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I have been following the development of Pentagram for some time and judging by the webpage/changelog there has been leaps and bounds in progress lately. I am just curious if we could have a progress report regarding how close Pentagram is to actually reaching a playable (ie. finishable) state and what major issues still remain. Thank you for your time.

Let's see... the main unimplemented things are:

combat AI: monsters will currently just attack you if you're standing right next to them. Shouldn't take too long anymore to remedy this.

sound effects: only the decompression code is done, currently.

scaling: no code yet, although we've talked about it a fair bit recently. (And of course the scalers themselves are already available.)


Then there are some minor issues, such as:

compressed savegames: saves are just a bit on the large side currently (500-600Kb); compressed they'll be more like 200-300Kb.

inverted screen: there are some levers around that flip the entire screen. This will probably be implemented around the same time as scalers.

start/endgame sequences: somewhat working, but not quite correctly.

avatar control: not working perfectly yet. Mainly hanging/climbing still need work.


and probably quite a few that I can't quite remember at the moment

The game is worth playing as soon as the mushroom-LSD effect is implemented.... everything else is secondary.

And that is implemented.

There is also another more severe 'drug' effect... but the Items used to do it are not in the game.

What effect is that?

Any chance of Pentagram setting up some official forums? I check the webpage every few days for updates, but some forums would be awfully nice.

I guess once we have an actual release we will also set up a forum. Or maybe whenever someone feels like setting it up (/me looks at wjp)

I don't really see a need for a pentagram forum at this point, to be honest.

Yea, whenever a forum is set, people doesn't read the FAQ, Documentation or anything and assumes the program will work as they expect (usually expecting the game to be "fully playable").

No, Gradilla, you got that wrong
Whenever a forum is set, people don't read the FAQ (which I really should fill with somewhat more useful information) and Documentation, but assume asking in the forum would bring more results
The good side is that this way I could actually find out what the frequently asked questions ARE.

"inverted screen: there are some levers around that flip the entire screen. This will probably be implemented around the same time as scalers."

I know I wouldn't complain if these were "broken by design"

Sometimes some funny questions arise. In my project, I recently got asked: "Will you port it to the Zaurus? How hard is it going to be?". We're not even in the pre-alpha stage yet, so how am I to know how hard it will be to port it to the Zaurus?