Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Re: NEW: games/bstone

On 12/25/18 6:26 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 10:35:02AM -0500, Brian Callahan wrote:
>> Hi ports --
>>
>> Attached is a new port, games/bstone. BStone is a source port of Blake Stone
>> FPS game series engine.
>>
>> ---
>> pkg/DESCR:
>> BStone is a source port of the Blake Stone game series games Aliens of
>> Gold and Planet Strike.
>>
>> Features:
>> * High resolution rendering of the world (extended vanilla engine)
>> * Modern and vanilla controls
>> * Customizable control bindings
>> * Separate volume control for sound effects and music
>>
>> Note that while this package is open source, the games are not. You must
>> purchase at least one of the games in order to use this package.
> Aliens of Gold shareware worked when I tried a while ago.

You're right. Minor wording tweaks to note that.

~Brian

>> ---
>>
>> This is another case of the game developer open sourcing the game engine but
>> not releasing the assets, so you have to have a copy or buy a copy of the
>> games.
>>
>> The jm_tp.cpp patch fixes a level loading bug that I will send upstream. The
>> jm_free.cpp patch removes one of the advertising intro splash screens to
>> avoid a segfault which I couldn't track down a good fix for, so I'll open a
>> bug report upstream. It doesn't affect game play in any way.
>>
>> OK?
>>
>> ~Brian
>>
>

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