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Amazing to have 50 people registered for this, and 18 super amazing games to play.

Thanks Cammy.

Ok, great. Please let me know when you have a final version, and I will add it to LemonAmiga.

In deleopment?

I didnt create an LHA mainly because it is not tested yet on a bare Workbench setup, so I stuck with the HDF. As the sanity checker has recently been fixed with this update, the app should install itself in theory, so I have now created an LHA for you to try. 

As for Aminet, well I only want to upload something once it is finished and not a half measure with some bugs in it. Aminet is great but I dont want to release demos, I want to wait until there is something finished and workable to my specs, which I still have not achieved yet. Not even the Docs are finished, so Aminet will wait a bit longer.

I know what you mean, so thanks for being brave enough to mention it. I spoke to Stoo Cambridge about maybe doing some art for the UI, but I dont think he is up for it.  It would have to be someone better than me at drawing stuff.  The current UI is just click boxes, so the intention was to place a GUI brush over the top of those panels, to make it look a bit more 2006 rather than 1986.  But so far, this element is basically the very last placed thing on my list, and I need to make and fix so much more in the tool before I get around to the final polish.  All feedback is welcome of course, but followers are really what I need to test this and fix user spotted issues.

Hello. Dan from Lemon Amiga. I am about to move this game down to Frozen on my 2026 releases list unless there is any more info? 

Yes, loads of progress. The castle image came from an idea I had to remake DOTC with CanDo, which is not hard.  I got as far as ripping the screenshots but never bothered to get further with the idea.   For this project, the aim was simply to get the flame flickering and the stars shining, and the fire in the hearth roaring, with colour cycles.   But I used the same project to test all of the layer types as they were developed. The result is a bit of a visual mess, but it's working!, and it means users can check each layer info, and play with the options. 

How many levels does it have?

Ok, most normal screen modes are now in the app. 720p is tested as working. I tried higher resolutions but ran of of chip ram. There is now a screen mode selector in the tool with V0.8, and so the user can choose whatever mode they want. However, RTG is untested. 

Have you considered entering this game into the 2025 Game Jam? https://itch.io/jam/amigamejam/entries

Thank you Glenn. Expect to play with the latest build tomorrow.

Yes, I played that game. It would be easy to make a construction kit to make a photo adventure, but time is lacking.

Astonishing!

That is a huge shame. I know I could bend the rules any way I want to allow this submission, but rules are rules, and I already rolled back the entry date to the start of this year.  I will remove your entry, but your amazing dock and the Parent button is genius, and transforms WB into something much more modern.  Of course, if you were to make and release a WB2.0+ version, we could argue the idea for this started and ended in 2025, to make it suitable?  There is only a short time left.

See this thread for details:
https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=112250

Hi there. Thanks for submitting this to the Amiga Tool Jam 2025. Unfortunately it is not a tool, but a game, so please enter this in the AmiGameJam instead. Thanks anyway.

We have 18 registered to participate, but only 8 submissions. So I have extended the deadline up until October 25th. I know that the last minute crunch can be painful, so hopefully this allows enough time for those who still want to submit something.

Thanks for your submission. Some really essential tips there! If only there was a way to cycle them, as it can take ages to go back to the workbench every so often to read them all.  The 2.5 hours of exercise per day made me feel guilty, as I havent done any in about 25 years. ;)

Really happy this project is still on-going. 
As you say, the sounds can be pre-loaded in to fast ram and played from there, and maybe I presume this is how The Settlers does it, after it detects 030 and enough ram.  If players have enough ram to play the whole game from memory, surely they have enough to copy a few sample packs to fast memory. With my games, I always save the samples at x3 speed, and play them back x3 times slower, This means they are only one third of the size they were originally, and that means they load 3 times quicker.  There is also a way to do live shuffling. So if there there are no waves on screen but some moutains, it shuffles out the waves and loads in the wind. This should mean far less audio needs to be loaded in and out of the memory SFX pool. 

I think Amiga Bill gave you a shout out last weekend.

Thanks Glenn. Sometimes I wonder if any of this is worth it. But the project is now over half way, so just the text and graphics to add now.

No worries. When you have V1.0, we will add it to the list of new games to be added to the Lemon Amiga database. ;)

Says 0.9?  Any plans for V1.0?

The thing is, I can only work in screen modes that the user is running. So if I made an NTSC 320 x 400 mode, the user would have to have loaded the NTSC monitor driver, or it wont work.  Same with productivity modes and RTGs, and I have no way to know what the user would be running.  As a compromise, I could simply have it running as a Workbench App, so it will run in whatever screen mode and colours is on your workbench, and it should run like that.

Another issue is the app is only capable of editing the first 256 colours. It can load and save any number, but there is no space on the display to make an edit box for 4096, 16.8M colours etc.

I am avoiding looking at Datatypes and file-type compatibility for now, so I cant say yes it will edit 5 megabyte PNGs in 1080p.

Thanks. Expect a backers demo soon!

Nice conversion!

Thanks.  Yet another Amiga Classic!

I might not check this very often, but feel free to ask.

Not sure I would have the skills or the time to make a SOL 20 ASCII version of DOTC. But I guess it could be done. Same with King of Chicago.

Thanks Mahen!
Yes, maybe a bit too big for me, but hopefully working on the mini-games will be fun.  Then we can look at making Conquest mode like Defender of the Crown, and make it more interesting.

This was the ADF.  It only happened when I played through the game from the start, and the passwords cut out the issue.
Perhaps a buffer overflow error?  Seems a very easy game to make in Scorpion so I cant see how this was caused. Perhaps just an emulator 
glitch? 

I've now added your game to the Lemon database, due for release in the next few weeks.
I presume I used an A600 000, Kickstart 2, with 2mb chip and 8mb fast emulated config. 

After I went back to the game, it eventually froze and locked me out, so I had to reboot it.  Obviously a memory corruption of some kind, perhaps it  was because of Kickstart 2?

Never mind. I restarted the level and now it works. Strange.

On level 15, this monster did not come up with the attack bit enabled, and just sat there. So I could not kill him?

Perhaps a misplaced hit box??

No problem. Your game is now on the Lemon releases list:
https://www.lemonamiga.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=19878

Why does the page still say In Development? Is the Amiga version finished and released?

Yes, but it only appears in the English version of the forum, switching to German means my comment disappears.

Thanks Glenn for the payment. Very great gesture. I've now removed the payment option as this is just a demo after all.  Hopefully it will encourage others to download it?  The game should now be working.

Great that it is working. Yes, it needs 1MB Chip and 1MB Fast, but maybe it still works on A1200?  I'll put a note on the game page. Also, thanks for the share.  171 people used your link!  27 downloaded.

ok, it should be fixed now, I uploaded the wrong files.

Just change the icon tool type to C:deckrunner, and it works. Update:  I just updated the HDF with this fix.