v0.4.0

A reimplementation of the LucasArts Desktop Adventures engine.

This archive contains no game content. You need your own legal copy of
Star Wars: Yoda Stories or Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures -
see HOW-TO-ADD-GAME-DATA.md in the archive, or
docs/GAME-DATA.md.

Downloads

Archive	For
win-x64	Windows
linux-x64	Linux
osx-arm64	macOS, Apple Silicon
osx-x64	macOS, Intel

Self-contained: no .NET runtime install needed. One executable, which plays
both games.

Status

Yoda Stories is playable end to end. Indiana Jones parses, renders and plays
but generates no mission chain yet -
roadmap.

What's new

Weapons, puzzles and scripts that behave like the original - and a Locator map you can open.

Thanks again to Emilio Castillo (@emcastillo), whose pull requests #7 and #8 are this
release.

Playing

• Weapons swing with their real attack poses and blade frames; the blue and green
  lightsabers and the Force each use their own artwork. (#7)
• Leaving an unsolved puzzle room resets it, so a botched block puzzle can be retried.
  Solved rooms stay solved. (#7)
• Shift-pulling works in smooth movement; walking over a weapon picks it up without
  swapping your current one; Yoda only counts each finished mission once. (#7)
• Roofs draw over Luke when he walks behind buildings, and enemies no longer leave a
  static copy of themselves behind. (#7)
• Items can be dragged from the inventory onto the target; Space and the controller use
  the same rules, and an item used out of reach is kept, not wasted. (#8)
• Select the Locator and press Space (or A) to open the map. (#8)
• Diagonal gaps beside walls and rocks are passable where the original allowed it. (#8)

Scripts and rewards

• Sector-counter conditions are finally evaluated as sector counters, one per zone -
  the last known scripting divergence. (#8)
• Dialogue waits to be dismissed before its script continues; mission titles show the
  real text, not ending tokens like END1A. (#8)
• Every native monster death drop is honoured, fixing missing rewards in nine zones. Ben,
  R2-D2, C-3PO and other scripted handoffs finish their dialogue before handing over. (#8)
• Doors remember which entrance you came in by, so nested rooms and staircases no longer
  send you back the wrong way. (#8)

Known

• The mission bot cannot yet finish a block puzzle in one visit, which it now needs to
  since unsolved rooms reset - see docs/ROADMAP.md.

v0.3.0

A reimplementation of the LucasArts Desktop Adventures engine.

This archive contains no game content. You need your own legal copy of
Star Wars: Yoda Stories or Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures -
see HOW-TO-ADD-GAME-DATA.md in the archive, or
docs/GAME-DATA.md.

Downloads

Archive	For
win-x64	Windows
linux-x64	Linux
osx-arm64	macOS, Apple Silicon
osx-x64	macOS, Intel

Self-contained: no .NET runtime install needed. One executable, which plays
both games.

Status

Yoda Stories is playable end to end. Indiana Jones parses, renders and plays
but generates no mission chain yet -
roadmap.

What's new

Smooth movement, sturdier Yoda missions, and the bot finishes an Indiana Jones game.

Thanks to Emilio Castillo (@emcastillo), whose three pull requests make up most of
this release (#4, #5, #6).

Both games

• Optional smooth movement: the hero and enemies glide between tiles in eight
  directions with a following camera. Off by default - Config > Smooth Movement, or the
  controller pause menu. (#6)
• Enemies animate with their real walking frames and no longer vanish mid-step. (#5)
• You can move diagonally, and slide round corners into doorways like the original.
• Pushed blocks only go into empty squares; characters are solid.
• Zone dice follow the world seed, so a world plays the same way twice.

Yoda Stories

• Generated mission chains are always reachable and solvable - audited across hundreds
  of worlds. (#4)
• X-wing travel lands you in the right place, with the hero visible and one parked
  ship. Yoda's briefing is shown in full. (#4)

Indiana Jones

• The mission bot has played a world from Marcus's briefing to the win: block puzzles,
  locked doors, keyed gates and multi-hop vehicle trips.
• Vehicles take off and land properly, and arrival scripts run.

v0.2.0

A reimplementation of the LucasArts Desktop Adventures engine.

This archive contains no game content. You need your own legal copy of
Star Wars: Yoda Stories or Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures -
see HOW-TO-ADD-GAME-DATA.md in the archive, or
docs/GAME-DATA.md.

Downloads

Archive	For
win-x64	Windows
linux-x64	Linux
osx-arm64	macOS, Apple Silicon
osx-x64	macOS, Intel

Self-contained: no .NET runtime install needed. One executable, which plays
both games.

Status

Yoda Stories is playable end to end. Indiana Jones parses, renders and plays
but generates no mission chain yet -
roadmap.

What's new

Indiana Jones gets real missions, and the script engine finally behaves.

Indiana Jones

• Worlds are now generated by a port of the original game's generator: you start in the
  town, Marcus briefs you and hands over the first artefact, and a chain of trades and
  puzzle rooms leads to a temple and the prize.
• All 366 zones load (27 did before), with their scripts, which turned out to use their
  own opcode numbering - Indy's scripts had been running the wrong commands.
• Indy's own palette (it was drawn in Yoda's colours), the whip as its starting weapon,
  and townsfolk drawn as themselves rather than as "Rock".

Both games

• Many scripts never ran or ran every frame: DisableAction did nothing, walking into
  things never triggered, dice rolled 0..n-1, and one random value was shared by every
  zone. All fixed - expect puzzles to behave differently, and correctly.
• Enemies read their real health, damage and weapons, and fire at a sane rate.
• Crossing into a zone can no longer drop you into a sealed pocket.

Controllers and platforms

• Start/Back opens a pause menu with save, load, settings and quit; any button starts
  the game from the title screen.
• The menu bar can be hidden on Windows, macOS and Linux (Config menu, pause menu, F10).
• Sound effects now actually play.
• Machines without a GPU fall back to software rendering instead of refusing to start.

v0.1.1

A reimplementation of the LucasArts Desktop Adventures engine.

This archive contains no game content. You need your own legal copy of
Star Wars: Yoda Stories or Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures -
see HOW-TO-ADD-GAME-DATA.md in the archive, or
docs/GAME-DATA.md.

Downloads

Archive	For
win-x64	Windows
linux-x64	Linux
osx-arm64	macOS, Apple Silicon
osx-x64	macOS, Intel

Self-contained: no .NET runtime install needed. One executable, which plays
both games.

Status

Yoda Stories is playable end to end. Indiana Jones parses, renders and plays
but generates no mission chain yet -
roadmap.

What's new

Linux and macOS start, and now have a menu bar.

• Starting the game on Linux or macOS died with Unable to load shared library 'user32.dll' - the menu bar P/Invoked Win32 before checking the platform
  (#1). The self-test now
  calls that path on every Linux CI run, so it cannot come back quietly.
• The data file is found case-insensitively, so YODESK.DTA straight off the
  disc works on a case-sensitive filesystem.
• New Game, Save, Load and Select Data File were wired only to the Windows menu
  and so were unreachable elsewhere (#2).
  Linux and macOS get an SDL-drawn menu bar with the same four menus, in a strip
  above the game that takes no play area.
• File dialogs off Windows were a Console.ReadLine that froze the render loop
  on stdin. They now ask the desktop for its own picker - osascript on macOS,
  zenity or kdialog on Linux.

Windows is unchanged: it still gets the real native menu bar.

v0.1.0

A reimplementation of the LucasArts Desktop Adventures engine.

This archive contains no game content. You need your own legal copy of
Star Wars: Yoda Stories or Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures -
see HOW-TO-ADD-GAME-DATA.md in the archive, or
docs/GAME-DATA.md.

Downloads

Archive	For
win-x64	Windows
linux-x64	Linux
osx-arm64	macOS, Apple Silicon
osx-x64	macOS, Intel

Self-contained: no .NET runtime install needed. One executable, which plays
both games.

Status

Yoda Stories is playable end to end. Indiana Jones parses, renders and plays
but generates no mission chain yet -
roadmap.