FreeGameDev

Hello,

I would like to play a game named Dstroy where GPL sources can be found here: [url]http: //narroin.free.fr/dstroy/[/url]

It was developed in 2009 using SDL 1.2 (not by me). At that time, I success to build and play it without worry.
I want to re-compile it again today, but a bug occurs, the keyboard does not respond in the game except the "escape" key that allow to leave the game.

Everything else seems to work (video, sound, etc ...)

I think the problem concern SDL, my hypothesis is that the "keyboard" working with an older version of the library, but not with the 1.2.15 I use to compile today. (version distributed by Ubuntu 14.04)
I also tried to build it on Mac OS X, the same problem occurs.

Is a game developer can take a look and see if there is a quick fix?

thank you

Fabien

PS: The game is very easy to compile, linux and mac must use the Makefile.linux some dependencies are required (SDL_mixer, SDL_net, libsmpeg ...)
make -f Makefile.linux all
For data, you should download the archive for win32 and copy the contents of dstroydata file in / usr / local / share / games / DStroy (or copy the folder in the source and do a make install, but it copies files everywhere, and it is mismanaging rights)

is the code in any repository? It is more easy to see the problem.

mdtrooper {l Wrote}:is the code in any repository? It is more easy to see the problem.

There's a source archive here: http://narroin.free.fr/dstroy/res/dstro ... 090214.zip
But I did not find a VCS repo for it.

Hi,

No, there is no repo anywhere, just the archive indicated by Akien.

Recently, i've find that the problem may not be SDL related. The problem is when the game load from a settings file the "commands" (key<>actions mapping).
Key_code loaded from the file are enormous integers which do never match with SDL key code.
The code which load command file pass data to a endianConvert method.
A friend do a good suggestion : The game isn't made to work on 64bits.

I've tried to build it for 32 bit, but havn't success because I miss 32bit dev lib on my system and i don't know how to install it in parallel.

If any developers are free then this is a good project to revive; according to http://osgameclones.com/ there aren't many good bomberman clones. The easiest way to fix this would be to do a proper 64-bit port; I've done this kind of thing before and it's not difficult.

By the way, since Dstroy is open source (requires non-free assets), this thread doesn't have to be in off-topic section.

I managed to build dstroy in a 32bit chroot, but then it wouldn't display anything when started, I guess there is something wrong with the intro video or something. I tried the Win32 version in wine, the game is like in 320x240 :-D

It's true that they are hardly any maintained Bomberman clones out there. I might have a go at developing one in Godot :-)