I just gave it a shot but I can't play it at all. It crashes when I try to enter UT.

I had the same problem, until I worked out what was wrong. I solved it in this way: Try running the IVAN variant in a directory with no spaces in the directory names.
i.e:
c:\ivan_variant\ivan_w32.exe

rather than:
c:\ivan variant\ivan_w32.exe

That solution doesn't seem to work for me.

EDIT: Finally got it working.

Excuse me for being stupid, but...

What does this /do/?

2chaostrom:
>Finally got it working.
please, tell me what was wrong.

also, i'll upload a new version with some fixes here and there soon (FINALLY, one can control sound volume from within I.V.A.N. itself! %-). i also updated 'g'o command alot (now hero can go thru items he stepped before, so no idiotic 'g', and 'g' again and 'g' again in long pathways).

alas, save files and bone files are not compatible with the previous version.


2Zayre:
it's another one I.V.A.N. fork based on LIVAN (i believe). with some UI enhanchements, small additions, fixes and so on. you can play it instead of original LIVAN or IVANX.


2all:
if you will manage to find the ancient katana named Kawai, DO NOT USE IT! it's cheater weapon, added strictly for debugging purposes. it will ruin your game expirience.

also, if you will name your pet '_none_', you wil get... well, none. %-)

The problem was exactly what Warheck had said, just I didn't look far enough in the directory

2chaostrom:
ok, tnx. i'll take a look at those spaces.


2all:
new version uploaded.
* improved 'g'o command (again)
* some bugfixes
* added two options: 'autodrop empty bottles' and 'autodrop empty cans'
* bottles can be autodropped if becomes empty after dipping in 'em
* probably some more features i forgot to document.

link in the first post is updated.

I like bugfixes -- IVAN (and especially LIVAN) has a lot of bugs.

Guy, if you manage to make a (mostly) bug free version of LIVAN I will give you a million thanks. Then, I'll make a new release of LIVAN that will mostly have a ton of balance changes and a few cool new things.

2lampshade:
>Guy, if you manage to make a (mostly) bug free version
ah, that is one of the goals. i hope to reach it before the Sun becomes supernova.

i must say that original code is AWFUL. it was very painful to fix it so it can be compiled with -O2 or -O3 instead of -O0. and i tried to run in with valgrind once... ah... my parents has to call 911 then.

for now i'm trying to find the bug that sometimes corrupting savefiles. it's funny -- my fork can detect some kind of corrupted files, but i still can't understand WHY they are corrupted.

p.s. can we have a new rebalanced LIVAN? please, Please, PLEASE!

p.p.s. not only playing I.V.A.N. is the road to Death, but reading it's sources too. so authors gave us two excellent roads to Death instead of one! %-)

Hahaha. Two for the price of one. Now that is genius

Leave the balancing to me -- I already know what the problem is.

I actually am getting some very cool ideas on receiving some very neat items. It won't just be about randomly finding them on the dungeon floor.

tell your ideas. give your code. i'm ready to incorporate it, if you want.

btw: i'm planning to add a selection like "which variant you like to play? I.V.A.N. 0.50, I.V.A.N. CVS, LIVAN, etc". this will be the first step in modding code. month, or two, i think.

Thanks again vasiliy... nice to have somebody passionate about IVAN development on board

Truly. Have you thought about doing official development? Jump on IRC and have a chat with herself some time.

we are not dead! update with bugfixes, features ported from CLIVAN and my own unfinished stuff.

unfinished stuff:
* spider webs now can be burned with flaming swords (need to be tuned);
* you can dump contents of can or potion;
* various bugfixes.

for all linux users: i added 0build.sh shell script which can be used to build binary without my build system.

Hey that's great news! Good to see you back





Try not to remember to port the bugs. I've recently observed a bug in CLIVAN that crashes the game when you make an offering in one of the altars in the forest. I'll be looking into it to see what the fatal exception is.

Here's the new repo reposted here

Keep up the great work my man. If you have any questions about some of my implementations then feel free to ask.

for now i'm ported only muntuno and some critters. the process is far from complete. but i hope to port everything else too. i'm planning a little source resturcturing, so adding new mosters will be a little less complicated.

for now i added zlib support. even with fastest compression method (almost unnoticable speed change), saves becomes 700kb instead of 5mb. and bone files compressed with maximum level takes 70-100kb. but windows version with zlib crashes -- still don't know why (i have no windoze boxes at all). %-)

and tnx for your support. %-)

due to my hard work and cool scripts, i ported nearly everything. i still have mysterious bug though (not sure that the original hasn't it): sometimes deleted entity still left registered in pool Be list. dunno why.

btw, i splitted items, critters, etc to separate include files (both cpp and dat). it looks much better this way and it is easier to maintain.

wow! i rewrote pool code. seems that some mysterious bugs misteriously disappears. %-)

2Warheck: also, you have some bugs in script files (inherited either from LIVAN or from cvs). unfortunately i was drunk when comparing my scripts with yours, so can't remember where exactly.

p.s. you can take my pool.cpp, pool.h, entity.cpp and entity.h -- i bet that my versions are better than the originals. %-)

Sadly, I don't know how entity and pool work, or what they are for. Can you explain?
I'll try have a wee diff of what you changed to understand better.

I know that the script is really full of big mines. I had to tiptoe carefully to avoid causing the game to crash when I built new levels, creatures and materials. It will require documenting for others to be able to quickly make new things for themselves.

Do you think you will change the way the worldmap is created based on what was discussed in the thread with SquashMonster?

Edit: From your developments -> "klein bottle contents can't be dumped"