DesertAdv release 0.06

As of this morning, one touch of a button can turn these:

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into this:

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Also downloadable from http://semichrome.net/~jack/DesertDemo/ . There's nothing there, but if you're curious enough you may want to see it playing. On windows you need the exe, the dll, and desertdemo.mad. On linux you'll need the binary or source from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mad-project/

DesertAdv ver 0.06 Features

* One script compiles GIMP graphics, via bitmaps and lua code, to a single game file, with masks, coords, etc, produced automatically.
* Change walkables, objects, etc, in GIMP
* Character walks round obstructions
* 2.5d objects, with you either in front or behind.
* Act on objects (only "look" "window" exists)
* Runs on windows, untested but should run in linux

DesertAdv ver 0.06 Placeholders

* The little man and the gui came from the MAD demo
* the room is programmer art drawn in the gimp.

Opportunities

* Make user interface not clunky
* Fix z-order rendering
* Make Lua scripts nottweaked by hand but compiled from gimp-exported config file of names and coordinates of objects, and csv database of actions
* Design demo puzzles
* Draw actual demo art

Robert Jordan, Rest in Peace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jordan

It's always startling to read a wikipedia page and see it's switched seamlessly to being in the past tense the minute someone passes on.

Rest in Peace, Robert; we may not be burning our towels, but you wrote some books that I did get a lot of enjoyment out of, which I'm very grateful for.

OK, crunch time. Did you or did you not record the outline of the remainder of the wheel of time arc and the unanswered mysteries, to be opened in event of your death? I stopped reading a little while ago, intending to pick up if the series comes to a conclusion, because I do want to know what happens.

Now it's been solved or it never will be. If you winged it, and some mysteries weren't written with an answer, then I have no objection, but I'd like to know that. If not, bugger, I'll continue to leave the series where I left off.