Kevin Hill

@GregGuidarelli Hi Greg I am alive and healthy thankfully, sorry I didn't catch this sooner! Currently in Manila PH, when things got serious I decided it was safer to stay put than fly... Will try to post more updates soon, hope all is well with you :)

@ChronoSoft Kevin : how are you doing ? Safe from the virus 🦠 we all hope?

forums.chronosoft.com is back online again! This is a temporary hack for now, hoping to migrate everything to newer PHPBB or other forum provider soon. New registrations are still closed but at least all the old secret character and strategy threads are viewable 😊

@woomiez Hi @woomiez thanks for bringing this up! I have identified the ARMV7 fix, unfortunately there are more issues to fix before Apple will approve a new update. I’m also stuck in a lockdown outside the USA due to Covid-19. Sorry I can’t give an ETA for this right now. Stay safe!

@ChronoSoft Hi Kevin, did you ever get around to that update? I'd love to play RT on my iPad 3rd Gen (the first Retina model), but that's ARMv7 only and thus "not compatible".

Hmm, expand that question to any pre-5S series iPhone? Armv7 support may be missing in V2.0.64. If so, I may be updating RT this month 🙈

@GregGuidarelli Ideally would be nice to make Rogue Touch iCloud-aware, so your game and scores could be picked up across multiple devices you own… I need to sort out iPad support and some other challenges before that would be very useful, but I’ll look into it 😎

@ChronoSoft Continuing the only silver lining is I had lost the plus 300 sword of doom to a demolition after accidentally dropping it🤯🤬. Just killed off character on old phone as the older save game is a good one under same name. It looks like the dead character set record for kills 🖖

@GregGuidarelli On the topic of moving to a new phone, it sounds like the iCloud backup for Rogue Touch was not recent enough. RT doesn’t write to iCloud but the system will copy files / documents from apps when backing up your phone. Not sure what criteria it uses to determine new backup data

@GregGuidarelli Congrats on the record, I see you there now with almost 22,000 kills and 7.7 million gold!

@GregGuidarelli Wow! Sounds like this run was incredible, I can’t even imagine the power of a +300 sword and -284 armor… Or the danger you’re in once you lose them that deep in the dungeon 😵

@MartinKing Hi Martin! At the moment there is no classic ASCII option, but I have received requests for it before…I’m considering adding an ASCII tileset along with a few more new things in an update, but that won’t happen until 2020. 🙈

@ChronoSoft Is there an option in Rogue Touch for iOS to play with classic ASCII graphics? Please let me know, thank you 😀

@GregGuidarelli Haha! Actually wouldn’t be too bad these days. Originally picked a short-term window so that more people had a chance to appear on the boards. And it would bury cheaters over time without intervention by me. I’ll try some bigger limits, maybe 1 year to start with 🤔

@ChronoSoft 😏Ya know .... would it really be such a bad thing ... if the 7 day purge routine on the Deepest Floor leader board (only) were to get magically 🧙‍♂️ turned off or the retention threshold set to MAXINT 🤥 ?

Big milestone reached: Rogue Touch is 10 years old today 🎂🎉 That makes me feel old, but then its even crazier to realize that I've been playing Rogue for about 35 years. Get off my lawn! 🙈

@NightOwl4Music Yes unfortunately forums still down. I might get lucky with a way to restore it this holiday weekend (or soon after)! Will update everyone 😊 Battery replacement for $40 is pretty great price, as long as the guy is certified apple repair 👍

@ChronoSoft Tried the Forum page again today🤬Still SNAFU. Having fun getting used to the new phone. Still a bit peeved that my brothers didn’t tell me about the guy they know that does battery replacements until after I upgraded, but they did take the 6 to him for me for $40.

@ChronoSoft Forums screwed up in the past week? Good to know, as I just had to replace my 6 because of a swollen battery. Still want to change the battery so I can game on it. Got an 8 this time(X series too expensive). Hope you’re doing well😀

@GregGuidarelli Tried to make it similar, but different enough to be unique. Glad you enjoy playing what I came up with! I’ve got some very interesting new dungeon generation code completed for my Mineko project and for a sequel to Rogue Touch. In 2020 should be unveiling lots of stuff 😎

@ChronoSoft Kevin:I’d be interested to know in general how you coded your maze generator, recursive decent ? It’s different/nicer than UNIX rogue which had distinct patterns. I like the way you bury the stairs in there much more often and sometimes pack the maze with loot & monsters 😁

@GregGuidarelli Maze generation is based on old Rogue sources but room sizes, hall connections, amount of secret doors, stair placement and more are changed. New things added too- like eliminating secret doors that lead to dead ends, and the fun “party rooms” full of monsters & treasure ☠️

@toribirdnosu Another shock: I remembered you worked on Locks Quest for the Nintendo DS, and just saw that its coming soon in September 2019 for the iPhone! 😎 apps.apple.com/us/app/locks-q…

So shocked that Lock's Quest was released on new platforms which I really don't know about this! I finally got unexpected credited in PS4, Xbox One and Steam LOL!!! ign.com/articles/2017/…

@GregGuidarelli Haha yes there are approximately 1 billion people with my name it seems. You are lucky that you’re easy to find! Anyway the blog page is just the base URL: ChronoSoft.com Forum update: trying to get my host to do a temporary roll-back to an older PHP version 🤞

@ChronoSoft Kevin sir where exactly is your blog page ? having trouble finding it with google, several prolific people out there with your name. We Guidarelli’s don’t have that problem. Note lack of H in my name meaning no relationship whatsoever to the San Francisco chocolate family 🙄🖖

@GregGuidarelli More all-time leaderboards would be great, and maybe an interface to query the database with parameters! I write code for a living, but also for fun (which is how Rogue Touch came to be). Consulting business is why I have no time to make new games yet, but it pays the bills 🙈😜

@ChronoSoft PS consider a feature in records pages that permanently tracks deepest Dungeon dive as all time gold permanent page does not show. Any additional permanent stats would be good too for us hard cores. Do you program to live or live to program? the latter naturally! 🖖😃

@GregGuidarelli Forums might not be a total loss yet, but any good solution might take several weeks. I’ll have to write a blog post to update everyone too 😊👍

@ChronoSoft Got it, worst case scenario please publish already known secret characters just as a basic list from that long thread .... I extensively searched google all knowledge is lost 🤯all those spoilers sites linked direct to you the lazy bums. I only remember a few, critical feature!

@GregGuidarelli Right! I was thinking of making a couple new pages themed to the current site design… one would be the leaderboard overhaul of course, and another that gives more details all of the equipment, monsters, and secrets for people who want spoilers.

@GregGuidarelli UGH! It was working yesterday. Looking at my logs It turns out the web host forcibly updated the forum PHP version overnight. That broke everything with PHPBB 😵… I can’t even access the admin side portal. Not sure if this is salvageable yet, will explore options 🙈

@ChronoSoft Kevin:completely understand issue w/ new forums enrollments spam but I see New error last few days making old stuff unavailable.If you fix please add my last name as user & I’ll drum up some buzz.I saw old timers could still post as of late last year so you can trust some of us.

@ShaunMusgrave Ultima III on the Atari 800 XL was my first true RPG as well, many hours lost to that game! It also inspired early attempts at pixel art and programming to make my own adventure…