The Kingdom of Drakkar

IR Update: - More anvils are now on the map! Including some missing ones from a power level areas! - After consultation with the players, the anvils will no longer stick to a single place and move only during resets. BUT they will not move with every click. A good balance was suggested, which after ...

There is a new patch for the PD lobby that moves "stuck" characters back to nork at the reset position. The patch has been installed on several of the lobbies, please email me if i missed you (Darm,Midnight,Kanador, yours have it). Now if you accidentally go through a portal, you can exit/enter/exit...

In addition to accessing Pocket Drakkar lobbies through your local network, you can now open your lobby up for access to the outside world (through the drakkarzone lobby) To access an external pocket drakkar lobby: 1) Make sure you are using at least Lobby 1.47.1 2) Log in with a pay account 3) Open...

So, the challenge I'm giving everyone is this... before you cheat your character... challenge yourself to level up enough to get the lichen amulet....

Two more units shipped today!

Congrats to Cavy and Midnight!

Brad

Oh! I thought they were not being shipped till august. (Are you getting the 4GB version?)

Who is your supplier?

Wow.. 4gig ram.

I'm excited.. *TECHNICALLY* i could put 2 scenarios and a web interface on that!

- Made the mistake of patching to the latest PI operating system, so the character server crashes now. (Probably slightly less memory). - Two more Founder units going out the door ASAP! Backups seem to be working, so does hotpatching, and debugging.. which has really helped. I'd like to make a speci...

So, the raspberry pi 3b+ is working very well.

As you may have read, we have the first prototype out the door. (Another going out early next week!)

Pocket Founders!!! Get Ready!

The first prototype is now in the hands of a real customer!

I'll leave it up to them as to whether they let you know who or not

- We have updated the way items are stored/dropped during a character death to use a different method of item tracking. Please report any issues to help@drakkarzone.com - The backend is now compatible / synced with the PocketDrakkar version of the backend - Experimental code is now in place to "high...

Update: - We found one "arm" related bug with the way we were cheating pointer math when dealing with corpses. Close to a solution here. - The latest openssh build does indeed give us the capabilities we need. (We will just install it seperately) - The latest and greatest frontend now better support...

This is just a quick note to let you know how excited I am that we are almost ready to send out a “bleeding edge” first pass of the product. If you are one of the "Pocket Founders", could you please reply to this email with your full name and full mailing address (where you can receive a package!) (...

Tonight in the wee hours we produced our first "early alpha" sample image for the game/lobby and update process!

The latest openssh gives us a new feature that will allow us to listen on restricted ports and receive updates!

Now to squeeze all this back down to 1GB Ram!

Brad

In an effort to smooth over the early hours of play, we have made the following early game improvements:
- For MOST deaths before level 12, there will be no item loss
- Experience and Skill gains are greatly increased. The new Base Levels are 3X in Nork 1 and Alera, and 5X in Nork 2

We are still struggling with a way to remotely "update" the device (for patching).

We are trying a variety of rsync/scp models, none appear 'solid' yet.

- Creature "Braindead" issues should be fixed
- Wandering creatures (where they never sleep and randomly wander all over) should be a lot better
- Crash issue with using more than one locker should be fixed
- Crash issue with using more than one bank should be fixed

Prototype Case! (Metallic, nice feel)

- Have a decent backup system running now per device, allowing offline debugging and possible data restoration between versions. (Need to write something to pull it *BACK* now : )) - Have the Nork 1 scenario *ALMOST* fitting in the emulator. (WE keep saying almost, sorry). - Ordered our first set of...

I really like this case. Metal and built in heat sync.

https://www.amazon.com/Vilros-Raspberry ... osure+Case

Here is one that actually fixes the RAM issue without requiring custom recompiles.. but support isn't there of course. https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Orange-Pi-3-H6-2GB-LPDDR3-AP6256-Bluetooth5-0-4-USB3-0-Support-Android-7-0/1553371_32971627475.html?spm=2114.12010612.8148356.4.599e182buX8KqV

- Rudimentary account Creation working
- Rudimentary password change working
- Have a "skeleton" framework for being able to backup the device on an hourly basis over to a remote server (if you have an internet connection), Its a bit rugged right now (basically rsync).

Yeah thats an interesting board.

Lack of support kinda scares me a bit. Thats one thing raspian has going for it.

Sysop Vision! (You are the SYSOP of your own world!)

(Still playing with this so it doesnt show gaps)

More logo / silk screening logo concepts