Dungeon Master Forum

Cool, nice to see you're still working on this. How does the wall and floor graphics replacement work? And what size is the dungeon view? Could this work with high resolution modern graphics?

Cool, thanks for the quick reply.

A bit random, but would you consider changing the startup screen to render it's text on black, rather than blue? It would make much more sense now that everyone has widescreens with black bars on the left and right of the DSB 4:3 display. The current blue screen startup looks odd when the custom gam...

I ran Google translate on it which yielded a very funny review that mostly made sense but was also full of gibberish. It did not reveal anything about the publication itself though.

That sounds pretty weird to be honest. I've never played a game with micro-transactions and likely never will. To me, that's not what gaming is about at all. If all games end up going down that route, I'd never buy a new game again... but that suits me fine. I'm not very good at most games these day...

Do you think all these annoying ways of making money are here only to increase profit from games that are already profitable from their initial buying price, or are they necessary to actually pay for the creation of these games? In other words, should all these manipulative tricks be removed from g...

You only watched half or more? It's only 32 seconds long!

BUT it's a bit weird with graphics like that to have grid-based movement, though I would be willing to take that as an hommage to the genre. I do still have great fondness for grid-based dungeon games, and I will still play them because of my nostalgia for them. But you are right: modern game engin...

I recently watched this on Youtube and I thought it was a great summary of why modern gaming has got so bad. All the morre reason to stick to classic retro gaming and just indie games that channel the spirit of the golden age of video games: What Went Wrong with Gaming? https://www.youtube.com/watch...

I just came across this cool looking dungeon crawler to be released later this year, "Dungeons of the Amber Griffin": https://dungeons-griffin.com/ Lots of info on their website, or check out some gameplay videos on their Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DungeonsoftheAmberGriffin ...

Not just young people I don't think I've ever finished a single creative project that I've started. But I'm fine with that. The fun part is the creative exploration along the way -- finishing is rarely the point, for me anyway.

Welcome back Lord Bones! I remember all your interesting RTC experiments. I moved over to DSB, although similarly with a young lad now, I've no time to pursue it.

Yep, although to be honest all these UE5 demos of old games might look nice, but they are so far removed from the original that a remake seems pointless and a new original game would make much more sense.

Just a very brief demo but... wow... imagine it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Lyzp70XWY

I have similar items to Christophe but he's definitely got more than me. There's a few items in his photos that I've not seen before. Mine are all in storage but will be coming out this year to be photographed for a long-promised thing...

Our little one is two and a half. He's very energetic and has been all over the place the last few days, he doesn't know what's going on but loves all the presents and attention. I'm currently writing this sat in the car on the driveway while he naps in the back seat. He's been so tired over Christm...

Happy holidays everyone, I hope that despite these crazy times we live in, you find some peace and joy with your friends and families.

I think I have that one, I'm not sure. I'll have to check the boxes in the attic. I definitely don't have scans though and it would be quite some time before I could scan it.

I think there was an ideological rift at FTL around custom dungeons from users. Not everyone shared Wayne's view about that... Several staff felt that allowing swathes of low quality dungeons from fans would dilute the DM brand and make it harder for them to create future games that people would spe...

Can anyone recommend a version of DM that has a mini map you can look at while traversing the dungeon? ... A preferable map, would be one that fills up in real time as you're traversing the dungeon, but doesn't show any areas you haven't visited yet... Any mods or versions of DM with this style of ...

@dlfrsilver: I looked in my notes from an interview with Doug Bell from years ago and he does not mention Macs in the list of machines that Dungeon Master was available for. I'm sorry to say this seems like a mistaken memory (unless your exchange student's step dad was involved with FTL, which seems...

What do you mean by art archives? Do you want the extracted assets from the games? I made these available on here years ago as zip files, but I'm not sure they are still online, try searching the forum. If you're just talking about appreciating the art, I agree, I still have a big nostalgic warmth f...

Goodness me, thank you!

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I'm not saying I'll never finish it, just that it's not a current project... So it's still a little tease.

Yes, I looked at Linux, but it's just a bit too "techy" for my liking, even with a shiny GUI on top. At least the MacOS GUI is mature, I get the impression that all the Linux GUIs are a bit of a mess.

You raise some good points which I'm still considering, so I'm not 100% committed to Mac just yet. I'm not bothered about gaming anymore, certainly not on a laptop anyway, and the virus story isn't a concern anymore since there aren't any mechanical drives in any new Macs. But I share your Dad's fru...

Interesting that your colleagues needed a dual-boot system -- I thought all the main 3d apps were available on Macs natively? I guess not. I've actually been using an older Macbook Pro for the last 6 years -- not for anything serious, just general browsing, some writing, youtube, etc. I had not real...

I don't think I'd risk those upgrades on the new M1 machines! And they don't support dual boot anymore, at least not for Windows. For that, I'd need Parallels and the Arm version of Windows 11. It's an option down the line, but I'm not bothered about it initially. I'm done with tinkering with tech, ...