The aim of this project is to provide a complete re-implemtation of the Johnny Castaway Screen Saver created by Dynamix (Sierra On-Line Subsidiary) using Javascript modules.
Check here the current development state
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Re-implementation of the Johnny Castaway Screen Saver;
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Learn the Dynamix Game Development System (DGDS);
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Document the files format used;
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Dump tools using NodeJS Shell Script;
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Focus on taking advantage of the modern web development languages and the usage of ES modules;
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Have fun implementing it!!
List of new features to add to Johnny Castaway experience:
- Day/Night loop in 24h instead of 8h
- Day/Night based on user location sunrise and sunset
- Moving cloulds
- Add waves like the static screen
- Accelarate time
- Tides based on user locations with real time coutry low tide info
- Play Full Story Sequence
- Choose single activities to play
- Number of full complete stories played worldwide
- Total hours worldwide played
- Statistics per Activity
- Total Jogging
- Fishing
- etc.
- Extend festive days from the original - could be based on user location
Create a "data" folder in the "src" directory and place the original files.
- SCRANTIC.SCR
- RESOURCE.MAP
- RESOURCE.001
Install:
- http-server (you can use "brew install http-server")
Run this commands in the root folder:
cd src
http-server -c-1
open localhost:8080
This application allows you to extract the resources of Johnny Castaway. A data/dump folder will be created when application is executed.
cd src
chmod +x ./dump.mjs
./dump.mjs
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Jérémie Guillaume (jno6809) for sharing his findings while developing Johnn Reborn (https://github.com/jno6809/jc_reborn)
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Hans Milling (nivs1978) for publishing his C# attempt to remake Johnny Castaway (https://github.com/nivs1978/Johnny-Castaway-Open-Source)
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Vasco Costa (vcosta) for his efforst in the DGDS ScummVM engine (https://github.com/vcosta/scummvm/tree/master/engines/dgds)
I've create a DGDS Resource Viewer while I was building the initial version of castaway. I've then split it into its own project and it can be found here: https://github.com/xesf/dgds-viewer