Story of a Lost Sky

[Bertram]

Hey there,

Just to make a shout out about a game that is deserving more attention IMHO:

Story of a Lost Sky is a free as in freedom Tactical turn-based JRPG with an interesting twist, colorful characters, and a nice manga-style story.
And they've just reached version 1.0, bringing the full main story out:

https://bitbucket.org/featheredmelody/l ... /wiki/Home

Best regards,

[Akien]

Thanks for the shoutout :-)

It looks like a great game indeed. I remember trying it a while ago and giving up because it threw a "unrecognised music format" at my face when starting the game.
Now that they reached 1.0, I gave it another try and found the same error. It turns out it's because they use MP3, and obviously most distros don't build SDL_mixer with MP3 support since the latter is a patent encumbered technology.

They had a bug report for it but resolved it as "just build SDL_mixer yourself with MP3 support, it'll work": https://bitbucket.org/featheredmelody/l ... sic-format

So I added my input and asked them to convert the music to OGG, which works just fine :-)

[Roots]

Not only that, but you have to pay licensing fees to distribute MP3s with a game (at least this was the case when I investigated the issue back in 2004). So legally speaking, they shouldn't be using MP3s at all. So that's another major reason to convert to OGG.

[Bertram]

Good to know. Plus, it looks quite easy to fix. I hope they'll fix that, preventing packagers from doing nasty conversion when packaging.

[beoran]

Looks interesting I wil certainly try it when i get to it. But no one should be using mp3 in this day and age anymore, just ogg. Software patents are a huge mess.

[Akien]

If there are Mageians out there, you'll find Story of a Lost Sky in the official repos for Mageia 5 : http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view= ... ion=814864 ;-)

[Bertram]

Cool

How did you deal with the mp3?
EDIT: Ah, you repacked yourself. Ok, I'll add a +1 on issue: https://bitbucket.org/featheredmelody/l ... c/issue/85

[farcodev]

Thanks for the find Bertram. And thanks to the thread for the MP3 license thing, it's a good thing to know o.O

[Bertram]

Thanks for the find Bertram. And thanks to the thread for the MP3 license thing, it's a good thing to know o.O

Hey,
You're welcome! I hope you're doing fine, btw.

[Wuzzy]

Congrats for making it so far with this project and hitting the 1.0.0 milestone. :-)

I knew this game from earlier versions already, but I never played it very long. Maybe I should give it another try.