I tried sending mail to the author’s email address listed on the comp site, but it bounced, so I’m posting my bug report here… I hope he reads this forum. (Does anyone know how else to get ahold of Fabrizio Polo?)
When I run TextCraft on my Ubuntu laptop with 4k display, the window is small and the font is teeny tiny! Almost unreadable, and definitely not something I’d want to try playing for 2 hours. And I don’t see any controls for resizing or zooming. I dunno if this is fixable before the comp ends but I thought I’d let you know. Let me know if you need any more information.
I’m on old Ubuntu Linux (14.04), and I get this error when I try to launch this (either by “./AlphaIsland-v1-03.jar” or “java -jar AlphaIsland-v1-03.jar”):
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/fabriziopolo/timecraft/TextCraft : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
From Google, I think this means that my JRE isn’t new enough (I have openjdk-7, and I think this means I need openjdk-8)? Oh well.
Yes Java 8 is required. Although you just need the JRE (runtime environment) not the JDK (development kit). Sorry for the difficulties. Next year I’m going to make my submission a web game running on my own server. That will really simplify things.
Thanks for trying it! I targeted Java 8. I’m quite surprised it doesn’t work in Java 9. Possibly it’s a bug in their Swing implementation?
I’m itching for some feedback. Please let me know what you think (don’t spare the harsh critcism). Also, don’t forget to visit the companion wiki at fabriziopolo.com/textcraft/wiki.