Year: 2012

I’ll be traveling over the next week for holidays. Not sure if I’ll be touching Flare much during that time. I may actually use the down time to think about plot and story for the 1.0 game. Journey wins IGN

Fun, and Soon Flare gets a mention in Bart’s dev-corner post over at Free Gamer: “You don’t know it, but your FOSS game project has a deadline”. The article talks about issues with seeing a game through to completion: make

Character Classes and Titles Flare doesn’t use a strict class system. On character creation there are five choices for starting class, but these are essentially default ways to buy level 1 equipment, attributes, and powers: Brute: +1 Physical, starts with

Flare ponderings I earnestly think Flare is going to be something special one day. I appreciate everyone who is sticking around during Alpha, and especially the crew who is working on new features. If you also believe in the future

Magic Items We’re working on adding a core set of Magic Items to Flare’s fantasycore data set. The goal is to create unique-feeling items that have distinct names and flavor text. Also we’re expanding the variety of passive bonuses so

Games (n.) Over the last couple weeks I played through Dear Esther and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. Both enthralled me. I can understand why some people wouldn’t like these. I can even understand why some people question whether these

Making Loot Less Random Almost every subsystem in Flare has been written twice: first a version that simply works, and rewritten to make it flexible for the engine. The Loot Drop system is perhaps the last major component of Flare

From the Inbox Sometimes people send me great emails about suggestions for Flare. Some are good, some not so much. I wanted to share my favorite email so far about Flare. I love that he’s so passionate about the genre

Rings part 2 (Art Preview) Here are four more rings for the collection (click here to view part 1). I think I’ll add in some basic bands and upload the set to Open Game Art. gold ouroboros ring gold and

The Practicality of CC-BY-SA for Game Art I’ve been going back and forth on some thoughts about Creative Commons licenses for games, especially free/libre games. With license choice there tends to be a divide between ideals and pragmatics. Here’s a