Thanks for raising that about the numpad enter key. I tend to mainly use the other enter key, so I often overlook the numpad enter key. I will try to implement changes for the next version.
There will also be a Linux version out soon so you will be able to run it without the emulator.
Hi Ash. I'm guessing that you are not using a QWERTY style keyboard. Unfortunately, other styles of keyboard are not supported by Sunlorn, but I hope I can remedy that some time over the next couple of months. My best guess is that the equivalent to the ? on your keyboard will be whatever appears to the left of your right shift key when you are holding down shift. You can also use the mouse to click at the top of the side bar to cycle through the additional information.
You're the second person to report doing that lately. I did fix that for the next update so the gods won't punish you for hurting yourself, but I won't be posting that update soon since there's still lots of other stuff to fix. Glad you're enjoying the game though!
Thanks. Unfortunately, this won't be a quick fix for me because the game is already rigged up to use a table that links the key codes to command functions. It might be easier for me just to start switching to SDL3 since it appears to me that it also has key codes that are tied with the actual character.
Do the stutters happen when you're wandering around outside? When you get to the edge of the map in memory, the game has to pause for a moment to generate the next section (or reload it from memory).
I actually died so many times by hitting enemies with my ranged weapon! That's why I had to add the confirmation question.
One of my future plans is to migrate the game over to the SDL3 library. Taking a quick look at the wiki, it seems like that library has better support for different keyboard types, so I will probably hold off until I makee the big move.
Glancing at a diagram of the German keyboard, it looks like the ; and : are where the < and > are on my keyboard, so maybe that works. Remember you can also use the mouse to click on things in inventory, click on commands on the side bar, or right click to bring up a commands menu.
Lol. Players are doing all kinds of things I didn't expect. Probably it would have been possible to burn the palisade without the firewood by just starting a small fire and then throwing the oil on it.
I will eventually have to break save compatibility to add new content or work on the world gen process, but lately there has been a lot of stuff that just needed fixing. And I just want to see where your run ends up now!
Unfortunately, the frame work I'm using doesn't provide support for various keyboard types, but I may be able to come up with a hacky solution. Can you tell me what keys were different when you played? Did the letter keys at least function the same?
I have tried to keep the tutorial proofed against softlocking. The thing about the gas chamber I haven't thought of before. Possibly I could modify it so that the gas is cleared and the door is shut when the player dies.
I just went into the game to test this out and I got the same result. Thank you for pointing this out. I did not think the shopkeeper would accept the item at all. The game needs an extra check to verify that the player is not carrying unpaid items before leaving the shop.
I'm glad you've been enjoying it so far! Send me some more feedback on the game any time you like, or just let me know how far you make it on your adventures. Good luck!
Eriopis might be my favourite god to play, even though I do tend to get killed more easily than when using Ursus or Nikitis. Eriopis also has the most spells of anyone so far and you'll get permanent telepathy if you can get to the 5th rank.
Watching the stream has been so helpful since I rarely get to see someone else playing the game.
Groups of agent types have baseline relations towards other groups, and each agent has its own list of relations to other agents. If you play as a necromancer for example (which is a current option in the game) and animate some skeletons after having hired mercenaries, the skeletons and mercenaries will fight because they are natural enemies, even though they are all your followers. This puts a limitation on the player's follower army that I think makes sense in the game. My intention is that this would be especially relevant in late game after encountering various non-human races: it would stop you from raising a mercenary army of races that don't get along.
A special characteristic of the player's followers is that if they see another agent attacking or fleeing from the player, they immediately turn hostile towards that agent. Presently, they don't stop being hostile even if the player tames or charms that agent. I have noticed that this can be really annoying when you want to make friends with other creatures, but your overzealous followers keep beating them up.
I haven't completely made up my mind how to deal with this, but a solution could be that any time the player improves relations to another creature up from "hostile", it causes all player followers to revert to their baseline relation. This way donkeys would stop attacking villagers, but natural enemies would continue to be hostile. If there were still other hostile villagers around though, they might still respark the fight, so bringing followers into a hostile village would still be a tricky situation.
I would like to add a follower management window though, so if you have a lot of followers, you could order them all at once to wait outside town while you pacify the inhabitants.
It may take a while longer for the next update to come out since I'll be working on unborking the horse riding system and adding fully customizable key controls.
Last night on my debug build I was moving around the world and just going up and down staircases, saving and reloading occasionally, to try to recreate the bug, but I couldn't get it to happen. This weekend I want to write a new test that will do the same thing automatically, and then just leave it running until something breaks.
I've also tried actually deleting level files when I was on a different level in game, and I do get the same result that the portals can't relink if a level is regenerated. I'll try to at least get that to work.
If you still have save files where this has happened, can you please send so I can study what happened? I might be able to get the areas unblocked too.
I was trying to standardize gender across the code so that 0 = neuter, 1 = male, 2 = female, but gender was stored as a boolean in the new game parameters, so every character was getting changed into a male. So the bug was caused by misrepresenting gender as a binary construct. :|
I will be including an option in the next major release that will allow you to adjust the size of the font. Let me know how far you make it in the real game!
I've actually barely played past the first dungeon myself during a normal run. It used to be much harder so I used to die there all the time. It's a shame there were still wrinkles in the load/save system. Hammering those out will be a top priority in the coming weeks. I'm glad you were able to resume your game at least. I'm out of town for the weekend, so it's actually convenient for me that the next stream is delayed.
I would love to make a Mac version available, but unfortunately I don't have access to one and I barely have any experience using them, so that's not a near term goal. I will be focused on building a linux version soon if that helps.
Hey, I just finished watching your video. Thanks for giving Sunlorn a try and for sending me this. I've been gathering lots of useful info this week that will feed into the next version. Unfortunately, I did not mention it in the tutorial, but pressing "?" in game will allow you to cycle the information displayed in the side bar. That would have allowed you to identify the sewer drains and see the health bars of the enemies. Anyway, hope you check back in the coming weeks or months as development is progressing rapidly.
Hey, thanks for giving it a try and providing this very useful video! See how you enjoy the full game, which probably feels a lot different than the tutorial. There's more action and less reading!
