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  1. PtD Source-Code

    Hey, sorry I've taken so long to get on this. I'm up for releasing the source out. There shouldn't be any licensing issues. Would have let it go to VD a long time ago, but got lost in the shuffle in a transition between jobs for me. The source is pretty crappy frankly, although you can do...

  2. Any examples of games with group conversations?

    We had quite a few party and multi-character based dialogs in Prelude to Darkness, it was a design goal from the start that while one character was the party's "leader" at all times, everyone in the party would have some influence on conversations. For instance its assumed that with a really...

  3. Wizardry The Wizardry Series Thread

    Switching classes is hugely helpful, and I find it to be more fun frankly. One switch won't ruin the game making it too easy or anything, but will provide a party with more flexibility. Not as important in Forge, but in Crusaders its much, much more of a slog without switching. I usually...

  4. KickStarter Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM) - now available on Steam and GOG

    I've completed 6 lawful ultra endings, 2 neutral, 1 chaotic, and 6 regular endings. I almost never play straight fighters, I've won with bards, priests, wizards, archers, a paladin, healer, assassin, and a weaponsmith. Almost always magic and missile focused. I think my first win was the...

  5. HAY GUYS THE NEW VERSION IS OUT

    whoa. Never heard of anything like that before. I can not imagine what could have caused that. There is a fair amount of disk access, which might stress out an already stressed drive. Do you know if it was fragmented or near-full already? Any idea if there were any bad sectors before the...

  6. Laptop user: character models invisible

    The "free" version is very untested and is a beta release. I'm looking at the character model issue, which is primarily a display driver issue. It may have been caused by updating to a newer version of the DirectX SDK when I compiled the latest version of the game. Hopefully I'll be...

  7. HAY GUYS THE NEW VERSION IS OUT

    Like CP said, this version wasn't really slated for public consumption. :) Still, I'm glad to have some people hammering on it. Although I've cleaned up the graphics code a lot, there's still many issues with running outside of 800x600, so no, that's not really possible in the current...

  8. Use based system vs. XP based ones

    For Prelude to Darkness we used a combination system that was non-level based. I think it would really well and remains my favorite system that I've played or designed. We went through about 20 different types of systems before we arrived at this one. Skills improved with use and only...

  9. Hello again... from Zero Sum

    Saves should be compatible. So far they have been. I'm doing my best to keep them so and since most of the updates are cosmetic it's not too bad. Can't guarantee it %100 right now. But it's likely. :D

  10. HOMM5 Alpha Screenshots

    I played the brief demo at the GC in Leipzig. It's definitely Heroes 3-ish. I wasn't big on the inventory/equipment/arm screens, but that was fairly minor and the rest was great and definitely evoked the right feeling. (which HOMM4 never did) Some of the touches were nice, like mouseover...

  11. Abandonware?

    I am actually alive. The Zero Sum site and emails are having issues and have been for a while. Prelude is not quite abandonware, although I think it likely we will soon release the full version to the public for free consumption. The team has spread to the four corners of the earth and work...

  12. RPGs at E3?

    I'm heading out to E3 tomorrow. I don't know how busy I'll be with Tilted Mill, but if there's anything y'all want me to check out, give us a post and I'll do my best to get some impressions and maybe write something up afterwards. cheers, -mat p.s. Speaking of tilted mill we just...

  13. RPG Dot 2003: The biggest disappointment

    I didn't play any RPG of 2003 for more than five hours. Nothing grabbed me, even TOEE despite the excellent combat; but then I dislike D&D's system. Haven't tried KOTOR yet, but given that I just don't like BIO's style I don't have much hope. The only RPG I've played all year has pretty much...

  14. New Computer

    Just email me your new customer ID and I'll arrange to get you a new key. Cheers, -mat mat@zero-sum.com

  15. Version 1.5 is available

    Finally, after six long months. By far the biggest fix is the magic bug which was most readily apparent with flame magic, although it could affect all of them and other targetting besides. The back end changes to the memory management and script engine should improve stability on a lot of...

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