Can I have a show of hands of what operating system you guys are using? (I could so write some poll code but I'm doing the message stuff. Woohoo!)

Feel free to include more information, like if you run it through a virtual machine or something.. (Why you'd want to bamboozles me.)

* Linux
* Other *NIX

* Mac OS X

* Windows Vista
* Windows XP
* Other Windows


* Other!

Linux here. And I just wanted to say this game is incredible. I really hope you'll find enough time to make more levels. Thank you for this magnificent game.

Linux. In Detail: openSUSE 11.1 64Bit with KDE4.2.2

Windows XP reluctantly

Windows XP on a laptop and Windows Vista on the main PC.

Vista!!



-_- sucks.

Windows XP

And Ubuntu in VM for some testing now and then... not Ardentryst though!

The game runs nicely under Gentoo Linux.

Wolvix GNU/Linux 2.0beta2. Game running nicely here too.

Great to see fellow linux enthusiasts/users!

Debian

Gentoo Linux, amd64.

If no-one beats me to it, I'll probably try to write an ebuild for Ardentryst to be eventually put into the Gentoo Portage tree

That would be AWESOME. Right now I'm kinda hoping people will build Ardentryst for various repos because I'm too busy/lazy (more the latter than the former) to do it.

Ubuntu, all kudos to the game creator

Ubuntu 9.04. The game runs perfectly.

Thanks, guys! The next release will hopefully be out soon! Just waiting on a couple of people to give it the go ahead. If you're thinking of making a package for it, visit the "Thinking of making an Ardentryst package for your distro?" thread.

Archlinux, GNU/Linux. Running an X.org Server with a propietary nvidia driver and GNOME as DE.

The game runs smoothly, and the monitor applet doesn't show signs of much resources use, like others.

Yesh, it seems there's a wide range of performance among the players from barely playable (turning all graphics down) and unnoticeable lag..

Mac OSX native notebook and hacky desktop
Kewl game..
Still i experience some issues - "c" key doesn't work, even switched to english layout (rather typical for osx in carbon and cider apps) and later disabled other input languages.

Hmm, strange. Maybe you can rebind the keys in the Options menu.

*Vista 32bit

I think it's funny that people don't like Vista. I think Vista is the best OS Microsoft has put out so far and I have used all of them from windows 95 up. I do admit it had some problems pre service pack 1, but they were fixed and I am completely happy now. XP begone!

I think the main qualms with Vista are

* massive resource hog
* different interfaces
* annoying 'security' features that make copying a file a 3-step process sometimes

EDIT: I think a lot of people are holding out for Windows 7. We'll see how that goes. Hopefully it's a modern (when I installed my XP it was so outdated) version of XP with the niceties from Vista

I'm living with my XP box, which has Debian installed in VirtualBox. I also use Debian on the other dedicated Linux box. It's pretty good since I get a lot of the best commercial games playing without fuss, but when I want to get down to business, there's no limit with Linux.

Windows Vista
win32/32-bit Operating System
Processor:
Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz 2.00GHz
RAM/memory: 3.00 GB

Ardentryst works great on my computer.

That's good to hear, what sort of video card do you have?
NVidia 9800GT? >:3

I've got NVIDIA GeForce 7100.

I added a few lines of code to the Ardentryst 1.7 source code
to show the Frames Per Second.
My average FPS during game play was about 38.
(With a slight lag (Most of the time barely noticeable))


EDIT:
With all the special graphics effects turned off:
The FPS rarely goes below 37.
With all of them on:
The lowest FPS occurs while receiving damage. (That is, while the screen is pixellizing + tinting + whatever else it does) (FPS will go as low as 27 when constantly receiving damage.)


Perhaps you can add a view-FPS-mode that you can toggle on and off so that Ardentryst players could easily report it if they wish?

Yeah, I guess I can. I'm going to add a lot more for the players if I get a chance in a future incarnation of Ardentryst (likely a sequel if I do work on it) such as more options, more customisability, screenshot button, FPS counter, etc. etc.

I'm pretty new to the practical side of video game theory. If that makes sense. =p

OpenSuse 11.0, amd64. Great game, thanks.

Debian Etch and Ubuntu Intrepid

Hi Liza, you must be new. Welcome

Arch Linux

Ah, another Arch Linux Welcome

Ubuntu 9.04
openSuse 11.1
and (unfortunately) Windows XP *angry stare towards my game-addictet brother, who hasn't got a pc and now uses mine*

I'm quite happy with Ardentryst. Good work, pal!

Linux here (several distributions on the same PC: Gentoo, Sabayon, Debian, Ubuntu).

I'm running Ardentryst under the 'family' distribution: Ubuntu 9.10 (PC with Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2200 @ 2.20GHz / nVidia C73 [GeForce 7100] ). Not a very big PC but the game runs smoothly, the controls are responsive and the graphics follows perfectly

This is an incredible game, and you're a great designer and programmer, it's great, and especially for the work of a single programmer! I started the game tonight, and I'm already addicted after the first couple of hours. I hope the world is huge, or will become so, because because that's just the kind of game you wish it would never end ... (Edit I reached the end of the game shortly after writing that LOL, but I've to play it again with Pyralys, gain the time medals with both and everything ... And then, the GPL licence means that we can always try our hands at python/pyGame programming and add a few levels, doesn't it?

Edit: NB: Unsurprisingly the game's too heavy for my netbook (Eeepc with Linux Xandros and an Atom 900MHz). I could almost try to play but the graphics are too slugish to play it well, even with all the special effects disabled.

Hi Jelogisa, thanks for your donation, I appreciate it so much! I'm glad you found that you liked the game!

Yes unfortunately Python/pygame is not the most efficient for gaming however it does make it extremely portable

Yes I'm sorry I didn't put much more time into it but I was starting University and I didn't have as much free time to put into it. Rest assured I am getting a good education and following my game development dreams.

To date, I have been in the winning team for 48 Hour Game Competition and am currently working on a game with a team of about 6 others which is nearing completion (after three short months.)

I hope you get as much enjoyment out of the game as I have put into it, over the course of two and bit years.

You are welcome to make new maps, worlds, modifications to your heart's content. Please let me have a play of them too!

Jordan

You're very welcome. I'm new at Python (I'm an old-school programmer, mostly C/C++ at work) but Python is definitely a very interesting language by its simplicity combined to its power and flexibility, and still efficient by relying on much compiled code underneath. It is clearly a good choice for programming a game in my opinion, (I've spent years in frameworks that were often a pain in the neck and tended to waste development times in trivialities).

Don't be sorry about anything: for a single man you did the job of a whole team: it's quite unusual to see top-notch programming combined with excellent graphics I'm not surprised at all it took you more than two years: to get it smooth and playable like this tells much about the time you spent honing it

Of course, when I'll be able to make additions, I will share them with the community... I can't promise anything for the development times though: I was once a gamer and a programmer at home, I'm now more of a daddy (who took advantage of the kids being at their grandmother's place for a week to try and play a new game)... But I'll do my best to put together maps (worlds if I can?) and to refine them until they are worth sharing

I'm currently trying my hands at Python/PyGame on a smaller scale project that should get me fluent in Python/PyGame so I could start more serious projects.

I'm not surprised you won the competition. I'm looking forward to see what will come out of your development team, to try and test it as soon as it will become available... And I've read on another part of this forum that someday, we might see Ardentryst 2 which I'm looking forward to see too... You're obviously a very busy man, and it doesn't look like you're going to get any less busy, not anytime soon ^^ But thanks for your great job and thanks for sharing it... And courage for your education and ambitious long term projects which of course take the precedence on the shorter term, even if the latter looks like lots of fun

Ubuntu 10.04
Игра просто супер