Jump to content
The Dark Mod Forums

Petike the Taffer

Member
  • Posts

    603
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    30

Status Updates posted by Petike the Taffer

  1. Peaceful Easter holidays to everyone. I'll try to organise some sort of a work group for us "messing around with the GUI and .lang files" types. ? Grayman thinks it's a good idea, so I might give it a shot. At least putting a group together for now, that would be a good start.

  2. An awful, shameful political crisis in my country. Things have come to a head. However, I hope all these massive revelations will provoke change. The people finally seem encouraged to make a difference. Hopefully, they will. Whenever I won't be foaming at the mouth over the whole sorry situation, I'll keep working on my TDM projects.

    1. Show previous comments  3 more
    2. Anderson

      Anderson

      Slovakia, investigative journalist killed with his girlfriend for inquiring into political corruption.

    3. Melan

      Melan

      And apparently by the Calabrian Ndrangheta itself?

    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Melan: Yeah, it's become abundantly clear that the whole government has some mafia ties. Appaling stuff. All the more that they're refusing to leave and allow for early elections ! Ridiculous.

  3. Noticed some heating issues with my GPU this evening. If it repeats and I am forced to have it repaired, I will let you know. I will also attempt to upload the translation files ASAP, just to be sure (in case things could take longer).

    1. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      It seems to be stable now, so maybe it was just a false alarm. I'll keep you posted if anything changes. Rest assured, what I'm still working on for TDM this month will be made public, either way.

    2. Vae
    3. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      @Petike, regarding your GPU you have a pm. As there will be a few things we can do to fix the overheating issue as long as it isn't h/w failure.

  4. A full Slovak translation (as full as possible right now) for 2.06 is nearly finished. The monastery mission is still being worked on, and I will also make and release a smaller FM before it, for both level building practice and storytelling reasons.

    1. Show previous comments  3 more
    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Thank you all. @Tarhiel I'll send you a PM.

    3. Tarhiel
    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Scratch that (partly). It seems the two official missions will probably have to remain without an l10n pack for the foreseeable future. Pity, but it's not something I can directly influence. :-( However, I plan to do l10n for other missions, with their authors' permissions.

  5. Working on that monastery mission in March, but got back to it only recently and making some substantial progress. Still at the rough building phase. Will probably make another mission that will get published before the monastery one (due to story reasons). I want to make my missions a continuous story.

    1. Show previous comments  1 more
    2. Goldwell

      Goldwell

      Awesome! Keep at it :)

    3. Bikerdude
    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Thank you, guys. I certainly will keep at it, but I'm also pressed to finish my translation project first. I'd like to get it out before the 2.06 update, if possible.

  6. I finally have a concrete idea for my debut mission. Builder monasteries and fish ponds are involved as the backdrop. (Also, my planned protagonist gets introduced, as well as a new TDM-verse town.) Now to iron out the objectives developments and the plot twists to the basic storyline...

    1. Sotha

      Sotha

      Excellent! My advice for new mission authors is always the same: start with a small mission.

    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Sorry for such a late reply, but yeah, I intend the first mission to be fairly small. A single building complex of monastic Builders, with two or three smaller outdoor areas (a cloister, a herb garden, a larger garden with fish ponds). Nothing bigger. Now that I've gained some experience in DR and I'm gaining editing confidence, I feel more comfortable posting this, as I'll start work on the FM soon. :-)

  7. Probably going to set up DR before Christmas. High time to learn some basic mission building...

  8. On Sunday morning, I dreamt a TDM dream. Yes, really. I was inside some city level with nice moody lighting. There were winding streets and regularly shaped courtyards paved with nothing but oversized square stone tiles. One courtyard had something like a chessboard-style arrangement of paving tiles with Roman numerals, and a mechanical contraption to go with it. This was apparently some kind of puzzle, but my dream-self couldn't figure out the specifics.

    1. Show previous comments  6 more
    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Unfortunately, Lovecraft really doesn't tickle my fancy as an author.

    3. freyk

      freyk

      Petike, please keep tour dreams private. Analyse your dreamsymbols, then you know what i mean.

    4. demagogue

      demagogue

      The warehouse section of my FM was pretty much copied verbatim from a dream I had.

  9. A rough list of FMs I've completed so far: Exhumed, Lockdown, The Tears of St. Lucia, Lockner Manor, Living Expenses, Mad's Mountain, Rightful Property, The Parcel, Flakebridge Monastery, Rake-off, Too Late, Thief's Den, Chalice of Kings, Siege Shop, Pandora's Box, The Outpost, Trapped !, Thieves, and all of Sotha's FMs exluding The Lich Queen's Demise. I've played a lot of other missions, but regrettably, haven't finished most of them yet.

    1. Show previous comments  2 more
    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Ha ! :-)) Fret not, milady, I plan to play some of the larger FMs you've made too. :-)

    3. RPGista

      RPGista

      Give Winter Harvest a try.

    4. Petike the Taffer
  10. Phew ! Problem solved ! Now I'll move on ASAP to working on the base missions. I hope I can finish and spellcheck them by October. It's high time.

    1. Vae

      Vae

      Good to hear! :)

    2. Bikerdude
    3. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Yes indeed. :-) Now I just have to figure out how to test FM translations. x-D

  11. OK, testing's postponed until I figure out what's happened to the generating via the perl script.

  12. I'm pleased to announce that the remade GUI translation (updated for the current version) I've been working on is completed. Still testing it, but it seems to be as fine as before. I'll be moving on to porting the translation of the two base missions into the game files soon.

    1. Show previous comments  3 more
    2. Bikerdude
    3. SteveL

      SteveL

      Good going! (and gratz and kudos on completing it)

    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Yeah, but I'll only be sending the whole translation for evaluation once I'm 100 % sure I've finished everything from the base game. If that turns out a success, I might move on to translating some of the other missions.

  13. Just in case anyone's interested, that Garrett illustration in my profile picture was made a few years ago by Dominuzzz.

×
×
  • Create New...