There are bound to be one or two glitches in any first release.

I’ve just uploaded new versions of ghar-0100-sdl-win.zip and ghar-0100-ascii-win.zip that should work.

To compile just install Free Pascal and type “fpc Arena_R” at the console. On Linux you’re also going to have to install some dependencies; Windows users can get the dll’s from the sdl-win archive.

• liblua5.1-0-dev
• liblua5.1-0
• libsdl-image1.2
• libsdl-image1.2-dev
• libsdl-ttf2.0-0
• libsdl-ttf2.0-dev
• libsdl1.2-dev
• libsdl1.2-whatever-your-distro-needs

Most of the sdl stuff will already be installed on most systems, but with Lua you need to make sure you have 5.1 instead of/in addition to Lua 5.0.

Let me know if you run into any more problems, I’ll try to fix them as quickly as possible,

As a special treat to GearHead fans (or at least the more gearhead-oriented of them) this Christmas, I’m pleased to announce the first release of GH: Arena-R.

Arena-R is a remake of GearHead:Arena using the GearHead-2 engine and Lua scripting. It’s a learning exercise for myself and for others who want to make their own content. Together we can fill up this empty world. Who knows, maybe this time the rusty scepter quest can even be finished.

At the moment, not much. The only town in the game is Hogye Village. There’s a mecha arena and a couple of dungeons. Of course you’re free to add new content and modify the existing stuff- in fact, that’s the whole point!

Creating content with Lua is much easier than it was with ArenaScript. Conversations may be laid out in a natural fashion. There are a couple of (hopefully) well-documented tutorials to help get you started.

The GH2 world map navigator has been completely rewritten. I hope that you’ll enjoy this version much more than the previous.

Download the game and see what you can make with it. Share your results here or on the forum. Make suggestions, report bugs, and have fun trying to break things.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gearhead2/files/ArenaR/