Projectiles The latest check-in (revision 128) contains simple support for projectiles: arrows and shock spell. Note that Shock isn’t fully implemented (it doesn’t chain). You can’t use Shoot unless you have a ranged weapon equipped. Normally you wouldn’t be able
2010/09/10
Armory Page The new Armory page lists all the weapons and armor currently in the game! Vista Workaround Using Vista but having problems with OSARE? I’ve uploaded v0.09b which may help. It looks like when running an .exe from Windows
2010/09/09
Action Bar and Powers Time to nail down the logistics of the Action Bar and Powers. Action Bar already has a place in the dependency hierarchy: GameEngine -> MenuManager -> MenuActionBar. Note that Avatar.logic() will need to read from MenuActionBar
2010/09/08
Why? I want to write a long overdue post about why I’m making OSARE. So many thoughts churning through my head that I need to commit them to paper so I have room to think again. I turned 30 this
2010/09/06
What’s Next for OSARE? I pushed a lot of new code out this last week. It feels pretty good to sit back and just play the game for a while. I have a hero up to level 6 wearing mostly
2010/09/05
OSARE v0.09 Released A fast release this time! Less than a week since v0.08, I’ve been having lots of fun coding updates. Games are automatically saved upon exit. Level Up system in place! You must meet requirements to equip items
2010/09/04
Averguard Complex Added the last wing of the Averguard Keep: the Complex. The monster composition is significantly harder than the other wings.
2010/09/03
Experience and Leveling Up I’m on a code spree; v0.09 might come soon. The major addition I wanted to do for v0.09 is XP and Levels. I plan to use a very simple system to start: xp granted by killing
2010/09/02
Gold Coins The latest check-in has gold coins dropping from creatures/containers. Warning: if you get over 2 billion gold you might end up with negative 2 billion 🙂 Respawning The latest Google Code check-in allows respawning. Grab this updated code
2010/09/01
OSARE v0.08 “Loot” Released The newest OSARE release is focused on loot. Over 500 items are in the game, dropped from enemies or found in treasure chests. I also added the starting logic for the Log Menu (and a heads-up