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666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 3519 Location: wales

INSTEAD was designed to interpret the games that are the mix of visual novels, text quests and classical 90's quests.

website http://instead.syscall.ru/about/
download 2.2.0 here https://copy.com/kjbNzRVIeV2hEkWx

i've not packaged it with any of the dependencies so you'll need to get them from the PPM ... use the find box.
libsdl-ttf
libsdl-mixer
libsdl-image (tahrpup already has this)
liblua5.1

it was compiled on lucid, so should work in most pups

partsman · Joined: 06 Jun 2012 Posts: 363 Location: OHIO,USA

Wow

Very cool 666philb !!
Thank you !
And Thanks for all your wonderful contributions
to Puppy Wink

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2378 Location: Queensland

This also works in Carolina, it has all the sdl files, just liblua5.1.so.0 missing.

Elena · Joined: 01 Sep 2010 Posts: 24

Thanks so much for your helpful pet-packaging, 666philb! Very Happy

Immediately installed it in (your) tahrpup. Also thanks to you, Geoffrey, for the liblua.pet.

There may be not that many English games for INSTEAD yet. But in addition to TWINE (CYOA approach) and TADS3 or Inform7 (parser approach) it's a very interesting interactive fiction system.

Personally, I like this puzzle game by the author Peter Kosyh: http://instead-games.ru/game.php?ID=118

Elena · Joined: 01 Sep 2010 Posts: 24

Instead 2.3.0 got released today! It would be wonderful if someone could provide a little pet package for us - including me (preferably Tahr64, but that's not a necessity).

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2378 Location: Queensland

These deb's should work

https://launchpad.net/~instead/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+files/instead_2.3.0-1%7Eubuntu12.04_amd64.deb

https://launchpad.net/~instead/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+files/instead_2.3.0-1%7Eubuntu12.04_i386.deb

Elena · Joined: 01 Sep 2010 Posts: 24

Thank you! Yes, the deb installs just fine. So as soon as I've added all needed SDL dependencies, it should work.

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 924

Nice game engine with a lot of potential!
Also builds and links static (no gtk elements though) against uclibc and tinyX11.
Download instead-2.3.0.pet 6.8Mb/9.6Mb installed - included instead-ilines-1.1 game to get you started.
No additional libraries should be needed and it should work in most versions of Puppy.

takenp · Joined: 05 Aug 2015 Posts: 90 Location: Moskva

Many thanks, @goingnuts!