Flare 1.0

March 12, 2018

Downloads

  Windows

• Installer (Engine + Game) (130.3 MB)
• Engine + Game (130.4 MB)
• Engine (6.5 MB)

 Linux

• Engine (x86_64) + Game (131.2 MB)
• Engine source (4.9 MB)
• Game (146.0 MB)

 Mac OS

• Engine + Game (133.9 MB)
• Engine (9.6 MB)

Changelog

Engine changes

• Add dependency checking and metadata to mods; remove --game command line flag (Justin Jacobs)
• Engine and mod version checking. Mods can require specific engine & dependency versions. (Justin Jacobs)
• Add --mods command line option. (Justin Jacobs)
• Allow mod files to "append" their contents instead of replacing the target file (Justin Jacobs)
• Print filename & line number when file parsing errors occur (Justin Jacobs)
• Switch to using SDL 2 (Justin Jacobs)
• Refactored rendering system to support alternate backends (Henrik Andersson, Igor Paliychuk, Justin Jacobs)
• Implement automatic frame skipping for slow systems (Justin Jacobs)
• Refactor animation system to support higher framerates (Justin Jacobs)
• Change default maximum framerate to 60 FPS (Justin Jacobs)
• Resizable game window (Justin Jacobs)
• Scaled rendering that always fills the window (Justin Jacobs)
• Add --renderer command line flag (Justin Jacobs)
• Fix engine failing to read fast inputs (Andrew Engelbrect)
• Joystick buttons can be re-mapped (Justin Jacobs)
• Allow mapping of joystick axes (Justin Jacobs)
• Support binding all mouse buttons (Justin Jacobs)
• Log console message to file (Justin Jacobs)
• Warn when trying to run multiple instances of Flare (Justin Jacobs)
• Add --help and --version command line flags (Justin Jacobs)
• Add developer console and HUD (Justin Jacobs)
• Add book GUI (Igor Paliychuk)
• Add GUI for selecting quantity when shift-clicking on items (Justin Jacobs)
• Refactor configuration menu code to support alternative platforms (Justin Jacobs)
• Improved pause menu with volume sliders. (Justin Jacobs)
• Support adding a background image to the minimap. (Justin Jacobs)
• Don't autopickup items dropped by the player (Justin Jacobs)
• Allow multiple items to drop at the same time (Justin Jacobs)
• Missing items due to mod configuration are now marked as "Unknown Item" (Justin Jacobs)
• Smoother movement around 1x1 tile objects (Justin Jacobs)
• Map rendering performance improvements (Stefan Beller)
• Enemies can wander randomly when not in combat (Justin Jacobs)
• Better support for using targeted powers when right-clicking on action bar icons (Justin Jacobs)
• Implement action queue, allowing potions to be used while attacking (Justin Jacobs)
• Added configuration option to always show HP/MP/XP bar text. (Justin Jacobs)
• Add option to hide loot labels; show them by pressing ALT (Justin Jacobs)
• Prevent loot labels from overlapping each other. (Justin Jacobs)
• Refactor AI power system to support unlimited powers instead of just four (Justin Jacobs)
• Display bonuses in power tooltips (Justin Jacobs)
• Allow more than 4 save slots (Justin Jacobs)
• Enemy minions can now receive party buffs. (Justin Jacobs)
• Add option to automatically equip items (Justin Jacobs)
• The last HUD log message is now displayed on top of open menus that might have previously obscured them. (Justin Jacobs)
• "Repeater" powers no longer hit the same target multiple times. (Justin Jacobs)
• Status effect icons now have tooltips to show effect name and duration. (Justin Jacobs)
• More varied enemy movement patterns with the addition of random fleeing (Justin Jacobs)
• Add subtitle support. (Justin Jacobs)
• Usability improvements to WidgetInput. (Justin Jacobs)
• Interpolate camera movement during intermap/power teleporting. (Justin Jacobs)
• Added in-game timer, display time played on load game screen and pause menu. (Justin Jacobs)
• Events can now be run from "script" files. (Justin Jacobs)
• Add "static" activation type to map events. (Justin Jacobs)
• Mouse cursor modding support (Justin Jacobs)
• Add ability to save game through Events (Justin Jacobs)
• Add Event property to teleport to a random map from a list of maps (Justin Jacobs)
• Allow equipped items to disable other equipment slots (Justin Jacobs)
• Add support for loot table files (Justin Jacobs)
• Randomized item drops and trader inventories via loot tables (Justin Jacobs)
• Allow powers to spawn loot (Justin Jacobs)
• Added knockback effect (Justin Jacobs)
• New stats: Missile Reflect Chance, Damage Reflection (Justin Jacobs)
• Allow powers to have no effect on targets with different movement types (Justin Jacobs)
• Added ability for hazards to move relative to the caster (Justin Jacobs)
• Add Power option to have caster "charge" forward/backward in a straight line (Justin Jacobs)
• Support miss & "overhit" damage multipliers. (Justin Jacobs)
• The primary stats (Physical, Mental, etc) can now be defined in a mod file. (Justin Jacobs)
• Damage types (Melee, Ranged, Mental) can now be defined in a mod file. (Justin Jacobs)
• Support grouping active effect icons. (DoKel)
• Add "wall_reflect" option for powers. (Clint Bellanger)
• Add support for changing attack animation speed. (Justin Jacobs)
• Add "color_mod", "alpha_mod", and "blend_mode" options to animations. (Justin Jacobs)
• Add parallax map backgrounds/foregrounds. (Justin Jacobs)
• Add support for map background color as used in Tiled. (Justin Jacobs)
• Icons can now be loaded from multiple image files. (Justin Jacobs)
• Added "movie credits"-style scrolling to cutscenes. (Justin Jacobs)
• Cutscene improvements: music support and individual scaling of graphics. (Justin Jacobs)
• Support for background artwork in main menus (Justin Jacobs)
• Vendor buyback can now be stored per-NPC across sessions (Justin Jacobs)
• Add MapSaver API (Igor Paliychuk)
• Several new properties for powers, effects, events, etc. I forgot to list here to support new game content. (Justin Jacobs)
• Mod syntax improvements; generated wiki page defining mod files (everyone)
• MANY small bug, crash, and static analysis fixes (everyone)

New Ports

• Android port (Igor Paliychuk)
• Emscripten port (Justin Jacobs)

Translation Updates

• Scottish Gaelic (gd) update (GunChleoc)
• Galician (gl) update (Adrián Chaves Fernández)
• German (de) update (Janet Hunt)
• Italian (it) update (Jeffry84)
• Japanese (jp) update (Paul Wortmann, sujiniku)
• Norwegian (nb) update (Hans Joachim Desserud)
• Polish (pl) update (Pawonashi)
• Portuguese (pt) translation (Phillippe Caetano)
• Russian (ru) update (Sergey Basalaev)
• Swedish (sv) update (Henrik Andersson)

Game changes

• Entirely new game to replace the alpha demo, the Empyrean Campaign!