Version 0.1 is here!

[FatKobra]

This is the first release of Magnamund Commander, my Silverlight-based reader for the Lone Wolf series of books. You can play it here: projectaon.org/staff/antoine/mc/ It is still in beta stage, so all your comments/suggestions are most welcome.

As of version 0.1, only book 1 is available. Some of the features are missing too, like saving and loading your game, cheating and other various rule options, etc. Use this forum to report anything you'd like to see in this software!

Also, I'd like to mention that I am no artist, so anyone who has any talent in this field and that would like to contribute to the project is most welcome!

FatKobra

[skarnivorous]

Looks good - however I hit a snag during play - buttons stopped responding at different points and I became stuck on a page.

Picking camouflage asks you to pick a random number for your weaponskill.

Main Menu takes me nowhere.

And the action chart seems to cut the first letter off equipment and special items on the Action Chart.

The button to the magnamund map gave a 404 error.

But the ideas and presentation is nice :-) look forward to more.

[FatKobra]

"Picking camouflage asks you to pick a random number for your weaponskill." - Fixed!

"Main Menu takes me nowhere." - It is not supposed to do nothing right now. As soon as the save/load feature is there they will be enabled.

"And the action chart seems to cut the first letter off equipment and special items on the Action Chart." - Fixed! This was due to the fact that i'm developing on windows, which uses \r\n as line breaks, but the site is hosted on linux, which only uses \n.

"The button to the magnamund map gave a 404 error." - Fixed also!

Thank you for pointing me out these first glitches. I even raised the version level to 0.1.1 (woohoo!!). Keep them coming!

[outspaced]

I am also having the problem where the buttons suddenly stop working for no apparent reason, so I haven't got very far through the book. :-\

Thoughts:

• The Dedication should be centralised, and maybe have some space introduced above and below it.
• In combat, the text says "<Monster or Lone Wolf> looses x ENDURANCE"; looses -> loses
• On the Acknowledgements page, the "ö" in Ingo's name seems to be displayed as a capital letter instead: "Ö" (though this could just be the font used)
• The list of books seems to be missing #28: The Hunger of Sejanoz

If the random 'stops working' issue can be resolved/reduced, I'll have another look.

[FatKobra]

Can you tell me in what section(s) you encountered the buttons that stop working? It is probably due to an error in the conditions that enable/disable said buttons.

Concerning Ingo's name, it is unfortunately the font that cannot display the ö correctly, so what you see is the small o in the default font (which is way bigger that the font I used). Should I leave it like that, try to reduce the size if the o so it is less aparent, or remove the umlaut to have a simple o that can be displayed by the font (I don't want to offend nobody by messing up their names...)??

[outspaced]

I'm not getting anything now! It's just a blank screen in my browser. :-\

[jellyfish]

I can't scroll down far enough to even get past the first page.

Is it a minimum requirement to have MASSIVE screens or something?

The font is unreadable, too.

[FatKobra]

outspaced: I just tried it and it seems to be working fine... does the Silverlight app starts downloading when you load the page?

jellyfish: Normally all the game is contained in a scroll image that is 1000x700. A scrollbar appears inside the scroll image to allow longer texts to be read. If your resolution cannot allow you to see 700 pixels in height (which I doubt) then your navigator page should have a scroll bar too.

I know the font is not the best there is, I you know any that would fit the theme and that I can use freely in the software please let me know!

[outspaced]

1. Regarding the umlaut: Probably it's okay to drop the umlaut and just use the 'o' character in this case.

2. OK, it seems to be back working, but I still keep getting stuck! Section 349: Cannot take the Pendant, no matter how often I click it. Section 170--stuck, cannot click the combat, cannot click the Action Chart, cannot click the Main Menu. BUT when I went a different way, not meeting Banedon and not attempting to take the Crystal Star Pendant, Section 170 worked correctly.

3. Actually, I don't think the font is too bad!

[FatKobra]

I changed the font for one that is like a free version of Papyrus. The small caps look nicer, and it has the advantage of being able to display accented charaters, so the umlaut is a non-issue. Your comments on the new fonts are welcomed! It takes about 10 minutes to change, so it can easily be replaced.

Concerning section 349, there was a piece of code that I forgot to change when fixing the\r\n issue. It should work correcly now.

Section 170 I did not completely check, I foudn in the section a condition error that wasn't the one you mentionned. However it is possible that the fix for section 349 also fixed this.

I also fixed the other things outspaced mentionned in his first post. I also started working on the second book, its going quite well! Keep up the debugging work guys, and I'm sorry if you feel like cheap QA labor

[Dave]

Fatkobra,
Congrats on the release! Sounds like a nice project - I remember you mentioned doing this a while back, and it's great to see your idea come to fruition.

As to fonts, you may want to check out Ray Larabie's free font collection, he has literally hundreds of free, high-quality fonts. I used a few of them in Seventh Sense.

Jul 9, 2009 18:36:07 GMT FatKobra said:

Keep up the debugging work guys, and I'm sorry if you feel like cheap QA labor

That's what the boards are for!

[FatKobra]

Hi Dave,
Thanks for the heads up! I will definetly go check the fonts out.
I just downloaded your last release of Seventh Sense, and there's obviously a lot of hard work that was put into this... and I must say that it gave me some nice ideas. Congrats to you on the project!