NPCs with Dialog morris989 sent in a Flare patch to add talking NPCs. It’s a simple implementation, but it adds the needed hooks to expand into more interesting conversation options later. Check out r280! GameSwitcher added A new class named
2011/03/15
Flare v0.12 “Vendors” Released It’s only been a couple weeks but v0.12 is ready! Here’s a quick list of changes since v0.12 Vendors have been added. Buy and sell items! There is one vendor at the spawn point and another
2011/03/14
v0.12 Release Candidate I’ve packaged (win, osx, src) what might be version 0.12. Will do an official release tomorrow. If you’d like to test before then, drop me a note or try building from svn. Restructuring for easier Make I’m
2011/03/13
Vendor Ready For Testing I’ve finished the basic Vendor system. There is now a vendor standing near the spawn/starting point in Goblin Warrens. He sells potions and level 2-4 normal quality items. He also has a random stock of items
2011/03/12
Flare Promotion I’ve gotten this question more than any other in the past two weeks: “Why aren’t you promoting Flare more?” Short answer: it’s coming. Sometime this summer I plan to do wider promotion of Flare. Some people are confused:
2011/03/11
Item Powers on the Action Bar Items with Powers can now be used through the action bar. Details from r260: Potions can now be put on the action bar. The number of remaining potions is shown on the action bar.
2011/03/10
Pausing Having a menu open no longer pauses gameplay. This option is set in Settings.h. Vendors I’m starting to build the Vendors menu. For now, for easy testing, I made a hard-coded vendor menu open when you press V (for
2011/03/09
Flare Art Here’s a list of art I’d like to see in Flare soon. Grassland Tileset A good grassland tileset will, of course, have excellent grass — this is way harder than it looks. Have a look at my first
2011/03/08
Another v0.11 video: this time showing off more powers.
2011/03/07
Why yet another Diablo-like? Flare is mentioned in this post about 4 problems with FOSS games. The author says “I’m actually pretty psyched about FLARE, but if I was a Windows user I’d probably be thinking ‘why not just reinstall