Dink Smallwood is an adventure/role-playing
game, similar to Zelda (2D top view), made by RTsoft.
The game features the twisted adventure of young Dink Smallwood,
a pig farmer who leaves his town and goes on a quest to save the
world.
GNU FreeDink is a new and portable version of
the game engine, which runs the original game as well as its D-Mods,
with close compatibility, under multiple platforms.
FreeDink
is free
software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; see the GNU
GPL for details. Free software is more
than open
source.
It also comes with the DFArc front-end to manage
and play Dink Modules (or D-Mods for short): fans-made new add-ons,
some of them bigger than the original game!
And if you want to make your own adventure, the FreeDinkedit game
editor awaits you.
Status: the main game is finished (except we're
adding more sounds as time passes, as well
as translations). The game engine may
evolve but will maintain backward compatibility to play D-Mods.
If you're interested in the development, you'll be interested by this developer talk video at the GNU Hackers Meeting 2008.
If you're interested in the development, you'll be interested by this developer talk video at the GNU Hackers Meeting 2008.
We don't plan to add support for MP3 files because of patents
threats
([1],
[2],
[3]), but we
already support the patent-free Ogg
Vorbis format instead (as well as, incidentally: mod, s3m, it, and
xm).
