Shandalar Clone

[lord of 13]

Oddly enough, it works on my computer [windows 7]. However, I have no clue how to enter the towns/castles.

[Huggybaby]

Is the download supposed to be used with a normal Forge install, or is it standalone?

[Jaedayr]

Working on XP for me. To enter a town/castle, move on top of it. Press the Help button for the movement keys.

I installed it in clean directory and copied the pics from regular Forge and they show up just fine.

Killed a Rat and a Dragon so far, but failed to stop the Zombie Invasion. I like it!

[DennisBergkamp]

Cool, glad you like it

It's standalone, but I really recommended including the pics, so copy the downloaded pics (from a forge install maybe) into /res/pics.
The jar StartBattle.jar is basically just a jar created from my local version, you could probably run the actual forge by running "java -cp StartBattle.jar forge.Gui_NewGame" from this download.

[timmermac]

Is there any way to acquire more basic land in this test version? There are more cards in any one color that I want to use than is safe given the amount of land that's there. Also, is there a way to change the background color in this? I've gotten used to Emerald Dusk in Forge, and I'd like to be able to use it here, as well.

[Huggybaby]

I added pics, still not working for me.

[DennisBergkamp]

What happens when you try to run it, Huggy?

As for using different LAFs, I've been running into some bugs when attempting this... although you could try using Emerald Dusk by copying your own forge.preferences file over and replacing this one with it.

[Huggybaby]

I either get a real quick window that disappears, or I get the error I posted here: viewtopic.php?p=41476#p41476

[Rob Cashwalker]

It works fine for me.

Wow... quite a nice job so far.
I don't like the keyboard movement, but that can be changed later.
I notice the sprites cycle through the walking motion, THEN it jumps to the new location.
The dialog says "You prepare for battle"... OK, I'd like to prepare and choose the deck. Or run away.
Need a more generic booster pack image.... Blanked-out Zendikar looks weird.
I won a booster pack in 2 out of 2 games... is that normal or should it be more like the random rare is in the current version?

[DennisBergkamp]

I'm not sure how to fix the animation exactly, nicely spotted, the hero jumps to the next tile and THEN the animation is played
Ideal of course would be to have the position of the sprite move closer and closer to the next tile, frame by frame which should result in a smooth animation.

Currently, I give a booster after every match... there's no real random rares after matches anymore (it is possible however, to find random treasure while traveling the map).

As for the movement keys, what would you prefer to use? I could also listen on the numpad keys if that's easier.

[Rob Cashwalker]

Even if there weren't animation, if the hero only moved a pixel at a time, smoothly, that would give a better feel. See if there's anything useful in the new gui code - like how the card slides across your hand from left to right.

A thought on treasure and random encounters - an icon for the creature or item could appear only when you are 1 tile away from it.

I would like to see mouse-based movement... but I know that is much more complicated.

[Chris H.]

I downloaded the archive last night and this morning I was able to finally get it launched on my Mac with Snow Leopard. I launched the Terminal application and set the path with this command:

cd ~{user account name}/desktop/testMap

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I have the uncompressed archive on my desktop and it is fairly easy to find and work with it here. To run the jar I enter in the command from Dennis:

java -Xmx1024M -cp StartBattle.jar mapcampaign.MapCampaign

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and success! It is up and running. I will have to play around with it for a while and will see what I discover. At first glance I can see that it is a work in progress, but I do like the map and the player icon. Looks nice. The map window is fairly small on my screen. I assume matches are played on the full screen battlefield.

[Chris H.]

I wandered the map for awhile and came across an encounter with the General. It was a one game match and I won using the black deck. It was fun. I won a booster of cards. The game failed to go back to and open the map window. There were no open windows so I quit the game using the file menu.

[Bog Wraith]

Thanks go to Chris & Dennis for giving me the proper Terminal input to get the game going on my Mac. Thanks!

Ok, first off I had to navigate the map via letters on my keyboard as my direction arrows failed to move my wizard:

D = Move Right
C = Diagonal Left Down
X = Down
Z = Diagonal Right Down
A = Left
Q = Diagonal Left Up
W = Up
E = Diagonal Right Up

I built a quick black deck, got into a duel after traveling a very short distance, won my duel & a booster. Also got bonus $ for defeating a vampire & made altogether a nice sum of $$!

Like Chris, the game failed to go back to the map screen, so I quit the game, restarted it and now I'm at Level 6 with $3384 gold and 11200 XP's.

I love the way the map looks and the way night turns into day.

One question, I didn't have any images for the 2 creatures that I started the duels with. Is there any jpg images for them and what should their file names be?

Dennis, this project is outstanding and it's potential is extremely exciting! Thank you for giving us this to add to an already wonderful game that is Forge!


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Edit

After walking around a bit after restarting game. I came on the Moor. Just as I was entering I got jumped by a mean 'ole dragon! As we were about to duel the game crashed:

For input string: "Test"


Version:
Forge -- official beta: $Date: 2010-05-01 02:21:42 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) $, SVN revision: $Revision: 916 $

OS: Mac OS X Version: 10.6.4 Architecture: x86_64

Java Version: 1.6.0_20 Vendor: Apple Inc.

Detailed error trace:
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "Test"
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:449)
at java.lang.Integer.valueOf(Integer.java:554)
at forge.StartBattle.main(StartBattle.java:127)



After restarting, I walked towards the Black Castle. It asked me if I wanted to start this quest as it is repeatable. I answered yes, the game crashed and gave this error report:


DeckIO : findDeckIndex() error, deck name not found - questTest


Version:
Forge -- official beta: $Date: 2010-05-01 02:21:42 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) $, SVN revision: $Revision: 916 $

OS: Mac OS X Version: 10.6.4 Architecture: x86_64

Java Version: 1.6.0_20 Vendor: Apple Inc.

Detailed error trace:
java.lang.RuntimeException: DeckIO : findDeckIndex() error, deck name not found - questTest
at forge.NewDeckIO.findDeckIndex(NewDeckIO.java:135)
at forge.NewDeckIO.readDeck(NewDeckIO.java:127)
at forge.Adventure_QuestData.ai_getDeckNewFormat(Adventure_QuestData.java:303)
at forge.StartBattle.main(StartBattle.java:114)

A good thing I see is that every time I restart the map after a crash, the game remembers exactly where I was and all my stats remain the same!

I restarted and tried to enter the castle again & the game crashed again.

[Rob Cashwalker]

It seems like this package contains Dennis' personal quest. His current monoblack deck, his 2200 card cardpool, bazaar upgrades, etc. (makes sense, since he just zipped it all up for demonstration) Is it possible to start a fresh quest? (just delete the questdata or something?)