I added a MWh/cycle tooltip in the train build menu, and will continue working on improvements. But for now I encourage you to see the added management effort as a cost of deforestation.
The tradeoff with the tree preservation setting is lower values are more productive but lead to deforestation. The deal is you can choose to manage the forest sustainably or thin it out and then move the camp.
Wind and sun are on the same scale in that a fully upgraded solar farm has about the same output as a fully upgraded wind farm if their weather numbers are the same. Without upgrades, a wind farm is about 50% better.
Rain is a different matter. Dams are meant to be used as batteries for other power plants. When only powered by rain, they can be good early game, but building only dams is generally a poor choice.
The KWh unit is calculated under the assumption that a cycle is a month. This means with 1 MWh you can run a 1 MW engine for roughly one real second. Maybe there's a better way to present this information, but it's just the amount of energy stored in the dam.
In map generation, wind is likely to be lower than sun and rain, while sun and rain are inversely correlated. You are meant to choose your power plants based on a several factors including the climate, your resources, the terrain, and what cards appear in the shop.
It does not, sorry. The itch.io version comes with the game files and executables for 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux. It has all the same features (except steam integration), will receive the same amount of support, and you can play multiplayer with Steam users.
where ~ is your home directory, as is normal. The directories starting with a period (.) are hidden in most file managers. You can likely toggle their visibility with the hotkey Ctrl-H.
If you downladed it without the itch app, then the save directory goes inside the game directory wherever you extracted the archive.
I have raised the minimum price back to a nonzero value for the occasion, and will keep it that way for the duration of the bundle if the game is accepted. Please reject it if you feel this goes against the spirit of the project.
The Discord window capture hook is known to cause a serious memory leak which will eventually crash the game regardless of settings. Unfortunately this is not something I can fix on my end, however you have a few options:
1. Change your Discord capture mode to Display Capture instead of Window Capture.
2. Use Discord for Google Chrome.
3. Use any other screen capture software, such as OBS.
I did have a problem where the game would not run because the RPG Maker 2003 RTP was not found. I had to set FullPackageFlag=1 in RPG_RT.ini to fix this.
The dGPU opt-in you are referring to is already implemented in the official release for 64-bit Windows.
Unfortunately, there is no way to enable this feature from pure Java code. To overcome this, the official release uses the Groan Autodeployer, which is an executable wrapper that is able to enable the switch in native code before starting the Java Virtual Machine. The Groan Autodeployer is available on my SourceForge profile if you want to set this up yourself. But, the documentation and configuration is not very user friendly and please understand I do not offer technical support for this.
There are other Java executable wrappers you can try which have better documentation. I have never seen one that has the dGPU opt-in, but they do play nicer with Nvidia Optimus (e.g. you can configure the executable separately in the Nvidia control panel, or if you have a somewhat recent driver you can right click on the executable to select the GPU).
Without creating a native executable I think the only way to use the dGPU is to set the java executable itself to use the dGPU in the Nvidia control panel. In my experience this will work if you select the correct version of the executable, but I understand it's not a very nice solution.
It's there for people who want an extra challenge. It contains some collectibles, but unless you are a completionist it is entirely optional and that is the idea.
Thanks, I was not aware anyone could join. Looks like I'm too late for them to add the game, but I asked them to add me to the collection of supporters.
Not exactly planning on making more games like this, but if the game ever gets something like a modding community maybe you'll get to see something like what you're imagining.
Hi, sorry about that. If you could provide the full, uncropped error log (including the header) that would be very helpful. Also, please contact me via the discord server or send me an email at oddvahu@ntnu.no if you can.
I sell the builds because money helps me to live. I've released the source code because I believe it's the right thing to do.
If you have the knowledge required to compile the game, then you can currently obtain a complete copy of the game for free. However, regarding the legality of redistribution: The source code is MPL, but the assets (e.g. the 'res' directory) are, at the time of writing, all rights reserved. This is in part because there are certain assets that I do not own and whose licenses are incompatible with the MPL. You have every right granted by the MPL for all forms of the code, but redistributing a copy and including the assets is, at best, on very shaky legal ground.
That said, I have no intention of fighting redistribution as long as it's not done in extremely bad faith, such as publishing a complete copy on a digital game storefront, or claiming that you made the game. Giving a copy to your friends is fine (and reusing any and all parts of my code is fine), but please encourage anyone who enjoys my work to consider buying the game to support me.
Code and assets being different licenses is not uncommon practice, and it is reflected in the itch.io Metadata. Commercial open source games also not unprecedented, although they are relatively rare. This article contains some examples that follow a similar model:
The source code is published under the MPL 2.0. You will find the link to the freely available source code if you read the game description. This link can also be found under More information > Links > Source code.
It is working as intended, I have double checked this. She won't say anything if you do the ice level as your sixth star, because at this point in the story she has other things on her mind. If you want to see the text, either do the ice level earlier or do finish another level first.
You unlock the "translator" after the credits (if you closed the game during the credits, load the ending checkpoint and skip the cutscene), so you can learn what they were saying if you ever decide to play it again.
The translator is added to your documents when you start a new game.
(Also, thanks for playing, I'm glad you enjoyed it)
ntnu.no if you can.