Over the past few days I’ve received a number of emails and comments regarding Dead Island Helper and making it compatible with the Definitive Edition. While I was able to modify the tool to work with Riptide a couple of years back, I won’t be able to do the same this time around. Continue reading ‘Regarding Dead Island Helper for Dead Island: Definitive Edition’
Deadnauts, so named because they’re unlikely to return, must explore, investigate and fight their way through the derelict ships of dead civilisations. Every mission is unique and no two locations are the same. Each ship contains mysterious enemies and hostile security systems.
Manage your Deadnauts’ skills, talents, relationships and flaws – and you might get them out alive.
You can get the game direct from Screwfly, or if you prefer Steam, it’s available there too!
Due out in October for Windows, Mac and Linux, Deadnaut is a game set in a future where humanity finally makes it to the stars, only to discover it’s the only civilisation left. Everyone else was wiped out long ago and it’s up to you and your team of five guns-for-hire to figure out what happened.
Along with a refined and improved relationship system, like that seen in Zafehouse, Deadnaut introduces the concept of stability, where the mental state of your characters requires monitoring as they delve into increasingly more terrifying and disturbing mysteries. If a character doesn’t like confined spaces, they’ll react negatively if left in a small corridor, while someone unsettled by death will have a hard time moving through a derelict starship full of corpses. Continue reading ‘Announcing Deadnaut, a new Screwfly game of tactical sci-fi horror’
UPDATE #16 1/06/2016: For information regarding a helper tool for Dead Island: Definitive edition, please read this post.
Back by popular demand, Dead Island Helper has returned in a new incarnation for Riptide, the sequel to the first game.
Like Dead Island Helper, DI:RH allows you to tweak a variety of normally inaccessible game settings to disable certain visual effects, modify key binds and much more.
Here are the major differences between DIH and DI:RH — other than compatibility with Riptide:
Continue reading ‘Tweak visual settings, controls and performance with Dead Island: Riptide Helper’
After ten months of development, we decided it was time to reveal Zafehouse: Diaries, the debut game from Screwfly Studios. It’s the spiritual successor to Zafehouse, a game I made in seven days about five years ago. Since then, I’ve been tinkering at creating a sequel to encompass much more of the zombie apocalypse experience. Two prototypes were created over the last couple of years, until I finally landed on something I felt could work. Continue reading ‘Zafehouse: Diaries is alive!’
UPDATE #16 1/06/2016: For information regarding a helper tool for Dead Island: Definitive edition, please read this post.
NEW! I’ve released an updated version of DIH for Dead Island: Riptide. You can read about (and download) it from here: https://www.theplaywrite.com/tools-and-utilities/tweak-visual-settings-controls-and-performance-with-dead-island-riptide-helper/
UPDATE #15 22/09/2011: v1.94 beta, out now for the brave! I finally managed to track down the crash problem that was causing issues for so many people.
This update also fixes a crucial bug with the save game backup feature – it is strongly recommended you update to v1.94 beta if you use this feature and please, DO NOT use any of the save backups you’ve created with versions of the tool before 1.94 beta because they won’t work! Continue reading ‘Dead Island Helper: Automatically improve performance and apply tweaks without having to edit files’
I had a few requests to add support for Pathfinder to my lightweight D&D initiative tracker. I also took the opportunity to address a few bugs people had pointed out. Oh, and there’s a new icon so it matches the rest of my role-playing tools such as CrawlNotes for dungeon mapping and the 4e Power Toolkit.
Here’s a list of changes:
– Added support for Pathfinder. Touch AC, Flat-Footed AC and CMD can now be entered for combatants.
– Reactivated the heal / wound buttons from v0.4. Back by popular demand!
– Fixed a bug that prevented negative values for most statistics.
– Fixed a bug that would cause the program to crash if negative values were entered for Listen / Spot skills.
– Fixed a bug with the random number generator that would set the maximum value for a random roll to be one less than the actual maximum (so a d20 would be 1-19).
– Made some of the checkbox descriptions clearer.
– Few other miscellaneous tweaks and UI improvements.
You’d think so. But no, I’m definitely still alive.
Certain recent events threw a giant spanner in the works for all Zafehouse-related activity. I can’t 100% say that I’m in the clear, but at the moment it looks like I’ll be able to continue working on the game. Sorry for not being able to provide anything more conclusive than that (or sooner than today). :(
I can let you know of a few changes I did make before “the news“:
Enterprising Zafehouse player Worthis has taken the time to translate the original game into Russian using the freely available source code. Not only that, he’s made it easy for other players to translate the game into their native tongue.
He’s published his work on the Zafehouse forums so if you feel like playing the game in Russian, or translating it into a language more compatible with your brain, please check it out!
Link: Zafehouse (multilingual) [Zafehouse forums]
About three weeks ago, I put the finishing touches on the Direct3D 9 renderer for Zafehouse 2. Previously, the game exclusively used GDI+, the default graphics API for .NET. Now it runs on a bizarre fusion, with Direct3D performing compositing and GDI+ painting the final image onto the screen.
Well, except when I use native GDI calls to paint instead. Actually, now that I think about it, GDI+ doesn’t do a heck of a lot for Zafehouse 2 anymore.
Now, this change raises a number of questions: Why not use Direct3D for the entire process? Why change APIs in the first place? Isn’t the Direct2D API in DirectX 10+ basically what you’re describing?
These are all fair questions, and I’m going to try to answer them.
Continue reading ‘Zafehouse 2 makes the move to Direct3D… without the 3D bit’
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