The Dink Network

Skurn once again clears the bar of what we'll actually upload to this site with his latest d-mod, Sour Gummy Worms. And, well, that's about all I'm going to say about that.

What is the bar of what can & can't be uploaded to the site?

This is the bar. It took some time to find it, but now I know exactly what will get through.

You can at least load it and play it for like a minute and it doesn't completely hose your computer.

Are you telling me you can't handle the wisps at the start?

No, I'm just saying that it's at least functional enough (i.e actually runs in at least one of our dink programs, you can control dink, etc). I leave the actual playing of said d-mods to you guys.

Ya, tell me if you lag like duck, guize ^o^

Interesting. I can't find out where to go without dying once I get to the screen with the Continue button, but I guess that's the point: "Ha, I can't believe you're playing this."

There are some fun sights to see though, like lots of jumping potion bottle necks. >w<

Update: So I had a look at this in WDE, and this seems to be pretty big. If only it was more playable.

Did you even think to approach the continue button? It's a very helpful chap.

I die before I reach it. It's messed up.

Easy as hell to gain levels, just get some more defense.

Ah, sweet. Thanks!

...what were you even doing, or was that sarcastic?

It hadn't occured to me to use the Flame Bow earlier, I was treating it as a non-combat D-Mod. Yeah, I know. >.>

Why the flame bow? That thing sucks.

To get defense at the start. After that I switched to the light sword.

Perhaps you will be the first to complete this.

The author has just uploaded a walkthrough for it so you can finish it a bit easier (if you can read it).

I haven't finished it yet. I will someday.

Someday.

I just read the walkthrough & I'm surprised that no one else from the DN was put it in, I knew the perfect person who could of when to the *SPOILER Church. Also the only other thing I wonder is whether he actually took time to make it harder to read to add diffuculty to the game.

Who could I have put in the church?

I will not blatently say it so I can't get fully in trouble, but s/he is the troll who always brings up religion or some extreme thought of her's/his.

Also how do you come up with these ideas?

Oh, sweet potato jesus, I would pay to see that.

Maybe I can make an update or something and add some post-final boss shit.

And don't pay me. I don't deserve it.

EDIT: Also how do you come up with these ideas?

Because I'm a country music sensation.

Yep, I've been adding some stuff. Since Dack was wondering why there weren't any other cameos (despite the fact I was the main villain and not a cameo anyways), and krisknox said he'd pay to see a certain someone put in the game, I've added some people and more game.

Now Dink can meet bornfree15, krisknox, Dack, Dinkulum, and Spinnerweb. Also, schnapper, but he's a...wizard on a pole thingy. Oh, and pillbug.

I should add everyone that still comes here.

For real? Oh boy, can't wait for that update

I'm still here!

I could just imagine that particular person being a giant space flea from nowhere as a battle.

Yay, I haven't used the goblin sprite yet.

Although, maybe because goblins are overused. Yay for you.

Are you using our avatars as our sprites in the game or randomizing it? Also don't forget to make sure we can find ourselves in the game or put it in the walktrhough somewhere.

You're all story based.

EDIT: Now Dink can meet bornfree15, krisknox, Dack, Dinkulum, and Spinnerweb. Also, schnapper, but he's a...wizard on a pole thingy. Oh, and pillbug.

And thenewguy, Bluedy and Striker.

You can't add my church suggestion? At least 2 people want to see him/her in the game & it might make for a really funny part in the game.

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Dack, might I suggest lessons in writing, particularly sentence structure? I know that GCFLearnFree.com is a good resource for stuff like that.

@Kris, i d' sey i right bretty tell. put i till sook unto ti nyway.

@Skurn, Do you even have any remote idea who I mean? I'd say who it is if the staff promise I won't get into trouble.

I know who, I've already written him into the story.

Well, I'm up to the final boss. The real final boss this time. And no, it's not me.

The mechanics of the fight work, but you can't damage him. Oh, wait, I just went in and added brain 9 right before typing this sentence. Not going to test it, but is should work I guess.

The background also doesn't display even though I did the exact same thing I did for the "final boss". Probably something to do with the final dungeon though, which is cool, but it might be preventing the background. :c

Maybe it's some bitmap glitch. Everything points to the bmp being compatible, except that it won't display in-game.

No ending either. I'll do all the shit later. Screw you guys for pushing me so hard. You're evil jerks. I hope you spill your drink and have to clean it up for 10 seconds more than you normally would because there was 10 seconds more drink than you normally drink. How much time would you say you drink anyways? Would a 10 second increase in drink be because I just burned you so bad that you need more fluids?

Haha, you dinks. Here's some spam: FSRHDGOUIDFHGOUDFIJHGDOFUIGIFDGFDJIOGJIDFJOGJOFDOJ

A description including a few lines about how badly DinkC and the Dink engine is designed... Never seen that before.

So is the Dmod unfinished or are these just DLCs/Add-ons that we have to pay $173584848 for?

The post-final boss stuff will just be an update. Then I'll redo houses of chaos and just link it since it's beeb stuck in the queue for a million years anyways.

And because it will replace the post-final boss stuff now.

Wow, seriously. Duck this engine. First background I made in 24 bits worked perfectly fine. Then I try to make another one and it doesn't work. So I save it in 24 bits, ducked up and overwrote the other one, so I went back and retrieved it, so now I have 2 24bit bmp sprites.

Dink has decided to display them in a different hue in the editor, and a sprite I didn't even edit at all, but is in the same sequence, no longer displays and just does touch damage wherever it wants on the screen instead of the small box I originally gave it.

SETH, GET IN HERE AND REWORK YOUR DAMN ENGINE! IT'S LIKE THERE'S SOME HIDDEN VALUE THAT NOTHING BUT DINK READS IN A BMP. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING.

EDIT: The solution - Irfanview. Just...save it again. Same everything. Different anyways. There must be some hidden value. There has to be. But what causes only gimp to export a different 24-bit bmp...I have no ducking clue. Maybe it's the RGB values. There's only one option when exporting 24-bit images.

If there's a bitmap genius around here who is offended by my ideas/view on bitmap workings, speak up, because I'm just making observations based on the weird bullshit bitmaps do. Maybe I should've switched to indexed after finishing editing. Who ducking knows?

Actually, I think they do need to be indexed 24-bit bmps. So, there you go. Now you know mspaint and irfanview export bmps as indexed.

Or maybe I'm wrong. Again, any bitmap geniuses?

Maybe the Dink Engine has a specific color palette, and you're not using the proper one?

I guess gimp doesn't export the right 24-bit bmp as I said. Don't know exactly what colours Dink uses, just that 24-bit, 16-bit, and 8-bit bmps work.

EDIT: But anyways, I uploaded the thing. Only I tested it, by making some shit, playing it, and whatever and...pretty much having a save right before the next thing I coded, so there's probably about 983 bugs. Let's see.

EDIT: And apparently, the wisps at the beginning have a totally different hit box. I don't know why. I ddn't alter the fireball in any way. So be prepared for a much different, shittier opening level. Or maybe they don't have a different hitbox, but they are definitely glitched.

EDIT: Just ran it in debug and it's not the wisps. It's some mysterious invisible boxes that occasionally vanish. I checked the map and those things don't exist. I have absolutely no ducking clue what they are and I don't know what I can do to fix it. Good news is I almost got to the hearts on the bottom right of the starting level, so at least it's still possible to complete it.

I just...don't understand. So...just run debug mode for the first level, I guess so you don't touch them. I have no other solution.

EDIT: Checked the second level...has them too. I guess the only way you're going to complete this is to cheat.

EDIT TIDIEIOTIO: Dink says "Yo, sprite <x> has a bad pic." Annnnnd? First of all, I don't know why the wisps vanished in the first place since all the frames for moving around are there. Why are they suddenly becoming giant invisible hitboxes instead of just simply vanishing while retaining their hitbox like they did before?

Gimp is a great program but it doesn't get along well with Dink, unfortunately. I also had some stressful times trying to figure out why my DMOD would crash or screw up the graphics. Glad Irfanview saves properly for you. I think I ended up using an older version of GIMP to save graphics so it would work properly.

As for your wisp problem, I have no idea. I'd have to see it in action to take a guess. It's just a shot in the dark, but if the enemies have projectiles that they shoot, perhaps the projectiles are not being properly deleted.

Edit: I'd try saving those graphics for the wisp again in Irfanview and then making sure the hitboxes are correct on the images. Don't know if it will work, but it's my best guess without knowing more.

The wisps are simply the fireball sprite and they slide around.

And you are all now effectively beta testers. Congratulate.

EDIT: None of the fireballs I throw become giant invisible boxes. Anyone ever see nonsense shitsauce like this?

EDITHEUIJF: I went to test if the mysterious hitbox is the same size as another sprite's hitboxand the result is...the fireball I placed to test that has a smaller mysterious hitbox than all the other things I've seen that are glitching.

Looks like the game is ruined. Cool.

<deleted because the game can't be fixed>

All would be nice, if some source ports were made to use PNG instead of BMP. You'd save a LOT of trouble with this palette limitation AND transparency.

Maybe GraphicsGale could be a good substitute for Gimp? You can edit the palette and everything.

I've pretty much figured out to use gimp and mspaint like always, but use irfanview if it's somehow not the right palette.

The hitbox shit, though? Whoooooooo knows.

Yeah, the game is ruined and impossible now and cannot be fixed. Do not accept the files. delete the game from the site, and duck this shit.

There I fixed it by replacing the broken enemies.

Also, second to last boss can actually hurt you now.

Yay!

SETH, GET IN HERE AND REWORK YOUR DAMN ENGINE!

That isn't going to happen. But someone else did it for him. They called it Freedink. You should check it out.

Not sure if it fixes all this, though; it tries to be bug-compatible.

About the palette: that is explained, I don't remember where. Probably DinkC.txt. The palette is loaded from the loading screen and never changed after that (or only at loadbmp or something like that). So if you save the loading screen in a different palette than the rest, all your colors are wrong. That problem shouldn't happen with 24 bit images, and AFAIK it doesn't in Freedink; I have no idea what 1.08 does.

No, we need 1.09, not a linux compatible thing.

Some of us use Linux. Why not try & see how it works on Linux instead?

No, we need 1.09, not a linux compatible thing.

You must be talking about DinkHD. Yeah, that one's great.

No, DinkHD is dink 0.0001. We need 1.09.

Here's the scripting reference for Dink 1.09. It's erroneous in that it actually doesn't support BMPs with an alpha channel properly. It will load them but it doesn't use them.

http://www.rtsoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=dink:hd_author_guide

Also just for reference there was a bug in Freedink palette loading that was discovered when Marpro's Blacksmith's Trail came out which involved high colour tiles which was soon fixed.

Anyways, here's this shitsauce.

And you should totes post your end game stats. Let's see who can hold a record. I have over 11000 attack, 1000 defense and 400 something magic.

Shouldn't be hard to beat.

Why didn't you post it here, I'm not sure if I trust that site?

Becuase it'll take 80 years to be looked at. And that's mediafire, the only file uploading cloudy thing that doesn't suck ass.

FreeDink is 1.09. Or at least, its future would be. It's not just "a linux compatible thing", it's basically the main branch of Dink development. Frankly, I'm surprised it hasn't had more fixes over the years.

Anyway, I gotta say I kinda *love* this mod. Am stuck at the fiery fish place though. Will use walkthrough.

What does kinda *love* mean? Also, I ducked up and confused left and right twice in that walkthrough. Am smurt.

Well, it means that right at the start I was thinking "Sheesh... How could you even mess up the title screen?" to "wtf am I playing here and where is all the health" to discovering you have ALL weapons right from the start and there's a whole bunch of silly fun right ahead.

I love the silliness of it, and how everything is all messed up and glitchy. I love how you take Dink's battle system, and devise a way to make it fun again - through pure mayhem and ridiculous level and stat gaining. The reset orb was a clever addition too. And then there are the TONS of enemies taking up the entire screen, making TONS of damage numbers appear over it.

But then there are some battles which are plain tedious if you don't think to level up your strength early enough... and there are some areas that are pretty much instakill unless you figure things out (usually after one of those battles). The maps themselves are mostly nothing special, either, although I understand it was done this way because it's not exactly the focus of the game to have you stand around when you could go around murdering all kinds of weird exotic creatures.

...I just realized I have basically written a review. I was going to wait until I finished the game, dammit!

Yay, you found the first reset orb. About the tedious fights though, I've found that 600-1000 defense is pretty much all you need. The church is probably the last place where you need to worry about damage, but I wrote a trick to that place in the walkthrough.

Then there's the last boss, but that's more of a dps check than anything. Or, maybe more of a dodging thing, I don't know. Come to think of it, I didn't add a full restore when you defeat it, but you should be able to get through the ending before dying...oops. Actually, no, you shouldn't be able to continue taking damage after the boss anyways unless you've got 20000+ attack. Nevermind.

I updated the walkthrough. Hurray.

Slayer is supposed to be beatable, right? Because the walkthrough says "JUST DO A LOT OF DMAGAEW" but all weapons miss and the fist only does 1 damage, which doesn't seem to defeat him like it did with the gigantic slime.

How much attack do you even have?

3919 right now. Considering how the tutorial asks if I have 300, that seemed plenty?
Edit: oh, I do see I need more than that, since killing the fanatics is getting easier with each level gained still. All right, then.

Yay! DaVince is back.

Yeah, my most recent save had 6000 something at that point. Defense, 400 something, so there's that for you. More attack for you all.

Finished it. I had an amazing time, for the most part. Actually highly recommended.

Needs some balancing rather than relying on players to take advantage of the high xp?

The balancing seems okay (edit: a little grindy still), I just put 3000 points into defense not realizing I really needed a LOT of attack later on. Maybe leaving a message somewhere indicating what you should be focusing on would help.

I can also imagine Dink getting to level 100 and not being able to gain any more strength when he needs it. That might be another risk.

Jesus, 3000 defense. I dunno about hitting an xp wall when you need more attack, though. You'd need to duck around even more than me to reach a total of 300 levels. Not really too sure how I got 5000 less attack than last time especially considering I had something like half defense, too.

Maybe some more potions.

I uh.... I'm speechless. I played this and...... It changes your life

The game starts with Dink playing as Jerry Seinfeld playing as Dink. It is about the daily depression and crysis we live in an everyday life, hiding the happiness from our lives. It's truly an inspirational game that deserves to be shown to the next generations.
In the background there's the song from Barney that tries to remind us of the daily crysis we all live once we hit ccollege.
I've played through this game quite a lot and can't get over the story and the characters that truly define this game....
Skurn.....you're a genius;(

Which one is the barney song?

Which one is the barney song?

DON'T RUIN THE MOMENT!!

Which Barney, the character from, "How I Met Your Mother" or the dinosaur?

You sure?