Anonymous,

I've heard reports of issues on Vista and I don't know what causes it.  So far the issue is Vista specific; I've never had nor heard issues on XP or 7.

I am using MinGW to compile.  I might get a more vista-firendly version if I could compile using (a specific version of) MSVC but I don't have access to it.  Anyone out there know what might be causing Vista issues on SDL?  A quick bit of searching shows that Vista and SDL issues are common.

-pfunked

I found the osx error (a missing image).  Trying to upload osx v0.09b.

I think the Vista issue is different, but I'll go back and test the download on my WinXP to make sure it's not a missing file issue.

OSX version fixed (tested it on another OSX machine).

http://code.google.com/p/osare/downloads/detail?name=osare_osx_v009b.zip

Pompei2, no I wasn't aware of it.  It's something I might look into once I put out a long-term release.

Anon,

Thanks for the feedback!  Some of this grindiness will go away as more features get implemented.

• Right now there isn't a vendor to sell items and buy potions.  I want potions to be rare drops but worth spending gold on.  Vendors won't be in the engine for a few more updates though.
• Once Powers are implemented, many characters (anyone who invests in Magic or Defense) will be able to heal themselves.
• I've doubled the starting passive health regen rate.  This is in subversion but not released yet.
• There will also be lower level food that work as weak potions.  These will be added soon.
• Eventually there will be dozens of dungeons, with different tilesets and enemy compositions entirely.
• In the end, yes it will take a lot of killing to level up.  To level from 8 to 9 will take 8+ hours!  The goal is to create a huge game world and some story/quests so that finally making it to level 9 feels fantastic.
• The level cap is 9, but you can max out a weapon skill at level 5 if you want.  The skill points spent at level 8 and 9 will usually be to balance out secondary skills (e.g. beefing up Defense).  This means you don't need to be far along in the game before you start feeling like a particular character class.  At the final levels you're mostly tougher because you've found great equipment.

Of course, if something happens and I can't create an enormous game world eventually, I'll just flatten the leveling curve or make random dungeons.

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Compatability mode on vista sounds like something worth trying.  Anyone running Vista, please try that and get back to me.  Apologies again for the Vista BSODs!

I think the Vista issue (at least one issue) is that running the .exe from Windows Explorer does not automatically set that folder as the working directory.

I've added Launcher .bat files that should help.  If you are running Vista please try version 0.09b and let me know if those launchers work.

Thanks!