Author: Clint Bellanger

Averguard Complex Added the last wing of the Averguard Keep: the Complex. The monster composition is significantly harder than the other wings.

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

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

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

Bug Testing for v0.08 The latest OSARE Google Code check-in is my candidate for v0.08. Included is nearly 600 game items, lootable from creatures and containers. You start without any equipment, so it’s kinda fun to see how long you

Item Database All of the coding is done for the v0.08 loot update. Woot! What remains is adding all the starting game items to items.txt. This is impractical to create or maintain by hand. What I’m going to do is

Loot Stats Finally got all the starting loot animations done. As far as I know, this means I’m completely done with art assets for v0.08. More will be added in later releases but this is plenty for now. I checked

Loot Animation Making a list of the loot animations I need. Just to keep track. Essentially every item type has a unique icon and loot animation, and possibly a character layer if it is a main/off/body item. 0.08 will contain

Loot Lots of real life events have been overshadowing my OSARE time. Thanks to all of you who still have interest in the project. I’m only 2-3 coding sessions (and an art/data session) away from being done with loot. Currently

Unicode Unicode is slightly intimidating, but I think I’ve found the most useful way to tackle it in my game. GNU Unifont is a GPL-licensed bitmapped font that I can work with. It is fixed height (16 pixels tall) and