Castle Paradox

BlastedEarth · Joined: 05 Oct 2009 Posts: 243

Hi, I was playing ff5 on an android tablet and I seriously began missing OHR... sniff! So, I have two questions:

1. Is there really an OHR android? If yes, where can I download it?
2. Can you make PC's counterattack ala FF5 monks? That'd be awesome!

Sidenotes:
I have once again succeeded in making yet another unfinished game while I was away and I'm uploading it later as one of the games that was made but never took off (or never completed in the first place). I am now working on a new game again and I'm trying to stick to the engine this time without plotscripts outside OHR and keep the game simple and maybe I can deliver something finished. Oh and the entries for the last contest were awesome, I wish I was able to join lol

One more question:
I am making an assassin character which jumps like a dragoon. Now, his landing attack is user controlled as the skill is called 'ambush' and he is supposed to hide somewhere off-screen and only strike when the player feels it's time and chooses an attack command. Is there anything I can do to restrict the usage of items for the assassin when he's off-screen aside from instead chains?

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 5:32 pm Post subject:

Yes! The android version is indeed real.

I don't have a nightly build for it set up yet, but there is a relatively recent build here: http://hamsterrepublic.com/tmp/ohrrpgce-game-android-debug.apk

It is also possible to package an OHRRPGCE game as a standalone apk, for example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.superwalrusland.ckane but that requires compiling from source, which I am happy to help out when people are ready to publish their finished games.

I don't know an easy way to disable "Item" when jumping, but I should definitely add a way. A while back I was planning to add the ability to disable battle menu items based on tags, but I didn't finish implementing it.

EDIT: oops, I missed a question! Right counterattacks only work for enemies, but I do plan to eventually add the same feature for heroes.

BlastedEarth · Joined: 05 Oct 2009 Posts: 243

BlastedEarth · Joined: 05 Oct 2009 Posts: 243

Hi, James, can ohr games be played in mac ios?

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 7:20 am Post subject:

BlastedEarth · Joined: 05 Oct 2009 Posts: 243

TMC · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:34 pm Post subject:

Was there any plan to (manually) distribute people's games to the Google Play or iOS stores for them, so that they don't have to pay the registration fees? I assume such a courtesy service would be restricted to free games to avoid payment hassles. I can't remember whether you mentioned such a thing or not. But it seems like it would be a lot of hassle to enter all the game information and distribute updates. The Google Play store allows adding team member accounts with limited permissions though.

It seems like signing the packages with keys shouldn't be a problem; we can distribute the utilities to let people do that themselves... for Android at least.
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 6:19 am Post subject:

I can't recall if we discussed a plan like that before.

I still don't have a clear plan of how best to streamline Android distribution.

When I am packaging a game for someone, I just have to edit a few files, and run a script, but that method only works on Linux, and requires Android SDK+NDK, OHR source code, our Freebasic fork, our sdl-android fork, and possibly a few other things I am forgetting.

It would be nice to just take a copy of the generic ohrrpgce-game apk and add a rpg file, replace the icon file, and re-write a few configuruations like the package name, and then re-sign it... but I don't think that is a trivial task-- especially the part about changing the package name, since, as far as I can tell, that package name gets compiled into the Java code.

TMC · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:21 am Post subject:

We had two ideas on that. Mine was to distribute the pre-compiled .dex (Java) files and other files, write a small utility to patch in the correct package name (sounds crazy, but it would be very small). Aside from that the only utilities we would need to distribute would be to do the signing and zip alignment.

I think it was Seth who suggested creating a web service to compile the Java files instead. Everything else can still be done locally.

I'm not sure which would be less work. But I bet that the "everything else" part would still be the majority of the work.
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Powerstar · Joined: 08 May 2014 Posts: 41 Location: Suva,fiji

Im a mac user im here to say it OHRRPGCE works fine.