I’ve now added basic support to ARX for saving and loading characters. You can save a character whilst exploring the City streets or the Dungeon corridors. Saved games can be reloaded from the main menu. You can’t save during an encounter or whilst inside a special location such as a guild. There are 10 save… Read More »
I’ve made a start on coding the save game feature and so far it’s working as expected. Might be a few weeks before I am able to release a version for people to try it out though.
I recently posted on the 8 bit Atari Age forums and some of the regulars there who’ve responded to my AR X posts over the last couple of years reminded me of an often mentioned issue which I’ve still to fix. This is the high speed which the City and Dungeon gate counters spin around.… Read More »
I’ve been on a course this week and will be sitting a couple of exams so there won’t be any updates this week. Should be all finished by the weekend though.
Lots of people have asked me to include a save game option in the next release of ARX. I’m really surprised as I expected players would be looking for other features first before they would want to save characters. Anyway I think I’ve come up with a fairly good way of providing a save game option in the next release which… Read More »
My 10 year old son started enjoying the wonders of Alternate Reality last night for the first time. He’s seen me playing the original games and working on Alternate Reality X plenty of times but yesterday he downloaded version 0.41 of ARX from the website and started playing through what’s there. He quickly got sucked into… Read More »
I’ve still got a few display problems to fix due to changes in the way the latest SFML 2 build handles displays and OpenGL. Now that I’ve worked my way through all the changes in the much larger code base for Alternate Reality X this should be fairly easy.
I’ve finally uploaded release 0.41 of Alternate Reality X to www.crpgdev.com – it’s only about 4 months late! Finally tackled some of the work on the City taverns and I’ll try and totally finish these for release 0.5. Tavern features still missing are buying rounds and friendship levels which determine whether you get help when you’re down… Read More »