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New D-Mod: The Orb of Darkness

April 17th 2015, 06:55 AM
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It's always nice when something comes out of the blue like this:

The Orb of Darkness is a new quest-sized D-Mod from brassweasel, with lots of nice looking new graphics.

April 17th 2015, 06:59 AM
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Linux user, huh?

Windows users take note:
This only works in FreeDink as v1.08 will throw an error "Couldn't find one of the tilescreens!". Hopefully this will be fixed in a future version, but I've no idea what causes it

Also, you'll want to view the readme & walkthrough in Wordpad as Notepad doesn't recognise the line breaks.
April 17th 2015, 07:43 AM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
Who the duck is brassweasel and when was this even announced, what.
April 17th 2015, 08:11 AM
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Cool, not only a new dmod out of nowhere, but a quest-sized dmod out of nowhere?

Dink Smallwood, faced with the day-slaying orb of darkness and its perverse master, the bro of darkness... Does Dink have what it takes to rob the orb from the bro?
April 17th 2015, 09:36 AM
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yeoldetoast
Peasant They/Them Australia
LOOK UPON MY DEFORMED FACE! 
The map is huge. It's about 750 screens, although a lot of them are black. Map.dat seems to be corrupted though as it's of a weird size. Everything's nicely decorated which is nice.
April 17th 2015, 03:37 PM
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I have a problem with dinkedit. If I try to use new areas in a map, it makes the file huge in size. I didn't originally know what kind of map size I would need, so I used an existing map from a large epic and modified the screens as needed. The result is that the map is much bigger than needed with many unused screens.
April 17th 2015, 03:58 PM
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Quiztis
Peasant He/Him Sweden bloop
Life? What's that? Can I download it?! 
Hardcore DinkEdit user detected? You should check out WinDinkEdit if you haven't already.

Not that there's anything wrong with DinkEdit it's just so... old.
April 17th 2015, 04:03 PM
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Can WinDinkEdit be used in Linux? I don't even use windows.
April 17th 2015, 04:40 PM
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Awesome! This will definitely be worth checking out when I get some free time.
April 17th 2015, 04:56 PM
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Quiztis
Peasant He/Him Sweden bloop
Life? What's that? Can I download it?! 
There be applications to make Windows software run on Linux, like WINE. Dunno how stable they are though as I've never needed them.

This DMOD seems promising man, trying it out atm!
April 18th 2015, 07:44 AM
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leprochaun
Peasant He/Him Japan bloop
Responsible for making things not look like ass 
I will be sure to check this out when I have the time.
April 18th 2015, 08:57 AM
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liquid141
Peasant They/Them
Sons of liberty 
cool a new dmod out of nowhere going to try this
April 18th 2015, 01:03 PM
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Quiztis
Peasant He/Him Sweden bloop
Life? What's that? Can I download it?! 
YEE HAW I'm THE bomb guy!

This is my type of humour
April 18th 2015, 11:59 PM
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liquid141
Peasant They/Them
Sons of liberty 
i am liking the new graphics stuff , good to see a working waterfall in dink smallwood
April 19th 2015, 05:06 PM
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Toof
Peasant He/Him
I disagree. 
Imagine what he will do when he discover wde+...
April 19th 2015, 05:25 PM
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MsDink
Peasant She/Her New Zealand
Tag - Umm.. tag, you're it? 
what about sheveks editor that is another option its a wee beaut
is this it? heh Pydink

And welcome ya wee weasel heh
April 21st 2015, 11:16 AM
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shevek
Peasant They/Them Netherlands
Never be afraid to ask, but don't demand an answer 
My editor didn't get much attention lately, but now I've fixed all the reported bugs and it seems to be in good shape. Anyone is welcome to try it out. Especially on a GNU/Linux system, it should be possible to do it without my help, but the documentation isn't very good, so feel free to ask any questions, including "where do I start?" .

I think the forum is probably the best place to ask (just open a new topic), but if you don't feel comfortable doing it in public, you can also send me e-mail at wijnen@debian.org.
April 21st 2015, 11:32 AM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
You should release it here.