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erf

Sunday, 6th March 2022, 17:24

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Mass sleep spell

Replies: 3

Views: 5650

Mass sleep spell

I sometimes like playing as a Spriggan enchanter and i was thinking it would be nice to have a "mass sleep" type of hex spell in my arsenal. In the late game you have Discord, which is a good hex spell, but perhaps a mass sleep spell could be good for the mid game hex spell. You do have &q...

erf

Monday, 14th February 2022, 02:10

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Boulder beetle too hardcore?

Replies: 4

Views: 4701

Re: Boulder beetle too hardcore?

Been playing as a Deep Elf Ice Elementalist so i guess i'm quite fragile until i get my hands on some higher levels ice spells, like Ice Cloud or Ozocubu's Refrigeration. Blink spells, or haste etc. are helpful to get away from these critters.

erf

Sunday, 13th February 2022, 23:13

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Boulder beetle too hardcore?

Replies: 4

Views: 4701

Boulder beetle too hardcore?

The boulder beetles does so much damage and is very difficult to escape, are they too hardcore? Perhaps they could do less damage?

erf

Tuesday, 21st December 2021, 22:57

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Sort deaths by date in highscore

Replies: 0

Views: 1870

Sort deaths by date in highscore

In highscore, i think it would be nice if you could sort your dead characters by date, so that i can look up my last games.

erf

Thursday, 4th November 2021, 10:46

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: pain spell blocked by NPCs

Replies: 5

Views: 2606

Re: pain spell blocked by NPCs

I tried to play as a Necromancer and tried to combine Pain spell with summoned skeletons and zombies. I understand these NPCs block my spell but i wish you could target the Pain spell through them. I feel like Pain spell is different than other spells that have to “travel” physically like e.g. fireb...

erf

Wednesday, 3rd November 2021, 19:43

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: pain spell blocked by NPCs

Replies: 5

Views: 2606

pain spell blocked by NPCs

It seem i'm not able to cast the Pain spell at monsters if any of my summoned creatures are in the way. Not sure it makes sense to me that the pain spell should be blocked by NPCs. What do you think?

erf

Thursday, 14th October 2021, 23:56

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Show item ability details

Replies: 3

Views: 2360

Re: Show item ability details

I was actually thinking about knowing this before hand when reading the description in a shop, so i could better decide if i wanted to purchase it.

erf

Thursday, 14th October 2021, 19:59

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Show item ability details

Replies: 3

Views: 2360

Show item ability details

I picked up ancient artifact ring, and it has the +Blink ability. I was thinking it would be neat if you could press e.g. *b* to show the cost of the blink ability. That is the description, MP cost, and Failure %. This could perhaps be done for other item abilities as well. And maybe also link to sk...

erf

Thursday, 14th October 2021, 19:47

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Shout to attract monsters

Replies: 5

Views: 2835

Re: Shout to attract monsters

Majang wrote:If you don't want to face them all at once it is usually better to throw stones at them.


Good tip. Thanks

erf

Friday, 8th October 2021, 23:58

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Shout to attract monsters

Replies: 5

Views: 2835

Re: Shout to attract monsters

Ah, thanks! I missed that.

erf

Friday, 8th October 2021, 21:49

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Shout to attract monsters

Replies: 5

Views: 2835

Shout to attract monsters

Should it not be possible to shout to attract monster?

erf

Sunday, 4th April 2021, 14:04

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Set armour training min skill to avoid disadvantages

Replies: 6

Views: 2862

Re: Set armour training min skill to avoid disadvantages

Do you think it would make sense to change this rule, so that you would get rid of any penality after a certain skill / strength level?

erf

Friday, 2nd April 2021, 21:48

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Reset zoom keyboard shortcut

Replies: 0

Views: 1551

Reset zoom keyboard shortcut

I'd like to see a keyboard shortcut to reset zoom after zooming out with "ctrl--"

I'm was not able to zoom in with "ctrl-=" since on my norwegian keyboard i have to press "shift+0" for "="

erf

Friday, 2nd April 2021, 21:36

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Set armour training min skill to avoid disadvantages

Replies: 6

Views: 2862

Set armour training min skill to avoid disadvantages

When i'm playing as a mage, i'd like to set the min armour skill needed to avoid my magic being affected from the item in the inventory. You can do this now with weapons to avoid attack penalty, but i'd like to see this as a uniform rule for all items that affect the character skill / effectiveness ...

erf

Friday, 2nd April 2021, 21:29

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Make clubs able to knock someone unconcious or confused

Replies: 1

Views: 1690

Make clubs able to knock someone unconcious or confused

I'd like to suggest that clubs be able to knock someone unconscious (sleep) or confused. Clubs doesn't seem to have any benefits like some of the other weapon class like axes (hit multiple enemies), swords (ripost) or daggers (stab). Assassins could then combine a club and a dagger, to make them mor...

erf

Thursday, 17th December 2020, 03:47

Forum: Coding

Topic: Apple M1 support

Replies: 10

Views: 6242

Re: Apple M1 support

Yes! I have an M1 build now :D

I made a note on Mantis with patches here:
https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=12407

Thanks for your help!

erf

Thursday, 17th December 2020, 00:43

Forum: Coding

Topic: Apple M1 support

Replies: 10

Views: 6242

Re: Apple M1 support

I posted a new issue on the Mantis tracker here:

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=12407

erf

Thursday, 17th December 2020, 00:24

Forum: Coding

Topic: Apple M1 support

Replies: 10

Views: 6242

Re: Apple M1 support

I changed: vis +103 contrib/sdl2/src/atomic/SDL_spinlock.c to just: return SDL_FALSE; Now SDL2 seem to build, but now i got an error with libpng: HOSTLINK tool/tilegen.elf Undefined symbols for architecture arm64: "_png_init_filter_functions_neon", referenced from: _png_read_filter_row in ...

erf

Sunday, 13th December 2020, 01:07

Forum: Coding

Topic: Apple M1 support

Replies: 10

Views: 6242

Re: Apple M1 support

I tried to go to contrib/sdl2, select the master branch and do a git pull, but the build failed with the same problem. Do you have an idea what do do? Is this issue in the backlog?

erf

Monday, 23rd November 2020, 18:44

Forum: Coding

Topic: Apple M1 support

Replies: 10

Views: 6242

Re: Apple M1 support

Hi again, I was able to build crawl when I opened a terminal using Rosetta, but I was not able to run it. When trying to build using a terminal without Rosetta I got the following error: ``` src/atomic/SDL_spinlock.c:103:12: error: implicit declaration of function 'OSAtomicCompareAndSwap32Barrier' i...

erf

Thursday, 19th November 2020, 19:10

Forum: Coding

Topic: Apple M1 support

Replies: 10

Views: 6242

Re: Apple M1 support

Thanks for your answer!

I will have my machine in a week. I can do some experimentation and report back. If we can't build a native version, i think it still can be converted using Rosetta 2.

erf

Thursday, 19th November 2020, 09:50

Forum: Coding

Topic: Apple M1 support

Replies: 10

Views: 6242

Apple M1 support

Will crawl support the new Apple M1 chip?

erf

Friday, 4th September 2020, 08:12

Forum: Contributions

Topic: macOS build instructions

Replies: 5

Views: 5470

Re: macOS build instructions

I tried to build according to your pull request "make -j4 mac-app-tiles". This builds the zips, but the application does not run. Did you test that it work?

erf

Thursday, 3rd September 2020, 07:27

Forum: Contributions

Topic: macOS build instructions

Replies: 5

Views: 5470

Re: macOS build instructions

According to INSTALL.md i need to run "make -j4 TILES=y" after i have installed dependencies. I tried that, and it seem to build ok, but no mac app is built. I get the following output: "Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/A...

erf

Wednesday, 2nd September 2020, 12:26

Forum: Contributions

Topic: macOS build instructions

Replies: 5

Views: 5470

macOS build instructions

Hi, I read the INSTALL.md on how to compile on macOS, but i found the "make" command to not produce the correct result. In order for me to build a mac app i have to use the following command: "make mac-app-tiles APPLE_GCC=y NO_PKGCONFIG=y CONTRIB_SDL=y TILES=y". Would it make sen...

erf

Tuesday, 18th August 2020, 20:35

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Catoblepas art

Replies: 0

Views: 2242

Catoblepas art

I just received this painting of a Catoblepas by Lou Benesch from here month of beasts on Instagram.

I love them and hope they will stay in the game <3

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erf

Sunday, 24th February 2019, 19:33

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: ctrl-f to search available spells

Replies: 2

Views: 1821

Re: ctrl-f to search available spells

I wish the search was incremental, where the search is updated for each character typed.

erf

Thursday, 14th February 2019, 12:47

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Pause when picking up items on auto-explore

Replies: 3

Views: 1637

Re: Pause when picking up items on auto-explore

I concur.

erf

Tuesday, 12th February 2019, 22:31

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Spell library search and filtering

Replies: 9

Views: 3101

Re: Spell library search and filtering

bump - still would be cool with incremental search for spells.

might look into implementing it when i have time.. but not familiar with the code so please feel free anyone to do this.

erf

Tuesday, 12th February 2019, 22:15

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Pause when picking up items on auto-explore

Replies: 3

Views: 1637

Pause when picking up items on auto-explore

I suggest a short pause ( ~0.5 second ) when picking up items on auto-explore, to give the player time to see which item was picked up.

erf

Monday, 23rd July 2018, 09:58

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: UI inventory with two columns is confusing

Replies: 2

Views: 1580

UI inventory with two columns is confusing

I find the new inventory UI with two columns confusing in that i have to look both down and to the right instead of just looking down as it used to be with one column. I think it would be better to group item types in one column and rather use the second column as a continuation of the list or for n...

erf

Monday, 23rd July 2018, 09:54

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Spell library search and filtering

Replies: 9

Views: 3101

Spell library search and filtering

Hi, i enjoy the new spell library feature, but i would like a search which is updated on the fly as each characters are entered.

Also an option to filter or group on various Spell types would be great.

erf

Wednesday, 27th December 2017, 23:36

Forum: Technical Support

Topic: Problem building from source on Mac OS

Replies: 8

Views: 3656

Re: Problem building from source on Mac OS

I'm a developer myself using mac and homebrew, but i don't have much knowledge of Make.. but isn't it possible to specify in the Makefile the Lua version used in the submodule ( 5.1.4 ) ?

erf

Monday, 25th December 2017, 00:46

Forum: Technical Support

Topic: Problem building from source on Mac OS

Replies: 8

Views: 3656

Re: Problem building from source on Mac OS

I build successfully after removing Lua version 5.3.4 installed with brew.

I had to use the following to build:
make mac-app-tiles APPLE_GCC=y NO_PKGCONFIG=y CONTRIB_SDL=y TILES=y

erf

Wednesday, 6th December 2017, 10:16

Forum: Technical Support

Topic: Problem building from source on Mac OS

Replies: 8

Views: 3656

Re: Problem building from source on Mac OS

I tried to rename the variables as suggeted by the compiler and then got the following errors: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C rltiles all ARCH=x86_64-apple-darwin17.2.0 TILES=y CXX cluautil.o cluautil.cc:55:5: error: use of undeclared identifier 'luaL_openlib' luaL_openli...

erf

Wednesday, 6th December 2017, 03:57

Forum: Technical Support

Topic: Problem building from source on Mac OS

Replies: 8

Views: 3656

Re: Problem building from source on Mac OS

I got a bit further now, but compliation failed with the following: In file included from clua.cc:7: ./cluautil.h:53:28: error: unknown type name 'luaL_reg'; did you mean 'luaL_Reg'? const luaL_reg *lua_lib, ^~~~~~~~ luaL_Reg /usr/local/include/lauxlib.h:26:3: note: 'luaL_Reg' declared here } luaL_R...

erf

Monday, 4th December 2017, 00:52

Forum: Technical Support

Topic: Problem building from source on Mac OS

Replies: 8

Views: 3656

Problem building from source on Mac OS

I run make TILES=y from the source folder and get the following error: Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.13.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1 * If you ex...

erf

Thursday, 23rd November 2017, 19:20

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Monster vs monster

Replies: 7

Views: 2699

Re: Monster vs monster

One problem i can see, if you have a bunch of NPC's running around killing each other, so that when you enter a level, most of the monsters are already dead. Not sure how the AI works, but i would guess they are inactive if you are not on that level and limited to roam a specific area. I think this ...

erf

Thursday, 23rd November 2017, 18:58

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Monster vs monster

Replies: 7

Views: 2699

Re: Monster vs monster

Maybe you could elaborate on why this would lead to tedious behaviour? I can see that if you would use monster vs monster as the ONLY tactic, but i don't think that would be the case, as only SOME monsters would attack each others. I'm not sure either why dragging a bunch of orcs as cannon fodder wo...

erf

Thursday, 23rd November 2017, 15:45

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Monster vs monster

Replies: 7

Views: 2699

Monster vs monster

I'm not too familiar on the rules of monster vs monster attacks, when this happens, or the reason behind how it is now, or if this has been discussed before, so sorry if this is a bad question. Anyways, i think i would like to see more monster types fight against each other. I think it would lead to...

erf

Thursday, 28th January 2016, 15:58

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Movement when confused and asleep

Replies: 3

Views: 1288

Re: Movement when confused and asleep

I agree it is pretty funny, but it makes me less effective at killing..

erf

Thursday, 28th January 2016, 15:14

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Movement when confused and asleep

Replies: 3

Views: 1288

Movement when confused and asleep

I'm playing a SpEn, and i sometimes confuse a monster and then make him sleep. I think monster that are asleep should stop moving, even if they are confused (and sleep-walking?). What do you think?

erf

Wednesday, 22nd April 2015, 19:16

Forum: Contributions

Topic: OSX bash install / update script for Crawl

Replies: 0

Views: 1580

OSX bash install / update script for Crawl

Hi, i made a bash install / update script for Crawl on OSX. The script clones or pulls the source and builds the tiles mac app version and copies it to the Applications folder - removing older versions. #!/bin/bash mkdir -p ~/bin/crawl cd ~/bin/crawl if [ -d .git ]; then git pull else git clone http...

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