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[Kevycat]

This is a tycoon-like first person game about making and selling stuff. In this, I want loads of stuff to be possible. Yes, this includes llama powered flight. The applet might be here eventually, but it's quite hard to have non-crashing textures in an applet.

[Kevycat]

I'm currently working on allowing you to launch the game through a browser- it will be linked soonish.

[Tusky]

Well I, for one, am agog

[Kornel]

Yes, this includes llama powered flight.

Yes, please!

Good luck, Kevycat

[Kevycat]

Thanks for the support. A demo is coming soon, the code is all working. It's just that java applets are considered 'insecure' by browsers, so I am still trying to make it load the graphics dll files.

[whistlerat]

Have you got any gifs or pictures in the meantime?? 

[Kevycat]

Unfortunately, Java applets are nearly impossible to use (Oracle hates them). So, instead, we get something really annoying. To play, go to https://github.com/Kevycat/Game and download tha 'Kevycat' folder. drag that into your windows C:/ProgramData folder. Then, right clock on Kevycat, properties, and disable read-only. I know, this is a lot. I just needed somewhere for the program to put all of its files on any computer. And sorry to all the non-Windows suers who might see this. I just don't know how to use MacOS or Linux.

[Kevycat]

Correction: drag all the files into a new folder named 'Kevycat' and that goes into ProgramData. The .bat file is to launch the program.

[Kornel]

Managed to get it working

Why does it need an internet connection to run?

You could use this http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php to make an installer

It's great your making progress

[Kevycat]

Managed to get it working

Why does it need an internet connection to run?

You could use this http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php to make an installer

It's great your making progress

It just uses the internet to make sure you're running the latest version. Could really use an auto-updater though. That INNO thing looks cool, but I feel like I could make a simple Java-based installer faster than learning that new language/application first. I will link some sort of installer here soon, which will really be a relief to us all. 

[Kevycat]

Fortunately, I made an installer now.  
It's at https://Kevycat.github.io/Game/installer.jar

[Kevycat]

Also, in properties you need to give the installer permission to write files for obvious reasons.

[Kornel]

Thanks for the installer

Shouldn't the game just check and run anyway if it can't reach the server (as oppose now it just refuses to start)?

[Kevycat]

Thanks for thee feedback about the version-checker thing. I'll see about making the batch file check for updates, but that could cause crashes when offline too, so I'll just try to find a solution to this all. 

[Kevycat]

It won't auto update anymore, so you'll have to run the installer jar each time an update is uploaded.

[Kevycat]

Congratulations! You have an amazing opportunity not to get an update for up to a week after it's coded! I don't know why. Eclipse is weird.

[Kornel]

I was wondering why you use Java for game dev? I mean, you probably most familiar with it, but it seems to give you some issues in regards to gamedev

[Kevycat]

I greatly prefer the object oriented approach, and I think it's more that I don't have a good knowledge of eclipse than Java itself. To avoid these it should work to make backups and be careful of settings. I think I violated the second one here. But still, building a backup file that I didn't know existed?

[Kornel]

In that case good luck!

Hope we will see more of your game soon

[Kevycat]

Version 0.0.5a is here! There is now:
-larger level size
-voxel destruction