Flare-rpg

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 [...]

Map of the World

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:36:38 +0000

I made a world map test. Not sure how to incorporate this to the game, but now that I have a map, Im sure I’ll figure out how to use it =) I find that having maps like this trigger imagination and you sort of “find” the story with no heavy effort. [edit] Well hmm, yes, maybe [...]

RPG Quest system – Fun in so many ways!

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:24:14 +0000

I have made good progress with the project. Item saving now works well, and I managed to create a quest system in a very short time. Here is how it works: In dynamic area data there are items like: ["collectible","MysticShield",600,400,0,1,"Q001_1"] (variables are type, item, x, y, rotation,scale, extraData) And then there are friendly NPC characters, that are defined [...]

No more heroes (with missing weapons)

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:23:57 +0000

Yes! I got the saving and retrieving inventory items to work finally! Hooray! There are some tidying up still to be done, but in practice I now can trust the system to work well.As a “side project” I have been working on a character image stuff (see w.i.p. image above), which I will corporate to the [...]

Character portrait & blending grass and rock

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:05:38 +0000

I couldn’t get sleep another night, and did’t have access to coding stuff, so I decided to do something different. Firstly, I tried making alpha blending to ground textures. I wasn’t sure if it is doable in flash, but it appeared to quite possible, if not straightforward. One needs to create a MovieClip with layer filter [...]

I found a Castle!

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:08:08 +0000

I was randomly going through my old backup files and found nice set of simple castle wall graphics. They were made for a tile based engine, as a proof of concept. I’ll do some recoloring, and they are ready to be merged to the game!