Bugs and game crashes are not the only problems, but typos too. If you find any bugs in the game, please report it at options available at contact page.
- In the "Title" field try to write short but not a too vague description of the issue. Good example: "Game crashed when entering base". Bad example: "Game often crashes."
- In the body/comment field try to write as much information about the issue as possible. In most cases, more information is better than less. General rule of a good report is to give enough information to allow other people to reproduce the issue. It may be in the form of the steps which are needed for recreating this issue.
- If the game crashed, in most cases it should save the game. It will be a lot
of help if you can attach that file to the bug report. Also, it will be
helpfull, if you attach copied and pasted information contained in error report
window from "Technical information" section or attach
error.logfile from the game's directory with saved games.
Title: "Game crashed when entering a base"
Body:
- Dock to the base
- Open the base actions' menu
- Select option "Trade" from the menu with arrows keys
- Press enter
- Game crashed
At this moment, please, don't give any propositions about new game features or mechanics. I have my own long TODO list and your propositions may be duplicates or go against my ideas. Of course, if you really want it, you can always start discussion about a new feature, just I'm afraid, it may take a long time to implement it into the game.
If you want to talk/propose changes to any existing features/mechanics in the game, feel free to contact with me via options available at contact page. General rule about propositions is same as for bugs reports - please, try to write as much information as possible. This help us better understand the purpose of your changes.
List of things which I wish to add to the game, can be found here Please read carefully the description on how to discuss or how they will be implemented in the game.
If you want start helping in the development of the gane, please consider starting with something easy like fixing bugs. Before you begin to add new feature to the game, please contact with me options available at contact page. Same as with features proposition - your code may "collide" with my work and at this moment you may just lose time by working on it. So it is better that we first discuss your proposition. In any other case, fell free to fix and or improve my code.
The full description of coding style used by the project, you can find on the Coding Standard page. On the page Testing the Project you will find information how to test your code, so it will be compliant with the project standards.
A preferred way to submit your code is to use tickets
on the project page. Please attach to that ticket file with diff changes,
the best if done with command fossil patch. Another diff program will
work too. In that situation, please add information which program was used to
create the diff file. If you prefer you can also use other options from
contact page.
In console, in the main project directory, type: others/tests.nims [amount]
The [amount] is how many times the tests should be run. It is recommended
to run them few times in a row to catch all problems. Tests will stop if there
will be any issues. At this moment unit tests are available only on Linux.