Bug 74240 – [New game ebuild] n-1.3c

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Alexandru Toma 2004-12-12 15:28:28 UTC]

From the homepage:
"N has been described as reminiscent of lode runner -- you're a little dude running around in a puzzle-y world inhabited by enemies.

But in N, there's a twist: the ninja is driven not only by a thirst for gold, but also by a physics simulation.

Death, which happens often, is quite animated."

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.

[Comment 1 Alexandru Toma 2004-12-12 15:29:05 UTC]

Created attachment 45866 [details]
n-1.3c.ebuild

[Comment 2 Alexandru Toma 2004-12-12 15:30:25 UTC]

Created attachment 45867 [details]
N License

I used as-is for the LICENSE, but here's the license just in case I was wrong.

[Comment 3 Alexandru Toma 2004-12-12 16:04:57 UTC]

Created attachment 45869 [details]
n-1.3c.ebuild

Forgot -* in KEYWORDS

[Comment 4 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2004-12-12 23:53:36 UTC]

Created attachment 45880 [details]
n-bin-1.3c.ebuild

needs more rdeps.

[Comment 5 Alexandru Toma 2004-12-13 02:40:25 UTC]

> needs more rdeps.

Oops! You're right. Sorry about that. I also forgot to use the *-bin notation.Maybe you should change local dir="${GAMES_PREFIX_OPT}/${PN}" to local dir="${GAMES_PREFIX_OPT}/n" in this case. No sense installing in /opt/n-bin since /opt is for binary files already

[Comment 6 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2005-02-08 21:58:22 UTC]

runs too slow to be fun for me.  Upstream claims that will be fixed in the next release so reopen when that happens please.

[Comment 7 James Le Cuirot 2008-04-07 17:37:24 UTC]

Created attachment 149010 [details]
n-1.4.ebuild

Please reopen this now.

I don't know if you realised it before but this game is actually just built on Flash. The gtk application that it runs inside is just gflashplayer. It was and still is using version 6 and it still runs slowly even on my very fast machine.

However, we don't have to use gflashplayer. (-; I managed to find the offset of the Flash file within the executable and my new ebuild extracts it with dd. I know I'm not the first person to have done this because older versions of the game are available on some web pages. This version uses a local file to load in the user levels, which I don't think is possible on a web page.

I know we wouldn't normally put a Flash game in Portage but that and the fact that it has gained a lot of attention recently, thanks to N+ on the Xbox 360, says to me that it is worth adding.

I tried it with Gnash but it didn't quite work unfortunately. I have set KEYWORDS to * because net-www/netscape-flash (or Gnash, if it ever works) should determine which archs this can work on.

[Comment 8 James Le Cuirot 2008-04-07 17:37:56 UTC]

Created attachment 149012 [details]
n.png

I also created this icon for it.

[Comment 9 James Le Cuirot 2008-04-07 17:39:28 UTC]

Created attachment 149014 [details]
n-1.4.ebuild

Just noticed that I missed a couple of die's. Fixed.

[Comment 10 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2008-04-07 17:40:02 UTC]

bugzilla

[Comment 11 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2009-11-04 06:06:10 UTC]

needs gtk+:1 so it's not a good candidate for adding now.

[Comment 12 Anton Romanov 2009-11-04 06:51:36 UTC]

(In reply to comment #11)
> needs gtk+:1 so it's not a good candidate for adding now.
> 
it doesn't
it just installs .swf file, usable with any browser with adobe-flash installed
please, reopen

[Comment 13 James Le Cuirot 2009-11-04 10:00:43 UTC]

Yeah the original ebuild installed the Flash+GTK-wrapped SWF but mine strips that out. I'm still playing this quite often. :)