Hi Darkwave,

Nice editor you have. So easy.
The controls on the 'Enter' mode are not intuitive to me.
I would like the arrow keys to change to the direction I
want them to go.

Really nice to see your own level with a lot of characters.

Good job and looking forward to the minigame option being
available as well as deploying my own game with it !

Best regards from

M.E.

Yes. It's already coded with macOSX in mind but I couldn't figure out how to compile for this platform on GNU/Linux 

Would you be so kind to write here the procedure to compile it yourself on OsX so that people can do it at home?

Also a screenshot would be great promotion material

dw

I can't go too in depth while at work, but I can tell you what you'll need before you begin

You'll need Subversion (svn) to retrieve the source code. This may actually come with the Dev Tools (see below), I don't remember.

You'll need Apple Developer's Tools (Xcode) to compile. Free, but you have to sign up as a developer (you don't need any proof or awesome coding skills or anything; it's available to everyone). It also probably came on a DVD included with your system disks.

And you'll need some variety of the X Window System to actually run it (mm, and it probably won't compile unless it's installed). You can use XFree86 or Apple's X11 (what I use). It comes with your Dev Tools, but I think you have to install it separately.

I would just post the binary I compiled, but it's only for PPC and I'm sure it's dynamically linked anyhow. More when I get home.

no no no, it should work fine with Intel. PPC would be more likely to cause problems and didn't, so yeah.

Compiling Isotopia for Dummies

To retrieve the source code, open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and type

cd ~; svn co http://code.autistici.org/svn/isotopia/isotopia_new/ isotopia_new

(You can copy/paste. Press return to input the command)

This will put a folder called isotopia_new in your home folder. Now type

cd ~/isotopia_new/; ./autogen.sh

Wait for it to finish. It's done when you get the prompt back. And now

./configure

It'll do some more grinding. When you get the prompt back do

make

Grind grind grind. Lastly

make install

Ta da! It's installed. Now open whatever variety of X Windows you have. X11 is located in /Applications/Utilities/. You should automatically get a terminal window. Type

isotopia

If this doesn't work, try

/usr/local/bin/isotopia

That's it. If anyone has any problems you can IM or PM me.

My pleasure. I love open source (especially GNU) software and think it deserves all the support it can get.

I don't know if there's any specific lisense I can invoke, but you may do anything you like with that mini-tutorial with or without my permission. I tried to put it on your Trac wiki but couldn't figure out how. It seemed like you have editing priveleges restricted? Anyhow, I'll post a screenie later today.

Thanks for maintaining such nice standard code!

EDIT: Tags

Edited by Hatch - 26 October 2007 at 6:55am

They spoke about our project on Italian national television:
Push "Guarda la Puntata" in order to see the video
(Sorry for the bad media files... I hope to be able to create a better video only with our interview soon)

I personally dislike television and main stream information medias but some promotion can be useful :)

What about all you isometric artists out there? Someone has something made with ISOTOPIA to show us?

Hoping to see isometric cool tiles and sprites soon,
dw


Edited by darkwave - 03 November 2007 at 10:36pm

We decided Ubuntu/Debian to be our "main platform"



Art made with ISOTOPIA by you is your! ISOTOPIA is just a tool/game and doesn't change normal copyright usage.

Anyway I suggest you to share the result of your work under Creative Commons so project like your or like our could use it.



You can use the Isometric Pixel art included in ISOTOPIA but remember to put somewhere visible our Credits wiki page if you do that.

We will provide new pixel art in the future licensed with Creative Commons but nothing before 2008...

We are working hard on ISOTOPIA new version so I suggest you to stay tuned and I invite you to use the Ticket System to provide suggestions and feedback!

Thank you for the attention.

dw