using a 64-bit distribution, make
sure you have the 32-bit compatibility package installed. I'm not sure
if some distributions have them by default, or if you have to manually
install them.
Thanks for your help! I hope you enjoy the demo!
Troy Hepfner
My Game Company
http://www.mygamecompany.com
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Man, I hope I don't have to provide a way to disable lighting. That will really ruin the atmosphere in the game if you're running around in the nighttime levels, and it ruins some lighting puzzles I have planned (including ones I've already implemented in Chapters 1-5 and 2-2).
I think the controls also felt a little better than in the first dirk.
Couple things - allow spacebar as well as enter to get rid of help texts.
Second is a question, when i jump and hold a direction dirk moves in the direction, if i have my finger on up as well why does he suddenly stop mid air and fall - annoying behaviour.
The installer is nice but the text is quite fuzzy?
Ubuntu 11.04 64bit
AMD 6870
4GB RAM
Good suggestion, Liam. I think the space bar should be ok to hook up. I think most people were accidentally dismissing the text via the arrow and jump keys. Most of those folks, when they reported the problem, suggested using just Enter, and that made sense logically. I didn't even think about the space bar. The space bar is probably a lot easier and quicker to reach than Enter, especially if you're using a joystick/gamepad.
I hadn't noticed anything unusual about the installer text. But I'm running Ubuntu 9.10. Can you e-mail me a screenshot of what the fuzzy text looks like at [email protected]?
Here's the code that basically does the texture allocation for a single lit surface. I'm not sure which line it's dying on. (By the way, I stripped out some additional code that helps prevent setting the mode if I've already set it for a previous texture.) I think it's just basic stuff, but maybe you'll see something I shouldn't be doing or am doing wrong.
If nothing else, this helps capture/document where the crash is occurring.
GLuint texture_id;
...
glGenTextures(1, &texture_id);
// Bind it, so we can set texture parameters.
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture_id);
// Set texture parameters.
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_REPEAT);
glTexEnvi(GL_TEXTURE_ENV, GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE, GL_MODULATE);
// Load the texture pixels.
glTexImage2D(
GL_TEXTURE_2D,
0, // mipmap level (n/a - default to 0),
image->getColorDepth()/8,
image->getWidth(),
image->getHeight(),
0,
image->getPixelFormat(),
image->getPixelType(),
image->getPixels());
Edit: Ack, it doesn't seem to want to preserve my indent on my last function call!
Everything worked well except that when I clicked finish at the end of the install process my gnome panels were gone.
So I force-logged out ("pkill -KILL -u $USER", yes, a bit overkill) and logged in again. After that I started the game using the new desktop icon that was created. New game, quickly went through the intro, played until I got killed, then quit the game. Everything went fine here.
I have the proprietary drivers installed through Ubuntu.
Lighting effects seemed to work and looked really nice. :)
More once I have more time, although I guess that will be after the game is already released.
lspci info:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350] [1002:954f] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])SERR- Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Device [174b:174b]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 42
Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 2: Memory at fdfe0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Region 4: I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fdf00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci
Kernel modules: fglrx, radeon
$ lsb_release -aNo LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
$ uname -a
Linux my-desktop 2.6.38-11-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 19:02:55 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux