Month: June 2011

Isometric Hero and Heroine I’ve uploaded all the hero/heroine sprite art to OpenGameArt under CC-BY-SA 3.0. Flare v0.16 focus Flare v0.16 will be about Improved Enemies. We need enemies to be smarter, have better pathfinding, attack in packs, etc. Smarter

Female Sprites added Very exciting — one of the huge art components needed for v0.14 is ready. All the female sprites have been added! There are only a handful of art pieces left for v0.14: Close menu button Close dialog/talker

Note To Self (Art Scale) Herein I justify the current scale of Flare’s art. I’m writing this because I get tempted to scale the art up often. Here are reasons why it’s not a great idea, and that I should

Test Build for Windows Here is a Flare test build for Windows. Many of the new v0.14 features are ready (mostly the main menu systems). What’s left before the v0.14 release: Fix some placeholder art Implement OS-specific folder usage Add

Flare Progress Flare is coming along nicely. Several of you are helping with much-needed cleanup and refactoring of the code. New neat features are being added (e.g. better multi-missile options). I’ve finally rendered the male armor layers without heads. I’ve

New Character Screen ASCII sketch time! ####### Choose a Portrait ######## Base Type # # # # (*) Human Male # # ( ) Human Female # # ( ) etc # # # # < # # > #

Officially Moving To GitHub Flare is taking a distinct change in direction with a move to GitHub. The Google Code page will stay up until v0.14 is released, at least (though it will be increasingly out of date). I’ve posted

Git? Linus talks about Git [–Update–] I’ve made a copy of Flare on GitHub. I’ll try this out for a while, see how it goes. As part of this, I want to be more open/accepting to contributions. With git, this