Does anyone know has KQ (Josh Bolduc) disappeared again? I couldn't find the website.

Pete

KQ... One of the best RPG's I've played...

I will never forgot Sensar and the incredible rage!

KQ FOREVER!!!

Yeah, KQ was a great game..
I haven't played it as of late, but a while back I loved playing it. It was on my list of best non-multiplayer games for my old comp.

Programming isn't entirely a solitary hobby

During the summer, I must admit that I did not program often because I didn't talk to people who inspired me.. or encouraged me much.. During school people in class are amazed with some of my games I make in my spare time.. it gave me a bit of a social aspect to programming.. because my racing game got spread throughout the entire computer class.. my teacher even said that people in his other periods/classes were playing it.. God only knows how everyone heard of it, but it was a conversation piece for quite awhile People sitting around me would give me ideas and such.. so, it is sort of a social hobby under certain circumstances.

Tell that to the people that try and recruit others for group projects

Interesting story there, Derezo. It occurs to me I can't name a single game by you; I'm going to have to skip by your website when I get home and check out your skillz.

Personally I was never a huge KQ fan, mostly because it was unfinished, and I got kind of bored with it after I crossed that one bridge with the boss on it (is it me or is the difficulty really steep?) You still have to give JB props for getting as far as he did though; RPG's ain't easy. I wonder how much further along it's gotten since last I played it .....

.. my progs aren't that great.. I think the only reason they became popular at school was because most students think making a game drawn entirely out of circles in turing is kewl
The one that impressed everyone was my racing game.. but, uhh, the version on my site is a little bit different.. it's inbetween updates, and there's a big bad bug in the way the npc's move...

Mind you, my upcoming update to ID is going to be a major one. It's a little far away, but it's looking a lot better already. The graphics are much improved and "cleaner". I've got some nice music that my artist (heh, my artist.. MY artist.. gwahaha.. ) made with Techno Ejay too..

but, this thread isn't about me!
KQ's difficulty was a little .. strange.. sometimes..
Often it was too hard, but sometimes it was way too easy. I can't remember which enemy it was, but it was somewhere near a collusium.. and it gave quite a bit of exp, and was super easy.. It was almost like leveling on Island Closest to Hell in FF8 with Quistis and the Aura spell.. Or at least, that's what it reminded me of..

Depends on what state the project was in. I've gone through the source before and I'm not sure I'd do it the same way (no scripting?!?). Plus it would only really be feasible for those of us not already busy with our own things, which means I'm out . Still, if a bunch of you could document the source, and organize it to your liking, then how hard can it be? The engine is more or less finished, really. Maybe someone can get his original plans for plot and such from him and you'd have a very healthy start ....

PS: I imagine I could help with graphics, mainly since the visual demands of the game are pretty low

The latest KQ (afaik) I found here: [url http://www.mts.net/~jdb/index.html]

I could probably find some space to host it somewhere, but let's wait until Labour-day weekend (when is that?) to give JB a last chance to change his mind.

For Chris's information it does now use Lua scripting; jb claims the engine is done, just content needs adding.

It would be good to see KQ maintained, I could certainly volunteer to look after it if people wanted me to.

Pete

ps. for me, programming is unsociable; none of my pals program for fun and my mrs sometimes refers to herself as a computer widow - she's not into it at all.

Sure, let's keep the file on our computers, and, come labor day weekend, start a yahoo group or something devoted to working on it. If it's as far as he indicates on that page, it shouldn't be too hard, and should be definitely worth it, to finish the project for him ...

Where's the latest? I want to try it too ....

I just downloaded the game on Thu and I like it.

It crashed on me a few times, I had to change the code. What state of completion is it in (without giving away too much)?

Can anyone post a MinGW makefile? I installed JGMOD fine, compiled no sweat (I had to move the Lua and JGMOD headers into KQ's directory) but when it links it says all the Lua functions called in intrface.c are undefined. I'm linking it just like I'm linking JGMOD and Allegro (which give no problems). It's the same lib file I link in my other projects. That was in Dev-C++, so I tried my own makefile (which I admit I'm not to good with yet) and got the same error. Any ideas, because I'm stumped ...

This is the typical makefile I use normally.

LIBS = -lalld -ljgmod -llua
CFLAGS = -Wall -g

OBJS = combat.o draw.o effects.o enemyc.o entity.o eqpmenu.o eskill.o heroc.o hskill.o itemmenu.o intrface.o kq.o magic.o masmenu.o menu.o res.o selector.o setup.o sgame.o shopmenu.o

main.exe: $(OBJS)
gcc -o main.exe $(OBJS) $(LIBS)

%.o: %.c
gcc -c $(CFLAGS) $< -o $@

Yes, I know it's in debug mode. I needed to knock out a bug or 2.

When you make up a library (this applies to Allegro, JGMOD & Lua, all 3 libs used) you need to but the .a file in your compiler's lib directory, and the .h file in the include directory. Allegro's "make install" does this for you, I did it manually with Lua (which I only got to play KQ!).

All three libraries are in the lib directory. Weird, huh?

phate: The link doesn't work because he was taking it down over the long weekend. Time's up, you're SOL. Unless someone wants to upload it ....