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Free Gamer and HD Video qubodup over at Free Gamer posted a update about Flare v0.14. He also recorded this 720p HD video of the game running in Linux. Thanks qubodup!

Flare v0.14 “Main Menus” Released This release is all about wrapping the core gameplay in main menus, pushing Flare closer to feature-completeness. Now players have four game slots to experiment with different builds. Also, choose your gender and a portrait

Map Progression I’ve been thinking about story progression in terms of maps and tile sets. There are specific tile sets I want to build. Some just because they sound fun, some because I want to cover various elemental themes (sorta

Windows Ready Here is a Windows release candidate for v0.14. We have a few more minor data changes but the code is ready for testing. And here’s the OSX release candidate for v0.14 v0.14 Testing The current code is the

Isometric Hero and Heroine I’ve uploaded all the hero/heroine sprite art to OpenGameArt under CC-BY-SA 3.0. Flare v0.16 focus Flare v0.16 will be about Improved Enemies. We need enemies to be smarter, have better pathfinding, attack in packs, etc. Smarter

Female Sprites added Very exciting — one of the huge art components needed for v0.14 is ready. All the female sprites have been added! There are only a handful of art pieces left for v0.14: Close menu button Close dialog/talker

Note To Self (Art Scale) Herein I justify the current scale of Flare’s art. I’m writing this because I get tempted to scale the art up often. Here are reasons why it’s not a great idea, and that I should

Test Build for Windows Here is a Flare test build for Windows. Many of the new v0.14 features are ready (mostly the main menu systems). What’s left before the v0.14 release: Fix some placeholder art Implement OS-specific folder usage Add

Flare Progress Flare is coming along nicely. Several of you are helping with much-needed cleanup and refactoring of the code. New neat features are being added (e.g. better multi-missile options). I’ve finally rendered the male armor layers without heads. I’ve

New Character Screen ASCII sketch time! ####### Choose a Portrait ######## Base Type # # # # (*) Human Male # # ( ) Human Female # # ( ) etc # # # # < # # > #