Ittle Dew

Notes

Thanks to Ludosity for Ittle Dew, a Zelda-style adventure whose dungeons can often be solved in more than one way.

• Any GOG or Steam version: Linux, Windows or Mac. The GOG Linux version is the best choice: it runs on its own player and gets a faster lighting effect.

• Installation (GOG): copy the installer (Linux gog_ittle_dew_2.0.0.2.sh, Windows setup_ittle_dew_2.3.0.6.exe or Mac ittle_dew_2.1.0.8.dmg) into ports/ittledew/gamedata/ and launch. Setup unpacks and deletes the installer.

• Installation (Steam): copy the game's files from Steam (Windows: dew.exe and dew_Data; Mac: IttleDew.app; Linux: IttleDew.x86 and IttleDew_Data) into ports/ittledew/gamedata/ and launch.

• Windows, Mac and Steam builds have no Linux 64-bit program, so setup moves the data onto the port's own Unity 4.7.2 player (donor.7z, a small game made for these ports) and converts it (tools/unity4convert). On Steam builds it also switches the game from Steam's saves to save files like the GOG version's, so no Steam client is needed.

• The first launch unpacks and patches the game (up to 10 minutes). Space needed: about 570 MB (about 320 MB on 1 GB devices). If setup fails, the reason is on screen and in ports/ittledew/patchlog.txt. When it finishes, setup removes its own tools; to set the game up again (another version, for example), reinstall the port through PortMaster first.

• Korean: setup adds Korean to the game's languages (the Korean translation provided by MrGiKILL, thank you!), next to Japanese; choose it with the language (flag) button in the options. Japanese and Korean use Droid Sans Fallback as their font.

• Textures: devices with 2 GB of RAM or more keep the full-size textures; on 1 GB devices setup halves the large ones to fit in memory.

• Knulli on 1 GB devices with a PowerVR GPU (e.g. TrimUI Smart Pro) needs zram (compressed swap): Knulli has no swap and no menu setting for it, and without it the game runs out of memory. As root (over SSH), once per boot, or put these lines in /userdata/system/custom.sh to run them at boot:

  modprobe zram && echo lzo > /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm && echo 256M > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
  mkswap /dev/zram0 && swapon /dev/zram0
  

  muOS does not need this: the game ran on a 1 GB PowerVR TrimUI Brick under muOS with swap switched off.

• The game is shown at 16:9 on every screen, centered with black bars on 4:3, 3:2, 16:10 and square screens.

• On Knulli and muOS the performance CPU governor (in the firmware's menus) makes the game noticeably smoother.

• Saves: ports/ittledew/conf/.config/unity3d/Ludosity/IttleDew/IttleDew/. Logs: log.txt, unity.log and patchlog.txt in ports/ittledew/.

Controls

The game's own Xbox 360 controls, through a virtual Xbox pad. A, B, X and Y are the letters in the game's button pictures. On dArkOS they match the printed buttons; Knulli maps by position, and its per-game "Switch A/B and X/Y" setting makes them match.

Button	Action
Left stick / D-pad	Move
A	Stick / fire sword, confirm
B	Ice wand, back
X	Portal block
Y	Portal wand
L1	Ask Tippsie for a hint
R1	Map
Start	Pause
Select + Start	Quit

Compile

The port runs the game's own Unity 4 player (GOG Linux), or the other builds' data on a Unity 4.7.2 Linux player, with box64 and gl4es, on small X11/GLX stand-ins for the firmware's SDL2. Sources of everything built for the port are in ittledew/tools/src/, and the build steps in ittledew/tools/src/BUILDING.md.