As lzma can be important in the transfer to Dyrt and also be very handy in the workout of my other projects, I hope I can experiment with the module I got next weekend, but no promises. It's always a lot of trouble to work things out. I hope this will be succesful, but one can never tell, of course!

A nice thing to note is that I found a simple lzma library which could be perfect for JCR6. I need to run a few tests before I can attach that to SCI, but if it works the game could become significantly smaller, since lzma can produce smaller compression ratios than zlib can (especially on larger blocks of data or larger files. Kthura maps in particular can benefit here). In the case of Dyrt I have actually an extra advantage as the original JCR6 file for NALA uses most of all lzma. This can cause a bit of trouble when transferring data. If I can get this lzma module to work, it may save me a LOT of trouble.

Now the Sourceforge tag didn't escape my notice. It's been ages since I was on Sourceforge last, and that being said makes it hard for to tell if the new version will be on SF or not. I should make sure though that any old versions are removed when the time comes.

Added tag SOURCEFORGE

When it comes to Windows, it will really depend on how things go for Windows 11, which will already be the standard by the time this project is complete (possibly even before it's officially begun. Compiling SCI for Windows is my biggest issue for the time being. What I can tell is that I am trying to plan to get it running on Windows, so far my "promises".

Added tag WINDOWS

Windows

For Mac I can at least say that nothing is gonna happen here anymore. Apple has really gotten under my skin.

Added tag MAC

I also need to sort out that Linux is currently my primary system and that will at least "guarantee" that the new version is for Linux.

Added tag LINUX

The game WILL appear on itch.io though, although the .NET version will disappear there as well, and this version will replace it. I need to sort things out about if the old page will contain the new download or if a new page will be created to replace the old. I'll announce it once a decission has been made

Added tag ITCH.IO

Oh yeah, I'd almost forgot a few important notes. Just like Star Story, Dyrt will DISAPPEAR from Game Jolt as soon as this project is coming to a close. Around the time the new version is stable enough to be release the page on Game Jolt will be removed.

Added tag GAMEJOLT

And so far, my story.... for now... I'll be back soon!

Well, so far so good. Stuff appears to be uploaded just fine.

You may see most of the old icons, despite the tags no longer being in the database (and thus them being "colorless"). That is because the icons are not in the database, but automatically picked up from their respective file names and the name of the tags. It's not super wonderful there are many non-existent tags in the old part, but it's not a true problem either. Over time most will be needed here anyway and thus stuff will be working once more.

Added tag CONFIRMED

My first concern will be to see if I can still regenerate a page, so here goes!

Now you see many tags I used before being reused, that's because I needed .NET too to completely convert the old devlog to this new system and I don't want that, so that's why I need to go that way. Also due to MonoGame being used (what was I thinking?) I had to rely on the scripting language SASKIA in order to void their callback system that made it impossible for me to do things properly. That should now not be a true issue, however it's not unthinkable I will be reliant on SASKIA in order not having to rescript too much. I hope that will be possible, as NIL, the main scripting language of NALA was closer to Lua than the current Scyndi language, but I think I can figure a few things out. Lots of studies may be required here, and due to the diffrences between NALA and SCI being so big I decided to give the new Dyrt version not only a different code name, but unlike Star Story where the old repository was used, it's likely a new repository will appear for Dyrt.

Added tag TECHNO

At the present time I am still working on moving Star Story to the SCI engine and that must say seems to be turning out pretty good. The current alpha is completely playable now up to the final boss, and right now I more need to make sure that some details are more properly in order. Once Star Story is done, I plan to get THIS game out of the NALA engine and to move it to SCI. Star Story and Dyrt were my most pressing projects when it came to that. Star Story due to the long loading times and other slowdowns and the new version got rid of that very well. In this game it's none of that, but the NALA engine is written in C# and thus requries .NET

I hear things about .NET now that make me consider that MALWARE if it were true, and I don't want my games to require such a thing, and so the move is needed.

Well, this devlog was almost about to be deleted, but I guess the situation is now as such that I gotta revive it.

Added tag STATUS

Added tag SITE

Let's try it again then....

Okay, itch was (for the first time) acting up on me. I had to re-verify my e-mail address....

Sorry! NOT gonna bother for such a minor update. Yes, itch users now have an unfair advantage over Game Jolt users, sorry.

Updating. The new version should be on-line any minute now

I hate this for something so small, as I must test this on the release builder, which can easily take forever

Take II

C# had something to whine here

Take I

Particularly since this game has dungeons you may otherwise NEVER be able to access unless you are beyond insane. I can't do that to ya.

I've put in max values for the total medal score. This to prevent you have to play too many games for mine in the future.

The original Dyrt game has now officially been discontinued. Only the .NET version will now count.

If this version is ever transferred to Apollo it may also lose the ".NET" suffix

It appears to be working

Good!

A test will have to show me

The Game Jolt Logo should be removed now... Although it can still linger a bit in dominancy, who knows....

This will lead to a new release also... but before all that #285 must be closed first

#289 - Set separate as it will take a few months

This almost means I can close #285

Detached the underworld from Game Jolt

I do need to check the medal ratio every now and then, and now this is possible

Another test is needed to make sure this is fully fixed, but that's just a minor thing

Entrance to Mörker forest remained invisible

Detached Mörker forest from Game Jolt API. So now Medals will be used in stead.

#282

I've fixed the wrong portrait issue in the romance between between Scyndi and Dernor

Referrences to Game Jolt in the tutorial at the start of Botanica

But that won't be for today.

Now that I'm at it, I must see if I can fix the wrong picture bug in the Scyndi and Dernor make love scene

Barrier error

Case error

Detached Game Jolt from Candyland

Dernor had 4 more moves when logged in to Game Jolt (as the enemies to charm could only be found in the exclusive dungeons), but as the medal system no longer requires Game Jolt, this will no longer be needed, as you can now charm those creatures anyway.

I'll resume this later!

Crash due to AP altering?

#286 - DANG!

Reset main entrance

Party II linked to Medals

Take III

I will now cheat the way open so I can make a more proper test (and recording) of the facility.

Good!

Take II

(I gotta remember that NIL is case sensitive)

Reference error

Take I

Due to the location of the entrance I may need multiple tests here, but no worries. :)

Detached the science facility

No problem, though

Ah, yeah, the neg data was deleted during the debugging

I will now play on a little, as some more achievements are bound to come in now, and this way I can see if they are properly logged as a medal.

So is part two of the test

Part one of the test complete

A little test is in order, but I don't expect too much trouble...

The savegame routine has also been detached from Game Jolt.

Older savegames will spawn ONE warning explaining the situation, and then defininitely lock things down.

Take III

Had ot be recompiled

I had to delete that file in order to prevent errors later

Error in the API creating faulty Medal data file

Take II

Never forget that NIL is less advanced than Neil

A little test is in order here, though

And the medals will be updated as well

Connection with Game Jolt when getting achievement

Synchronizer from savegame

At last!

I don't know where it all went wrong, but it went wrong and HORRIBLY wrong

(As the game is not yet able to synchronize stuff, this will lead to the gate being closed at all circumstances. Also the game will still allow you to enter the GJ credentials... But removing those will be a later concern.

Medals have been linked now to Botanica

API removed from the game

This will, by the way also mean that the GJ Exclusive dungeons in Dyrt will be detached from Game Jolt and be tied to this system.

This will take some time to set up, though, and I also need to adapt NALA for that, so this can bring some complications, but that is a later concern.

Added tag DYRT

I wrote a small tool which works out all achievements in an on-line database.

What good does that do you wonder? Simple, Anna's temple will this way be able to work out a database for ALL my games of which achievements you made. This will just happen on your computer and no longer on-line, all it does on-line is making sure the list is up-to-date.

For now only Star Story, Dyrt.NET and TFT are covered. Please note Star Story and Dyrt do not yet have support for this but this will soon be taken care of.

#284 -- I'll get to that asap

(For TFT Alpha it works.... Odd... very odd)

Well, that's a later concern.... No update for itch.io either then until the filming is done

For some reason Butler doesn't want to do things my way

A new build here will be uploaded later. Uploading to GameJolt is really a downright PAIN!

Due to the severity in all this I've decided to make a new push on itch.io

I've just voided it... Too much trouble to bother with!

The mysterious impossible "nil" came again

This is also a minor issue (even just cosmetic), but stupid... I'll re-upload the game once the recordings are competely done

Some Italian auto-translated text came into the scenario about Dernor in the marshes.... That's been removed and the game should run normally again

Will conclude this for now...

It appears to be working... Good!

A quick test is in order

I won't go into re-releasing right away (this issue is, despite it causing a crash) too small to bother, however I *will* update things soon enough.

And exit spot crash found in the Green Dragon Cave... This issue should be voided as a true fix was not fully possible at the present time

I've set up a quick command to open browsers. It should work on Windows, Mac and Linux, although Windows is for now the only platform I can test. As an ex-mac user I know Mac is piss-easy on this, and the linux method also looks easy but is unconfirmed, so I really don't know.... Windows is (of course, as always the case with Microsoft) the hardest case....

And that concludes Dyrt for today. If other bugs are reported requiring my immediate attention, I'll be back....

On February 7th, 2021, the updated version should be available on Game Jolt.

Official release announcement adapted

No Music version

Preparing the upload of the full version

Pushing new installer

NOMUSIC version updated

For protocol reasons I will update the no music version, even though it should not take any effect there

Using 7z to update the Game Jolt package

Updating installer

Main version updated

But I must test that out!

And I think I fixed it....

A player reported #283

And then I can hereby officially pronounce this project FINISHED!

Of course, bugfixes are still possible, and I will later see if I can convert NALA (not to mention adapt the game to the new achievement system that's in the cooker now, but that is no more part of this project itself, that is finished.... Time to celebrate!

For the Development this no longer matters, though

And the Game Jolt upload will likely be uploaded around that time too, but only be released somewhere in February....

Due to lack of time now, the sourceforge update will likely be done Monday

Download instructions set

Installer now being pushed as we speak

No music version uploaded

Creating actual release

First release since development has ended... for now semi-beta -- It will be deemed "stable" if no bugs are reported prior to March

Icon change

That should do it

????

Well, let's get this formatilty on the road then... The sooner it's done, the better, eh?

Officially I can say the development stage is now over... I only need one final test of the last dungeon, and then this game will be officially finished... Of course, I will update the game later if bugs are reported, and later I will try to convert NALA to C++....

So let's get to this so I can wave the checker flag

Beta Project

Beta milestone

And that finishes the Walkthrough.... Its existence will only be officially announced later though.... It's not good to show your hand too early. You *WILL* be able to see the walkthrough on GitHub already though.

Character overview

That and a few finishing touches

Now a few final tests in which I complete my final test game.... This is rather a formality than serious work, but hey, who knows what will pop up during that crap, eh?

Fix confirmed

Right! Time to put this on the test!

I will have to test this all later, as my favorite show will now begin

Gedrio Fulla

I think I fixed... a PART of the problem......

I think tackled #279, but I need to test this to make sure!

I reckon I need to rest first.... The trip to everything got some energy out of me... I will resume the work after that... One bug and one sidequest away from the checker flag, so this is gonna be good... I think

I had to re-measure my eyes, and that took some time.... sorry

I only need to cover the Death Caves now, and I got it all set......

And that covers all the sealed bosses

Sealed Boss: H.R.M. King Slime

Sealed Boss: Orc Overlord

Sealed Boss: Ghoul King

Sealed Boss: GigaLich

Sealed Boss: Kabi

Sealed Boss: Shadow Rogue

Sealed Boss: Hobgoblin

Sealed Boss: Mountain Emperor

Underworld

Red Temple

Mörker Forest

Dupe Boxtext issue in Order fight?

Digitopia

Frundarmon's mansion

The script will only be used for stable releases, though!

A script has been set up... And this script SHOULD install .NET 4.8 and DirectX if it hasn't already been installed... However since both are already present on my computer, this is impossible for me to check

ROFLMAO

Well I did reset my entire computer and it looks like things are working again....

And I guess rsync can better be removed from my system ASAP

Well at least SCP appears to work

even the windows closedown feature is not working, so I guess a hardcore reset is in order!

Everything lags.... Not sure if this is the fault of rsync, but I think it is.... So an entire restart might be in order ......

Let's try this with SCP then

And it looks like sourceforge didn't receive the file as a result, although a small dely should be taken to mind

What's this?

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies. The paging file is too small for this operation to complete. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800705AF)
   at shim.ShimProgram.Main(String[] args)

I am currently experimenting with the uploads here..... The game is too big for regular upload by site (only just), so I am experimenting with rsync now.... It looks like it does the job.... Or at least I think so... Since this is a large upload this will take time after all....

Updated (this was a vital void, so I really had to take care of this)

As far as I can judge now it looks like #278 has succesfully been voided

One final check to test the entire event as awhole

As far as I can check everything should work now

Take VII ( #278 )

One last issue? ( #278 )

Take VI ( #278 )

Disappeared function ( #278 )

Take V ( #278 )

..............

Take IV ( #278 )

Unclosed scope ( #278 )

Take III ( #278 )

Missing lib call in map script ( #278 )

Take II ( #278 )

Traveler's level issues

Take I ( #278 )

Was apparently not needed, but I aliased the "niets.saskia" script in order to make sure the game doesn't crash over this (voiding another issue as well)... This too is of course to voide #278