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I finally remembered to put online the power point presentation I made last year. Available in French and English:

www.defence-force.org/pages/games/...

www.defence-force.org/pages/games/...

It's not 100% up-to-date, but it's still valid

Looks better when shifted left :)

This is now fixed thanks to an epically complex bug fix:

Fixed another problem I did not notice until I played the game in French last week: When I extended the list of achievements I shifted the list by one column by mistake.

While noticeable, it only became obvious in French when the texts started to wrap around the screen!

And most probably the UI will not entirely update, so better quit and restart Steam to make sure it reloads the localized text.

So the process is apparently to go on steamworks, and in the "Stats & Achievements" tab select the "localization" option, download the "english" vdf file, translate it to french, check the french box in the list, save, import and upload the new vdf file.

Another thing I noticed during the holidays when my mother was playing my game... is that I forgot to provide a French localization for the achievements!

Guess I'll have to dig again in the Steamworks pages to find how to do that.

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I also realized that quite a few Oric adventure games were missing, so I guess somebody will have to add them!

Encounter HD "Encounter HD" is a 2024 remaster of the game originally published by Severn Software in 1983. The game story and set-up is mostly the same, and the player is expected to do mostly the same thing as ...

I realized earlier today when listening to the "Retro Adventurers" podcast that I had not actually added Encounter to the "Interactive Fiction DataBase"!

This is now solved! 🥳

ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...

Le guide stratégique pour Encounter est évidement disponible en version Francaise !

www.defence-force.org/index.php?pa...

While in holidays I got Encounter tested by a couple of people who never played adventure games before, so I wrote a small strategy guide on how to approach this type of game.

Hopefully that will be helpful!

www.defence-force.org/index.php?pa...
www.defence-force.org/index.php?pa...

Eclectic loot from France😅

The printed issue of CAAD as well as the three oric games are a gift from @commodoreplus.bsky.social , the tank battle game may or may not work (I've not tested it yet), the alarm clock just happened to be match my Oric Atmos, and obviously @devteamlife.com 's book!

Somehow, despite the fact it's glitchy and may contain traces of politics... it's still in the monthly top!

And 5.6 hours playing, that's not bad either!

Back from three weeks in France, doing my usual checks and updates and saw this quite epically long review of my game on Steam 😅

Actually, get rid of Sociopathy would probably have the larger scale benefits :D

Stupidity

"Les collectionneurs, ça en pose partout. C'est comme ça qu'on peut les reconnaître."

a cartoon lobster is running on the beach with the words `` brooo '' written on the bottom . ALT: a cartoon lobster is running on the beach with the words `` brooo '' written on the bottom .

It's been about 20 years since I last got some sunburn... well, I can tell you, 45 minutes in the sun in France in July is a very different experience to be 2 hours in the sun in Norway.

Ouch, lobster mode activated!

Thanks to the Steam Summer Sale I finally got my 10th review, and the game now appears rated as "positive" on Steam, big victory for me!

And in term of sales, I'm now at 202 on Steam, which considering my objective was to reach 100 by the end of year is great 🥳

Technically I believe they implemented their own GUI from scratch because of the "real time" requirements, but they made it look like the standard GEM/VDI so it does not clash with the other application.

Save 75% on Encounter on Steam Your mission, locate and free a kidnapped teenager in less than two hours. Use your Private Investigator instincts and skills to explore the area, craft items to get rid of obstacles by entering text ...

Holidays time for me, not going to be very active here in the next three weeks!

Reminder that the summer sale stops tomorrow, so if you wanted to get my game at the super cheap price: store.steampowered.com/app/3319780/... or defenceforce.itch.io/encounter after that it will just be normal cheap!

It's clearly a dumb metric: In my case there are quite a few commits mostly because I like to submit my changes as small individual sets of changes that work together, frequently, so that naturally tends to end up with more commits than if I was just committing all the changes at the same time.

Things you find when you search for your name (I had not done that in quite a while).

Apparently I'm the "88th most active GitHub users in Norway over the past year", not sure if I should be proud or ashamed to be perfectly honest.🤔

Are you volunteering?!

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And the source code (party version, I did not clean anything, so put some gloves and a mask if you dig into it) is now on github: github.com/Dhebug/Somma...

That's the only chiptune version I could find :D

Very much appreciated, thanks!

I even have the Oxygen (part 4) chiptune for it, but I did not have the time to get it before the deadline!