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[JobLeonard]

Sorry for missing this post, JobLeonard!  I have been very on again, off again with this project and completely missed it!

Also, I'm getting a black screen on my 1920x1080 Ubuntu laptop. Will try logging out and check if a Xubuntu session works better than Unity.

[psyguy]

I've finally completed all principal development on this project.  From here, I will focus on ensuring the game runs properly for as many users as possible.  I updated the links in the original post, but I'll include them here as well.

Download v0.9.5 here:

• zip file for windows
  aloderunnerstory.zip (~50MB)
  run aloderunnerstory.exe to begin
• tar.gz file for linux, mac
  aloderunnerstory.tar.gz (~35MB)
  requires python 2.x and pygame
  run main.py to begin

Also, for JobLeonard:  I unfortunately have not been able to reproduce the black screen error on any of my local machines.  I did have a user report "slow performance" on a Unity install, but the game did launch and run on his machine.

[psyguy]

I have a few GIFs of the game in action, finally!  (I should have been doing this all along, alas.)  They're a little bit on the large side, so I'll just put one in this post as an example.  I have the rest of them in an imgur album that you can also check out.



Link to full album:  http://imgur.com/a/StO4N

[JobLeonard]

Aww yeah!

Downloading now, seeing if the problem is fixed. It could be because I have one of those laptops with both Intel and Nvidia graphics cards - it's been confusing other things as well.

Worst case I'll just reboot to Windows

[JobLeonard]

Still all black window

I'll do some googling myself, see if there's an issue with Pygame on Linux.

[psyguy]

Still all black window

That's tough to hear!  The game uses OpenGL for the graphics rendering.  Does that give you any lead on a setting or configuration on your machine that might make a difference?

My other thought right now is that the problem could involve the DLL files I import into the game that control the rendering.  Although I would expect the game to completely crash in the event of an incompatible DLL compile, I shouldn't rule it out completely.  I'll send you a quick PM, if you'd like to try compiling the DLLs on your local environment as an experiment.

[JobLeonard]

DLL in Linux? Huh? You sure that's how it's supposed to work?

[psyguy]

DLL in Linux? Huh? You sure that's how it's supposed to work?

I am spending a little bit of time to (hopefully) educate myself on this topic.  Apparently I've been creating "shared libraries" but simply using the .dll file extension (harmless if not ignorant, of course!).  I apologize for the confusion I created.