The game starts... That's something.

Take MMMDCCCXXXII

Expression syntax error

Take MMMDCCCXXXI

Code typo

Take MMMDCCCXXX

parsing issue in Scyndi

Take MMMDCCCXXIX

Hence, the test, and I wonder how many takes this is gonna take (you follow?)

This will cause the game to crash as soon as Quayaro is about to enter his first move, but that's not important YET!

His alternate picdraw routine working is by FAR more important right now!

A little checkup, as Quayaro's AI has not been configured yet.

Don't take AI too literally here. The term is in RPGs also use to denote the enemy's behavior.

Quayaro Draw Script

A call back function that has yet to be written... PWEW!

FINALLY THE ERROR I EXPECTED TO SEE!

Take MMMDCCCXXVIII

Missing link

Take MMMDCCCXXVII

Yup, it compiles now.... Fuck it, this is beyond me. It works, and that's what matters, though.

Take MMMDCCCXXVI

One other syntax error found, but that could NEVER cause the idiocy I just faced.

Yup! It disappeared.... Odd!

Take MMMDCCCXXV

Moving one line up fixes this???

What the fuck is C++ fucking about?

And now VS creates non-existent errors.

Fixed them

Compiler errors in C++

???

Take MMMDCCCXXIV

Extra driver functionality to void the way this is done (will save me a lot of fucking time)

Take MMMDCCCXXIII

And here I was thinking this would be little workm easy to combine with my other obnligations.... Dang.... I guess that's the life of a coder!

Complete crash! Which was also NOT what should have happened.

Take MMMDCCCXXII

Missing link

Take MMMDCCCXXI

Alt Pic Frame Counter

Nope!

Take MMMDCCCXX

Initializer function did exist, but it was never called.

And clearly the AltPic routine didn't activate, and I need to find out why.

Take MMMDCCCXIX

Function call misnaming error

Not the error I was expecting, yet one that needs fixing.

Take MMMDCCCXVIII

Wrong Save Game File

Take MMMDCCCXVII

An error should be thrown when I test the Quayaro fight now, however what is important to me WHAT error pops up!

I do have some things to do today, but I'll try to get things done here as well.

My work tempo wasn't as high as it should be, anyway.

At last!

Take MMMDCCCXVI

This operation requires Jalondi to be recompiled

Take MMMDCCCXV

Recompile then?

yes and no!

Take MMMDCCCXIV

Ah, I needed to do better, eh?

Take MMMDCCCXIII

extra line

Take MMMDCCCXII

A few adaptions

Why?

Nothing happens

Take MMMDCCCXI

The Moment Suprème!

Let's compile

The hard way then

It's gonna be either my way or the highway

I see

Take MMMDCCCX

Take MMMDCCCIX

Will this work?

Take MMMDCCCVIII

What is happening?

And I Don't see what I want to see

Take MMMDCCCVII

So far so good. Now Jalondi should do a test

Take MMMDCCCVI

Start for a draw script

AT LAST!

Well, that settled that.....

Take MMMDCCCV

How many more does it take?

Take MMMDCCCIV

Things did indeed not turn out well, as I feared

Take MMMDCCCIII

Added tag JCR6

Package test required

Another part

Quayaro, part (thanks to svg for being just a text file).

There's no visual effect yet. The game should still crash at the current point when the final boss fight starts.

Confirmed!

Take MMMDCCCII

Just a test to see if it all compiles the way it should

What it will do is take the averages of all the girls stats and those will be Quayaro's base stats.
Difficulty setting will have a few alterations here, though.

StatSet CharCopy

[Special]
StatSet=CopyChars

There's still a lot to be done here. As final boss, Quayaro has a few features other bosses won't have.

Quayaro - Base record

So far... so good!

Take MMMDCCCI

Scope error

Take MMMDCCC

#66

Although it's House Of Cards I'm playing now to have a break, it uses the same engine as Luna's Father.

And that game works. So no trouble to be epxected with LF either.

This should NOT affect anything the user can see.

It was only a coding issue

I see what I wanted to see in the translations

Take MMMDCCXCIX

Recompiling all scripts should now get me some different outcomes.

Take MMMDCCXCVIII

Recompiling

Classes should also be in the global register (in case of static members that should be imported with the module).

And now that I'm at it an issue I got here, will also be taken a look at to see if I can fix it.

Next patient the Scyndi compiler.

Not a line of code to be changed here for Lua, but recompilation is in order.

Now the update of Lua I don't fear, but the AltPic cannot be tested until it's actually being put to use.

Well, compilation completed.

Take MMMDCCXCVII

An ambigeous = operator?

Just the std::string that gets me this.

Must be the result of the other errors

Namespaces and header files are things that don't always mix well for me.

So let's investigate

The compilation of SCI failed, by the way

Some ideas I have for Quayaro require this.

And I also linked this into SCI

TQSG has been expanded with the AltPic feature

That will also bring us to SCI version 1.6.0 - Although the update was small the effects of the Lua update (and another update) has too great effects.

Take MMMDCCXCVI

I will first rebuild both SCI run and SCI build.

In Linux I was already forced to use Lua 5.4.7 in stead of 5.4.0 on which the Windows version was built.
I now also upgraded Lua for Windows to 5.4.7 in order to keep both versions the same.

A nice expansion to TQSG came up, however I do need some workout here, so hang on with me. :)

Things may be a bit of a slowdown, but I had little time, also a bit of a personal dip
but more importantly, I am trying to figure out what the best approach would be to do Quayaro as a boss.
Luna's Father is not my best RPG (in my own personal opinion), but still I don't want to rush things, and I'd like Quayaro to come out nicely.
I have several ideas, but it's always a big challenge to see what is doable and what is not.
Quayaro is really the kind of boss I wanna do justice.
Luna's Father is technically a kind of sequal to a novel in which Quayaro is one of the most important villains.
There he's actually one of my best villains.
So you understand why a good workout is important.

My Linux tester didn't get the last version binary of SCI_Run.

He should have now. This executable has the engine that runs both Luna's Father and House of Cards.

A little experiment showed me that House Of Cards could run in Zorin OS with the Windows exe running in Wine

However I do not like that entire concept, but if worst comes to worst....

Headaches and other obligations made me unable to work anything out today.

Luna's Father

It's not much, but it's something, eh?

Put on the map

Sprite

Some searching need to be done. I hope that goes well.

An Unwavering Will by Nihilore has been chosen as background music for the fight against Quayaro

So far, so good!

Take MMMDCCXCV

Syntax error in mapscript

Which has to happen anyway, given that I need to put in Quayaro anyway. Doing that will fix the compass in the process.

That has been fixed, but the fix will likely not take place until the map has been edited.

The compass data got fucked up in the process.

Take MMMDCCXCIV

Let's get ready to rumble!

What I got has been linked

Note, I need to put in the actual art sprite in, that comes later.

Pre-Final boss

Prepare map

Although the game will crash in the current state as no record of Quayaro has yet been set up

Base config that can start the boss fight with Quayaro

Pre final boss

I can't even go to my kitchen to put my dinner in the microwave or a BSOD pops up.

Since this is MicroSCHOFT something was bound to fail, but at least I've something.

A bit of an update done here.

Well, things appear to be working again.... phwew!

Here goes!

Well, if nothing works anymore, just reboot

Failure complete now VS doesn't work at all...

Without any given reason Visual Studio claims that fixing stuff was not possible. Fuck it!

The data I see on screen imples VS is being removed and reinstalled.

Well, sometimes that's the best way to go anyway.

I can only hope this won't threaten Luna's Father and House of Cards and any future projects of mine.

A repair sequence has been setup. Hopefull that does something.

Some internet tips didn't appear to help.

Visual Studio has begun to close down without any errors on several projects of mine.

Unfortunately this also includes Jalondi which is a vital tool in my current work.

Well, still to deal with segmentation faults and as I am reliant on someone else to test, this is gonna be hell to debug.

I guess I have a lot to sort out here.

And a segmentation fault?

MEDALS.INI not optional?

Take MMMDCCXCIII

Transfer to Linux

I think I fixed this

Let's see what's wrong then.

I guess this means progress.

Now I really get to the woes of a VM, so once again, I shall have to wait for my friend with a real Linux PC to test things out.

Well, so far so good.

Take MMMDCCXCII

I see now what went wrong. Good!

Let's force the compiler into action then

Linux insists on keeping the old version for some silly reason

Take MMMDCCXCI

TQSG updated

A yeah, a few little modifications to TQSG were not yet transferred.

Take MMMDCCXC

Compiling time

Now I got the source code in Linux

Source code SCI updated on github

I'll update House of Cards on itch.io. For now the easiest way to transfer my JCR6 file to Linux.

Added tag ITCH.IO

At works too! Great!

Take MMMDCCLXXXIX (And now Luna's Father)

House of Cards works without trouble now in Windows.

That is for Windows. Once that's done, I'll try to get things on the move in Linux.

Both projects (Luna & Cards) will now be rebuilt, and I will update the alpha version of House Of Cards on Itch.io

The version of SCI will now be officially upgraded to 1.5.0

Although this could be seen as a minor update, the results are downright drastic.

That does indeed solve all my trouble. At least, in Windows.
I will have to check later in Linux.

Take MMMDCCLXXXVIII

I did do a little mistake there.