Gemstone Keeper - An ASCII based Roguelike Shooter

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I can proudly confirm that Gemstone Keeper has been Greenlit! Thank you everyone who has supported me so far!

[eXpl0it3r]

Awesome! Glad you made it!

[Hapax]

Congratulations!

[achpile]

Wow! Awesome game! Congratulations!! 

The most surprising thing for me is track from trailer  I tried to use it in my project too  Yeah, Eric Skiff is pretty great composer 

[gamepopper]

Wow I have not been updating this...at all.

So Gemstone Keeper will be on Steam in about 10 days, that's exciting!

Here's the trailer!

[eXpl0it3r]

Woho! Nice!

[eXpl0it3r]

I has been released!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/522080/

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No Linux Version?

[Tank]

No Linux version 

[gamepopper]

No Linux Version?

I'm sorry, I'm not ready to approach Linux just yet.

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Video Game writer Dean Noakes is currently doing a poll on which game from the Twitter group #IndieDevHour to write about. My game is on that list, so if you do have Twitter, please vote on Gemstone Keeper right here. Thank you all!

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No Linux Version?

No Linux version 

Good news you two (and any others)! I have been working on a Linux build, and I have a demo that I would like to be test run, much feedback would be necessary to ensure this build goes out smoothly. Specifically I would like to know:

• Can the game boot up from the build script?
• Does keyboard and mouse input work?
• Does Xbox 360 gamepad support work? (I've tested with xboxdrv and have gotten it to work but not so sure)
• How well does the game perform (FPS, lag, crashes)?

If there are any faults, please describe in best detail what the issue is, and if possible any ways I could fix it. Linux is still faily new to me after 2-3 months so stuff isn't perfect at this stage.

[texus]

I had to change the permissions of the runGemstoneKeeper.sh and Gemstone-Keeper files to allow executing them.

When going into the cavern and clicking "start level", the game crashes with a std::bad_cast error after the screen faded to black. The backtrace does not show anything as the executable is not a debug build.

In the terminal output there is also a repeating error because "VFrame/depend/arial.ttf" can't be found.

[gamepopper]

I had to change the permissions of the runGemstoneKeeper.sh and Gemstone-Keeper files to allow executing them.

When going into the cavern and clicking "start level", the game crashes with a std::bad_cast error after the screen faded to black. The backtrace does not show anything as the executable is not a debug build.

In the terminal output there is also a repeating error because "VFrame/depend/arial.ttf" can't be found.

Is there anyway to set those permissions permanently so users don't have to change them themselves?

Also found the bad_cast issue and it has been fixed. Feel free to download a fixed build on the itch.io page and let me know if you find anymore issues. Thank you.

[texus]

You should try making a .tar.gz (or .tgz) file instead of a .zip, that should preserve the file permissions.