How important is testing the game to you?

[NineOfHearts]

Just to cast my vote: I feel it's essential to have a running copy, so you can see that your work is actually doing something.

Gives you a reason to continue, and that's just as important for writers and artists as it is for us coders!

Agreed!

[mvBarracuda]

So does everyone have a copy of the current form of the game running on his system? Let us know if you ran into any problems :-)

http://wiki.parpg.net/Download

[NineOfHearts]

So does everyone have a copy of the current form of the game running on his system? Let us know if you ran into any problems :-)

http://wiki.parpg.net/Download

Haha, I think I'm going to need your help. I don't really want to download anything I already have but...I don't know if I have these things already. For starters, I have Python IDLE and Shell. Will these work or do I need to download the Active Python distribution?

[maximinus]

If IDLE is installed then you should have Python already on your system. The 'shell' in windows talk is the terminal (start -> run -> cmd). Can't offer any more info because I'm not a windows person.

[mvBarracuda]

It's important that you'll need Python 2.5 to run PARPG. Neither Python 2.4 nor 2.6 will do the job. You can find out which Python version you're running by starting Python / IDLE and typing in "help()"; it should print the version number to the console.

[maximinus]

It's important that you'll need Python 2.5 to run PARPG. Neither Python 2.4 nor 2.6 will do the job.

Is that literally true Barra? If so, I can add some code to let the user know. Since I only have 2.5 on my system there is no easy way to check.

[mvBarracuda]

Yep, at least on win32 we just support Python 2.5. On Linux there is a Python 2.6 patch for FIFE, created by the Unknown Horizons developers. To support any other version of Python besides 2.5, we would need to adjust the compile SDK; that's not worth the hassle IMO as it we would rather enforce Python 2.6 in this case instead of supporting both versions.

[Sirren]

Hello, I got a problem here: I downloaded and installed  fife, parpg, python 2.5.4.3 and  TortoiseSVN-1.6.1.16129-win32-svn-1.6.1.msi (followed the instruction carefully). When trying to run run.py all I get is a flashing black window and nothing more. My OS is winXP Home 2002, service pack 3. I double checked fife folder structure and the python installation integrity.
What's wrong?

[maximinus]

Have you tried running thr rio demo or the pychan demo? What happens then? Or is it only PARPG?

[Sirren]

Same result with all of them.

[mvBarracuda]

Did you download a stable release of FIFE or grabbed the latest files from SVN and built from source?

EDIT: in case you built from source: simply attach the engine_build_log.txt file. With this build log we can find out if something gone wrong in the build process; that's likely as neither FIFE client is working for you.

[Sirren]

I don't really know what "building from source" means
I simply followed the WIKI instructions linked on the blog front page. Tortoise downloaded the file, if I remember correctly.
Bits and pieces missing?

[mvBarracuda]

Oki, as you followed the guide, there will be a file called engine_build_log.txt, residing in <FIFE>\build\win32\build_environments\scons. Please attach that file to your next posting and we can investigate what went wrong.

[Sirren]

No, sorry. No such a file in that folder, only a number of .bat files. Do I need to run anything?

[mvBarracuda]

Yep, as described in the guide: logbuild_engine.bat.

Please recheck this part of the guide: http://wiki.parpg.net/Download#Win32