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i am trying ot make a d-mod with lan capabilitys so dinkers can like via hamachi

How cute. Or, should i ask, hows da progress? of course, LAN Dink would be a major step in Dink Smallwood history!

Hah. Good luck.

shur lan sounds grate bot wil it bee awsomez??

Suddenly I feel confident about my bets that this will be a fail.

The concept is fairly simple but the scripting isnt >.<
Basically the game will have a diablo like party system ( I havent figured out how to scripte this s of yet) but heres what i envision. At the start you get a base character to build upon, then you can get a class by weapon choice. (sort of like master crafters in warcraft 3) The thing is though, the saving and loading will probably be like a multiplayer warcraft 3 game all the players currently in game will get the same save and therefore get their characters saved. So far the scripting has proven diffucult, on the most part( the lan scripting and the character class change) but otherwise it has been going smoothly. I will post scripts soon.

nobody wants to see scripts, plenty of people have talked about multiplayer dink in the past, and i mean plenty, as well as gameboy advance ports and 3d dink and dink part 2. if you have the actual thing, im sure people will be excited over it but what are we going to do with a script dancing around looking at it and go woohoo

For starters, if he does post the script, people can look at it, make corrections or suggestions, and say wtf is that s*** supposed to mean if they have no scripting knowledge. I for one would be under the last option

You must beware of a trap, if you havent already fallen into it, dinkmaster - you've just told us about customizable characters and fancy details, but your at risk of losing the LAN focus. Try to get that up, even if you create Milder and Dink running around smashing barrels as multiplayer.

do that, and you'll make more progress than making customizable chars.
one other thing, check out the source code of some really old LAN games for ideas (the old stuff should be more basic)

joshirot, what if someone makes Dink Smallwood WAD for Strife game?

What if someone was just content with what we have at the moment and not bother wasting their time on some stupid project that's almost undoubtedly going to fail.

im not saying its going to fail all im saying is because of the boy who cried wolf factor of the past nobody cares about talk its cheap nobody wants to see a meaningless script or a beta that doesnt work "yet" what im saying is if you can actually do it and WILL actually do it go ahead and then come talk about it... but creating a hype over something that isnt materialized and you may not even know how to do if you tried is kinda lame and weve seen it a million times before

With Dink, I think I'd rather see competitive play rather than cooperative.

I envision 10 Dinks in the same game all wearing different color pants and trying to slaughter each other to see who can get the most kills in a timed game. Capture the flag.. Base wars.. Last Dink standing.. So many possibilities. Dink would surely be an incredible competitive play game.

sounds like halo

So, you'd be making halo's equivalent of this?

Yes, I suppose it'd be a bit like halo, but not really.