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None of the story engine work is open yet. But you can find all of my open projects on git.mr4th.com

That's 4coder !

thanks so cool! can i know which font you used ?@@Mr4thdimention

@@glepnir522 I am using a font called 'Liberation Mono'

Well - as for "what game jam" I started it as a personal game jam for myself. A container in which to play with the idea and experiment. It turned out that the day I started this was exactly the right time for me to spend 7 days participating in 7DRL challenge, so I'm submitting it to that since it works out so nicely, but I'll still continue with my original plan to spend a month experimenting freely in this way too. To your other question, yes. The idea is that it's a "story game" you read about what happens and choose what to do next by interacting with words on the screen, instead of interacting through a spatial interface. The game mechanics are designed to still be clearly a RogueLike in the sense that it has permadeath and random reconfiguration of the elements of the experience between runs. The game design is also changed where needed to better suit the interface. For instance, instead of the player performing exploration by moving through a 2D grid of cells, exploration is simulated in the current version more like a hidden deck of cards, where you draw a new card and reveal more of the dungeon when you explore successfully. I'm still in very early experimental days trying to see how this idea works out!

@@Mr4thdimention That sounds really interesting. I like to make adventure games with Adrift. I am not a programmer unfortunately. I find traditional interactive fiction that is based around solving puzzles boring, I find narrative story telling more engaging. I did come across one really unique roguelike from a 7DRL jam in the past called "The Only Shadows that the Desert knows" you had to read books 'one paragraph' in the game world to get clues like timelines and names of people and you could travel back through time to be able to go into a peaceful territory to find a NPC or an artifact, where as current time it is a hostile place etc. Its a shame the dev didn't keep going with it and expand on his ideas. It is a buried gem now. Perhaps a little off topic, but just an example of how roguelikes can break the mold. I would like to see more text driven roguelikes to be a hybrid of text adventures and roguelikes. Do you have a blog about this project of yours? or will you mainly will be posting video updates on your channel here?

@@Daz30 I have a few places where I post updates on my projects. On this CZcams channel I just store archives of my Twitch streams. I am just getting started with this, and right now my plan is to mix this with a lot of my other programming projects, which I post about mr4th.com and the email newsletter attached to the site. But if this project continues to go well I'll think about making some dedicated channels for it.

I'll check it out!

Hit alt-x to bring up the command lister and type in "theme lister"

@@Mr4thdimention i asked because in your videos you hava a thrme preview and change font option

@@cozyfog ahhh right this is from the alpha version of 4coder. Some of the heavier weight UI stuff was dropped in the change to 4.1.X

It works better in my little build scripts czcams.com/play/PLT6InxK-XQvNKmJsl12tgEXu92iDqsHnw.html The exe for link gets shadowed in bash emulators by the command to create symbolic links which is also called "link".

Unfortunately this project was cancelled. I don't believe there are any materials left from it.

Oh, and also, it seems that this site has expired ssl certificate

I use a CODE keyboard.

@@Mr4thdimention thx

Ahhh I'm never going to get that right.

@@Mr4thdimention How about I buy a copy of 4Coder and we'll call it even. Edit: Done. Looking forward to using it for a little project I'm doing to get back into native code development in the evenings

I might have given a poor explanation, or written it down wrong. The idea is that one of the factors must be less than or equal to sqrt(X). In the final solver I account for cases like 2*13 = 26 by not stopping at the first prime until X goes below the first prime or I get through the whole list of primes.

This is 4coder. I'm not sure what you mean by "dot files"

CZcams just needs time to process it.

7 using classic theme

@@whatcanyoudo6158 ok

Correct. This was more just for me to hang out with people and get help from the crowd while dealing with an annoying problem. I would recommend reading the final code if you're interested in learning about this.

true as fuck

Yeah it all feels like a pretty big hack. That's why I wanted to take some time to look at it in isolation and try to reduce it down to the most streamlined thing I could find that actually gets the job done. If you've got something working then that's all that really matters but I ended up turning this session into a public example on GitHub so that others can use what I've found: github.com/4th-dimention/examps It's such a messy problem that I'm sure someone can find a reason not to use it. Some configuration where it fails, or some windows feature it screws up. But hopefully it's mostly useful to people? I think it's pretty good anyway.

@@Mr4thdimention thanks for sharing

Please tell me your solution, I'm struggling to paint outside of client area in Windows 10 22H2.

@@devisals Need more information about what you're actually trying to achieve. It's a bit different when you want to paint over acrylic (transparent blurred window). In general, to enable paint over NC area and keep dwm stuff (shadow and border with round edges) you should first call DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea with rect (0, 0, 1, 0). Yes, 1px border at the top should be present, otherwise shadow and border will be gone. After calling DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea you should recalc window with SetWindowPos and SWP_FRAMECHANGED flag (set other related flags if you don't want to resize/reposition your window). For getting transparent blurred window more setup is required and it's a bit hacky. In your WndProc you should handle following messages: WM_ERASEBKGND - just return 1, this prevents unnecessary flicker and bg painting; WM_NCCALCSIZE - this is where magic happens, when wParam == FALSE pass it to DefWindowProc, when TRUE you should compute rgrc[0] rectangle of the window. Typically it's same as GetWindowPlacement rect, but for maximized window it should be shrinked by border width (use GetSystemMetrics to calc the border); WM_NCHITTEST - you should detect all of the special window areas and return corresponding hit test to the system in order to keep standard functionality (resizing, maximizing etc). If you don't want standard window buttons to be painted (you just overdraw them yourselves - process them also here). If you don't want to change standard caption buttons appearance and functionality - call DwmDefWindowProc first; WM_PAINT - paint your stuff within the window. Now you can paint over the whole window area (except 1px border at the top). It's better not to use GDI here, because it doesn't work with transparency. Especially if you need to paint over blurred background. I prefer to use Direct2D.

Is there anyway around DWM? What if I remove the boarders of the window, make a rectange surrounding the Window and treat that as the boarder?

and now that i've tried the demo. this editor sucks.

@@stephenkamenar based