ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Sdl2 recently updated their code so it can be installed side-by-side with sdl1.2 Maybe you have mismatched versions of the ttf library that is trying to use the outdated version and catches sdl1.2 instead? Say you compiled sdl_ttf and installed it, and never compiled it again. Then you updated sdl2 ...

Yeah, i actually have to sometimes start my self-compile twice or trice to actually run the game. Symptoms: 1 ) hangs at console start, after loading lua vm 2 ) runs but the actual game blackscreens completely (in fullscreen) - it IS running, because i can still use the main menu in the keyboard. 3 ...

I'm actually thinking of structuring it like a combo now. --the talents you can choose don't have any pre-requesite except they are targeted and will always attack the nearest, if it's in range --if the nearest target survives, the talent use, you will 'progress' to the next talent in the combo --in...

Thinking of making this patch more general for other builds... Something like a UI that selects the ability you want to use to 'get near' a enemy, and another you use to 'get away' from a enemy. I used rush and hacknback because they are general warrior attack abilities, but there are other ones tha...

The spinning traps should have a actual animation, as long as it doesn't interfere with the movement of the pc. Something like a slower ray and a very fast (smaller) ray, or scorch marks, that goes up constantly over the zone the larger ray animation will go over due to the accumulated 'turns' of th...

I mean they're a negligible armor, low bonus, rare random item that gives you -50% fire resistance guaranteed, that is probably only in a mid-level dungeon. At least in nethack you could use them over armor and other stuff, so that wasn't too bad. I experimented with making them puttable in the 'amm...

Hey, i just thought of a evil enemy!

A 'wall mimic'

Yes 4) also happened to me in autoexplore.

Seems that the auto-explore is kicking in a infinite cicle with the routine that triggers the dialog, just walk there manually and you'll be safe-

This is hard to do because it interferes with normal pathfinding. I think that boss monsters in tome, cheat, by having the topmost part not be really a 'occupied', it's just cosmetic to make them seem larger, and treated especially so that they are at a higher Z dimension so they are always on top o...

Yeah, tome has probably way to many items for this to be enjoyable without the automatisms i mentioned. My idea is that you first have to solve a 'puzzle' to find a alternative, more or less risk free way to do it, execute it perfectly, and then you either execute it automatically or get a new menu ...

I think identification could work if it was pervasive *without exceptions* So there wouldn't be actually be a "scroll of identification" or something. There would be a artifact, that the more you used, the more you knew about. And you'd use them because you wanted to know about their prope...

On the contrary, i enjoy it. A bit heavy maintaince, but what i'm finding missing on Tome is generally the inventory items depth/crafting of nethack (though that comes at the cost of quite a bit of obfuscation) Come on, be honest, do shops in Tome really excite you? The item combination upgrades are...

Humm yeah, i just assumed it was given from looking at the code and adding to a existing. False alarm.

Good to know. In that case, yeah, automatic seems sane. Though, in the grand tradition of roguelike obscurantism, i'm probably offending some minor god. Crawl/nethack identification ... *shudders* I think that the toggle in the chest for gem extraction as a additional option is nice, since i hardly ...

if the minimap made a 'pulse', say rapidly cycling the color of the new added enemy dots, or expanding them for a second, that would be solution, sure. I'm thinking a really obvious sonar pulse for the tiles version (the problem doesn't apply on the console version right?) The (new?) enemy sounds on...