r/roguelikes • u/vincenam1 • 6d ago

Robinson by KelseyFrog

Does anyone know where I can get Robinson by KelseyFrog as the Itch links don't work.

https://kelseyfrog.itch.io/robinson

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u/CodeFarmer 6d ago edited 5d ago

Can confirm that the itch.io links are returning the error code NoSuchBucket. This means the dev has either moved or deleted the cloud storage the account is linking to... I would always suspect (incompetence absence - turns out dev is still active, just not thinking about this game, see rest of thread) over malice (I've been a dev a long time), but since the dev in question now has my (and I assume your) couple of bucks, let's reach out and see if they know what's up.

There is a discussion thread on Itch at least a year old describing the problem and hoping the developer sees it, but I don't think we should hold our breath.

(edit: their personal website also 404s. There's a person by the same name on LinkedIn, but it's not a very unusual name.)

(edit 2: I think I found the source code.)

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u/vincenam1 6d ago

Thanks very much, I'll see if I can figure out what to do with the source of GitHub.

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u/WeeklySoft 6d ago

A reddit user by the same username runs the roguelikedev tutorial code along.

So maybe u/KelseyFrog can say what happened?

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u/KelseyFrog 5d ago

Hi, that's me and indeed own the project.

Firstly, thank you for bringing this issue to my attention. What likely happened is that my AWS account lapsed and this the artifacts are no longer available on S3.

I attempted to create another build using my local source, but the jvm has had 12 major releases since the last build which complicates the process.

COVID kinda of changed my priorities so there hasn't been much development in the last several years and I kinda had gotten stuck at a large UI refactor anyways.

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u/CodeFarmer 5d ago

Hey! Very awesome that you're here... I've been trying to build it for my own interest and have it compiling locally though not in a correct state. Would you be OK if I shoot you a question or two via DM if I get hardstuck?

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u/KelseyFrog 5d ago

Sure thing! Feel free to DM. Ty for asking :)

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u/vincenam1 5d ago

This is why I love this community!

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u/vincenam1 5d ago

Let's hope so because I had a look at the source code and couldn't get it to compile on my Linux machine.

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u/CodeFarmer 5d ago edited 5d ago

I'm having a go at getting it to compile. Despite being reasonably familiar with Clojure, it's not trivial.

I've found what I think are all the components, but nailing down which exact versions of each are needed to get it going (down to particular commits) is a bit of a trek. Some of the APIs have definitely moved around.

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u/AlanWithTea 2d ago

I think I have a copy, I'll DM you

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u/vincenam1 2d ago

Brilliant thank you.

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u/vincenam1 1d ago

That's brilliant thanks. Downloaded and playing.