Helherron - a very addictive Nahlakh-like game

[tindrli]

Is there a homepage for this game?

Also, Helherron is a type of roguelike, right?

i dont think so

 

[Haba]

http://web.archive.org/web/20070923000720/http://www2.lut.fi/~akuukka/helherron/

No, it is not a roguelike.

 

[Nimja1]

Holy Necro batman! I can't seem to get helherron to run on Ubuntu 14.04 and i've tried many times to get the libstdc++5, even finding one on the software center and still nothing.

I find myself to be fairly proficient (im the go to guy for computer help) on the windows, only to be utterly lost on ubuntu. If anyone could help that would be awesome!

 

[overtenemy]

Antti

What's the deal my negro?

If that doesn't link/alert Antti someone feel free to do so in my stead. I don't post very much and have no idea how to work this voodoo.

 

[SkeleTony]

The new Helherron is out! Unfortunately it is only for 64 bt. systems though so I won't be able to play it yet.

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

It werks on linux. Quickly rolled a group and got them killed at some bandits.

And it looks quite good. Haven't tried this before ackshually. Will ahve to change that.

 

[Grauken]

I wonder if the old bugs are fixed, those mentioned on page 4, like reaching Tikku's cae, monster horde crash, getting to the final level

 

[getter77]

32-bit also now---looks like a fair bit fixed and cleaned up after all this time from the changelog.

 

[akuukka]

I wonder if the old bugs are fixed, those mentioned on page 4, like reaching Tikku's cae, monster horde crash, getting to the final level

Yes, all of those are fixed. You can fill the whole battlefield by Mass Wounding red blobs and it still doesn't crash

This reddit post covers most of things that have changed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/helherron/..._for_windows_64bit_now_available_for/dgo5gf6/

 

[Indranys]

Any noticeable graphical changes men??

 

[akuukka]

Apart from a few new character icons, NPCs and monsters (forest spirit, caco daemon), no. My GF is helping with the graphics and doing pretty good job, check out the new elder in the first village.

Spell particle effects also look much better now

 

[TigerKnee]

Whoa, this game is still in active development?

Maybe it'll motivate it to finally give it a real go

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

Display bug: when you go to skill screen (z) and cycle through characters, the character icon in the top left doesn't update. (Also z key is not listed under main keyboard commands in the help section.)

 

[akuukka]

Display bug: when you go to skill screen (z) and cycle through characters, the character icon in the top left doesn't update. (Also z key is not listed under main keyboard commands in the help section.)

Thanks! Fixed for the next update.

 

[SkeleTony]

Man...this is weird. I have so adamantly refused to 'upgrade' from Windows XP as my OS because games like Helherron (2.04 and earlier) did not run on modern Windows and now I may be forced to upgrade to crappy modern Windows OS to play Helherron.

 

[octavius]

Man...this is weird. I have so adamantly refused to 'upgrade' from Windows XP as my OS because games like Helherron (2.04 and earlier) did not run on modern Windows and now I may be forced to upgrade to crappy modern Windows OS to play Helherron.

Ah, the joys of upgrading Windows...I used to have the old Amiga game Evil's Doom (newly made Windows installer with emulator included) up and running. Some months later when I was ready to actually play the game, and some Win 7 upgrades laters, the game no longer worked thanks to one of those damned Windows "upgrades".

 

[FeelTheRads]

Would you consider opening access to the graphics so they can be edited?

 

[akuukka]

Would you consider opening access to the graphics so they can be edited?

Yes, I can consider that. Would you like to contribute icons.

 

[FeelTheRads]

I'm tempted, but you know, what I'm saying is if they were open people could potentially create tilesets for the game like for roguelikes...

 

[TigerKnee]

Man...this is weird. I have so adamantly refused to 'upgrade' from Windows XP as my OS because games like Helherron (2.04 and earlier) did not run on modern Windows and now I may be forced to upgrade to crappy modern Windows OS to play Helherron.

Didn't he release a 32-bit version? Shouldn't that version work?

 

[Haba]

What about the sequel you were working on five years ago?

 

[mercyRPG]

Thank You Antti! My heart missed a beat, when I misread your announcement as Helherron 2.

I wonder if the old bugs are fixed, those mentioned on page 4, like reaching Tikku's cae, monster horde crash, getting to the final level

You needed to run linux for reliable, bug-less version. As many people described on the 1st pages of this thread.

Would you consider opening access to the graphics so they can be edited?

SkeleTony had a really nice Graphics Update Pack downloadable about 6 years ago. Maybe he can upload that somewhere. The older Helherron 1 was therefore graphically moddable.

 

[mercyRPG]

Antti, would you please consider giving us the option to change font color to a Human Readable Color like this? Thank You!

 

[mercyRPG]

Would you con sider opening access to the graphics so they can be edited?

v2. 04 HELHERRON GRAPHICS MOD INSTRUCTIONS (c) SkeleTony

If you created graphics as per SkeleTony's instructions and they are just as good as the icon pack below, just send it to Antti or wait for his feedback, because Antti updated the graphics DAT format, its no longer PCX!:

This is the icon pack SkeleTony created for Helherron.

((IIRC there were more of these amazing creations 6 yrs ago.))

 

[akuukka]

Mercyrpg, I like your text color suggestion. Looks so much better than the red text. Lets make it customizable in the future!

SkeleTony, looks like your icon pack has lots of stuff that never made it to 2.04. Maybe we should add those to the next version?