NEWBLACK'S PROFILE

Sadly this does not appear to launch, it just opens the ruby window and idles without launching the executable proper (seemingly, anyway). I'm using WinXP still, if that means anything. Am I doing something wrong? <_<

Nice inclusion of the defunct Xenonauts flamethrower in the images folder, though.

*gam recieves 10000 C&D's from the reference image copyright holders.*

author=WolfCoder
As an aside to all: you see how I spend slightly over half my development time polishing and fixing at the same time as I develop? There are no such things as a developer who writes less buggier code. You don't believe me? You don't have enough other types of minds try your stuff, I'm sure. There are only more arrogant developers who write even more buggier code AND don't test as much believing there aren't as many bugs.. and developers who get rushed by management.

The quasi-collaborative way this is being developed is one of the reasons I keep checking back - it's interesting to see how the project and you as the developer of it integrate the comments and feedback you receive.

Ah I missed this, very cool :)

In a similar vein...

author=Link_2112
What about showing different size fonts in different locations?

Probably not super-vital or anything, but can the .ttf/.otf being used at any given some be changed "live" too?

oh and random fyi - every time I visit the main gamepage for 20XX I get landtraveller.com/logo.gif flagged as having come from a malicious URL by Avast and the image is prevented from loading, along with the usual warning pop-up/voice message :/ I know it's almost certainly a false result (and not your fault ofc) but I'm gonna mention it anyway because it's really weird and annoying.

seems an inefficient way of handling icons?

Wouldn't reading many from a single sheet (maybe even of arbitrary size) be preferable to many tiny individual images (or wouldn't it at least be a good option to have?). Also, are there are dimension limitations on this command?

Oh and, probably pure nostalgia at work but - I honestly think some support for 2k3 style 1-bit mask-based custom characters would be a neat thing to have in addition to a more robust icon system (ie the way custom glyphs worked with 2k3, whereby they're rendered as text and refer to a 1 bit image for their details). But maybe that's too superfluous or what-not to warrant being implemented.

Also what exactly is meant by "anything ever printed to the screen, ever", if it means that the commands all persist (except speed changes because they apparently all reset to normal after each message box?) then it would maybe be useful to have a "return to default values" that covered every possible command (not just returning speed to normal like \- does) just to save on faffing around when you want to change something. If it means "things other than just dialogue text" - then please do tell some examples.

So, does basically equate to: "print the user-given name of variable #0001" etc? That's kinda cool, it'd be nice to have ones that print the database name of other entites too (items, characters, monsters etc) - or is that the point and we're just meant to point to those or something?.