Managed to spend several hours working on ARX focused on levelling up and investigating correct experience point awards for combat. I’ve noticed that many people playing ARX have managed to get up to level 5 very easily and part of the reason for this is that in many cases the experience awards have been way too high.… Read More »
I’ve been working away on adding the Dungeon Oracle to ARX so that we can sign up for all those Dungeon quests but while I was sifting through a capture of the binary for this part of the game I noticed something that interested me as someone with a long time interest in game design.… Read More »
Release 0.58 is now available from the downloads page at: www.crpgdev.com. Please note that you may need to download the Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2010 x86 Redistributable Runtime from Microsoft’s site. Release 0.58 includes the following additions and bug fixes: Switched development to new version of SFML 2 media library Switched development to Visual Studio C++ Express… Read More »
Firstly thanks for the messages of support for the project following my previous blog post. It’s good to know that people are still interested in ARX. I think the post possibly sounded more negative than I intended but I felt an update on progress (or lack of over recent weeks) was required. One of the causes… Read More »
I’ve been struggling a bit over the last few weeks to get enthusiastic about my next update for Alternate Reality X and found myself thinking about other game designs for my own original games. I pulled out some old design documents for my space exploration and trading game for example – some of the oldest designs dating… Read More »
Based on some issues that players of Alternate Reality X reported, I was keen to try out one of the more recent versions of SFML 2. Hopefully this would resolve problems relating to the use of RenderTextures on machines using integrated Intel graphics. Using a very helpful tutorial by SFMLcoder over at http://sfmlcoder.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/building-sfml-2-nmake/ I was able to… Read More »
Release 0.57 is now available for download from www.crpgdev.com/downloads.html New features and bug fixes include: Added Encumbrance / object weights, messages and some side effects Added “Use timepiece” option to display hour and minutes Added menu option to select new music where available (Tavern, Smithy, Troll King, Goblin King, Guild, Death) New versions of… Read More »
Hi there, I’m trying to raise some additional funding through Paypal donations so that I can invest in better graphics software, off the shelf resources and/or some commissioned art. If you feel you could help out with any donations (however small) towards the project they would be greatly appreciated. Donations received will go directly back into the project to… Read More »