Kevin Hill

iPhone game developer by night, industrial automation consultant-for-hire by day, captain of a 30 foot power catamaran when time allows :)

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@GregGuidarelli Hi Greg I am alive and healthy thankfully, sorry I didn't catch this sooner! Currently in Manila PH, when things got serious I decided it was safer to stay put than fly... Will try to post more updates soon, hope all is well with you :)

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

https://t.co/AkbG8XhpDp is back online again! This is a temporary hack for now, hoping to migrate everything to newer PHPBB or other forum provider soon. New registrations are still closed but at least all the old secret character and strategy threads are viewable 😊

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@woomiez Hi @woomiez thanks for bringing this up! I have identified the ARMV7 fix, unfortunately there are more issues to fix before Apple will approve a new update. I’m also stuck in a lockdown outside the USA due to Covid-19. Sorry I can’t give an ETA for this right now. Stay safe!

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

Hmm, expand that question to any pre-5S series iPhone? Armv7 support may be missing in V2.0.64. If so, I may be updating RT this month 🙈

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@GregGuidarelli Ideally would be nice to make Rogue Touch iCloud-aware, so your game and scores could be picked up across multiple devices you own… I need to sort out iPad support and some other challenges before that would be very useful, but I’ll look into it 😎

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@GregGuidarelli On the topic of moving to a new phone, it sounds like the iCloud backup for Rogue Touch was not recent enough. RT doesn’t write to iCloud but the system will copy files / documents from apps when backing up your phone. Not sure what criteria it uses to determine new backup data

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@GregGuidarelli Congrats on the record, I see you there now with almost 22,000 kills and 7.7 million gold!

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@GregGuidarelli Wow! Sounds like this run was incredible, I can’t even imagine the power of a +300 sword and -284 armor… Or the danger you’re in once you lose them that deep in the dungeon ���

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@MartinKing Hi Martin! At the moment there is no classic ASCII option, but I have received requests for it before…I’m considering adding an ASCII tileset along with a few more new things in an update, but that won’t happen until 2020. 🙈

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@GregGuidarelli Haha! Actually wouldn’t be too bad these days. Originally picked a short-term window so that more people had a chance to appear on the boards. And it would bury cheaters over time without intervention by me. I’ll try some bigger limits, maybe 1 year to start with 🤔

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

Big milestone reached:
Rogue Touch is 10 years old today 🎂🎉
That makes me feel old, but then its even crazier to realize that I've been playing Rogue for about 35 years. Get off my lawn! 🙈

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@NightOwl4Music Yes unfortunately forums still down. I might get lucky with a way to restore it this holiday weekend (or soon after)! Will update everyone 😊 Battery replacement for $40 is pretty great price, as long as the guy is certified apple repair 👍

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@GregGuidarelli Tried to make it similar, but different enough to be unique. Glad you enjoy playing what I came up with! I’ve got some very interesting new dungeon generation code completed for my Mineko project and for a sequel to Rogue Touch. In 2020 should be unveiling lots of stuff 😎

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@GregGuidarelli Maze generation is based on old Rogue sources but room sizes, hall connections, amount of secret doors, stair placement and more are changed. New things added too- like eliminating secret doors that lead to dead ends, and the fun “party rooms” full of monsters & treasure ☠️

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@NightOwl4Music Hi Laura, doing pretty good, hope you are as well 😊 Yep the forums got busted real good by my web host… but I’m trying to get it fixed! Also planning on a leaderboard upgrade & merge into the “new” site design. iPhone 8 is still a great device too 👍

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@toribirdnosu Another shock: I remembered you worked on Locks Quest for the Nintendo DS, and just saw that its coming soon in September 2019 for the iPhone! 😎

https://t.co/I2EeJlmygI

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@GregGuidarelli Haha yes there are approximately 1 billion people with my name it seems. You are lucky that you’re easy to find! Anyway the blog page is just the base URL:
https://t.co/pU9AWYCbyl
Forum update: trying to get my host to do a temporary roll-back to an older PHP version 🤞

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@GregGuidarelli More all-time leaderboards would be great, and maybe an interface to query the database with parameters! I write code for a living, but also for fun (which is how Rogue Touch came to be). Consulting business is why I have no time to make new games yet, but it pays the bills 🙈😜

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@GregGuidarelli Forums might not be a total loss yet, but any good solution might take several weeks. I’ll have to write a blog post to update everyone too 😊👍

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@GregGuidarelli Right! I was thinking of making a couple new pages themed to the current site design… one would be the leaderboard overhaul of course, and another that gives more details all of the equipment, monsters, and secrets for people who want spoilers.

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@GregGuidarelli UGH! It was working yesterday. Looking at my logs It turns out the web host forcibly updated the forum PHP version overnight. That broke everything with PHPBB 😵… I can’t even access the admin side portal. Not sure if this is salvageable yet, will explore options 🙈

[Kevin Hill @ChronoSoft]

@ShaunMusgrave Ultima III on the Atari 800 XL was my first true RPG as well, many hours lost to that game! It also inspired early attempts at pixel art and programming to make my own adventure…