Mario Lassnig
2/21/2008 10:01:00 AM
On Feb 20, 6:27 pm, Joni Toivanen <jomio...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mario Lassnig wrote:
>
> > Hahaha, brilliant!
>
> > First try, without knowing what's going on:
>
> Well, I left all the available help a little vague on purpose, to leave
> at least something for people to figure out on their own, even in a
> simple game like this :)
>
> Don't worry, you should be able to figure out what is going on quite
> soon, and I'm sure that after a few more games you have quite a clear
> image of what the game is all about...
>
>
>
> > Alan's Psychedelic Journey Character Dump
> > -----------------------------------------
>
> > Alas, you were trampled to death by a lizard!
> > You scored -128 points!
> > Your journey lasted for 715 turns.
> > Your final health was 0/100
> > You ate 3 blue mushrooms,
> > 16 green mushrooms, and
> > 9 purple mushrooms on your way.
> > You had 1 enlightening visions.
> > You were left with 2 bottle(s) of beer!
>
> Gosh, now I really think I should have bothered to fix all of those
> plurals to singular if there is only one item/thing. They're ugly.
>
> And yeah, the lizards can be a pain, even if you know to expect them
> (did you notice the warning the game gives about them? ;), but by making
> sure you have a few spare bottles of beer, you should be able survive
> them (and then there are some more creative ways of avoiding them)...
>
>
>
> > PS: Works flawlessly on MacOS X Leopard.
>
> Really? You mean it compiles with the existing makefiles without any
> trouble? I'm truly surprised if it does, since I must admit that I've
> never compiled a single line of code on a Mac (although, I think I
> really should try one of them out some day, I've heard plenty of good
> things about them lately...)
>
> But I guess if they have most of the GNU tools, or something similar
> enough, available then there shouldn't be too much trouble -- I actually
> noticed that the "makefile.inc" is written awfully from the point of
> portability, when I was trying to get the game to compile on AIX (nope,
> not mine, a university server which I have a shell access to)...
Yep, downloaded, called make, worked :-) I didn't try the SDL though.
> Cheers, and thanks for the feedback ;-)
De rien.