Re: X-Archon

["Ronen Tzur" <rtzur@shani.net>]

Hello Roy.

I've sort of "resigned" from the job of maintaining the game, so naturally I
cannot accept (or reject) your suggestion.  However, as you can see, I am
forwarding this mail to the xarchon mailing list, for the active maintainers
and programmers to decide.

Now, regarding your two questions.  Firstly, changing the strengths (or
whatever) of individual actors (or icons,
as the classic game refers to them) is not as flexible as one might wish, as
far as the last version I released goes.
However, people have shown intent to make this an integral part of the theme
(in addition to the graphics) in a
future version.

Secondly, the graphics:  no animated gifs or anything like that.  For each
frame of the animation there is a
distinct file (in XPM format).  The filename contains a sequence number, and
this way the game knows the
correct order of the frames.  However this is really a techincal question,
and I'm sure a way can be found
to translate the images in whatever format you may present them in.
Assuming there will be enough interest
in your suggestion, of course.

It seems I've chatted about this long enough, I should step aside now and
let the people who would be doing
the real work tell you what they think.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Cho" <rcho@optonline.net>
To: <rtzur@shani.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 19:25
Subject: X-Archon


> Hello - do you think there is a way to get X-Archon to work on a Debian
> Linux 68k (Amiga 68k) system?
>
> Regarding "themeable" graphics - I had actually made a set of graphics
> for an Amiga Archon clone based around the New Titans (a DC Heroes
> superhero team, against supervillains), and thematically it works out
> quite well. However, the graphics were done on low resolution because
> the game was written for NTSC screenmodes (low-res). Would you be
> interested in seeing a graphics theme like this? I had actually written
> to the programmer of the Amiga Archon clone, but the game was written in
> an old programming language, and he was not able to implement the
> "ideas" I had for the variation. I wanted to change the powers slightly
> to make them more appropriate for the superheroes particular powers. I
> was not sure how this would affect the balance of power. If you are
> still working on X-Archon, and would be interested in working on this
> variation, let me know.
>
> How would the graphics animations be handled? The way that they were
> handled in the Amiga Archon clone was that the individual frames of the
> animated icons were lined up on a graphics screen. They were not
> "animgif"'s - how are the icon animations handled in X-Archon?
>
> Roy
>