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Valyria Tear is an open-source single-player medieval-fantasy 2D J-RPG based on an extended Hero of Allacrost engine and inspired by classic console RPGs.

The player incarnates Bronann, a young boy forced to take part into the struggle for the possession of a mysterious crystal. This powerful artifact will lead him to discover the actual threat set upon his world, but also courage and love.

The game has all the features you can expect from JRPG classics: entertaining story development, colourful map exploration, active side-view battles, character management, puzzles... It is also translated in several languages.

Copyright (C) 2012-2021 by Bertram Copyright (C) 2004-2011 by The Allacrost Project

The source code is licensed under the GNU GPL. It is free software and you may modify it and/or redistribute it under the terms of this license.
See https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for details.

The graphics, sounds, musics and script files are licensed according to the LICENSES file.

While the scripts are under the GNU GPL, the story concept is copyrighted and cannot be reused as is or part of it in another project without the author's consent. This means you can package, and distribute Valyria Tear under the term of this license but you cannot take the story or parts of it in another project without agreement.

The game directories included and used are:
data/ po/

Once you've unpacked the tarball, if you have checked it out from the Git repository, run this first to get the latest luabind code:
git submodule update --init --remote --force
or
git submodule update --init --remote --force if you want all the latest dependency versions
and then the usual cmake . && make from the top-level directory at the prompt.

You'll then be able to play by typing: src/valyriatear

• Download and install MSys2
  • Download MSYS2 from MSYS2.io, either the 64 bit or the 32 bit version, depending on which type of build you want to create
  • Depending on your version, install to C:\msys64 or C:\msys32
  • Run C:\msys64\mingw64.exe or C:\msys32\mingw32.exe
  • Follow the update steps. Running pacman -Syuu repeatedly and following the instructions on screen should do it.
• Install the toolchain and the dependencies
  • Install the mingw64 toolchain (or mingw32 toolchain)
    • 64bit: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
    • 32bit: pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain
  • Install CMake and all dependencies
    • 64 bit: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja mingw-w64-x86_64-boost mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2_ttf mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2_image mingw-w64-x86_64-glew mingw-w64-x86_64-libpng mingw-w64-x86_64-libzip mingw-w64-x86_64-lua mingw-w64-x86_64-libogg mingw-w64-x86_64-libvorbis mingw-w64-x86_64-openal mingw-w64-x86_64-libiconv
    • 32 bit: pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-cmake mingw-w64-i686-ninja mingw-w64-i686-boost mingw-w64-i686-SDL2_ttf mingw-w64-i686-SDL2_image mingw-w64-i686-glew mingw-w64-i686-libpng mingw-w64-i686-libzip mingw-w64-i686-lua mingw-w64-i686-libogg mingw-w64-i686-libvorbis mingw-w64-i686-openal mingw-w64-i686-libiconv
    • If any of the dependencies should be missing from the lists above, you can search for them on http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/
• Configure the build
  • 64bit: cmake -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/gcc.exe -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/g++.exe .
  • 32 bit: cmake -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=C:/msys32/mingw32/bin/gcc.exe -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=C:/msys32/mingw32/bin/g++.exe .
• Run the build: ninja

Note: To update the translation files, run: ninja update-pot

A quite outdated Code::Blocks project file is also provided when compiling under Windows. In that case, you might need the dependencies and headers files that can be downloaded here.

(Warning: not officially supported!) Please contact authenticate for support.
To create a debug build on Windows with Visual Studio 2013, do this:

• git clone https://github.com/authenticate/ValyriaTear-VS2013-Dependencies.git
• git submodule update --recursive --init --remote --force
• Copy the contents of ValyriaTear-VS2013-Dependencies/ into a new folder ValyriaTearRepository/vs2013/libs in your Valyria Tear repository.
• Copy the debug versions of all the dependencies' dlls into ValyriaTearRepository/vs2013/Debug
• Open the VS 2013 solution file: ValyriaTearRepository/vs2013/ValyriaTear.sln
• Build F7
• Run F5

• Use Macports or Homebrew to install things like boost.
• Open Xcode project, to quickly update the files, delete the src folder in project and add it again. Remove all unnecessary things.
• Press "Play"

You will need the following in order to compile and run the game:

• Boost headers (Tested from 1.42 to 1.58)
• GNU Gettext - (libiconv, libintl)
• lua (5.1.x - 5.2.x - 5.3.x) - (liblua)
• libz
• libpng (1.2 to 1.6)
• Ogg/Vorbis - (libogg, libvorbis, libvorbisenc, libvorbisfile)
• OpenAL
• OpenGL, GLU and GLEW
• SDL (2.0.0+)
• SDL_ttf (2.0.12+)
• SDL_image (2.0.0)

• Using CMake: Use the -D parameter when invoking cmake to add compilation flags.

• Add debug menus, and debug commands: cmake -DDEBUG_FEATURES=on .

• On Code::Blocks: Go to Project->Build options, and add the flags in the #defines tab, i.e.: DEBUG_FEATURES, DISABLE_TRANSLATIONS