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	nice posted by welkin @ 77.239.44.51 on May 20 2010 10:23 PM
good one
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	Fun Game posted by psignosis @ 59.167.219.25 on Sep 24 2009 4:39 PM
You know you've found a good game when you start to play and forget all concept of what time it is in the real world. This is an old-school type rpg but I found it quite fun to play. I didnt have any problems getting it running under Ubuntu, easy download instructions and was up and playing quite quickly. I'd definitely recommend this game if you feel like killing a few hours... but watch the clock lol.
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	A lot of potential posted by Ferk @ 212.225.134.60 on Jul 16 2009 12:53 AM
It's announced as a Zelda-like engine but it has much more possibilities and can be customized quite a lot more than any other Zelda-like I've ever tried. And its roleplaying is more interactive, you do have choices to follow. The graphics may look old school but that low-resolution realistic feel with lots of blood makes it perfect for thriller and scary RPG games (see hotel of the middle night DMOD, really cool!). There are aso many funny dmods but horror-based ones are the most fitting for this graphic theme, imho. There's no other free RPG that looks this scary and bloody while looking so good. However, I think that there are a couple of things that should be addressed: * Make it easy to install, select and play DMODs. The custom games for this engine are what has been keeping it alive after more than 10 years, I wouldn't even know that this DMODs existed if I hadn't searched about this fact... it's not very discoverable. * Finish the missing sound effects and music tracks. Taking sounds from other games (like Wesnoth for the weapon and monsters effects, etc) would make this step easier to fulfill while keeping quality.
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Re: A lot of potential posted by tehkewl1 @ 203.101.232.75 on Jul 16 2009 1:50 PM   there is a direct clone of the frontend used to install dmods under windows and launch them which uses wxwidgets, I'm working on an installer with this and the engine and data files. As for the sounds, they are freely (as in beer) available if you take them from the freeware windows release, unfortunately when RTsoft released the data files under a zlib style licence they didn't own copyright on most of the sound files, so they were left out   [Reply]   Re: A lot of potential posted by Ferk @ 212.225.134.60 on Jul 17 2009 1:32 AM Thanks for the reply Actually, now I found about dfarc, it's a nice frontend I didn't noticed about before, I don't know if you were talking about this one. It comes as a dependency in the debian/ubuntu package, I didn't noticed about it (I was just executing freedink from the command line and didn't check the menu entries). It does make easy to install/store/run dmods, even helps in development and debug. I'll give a try using the dinkedit editor, although it does look quite a bit ankward to use, but I hope I can find some tutorial. So.. now perhaps the only thing that's left is the sounds, but that's not as important as the good dmod installer was.   [Reply]   Re: A lot of potential posted by Ferk @ 212.225.134.60 on Jul 17 2009 1:50 AM btw, for the packagers: perhaps a symlink named "freedink-launcher" or "freedink-dfarc" (as the package) would help discovering dfarc from the commandline.   [Reply]

	Awesome! :) posted by dusted @ 77.68.146.169 on Jul 15 2009 2:43 AM
This looks awesome! Love the graphics in this game, and it's great to see an engine for these types of games.
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	Works Flawlessly so far posted by tuppe666 @ 78.32.125.173 on Jul 14 2009 12:00 AM
Dink Smallwood is a game I have never heard of, and had to look it up on wikipedia. It is unfortunately of the type 2D representations of 3D. A style I personally dislike, and has aged badly, unfortunately this version had not moved to 3D or even raised the visible area to show larger monitors. That said there is a vast array of add-ons under ??? licence not sure what. although I cannot but think these should/could be included or easier to access than through the command line as I bet there are lots of gems. I do hope to see this project evolve
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Re: Works Flawlessly so far posted by Ferk @ 212.225.134.60 on Jul 18 2009 2:58 PM Having the original 3D models would be very nice indeed! According to the readme that RTSOFT released along with the content, they said: "we also might license the 3dmax models themselves" Does anyone know if this 3dmax models got ever released? Perhaps if they are asked nicely they will be so kind to offer these models so that we can have a high quality FreeDink that's a remaster of the original Dink?   [Reply]   Re: Works Flawlessly so far posted by DaVince @ 85.144.193.251 on Jul 18 2009 8:39 PM   The original models aren't available, but some modders/fans did make basic Blender models that you can edit and change, as well as a few Blender tutorials on making Dink graphics. They're all somewhere on dinknetwork.com. :)   [Reply]