2012/07/07

July 7, 2012

Flare v0.16 Released!

Flare version 0.16 is ready for playing and modding! Originally slated as "Advanced Enemies", this update actually includes a wide variety of engine updates.

Release Highlights

• Improved enemy pathfinding, including flying creatures
• Summon or transform into enemies!
• Config menu including keybindings, mods, and more
• Orthogonal map support

Screenshots

Extended Release Notes

• Code Features
  • A* Pathfinding (Nojan)
  • Enemies now block movement (Clint Bellanger)
  • Enemies, powers, and map events can spawn enemies (Clint Bellanger)
  • Floating Combat Text (Thane Brimhall)
  • New Widgets: tabs, check boxes, scroll bars, sliders, and more (Gallaecio, David Bariod, Justin Jacobs)
  • Config Menu, including keybindings and mods (David Baiod, Justin Jacobs, Igor Paliychuk)
  • Flying Creatures (Clint Bellanger)
  • Patrolling Enemies (Thane Brimhall)
  • Transformation/Shapeshifting into any creature (Igor Paliychuk)
  • Configurable XP per level and per creature (Thane Brimhall)
  • Configurable sell price for items (Justin Jacobs)
  • Orthogonal Map Support (Thane Brimhall)
  • Powers can target neighboring squares (Justin Jacobs)
  • Intramap teleportation events (Clint Bellanger)
  • Optional Permadeath (Thane Brimhall)
  • NPCs can be both Talkers and Vendors (Justin Jacobs)
  • Animated Tiles (Igor Paliychuk)
  • Gold Autopickup (Justin Jacobs)
• Art Features
  • Widget art via RPG GUI Construction Kit (Lamut)
  • Wyvern art (Clint Bellanger and Justin Nichol)
  • Wyvern sounds (Brandon Morris)
  • Antlion and Zombie summoning animations (Clint Bellanger)
  • New Minotaur animations (Lamut)
  • Cursed Grave creature (Clint Bellanger)
  • Female Merchant Vocals (Holly Daniel)
  • Creepy Forest theme music (Brandon Morris)
  • Ancient Temple map (Clint Bellanger)
  • Full set of Kickstarter portraits (Justin Nichol)
• Fixes
  • Handle systems without sounds (Justin Jacobs)
  • Joystick handling fixes (Justin Jacobs, Igor Paliychuk)
  • Multi-line gettext support (Gallaecio)
  • Movement around corners (Daniel Santos)
  • Disable unusable powers in the action bar (Daniel Santos)
  • Multiple Event Components per line for Tiled compatibility (Thane Brimhall)
  • Unspent attribute points shown on the Character Menu (Igor Paliychuk)
  • Threat range and entering combat fixes (Justin Jacobs)
  • Close vendor bag when closing inventory (Justin Jacobs)
  • Faster previews on Load Game screen (Justin Jacobs)
  • Isometric Rendering optimizations (Stefan Beller)
  • Misc fixes (AI0867, AMDmi3, CmPons, manuelafm, runtime-x86, matthiaskrgr)
• Translations
  • French (Morgan Strauss)
  • German (Thomas Glamsch and Chris Oelmueller)
  • Italian (Giovanni Dalla Torre and Andrea Ranaldi)
  • Russian (Sergey Basalaev)
  • Slovak (Miro Jánošík)
  • Ukranian (Igor Paliychuk)

Download

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• OSX
• Linux (sources with cmake)

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