- Feb 3, 2023
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Well, I was trying to get the 0.4.9 Version of LT running on Linux - it's such a pain in the booty, I can say!The code is a haphazard mess that Inno never actually fixed. They just kept building on top of their old garbage code, burying it in more garbage. Now that they're at a point where the understand Java better and could make a less messy base... they've already buried it in more code to the point a full rewrite of the game would likely be required to avoid breaking basically anything. Now if someone were to come along and take on that daunting task, then maybe we could see something feasible for more in-depth modding.
Even if it contains content you might find distasteful, I'd suggest at least checking out the other version located in EmDotRand's signature.
You can turn all of the unwanted stuff off without much hassle.
I'll try this "Fork" of LT - LoLT I'd call it - and see if that works better with Standard-JRE on Linux - or if it needs the Temurin JDK, too (if anyone already tried this, please let me know).
Yet, if this version turns out to actually run on Linux Distros without as much of a hassle as the original LT, I think Inno might need to change something in her rigid-minded development process or licensing (make it OpenSource entirely so other devs can contribute and mod whatever they want maybe?)
Also: Isn't "Fort of Chains" also similarly "flexible" as this Game, yet a Browser Game? I knew it reminded me of some Game - and I think that's pretty much it. Yet, FoC got a little too complex quickly after playing it quite a while. It's really nice stories and quests/missions, too, but it was getting more (stressful) "micro-managing-work" than pleasant enjoyment at some point.
Since I only got so far with LT, I can't really say how it is with this Game yet - so far I like the progression pretty well since it's not as overwhelming as FoC was for me...
So, I'll check whether or not LoLT runs natively on (in my case Arch-based) Linux and if so, I'll really celebrate it and smack Inno's booty with the fact, that her rigidity costs her Game players (even though I somewhat doubt she'd care since most folks are still using Windows sadly - which might change when Windows gets more and more intrusive privacy-wise and Linux keeps getting more and more user-friendly [see Steamdeck and other Linux-based Handhelds for reference]).
Cheers and thanks so much again for mentioning this "fork" of the Game basically - it sounds from what you're writing, that the dev of that somewhat "updated the Code" to be compatible with more recent versions of Java...did I get that right?
- I mean, I'm using it with the most recent Temurin Java Development Kit and it works like a charm on Windows at least - not sure if I can get it to run on my Arch-based Linux Distro yet, since someone on the LT Discord Tech Support told me, that the Linux-JDKs don't come with JavaFX, which is obviously needed to play the .jar-Version there.