Friday, May 14, 2010

Of Summoning Wars and RakNet

When I found out that Summoning Wars, it in fact uses a freely licensed network library, I wanted to test it, but failed at compiling. Today, with fresh Subversion checkout, I succeeded and was surprised by a Diablo-rules-style RPG with 3D graphics (OGRE) a lot of dialog (hours and hours of tutorials ;) ), choices, different character classes and various spells and items.
Sarcophagus open up! (And let me take precious loot!)

Enlightening zombies in a dark cave with fireballs

Leaving loot behind

Why am I  even writing these captions?

Action-RPG GUI layout 101: Left: Character, Right: Skills or Inventory

Scaring goblins to death with a lovely mask

4-way dialog sequences make plot confusing fun!


Video: Rescuing some NPC [.ogg (shorter)]

I wonder what the network part is all about. I could imagine cooperative plot-games to be fun.. Anyways, about the net lib:

The popular network library RakNet is neither open source nor free software, as defined by OSI and FSF. However, version 2.451 (Feb 18th 2006) is GPL-licensed. It can be found via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine [zip mirror]. The developers of Summoning Wars mirrored some version as well and even created an Arch Linux AUR package.

The owner of RakNet commented on GPL in commercial game development.
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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:36 pm

    Thanks for mentioning my AUR package. :) There's also one for sumwars I made too. I basically search this blog for games I think are cool and then make AUR packages for them if none exists.

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  2. qubodup2:52 pm

    >I basically search this blog for games I think are cool and then make AUR packages for them if none exists.
    That's awesome! :3

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  3. Bruno977911:00 pm

    I have managed to compile from svn a week ago, but now I get an error when compiling, it seems related to the gui.

    I will try again in a revision or so

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  4. qubodup1:37 am

    @Bruno9779 make sure to use cmake, not ./configure. I did that mistake today, but realized what I was doing wrong quickly. Current svn r1882 compiles fine for me.

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  5. Bruno977911:51 am

    I am not familiar with cmake, but yesterday it worked with ./configure && make.
    It really looks revision related

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  6. qubodup12:07 pm

    to use cmake:
    `cmake . && make`

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  7. Michael Mui5:27 am

    "Why am I even writing these captions?"

    Because they are funny :) Keep up the good work!

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