Playing On my lunch break. I’m sitting down just to play Flare for the first time in a while. And hey: it’s pretty fun. My favorite thing right now (I can’t help it) is that now so much is configurable.
2012/08/14
Map on_load events I’ve added a new event type “on_load” that is automatically executed (if campaign requirements are met) when the map is loaded. I specifically needed this to make discovered teleport waypoints remain active. But it’ll have plenty other
2012/08/13
Teleport Circle WIP Going with a simple stone design. I’ll add runes on top of it (glowing and non-glowing versions). In game these will take up a 2×2 tile area. [–Update–] This might be the style we go with for
2012/08/12
Busy Life It happens to all hobbyist game devs — life gets in the way. But I’m bouncing back soon. I’ve finally finished moving in (well, 99%) to my new apartment. Easy walking distance to my office! I need to
2012/08/11
Community Spotlight: Polymorphable [Polymorphable is the first released total-conversion mod/game for Flare. Here’s a plug and some great background info from its creators. -Clint] On the eve of her 16th birthday, Polymorphable’s protagonist, Daphne, unwittingly unleashes an ancient evil on
2012/08/10
Community Spotlight: Stefan Beller Stefan’s a major contributor to the Tiled map editor and helped us early on with the Flare exporter. He’s taken that Tiled expertise into Flare, where he’s optimized the main map rendering routines by orders of
2012/08/09
Community Spotlight: Justin Jacobs Justin has been an incredibly valuable contributor for Flare — he’s been a major driving force keeping the pace up on the project. His code quality is impeccable — I read his pull requests diffs not
2012/08/02
Game Schedule When will we be able to see a new Flare The Game? We’re very close to having all engine features in place — just a few more months and it’ll be “feature complete”. Then the engine enters Beta
2012/07/31
Configurable Menus The Flare crew has been working hard on making all the menus configurable. Now it’s much easier to change the layout of any of the menus or add a completely different art style. Also we’re working on two
2012/07/29
RMS discusses Steam on GNU/Linux What does Richard M. Stallman think of Steam coming to GNU/Linux? Read his post over at gnu.org. And here’s a related discussion on Reddit.