Scorch an Island

**Mirage** · 12-06-2005, 10:07 AM

Hi,
This is my recent game written on Delphi.
It's a 3D turn-based tank game similar to good old Scorched Earth.
It's finished and distributed as shareware.
Now I'm working on Linux and Mac versions.

Links:
Download (4.7 MB)
Description and Screenshots

**Daikrys** · 12-06-2005, 12:43 PM

it looks very nice, i will try it

may the exe file is a none specific file

A¬§hm is the engine really writen in delphi?

**savage** · 12-06-2005, 03:12 PM

Looks good, definatley worth a news post on the front page.

Are you using FreePascal to port it to Linux and MacOS X?

**JSoftware** · 12-06-2005, 04:47 PM

funny game! Really beautiful particlesystem. and a very nice gui

**Mirage** · 12-06-2005, 05:45 PM

Thanks for feedback.

Daikrys: Yes, it's completely written on Delphi.

savage: Yes. FreePascal is a very stable compiler. I had to submit only one bug before I got my engine compiled with FPC.

Now I can't figure out which Linux distribution to install.
If I run my game, say, on Mandrake, will it also run on RedHat or Gentoo?

**Daikrys** · 12-06-2005, 06:27 PM

are complete coding the engine?
i like it really

i think the complete engine is audiere.dll isnt it?

**savage** · 12-06-2005, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by Mirage

If I run my game, say, on Mandrake, will it also run on RedHat or Gentoo?

Yes it should work on each of the Linux ix86 platforms, assuming they have all the required libraries installed.

**savage** · 12-06-2005, 07:30 PM

Just played the game, excellent stuff very fun. Even my son enjoyed it.

If you plan to port to Linux/MacOS X, I would suggest switching to OpenGL. If you are carefull about how you code it, the same code should recompile using FreePascal without any changes.

You could use JEDI-SDL on all these platforms, but then, that would not be a very impartial suggestion

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**savage** · 12-06-2005, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by Daikrys

i think the complete engine is audiere.dll isnt it?

No audiere.dll is an opensource sound library.

**WILL** · 12-06-2005, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by Mirage

Now I can't figure out which Linux distribution to install.
If I run my game, say, on Mandrake, will it also run on RedHat or Gentoo?

I recommend neither. Gentoo maybe, but I always prefer Debian.

Reason 1; they do not mess with the GNU or Linux standard setup or standards like RedHat(Now Feldora Core) does. SuSE and Mandrake are both to hankey and come out of the box unstable. You will need to do alot of patch-up work and fixing before you can get your setup complete. Also becasue it doesn't mess with the standard Linux setup, you can easily manually install new things or things you require updated!

Reason 2; Debian has the most stable and reliable update/package system out of all the distrobutions. Dependancies are handled nicely too. If you don't have a package that it needs it'll then install it for you.

Reason 3; It's just damn stable!

Most serious and experienced professionals use it because it is that good and has the least amount of problems [size=9px](though like ALL distrobutions they have bugs and little issues, of course)[/size].

Reason 4; It just updated to the Final Sarge 3.2 release that took a few years to complete. So you know that they put alot of hard work into this one to make it stable.

As an installer for your game I'd recommend trying out that Loki installer that was going around. I believe that there was one that was written in Pascal if I'm not mistaken.