That's right, though I thought the plan was to talk about licensing after we have something presentable and that you wanted to release it as freeware anyway:
For me, the biggest complication has been the access to game data (the images) and I gathered from our e-mail communication that I should wait for koda for "when the game goes public".

Hey again,
No, there has been zero progress. I don't think there is much motivation on our side as long as the game data/images are not accessible. What about your plan to freeware-ize KODA? Still legal issues?

Cheers

One of our forum members asked about your post, Ivan. The last plan, I think, was that we would have to re-implement the map-game completely, but could port the battlefield-game.

I also just want to inform you, that I prefer to wait, untill there is no copyright/contract to worry about.

What can we do to motivate you to take care of us?

Currently we would like to have more game media. Non-GPL, non-redistributable, Copyright Cateia Games.

Is the problem that out lack of progress doesn't convince you of that we would actually achieve anything if you gave us the files? Busyness? Laziness?

There has been no progress since June, as we were told to wait for you to finish LOCV (at least I understood it that way) before we could ask for more resources (images) from you.

The latest videos have been posted in this thread, enjoy .

Hey there,

I was just asked by our pyglet programmer whether there are news about freeing KODA.

So here I am and asking

Of course the best thing would be if we could have the media and some part of the source under gpl, but it would help if we could get some more graphics(icons, buildings, units, buttons....), so that we can implement some more map-controls.

If you prefer email communication: koda-devs@lists.sourceforge.net .

Best regards,

qubodup

This sub-forum: http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php? ... &frm_id=38 , to be specific, this thread: http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=1430 contain some info.

Video: http://vimeo.com/874014

For some reason leftrightupdown doesn't work in the demo game, though the sprites are there for all 8 directions =) I suppose it was deactivated, but theoretically it must be part of the engine to be able to walk UDRL.

Text in http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&goto=6346

Say, these sprites you gave to us are from the fight engine no? I thought we were to do something world-map like first =)

Also: Do you think it might make sense to take your fight engine, port it and then use/manipulate it to render the map world?

PS: It would be cool if you gave us a map file (the background texture) to try to do something with next. If you don't want to, tell us which file format it is and wich size and maybe give us then the map file (the one which contains the info about where is a castle and where is an armory etc). Just an idea though.

PPS: Have you had the chance to take a look at the license?

I'm pretty sure it's no problem to have a one-image background. The engine is tile-based however. Movement is not tile based though.

Hey, thanks for making this forum!

What I'm doing right now: I will put the sprite into a FIFE demo, for that I will simply cut the sprites (via a script which I have to figure out how to write) in single files (as FIFE uses single images for animation frames).

I think the dead link is meant:

http://thekingsofthedarkage.cateia.com/demo01.htm

you could link to http://files.filefront.com/KODA+ENG+DEM ... einfo.html there it is still online

Hey,

So I installed Win2K on an old machine that was lying around and the game won't work: I get the white screen with the king, then the black screen with the logo (upper left), then I get

D:\ Is the DVD drive, I don't understand why something is pointing there (it's empty).

Tell me please, which setup is the game known to work with? 95? 98? 98SE? ME? NT4.0?

PS: Codec and VBruntime installed

Rule #75 from the book of life: Do not reinvent the wheel.

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Hey there,
I was actually serious. Please excuse me, I have absolutely no concept of what the etiquette is, when signing a contract. I can't think of a reason why contracts shouldn't be shown to others.. This might be, because I've never seen a company-company contract? -_-

Anyways, I only realized after posting the previous message, that what you/kspes wanted from us currently, is a proof that we actually want to invest time into the project and that we have the ability to achieve something. I wasn't able to read this the first time I saw the letter (too much ambition in the brain I guess) but now it's clear and that's fine.

The current idea is to use the FIFE engine, to allow rendering maps and walking around on them. Nothing set in stone of course.

Well thanks, that's all we can ask you to do =)

ivucica, is there any chance that we can take a look at the contract between you and ZUXXEZ? Or can you explain what about the contract makes releasing the source impossible?