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ReLarn |
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by Chris Reuter |
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About ReLarn[1] |
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ReLarn is a fork of the classic old-school Roguelike game |
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Ularn[2] (which itself was a fork of the classic |
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old-school Roguelike game Larn[3]). Unlike most |
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forks of Roguelikes, ReLarn (mostly) doesn't add weapons, |
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monsters or |
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other gameplay and instead focuses on making the game |
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work smoothly on |
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modern hardware and making the source code easier to read |
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and |
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maintain. |
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That said, there are some gameplay changes. Some came out |
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of source |
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code cleanup, others fixed longstanding annoyances and |
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there are a few |
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things I put in just for fun. But mostly, it's still the |
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classic |
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Ularn experience with less irritation. |
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Notable player-visible changes are: |
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* Item selection is now done via a full-screen menu. |
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* The game makes much more use of colour where that's |
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supported. |
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* Field of view is now determined by line-of-sight |
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instead of just |
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distance and is highlighted on the screen. |
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* End-of-game junk mail is now no longer actually |
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mailed to you. |
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* You can now select your spouse's gender and |
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"nonbinary" is an |
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available option for both of you. |
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* There is a new artifact, the Diploma. |
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* The lore is a bit more consistent ("Larn" is treated |
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as a place name |
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now, for example). Also, more jokes. |
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* Generally less jankiness. |
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* Many small usability improvements. |
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Notable developer-level changes are: |
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* The code is now idiomatic modern C and compiles |
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without (many) |
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warnings. |
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* Sources have been refactored into modules and adhere |
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(much more) to |
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the DRY principle. |
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* Display handling now goes through just one module and |
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uses Curses as |
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its back end. |
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* Operating system access goes through the standard C |
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library or |
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through a thin abstraction layer. |
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* Anti-cheating measures have been removed; they don't |
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work, they |
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complicate the code and they make saved games more |
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fragile. |
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I started this project in 2010 while working a |
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particularly |
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challenging job and needed a creative(ish) project that |
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was not overly |
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mentally taxing. Refactoring a program that already |
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(mostly) worked |
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turned out to be the right thing and I worked on this off |
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and on until |
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2018 when I got sick of it and shipped what I had. |
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Since then, I've worked on it off and on just for fun. |
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Homepage: https://relarn.org/ |
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Source code: https://gitlab.com/relarn/relarn |
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Mirror: https://github.com/relarn/relarn |
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References |
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1. https://relarn.org/ (link) |
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2. http://www.ularn.org/ (link) |
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3. https://larn.org/ (link) |
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Date Published: 2022-09-22 17:01:38 |
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Identifier: ReLarn |
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Item Size: 14613930 |
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Media Type: software |
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