Creatures Caves

Yes, you heard that right. openc2e is not only alive, it has begun to start receiving updates again! Recently the focus has shifted to making the music from C2 and onwards, known as MNG, work properly. As of now it does work despite some volume issues, and that is going to be improved hopefully soon. Most of the other work is still aimed towards C2.

We are expecting to have more time next month to get the remaining bugs that we've identified for version 0.2 alpha, and when those are done it will be released shortly thereafter. We think that it will be a significant improvement over 0.1 - especially since 0.1 had several big bugs that were fixed almost immediately after we released it (well over a year and a half ago)!

Today, I got my openc2e stuff up and going again and managed with a bit of help to create a current build of openc2e for Windows (look under 'Development Builds'). It has the latest code and includes the in-progress MNG support. The best way to try the MNG stuff is to run C3 and trigger the Birth event, or to use the STRK command. Most other events will not lead to music playing just yet for various reasons. Download the build, Windows people, and try it out for me! I am especially interested in finding out if the GameFinder script that makes the shortcuts can detect the new GoM.com versions of Exodus and Albian Years. I am thinking it probably won't and if it doesn't I'd like to fix it.

Sorry Mac guys/gals - you can try the old 0.1 alpha but as of yet we haven't gotten a reliable system to build for Mac, and the guy who did the 0.1 build for us has vanished. Such is the internet, I guess.

Let us know what you think - and let me know if you windows people have any trouble installing and running it.

(Crossposted on Creaturetopia)