{"id":936,"date":"2010-12-08T21:12:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T12:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2010-12-09T08:15:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T23:15:50","slug":"dink-smallwood-hd-released-for-windows-yup-still-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"Dink Smallwood &#8220;HD&#8221; released for Windows &#8211; yup, still free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our old RPG Dink Smallwood has been free for quite a while, but today I present you with a free full &#8220;HD&#8221; version for Windows.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_938\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/dink_multimon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-938\" class=\"size-full wp-image-938  \" title=\"dink_multimon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/dink_multimon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/dink_multimon.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/dink_multimon-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yep, that&#39;s Dink being spread across two monitors. What? It&#39;s fun for a minute or two.  Hold shift while dragging a border to allow incorrect aspect ratios like this.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s basically identical to the iOS\/Android mobile versions minus the touch controls.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the same code, which is built on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.protonsdk.com\">Proton<\/a>, so it&#8217;s a simple matter to dump out Windows builds so I might as well.\u00a0 Thanks to the Dink Network lads and ladies for helping me test this.<\/p>\n<p>Main differences between this and the old one are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New GL rendering engine with anti-aliasing and custom screen resizing<\/li>\n<li>Seamless built-in DMOD download\/install\/management<\/li>\n<li>Includes the entire digital audio track from the original CD release<\/li>\n<li>Hold TAB to speed up the game to skip boring cutscenes\/text<\/li>\n<li>Auto save every 5 minutes (FINALLY!)<\/li>\n<li>Full state save when quitting, can also save\/load anywhere with F1 and F8<\/li>\n<li>Fixed many memory\/file bugs from the original Dink<\/li>\n<li>Save machine saved games are fully compatible with older versions, just copy the .dat files<\/li>\n<li>Should work better with newer computers<\/li>\n<li>Difficulty tweaked, some pop-up help things added to get new players started.<\/li>\n<li>Natively runs at 32 bit color, now supports alpha channels in images<\/li>\n<li>New audio system with .ogg support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> No gamepad support yet (what?\u00a0 You never used it anyway)<\/li>\n<li>Probably not 100% compatible with all DMODS (let me know when you find a problem, send me the save game and directions to reproduce the problem and I&#8217;ll take a look)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can download it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtsoft.com\/dink\/DinkSmallwoodHDInstaller.exe\">here<\/a>. (45 MB)<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I think it&#8217;s easily the best way to experience Dink on a Windows PC now.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know if you have any problems, new versions will just use the same filename.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our old RPG Dink Smallwood has been free for quite a while, but today I present you with a free full &#8220;HD&#8221; version for Windows. It&#8217;s basically identical to the iOS\/Android mobile versions minus the touch controls.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the same code, which is built on Proton, so it&#8217;s a simple matter to dump out Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-dink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}