![]() ![]() ![]() Each game is provided with a "hub page" which stores game info, game files, screenshots, comments, and a live server listing. Users are able to search for a particular genre, sorting games based on popularity or how many players are currently connected to live servers. The BYOND website features a "hub" which acts as an online game directory. It's up to the individual game developers to decide how they should use them. Single-player games may avoid the use of BYOND accounts entirely while multiplayer games make the use of them manditory for authentication purposes. Those who do not wish to register are provided with a "guest" account. Players log into games using their registered BYOND account. Developers are also able to package their games as executables, allowing them to run on computers which don't have BYOND installed. Some games support Telnet access or are even playable through a web browser. Users are able to subscribe for exclusive member perks such as access to a IM system using their keys, a blog, file hosting, a forum avatar, and access to in-game bonuses for BYOND subscribers only.īYOND games are played using DreamSeeker, an application used to run compiled BYOND projects. Keys are stored canonically to prevent two users from having names that are only different by non-alphabetical symbols or spaces. ![]() Registration to the website is optional, with it users are provided with a "key" which acts as a unique identifier accross all BYOND games. Although geared towards RPG style gameplay, it is highly extensible and has been proven to work well with other genres and non-game computer utilities. Initially launched in 1996 as DUNG (Dantom's Universal Network Game) by Dantom, a company formed by Dan Bradley and Tom Hehre, it has since been rebranded as BYOND.īYOND provides users with a set of tools for creating online games with its pre-built network structure, GUI, sprite animator, map editor, code editor, dedicated server tools, game hub listing, scoreboards, achievements, and cross-game account support. The hub page (image 2) is "My Documents/BYOND/pager/custom/pagerhome.html".BYOND (Build Your Own Net Dream) is a free software suite for creating and playing online games. At this point the splash screen should fade out and the hub page appear (image 2 attached), and does so if winetricks ie8. Winetricks wsh57 will get the splash screen a little further (image 1, right side), the splash screen text changes, it will bring up the blue progress bar on the splash screen, and the progress bar progresses to 100%. Wine 3.8 without any overrides will bring up the splash screen (image 1 attached, left side). I'm using the wine-staging 3.8 debian package, and I had installed Gecko and mono into the prefix. jquery v1.4.4 is found in both folders (jquery.js), and I suspect this is where the splash screen is where wine fails (localsplash.html)? I am not sure. The game stores html, css, and jscript in "My Documents/BYOND/cache" and "My Documents/BYOND/pager". Surely mshtml & gecko can do the same? Looking in the wine changelog I see many ie9+ features being implemented! But BYOND appears hung up on something at the splash screen, I think a javascript error/bug. Image 2 is rendered by IE, and Image 3 (attached, left side) is an example of what IE can render in game. The winehq page also says to winetricks install many other things (wsh56 & jscript aren't even in winetricks anymore) now with wine 3.8, ie8 appears to be the only necessary thing. From my understanding some games use now use newer things like html5 and ie8 won't render it (a blank popup appears, see image 3 right side, I appended images horizontally due to attachment limit). The winehq page says to use winetricks to install ie8. I believe all windows are rendered with iexplorer, with the exception of the "main game" screen (image 3) and the initial byond.exe splash screen (image 1). Code: Select all WINE=/opt/wine-staging/bin/wine WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/home/crunchbang/.local/share/wineprefixes/byond/ /opt/wine-staging/bin/wine "/home/crunchbang/.local/share/wineprefixes/byond/drive_c/byond/bin/byond.exe" ![]()
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