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Enrapture is an OpenGL based Roleplaying game in space.
It is influenced by the old masterpiece ELITE.
Enrapture is a game for the Linux Community but it will eventually be released for Windows as well.
The game will be released in several Beta Versions, where every new version is building on the previous
to form the final release.
The final release might be a commercial product, but it wont cost as todays games if so.
News
2005-03-29: Version 0.6 released.
2004-02-05: Version 0.6 will be released in a couple of weeks.
2003-11-21: Enrapture is now compiled against SDL 1.2.6. If you ever had a distorted sound in Enrapture
change to this version of SDL and grab the latest Enrapture executable v0.53 from the download section.
2003-11-19: Update to 0.52 (300KB), this will give you Mouse functionality in Enrapture.
2003-11-16: Enrapture V0.51 released due to major bugs discovery in 0.5.
2003-11-03: Enrapture Beta V0.5 Released.
2003-10-29: Implemented frames in Enrapture Web-Site.
2003-10-28: Beta 0.5 will be released in a week.
2003-07-12: Beta0.4 released.
The Story
In the lost memories of eons past, the Creatorclan Aleymoahn was
said to reach a godlike status of technological insight and power.
Their vast rulingdomain streched over countless starsystems and
formed a formidable civilisation that lasted for many ages.
No one know why they eventually disappeared, but some old crumbled
remnants of constructions found at various ancient sites still holds
a kind of simple backupunits with traces of data. Although very little
is known of the language the Creatorclan used, some of the data has
been deciphred and interpreted by the Rifters, the most prominent
sect of Creatorclan believers, into fragments of information stored
millenia ago.
The people of Aleymoahn is said to have trancended from mere men of
flesh and blood into beings of pure energy to merge with their
belowed machinery and enter into a realm unexplored.
The one thing we know is that the Creatorclan vanished completely and
this led directly to the bitter years of chaos that followed.
The heritage the Creatorclan left, though, is of unmeasurable worth to
us all as it is said that they were the ones that opened the Rifts
in space - a kind of portals that transport whatever goes through it
to a fixed coordinate in any given starsystem.
Sadly, the knowledge to control these rifts also were lost with the
Creatorclan, but some rifts were left open and are still usable,
but only to one constant destination.
Eventually we formed an alliance built on economic agreements
throughout the starsystems and some form of order was reestablished.
My homeplanet, Keth, as well as all planets in our system, Atharadane,
are ruled by a guild of traderclans. The clanhead is appointed once
every sixth year by voting at the grandmeeting at the Primestation,
Orogus located near Keth.
Since my father, Zebon Lukeen, is the one of the governors of the four
great clans of Keth, the Yaragoh, my own career is predestined to be
political.
Or, at least, it was.....
After the official ritual into manhood in the city of Skyreach, where
I was given the old Talisman of Yaragoh from my father - as he had from
my grandfather as a sign of one that is destined to be clanleader -
everything changed. Dramatically.
All of a sudden the quiet and solem scene of sacred house of Yaragoh
turned into a burning, screaming nightmare when cloaked, heavily armed
soldiers emerged from the sewerregoins and started to massacre the
people attending the ceremony.
I was wounded but managed to escape with the help of a stranger.
I do not know the name of the man that saved my life, but I will always
be in dept to him.
This stranger brought me to a Minecat mining ship and escaped the
the planet.
As I regained my consciousness I realized that I am only a few standard
units from the station Orogus and the stranger is gone. I have decided
to dock there and try to find out what has happened.........
Screenshots
1. Outside Orogus Station (Beta 0.3)
2. Inventory Screen (Beta 0.3)
3. Ship Info Screen (Beta 0.3)
4. System Solar Map (Beta 0.3)
5. Mining Ore At an Asteroid I (Beta 0.3)
6. Mining Ore At An Asteroid II, salvageing ore with use of tractor beam. (Beta 0.3)
7. Docked At Orogus Station (Beta 0.3)
8. Trading At Orogus Station (Beta 0.3)
9. Communications (Beta 0.3)
10. New screenshot from Beta 0.5
11. Helpscreen for v0.52
12. A secret location from V.06FAQ
1. Q: What is the number in the lower right on the screen?
A: It is the AFT (Avarage Frame Time in ms) counter, it is there to tell how fast or
slow the game is running, it should be as low as possible.
2. Q: What does the color codes in the radar represent?
A: Blue=Planet/Station, Light Blue=Item, Yellow=Friendly/Unknown, Red=Hostile
3. Q: How long will it take before a station replies to my docking request.
A: It will depend on the size of the station, in extreme cases it can take over a
minute in real time.
4. Q: When starting Enrapture i receive the message 'Video mode set failed:
Could'nt find matching GLX visual'
A: Enrapture runs in videmode 800x600 with Depth 24, you need to alter your
XF86Config file usually under /etc/X11.
Example:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard(generic)"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection
5. Q: How do i use items like Datacore, Datadisc etc.....
A: From the Status/Inventory menu you select the Item and then press the U-key.
6. Q: Why does sometime the ship crash into the station even though i'm using the
docking computer
A: The AutoPilot that is running together with the Docking Computer is not FAILSAFE
7. Q: Why is my sound distorted?
A: I have no ide, but if you change to SDL v1.2.6 it will go away.
8. Q: Why is my text all black?
A: Are you running with the Mesa GLX library? If so download a hardware accelerator for
your card. See download section for information.
Changes
Beta V0.6
1. Atharadane now has a nasty police force. Gone are the days of "kill friendly ships".
2. Timewarp function added, for the impatient one.
Beta V0.53
1. Fixed UnDock bug that appeared after implementing mouse support.
2. Fixed Velocity (-) and (+) in cockpit.
3. Fixed trading list to show all items.
4. Enrapture is now compiled against SDL 1.2.6.
5. Distorted sound that appeared sometimes is now gone when using SDL 1.2.6.
Beta V0.52
1. Implemted True Mouse support. Mouse is now available for every function.
2. Fixed avasive manoeuvres.
3. Fixed Communication Trading menu list bug.
4. New Helpscreen.
Beta V0.51
1. Fixed Fog bug that made objects to pop into view.
2. Fixed shoot at Assinibo Lab & Rifters Library bug.
3. Geometry bug in smaller asteroids fixed, radius was totally wrong.
4. Mission to shoot all smaller asteroids bug fixed, now you get your money.
5. Fixed bug that disabled all pirates.
Beta Demo 0.5
1. Made some performance tuning, gained ~4ms/frame.
2. Added filter for radar.
3. Added sound for outdoor exploring.
4. Added a basic Targetting System.
5. Added 'Lock Target' to Targetting System.
6. Added 'Follow Target' to Targetting System.
7. Added a HyperDrive.
8. Added a Scanner Device.
9. Added category listings in Trading Menu, no more confusions....
10.Implemented Quaternion Interpolation on all moving/rotating objects.
11.Changed Stations responce time for dockingrequest, now responds imediately.
Beta Demo 0.4
1. Added dungeon like movement for exploring outside ship.
2. Mapped Minus & Plus key to KeyPad.
3. Fixed bug in Load Game, now correctly releases allocated memory before loading.
4. Replaced true objects with simple geometry in the Map Menu, now running at full speed.
5. Fixed Station menus for speed.
6. Added new graphics for items, the ones in Beta 0.3 was (i haven't got the time)
7. Added more items for trading.
8. Fixed a FANTASTIC & TRUELY FUNNY bug with the tractorbeam.
Thanks to Alexander Shiyan, who found it:)
9. Fixed hail/communication bug that apperead after travelling through the first rift.
Beta Demo 0.3
1. Fixed distribution permissons on save folder.
Download
REQUIREMENTS:
Linux Kernel >= 2.4
XFree86 (OpenGL and GLX and the X server integration of GLX)
libSDL >=1.2, preferable v1.2.6.
libSDL_mixer >= 1.2.5
libogg
libvorbis
libvorbisfile
The requirements above are usually all of them packed with popular distributions
like RedHat for example!
You also need an OpenGL hardware accelerator driver. Drivers for OpenGL 3D
hardware acceleration are available from NVIDIA, 3dfx, Matrox and ATI
DOWNLOADS
Enrapture Beta 0.6 full release 32.5 MB.
Update to v0.53, only get this one if you are running v0.52.
Update to v0.52, you need the basic 0.50/0.51 package.
Linux Beta v0.51 Release 25,2 MB
Update your 0.50 Release to 0.51. Old save-files will not work with this version.
This is Enrapture executable only, you need the rest of 0.50 package.
Linux Beta v0.4 Demo Release 12,7 MB
Windows (Win32) Beta v0.4 Demo Release 12,7 MB
Windows patch file, if you've downloaded the windows version before 2003-07-29,
download this patch and replace enrapture.exetop
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