Flare-rpg

Progress progress everywhere

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:18:04 +0000

Well suddenly I have been doing lots of progress, and the game is feeling quite complete now, featurewise. I have added several sound effects, some new monsters, And I’m in middle of finalizing the User Interface. There will be weapon stats and armor stats shown in the UI, so one doesen’t need to guess too much [...]

Random stuff

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:07:59 +0000

No updates here lately, but that does not mean that I have been lazy, quite the opposite. Well I have been little bit lazy, true. But I have also made lots of improvements, and once again it seems that the game is “nearly ready”. I have been working on randomized dungeon creation algorithm, and its working [...]

Production status right now looks good

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:28:19 +0000

I have been working on several things lately: Keyboard shortcuts for quickbar, adding soundManager, combat calculations based on damage/armor lookup table, item cooldown and restricting map teleporting. Keyboard shortcuts are now working. Keys 1-7 are shortcuts to use sword and quickbar items. Using an item leads to cooldown period, and while the cooldown you cant reuse [...]

Swing the sword, climb the mountain

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:32:46 +0000

While playtesting the game lately, I had noticed that the combat was bit boring, so I decided to try different approach. Instead of relying to automatic melee based on weapon speed, I set up an action based melee system. So now you need to “swing” the weapon yourself, by pressing the quickbar slot ( I [...]

Map teleporting and gifts from strangers

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:40:01 +0000

I have made nice progress again. I implemented an item transfer to the quest system, and I also have a world map teleport functionality up. Now in the quest system, you can evoke three kind of dialogues: notification dialogue, where the NPC just says something to you dialogue that leads to accepting/denying getting an item from NPC dialogue that [...]

Concept art, as in “real games”

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:28:33 +0000

I have been suprisingly productive lately. First I created those funny monsters (check previous post), then I whipped up a Bog Imp, flying insect-like thing in mere seconds (well, it did actually take bit longer, to tell the truth) and now I have created a beautiful ghost mage lady. And this is just the graphics [...]

Ooze Monsters

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:14:30 +0000

I did some fast tests for a green slime / oozemonster and it appeared good, so I did some other “crazy” monster designs also. Funny looking stuff. I’ll make them move relatively slowly and deal A lot of damage… so they are easy avoid – unless you get caught on [...]

You feel someone is watching you…

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:55:49 +0000

In the latest build I just uploaded I am testing Google Flash tracker to get some metrics of player behaviour. This is just testrun, and only thing I’m tracking is dungeon rooms entered. But just that information can be valuable when fine tuning the game. For example, if in the report I see that there is [...]

Grunt

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:11:40 +0000

I had a small break in the development, but Im back again. Last night I fixed most of the combat bugs. I also have created a male player graphics. Not much clothes yet, but on the other hand, he will be going to hot places beneath ground. So no need for fur, really. I’ll post new [...]

A new Build: Corridors of relative Scariness!

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:15:52 +0000

Well, it’s a working title, you know. Anyway, there is a new build up, with lots of new stuff (and some new bugs, I’m afraid). Main features of the game are now present: combat, different areas (rooms in this build mostly), switchable weapons and shields, several different monsters (only 3 so far though), loot, chests with more [...]