Rocks'n'Diamonds has extended its Boulder Dash compatible game engine with full Krissz game engine compatibility. Check it out for your preferred platform (Windows, Mac, Linux or Android):
* R'n'D download page
Get selected Krissz Engine compatible cave sets ready to play with R'n'D (3252 levels in 25 level sets):
* Krissz Engine levels for R'n'D
Just drag and drop the downloaded zip file into the Rocks'n'Diamonds window (main menu) and restart the game. Now you can select the Krissz Engine cave sets from the "Levelset" menu! Have fun!
Detailed:
This new feature in Rocks'n'Diamonds is all about Krissz's site with online BD Remake + Construnction Kit as discussed earlier in this forum.
For an introduction into the motivation of this R'n'D project, you might like to re-read the following post about BoulderCaves+, a Krissz Engine compatible remake by Irmen de Jong and Agetian, and especially see the answer to the question "Why was Krissz Engine chosen as a target for a clone implementation?" in the second post of the above mentioned thread, Boulder Caves+ Frequently Asked Questions.
Again, the main focus of this project (that is, Rocks'n'Diamonds in general, and the new, Krissz Engine compatible extension to the native BD engine in particular) is to preserve as much of the history of this game genre, as authentic as possible, to make it as easily accessible, usable and playable as possible for today's players, and to make everything as openly available to the public as possible.
To show how the Krissz Engine compatible BD game engine works, the cave collection released together with the new R'n'D version contains several great cave sets which were submitted by fans of the Krissz game engine. For two of the included cave sets, "Boulder Dash for Newcomers" and "Cave Scanning Order" (both created by Dustin), replays (also called "demos" or "solution tapes") have been included and can easily be played by pressing the little "play" button to the right of the cave preview in the main menu. These two high quality cave sets offer great fun for beginners ("Boulder Dash for Newcomers") as well as experts ("Cave Scanning Order"), and demonstrate that even caves using engine edge cases work fine with the current engine implementation.
I hope to be able to add more caves soon! So if anybody should have more caves available, I would be happy to add them to the collection!
Have fun!
