I'm sorry, but that's not the one I have in mind :)

I'm talking about fonts, that are used in books in the Empyrean campaign - Merchant's journal and Book of the Dead.

EDIT: By the way - is stash supposed to store items only for one character, if that character has permadeath mode on?

EDIT No. 2: I managed to open the gates in Nazia Underground, but the doors behind them don't have any destination set :P

Thank you very much for your answer.

About that bug - when I\ll be back home, I'll try to reproduce it - remove save file related with alpha_mod and put it back in mods folder.

I'll try write something in Polish with those fonts, too.

And about content - I don't think about having so much dialogs and lore books like in Diablo III (even if I think that it's really cool thing), but some short synopsis about some lands, like - who or what is Nazia? Who exactly was Ardwen and how did he managed to gather a force to build a town?

I really like that Unique items have their own short story.

And I have one suggestion - how about implementing something as a bestiary? Each record containing an enemy's picture, kill count and maybe some information being revealed with more kills - as absorb, health, damage...

I'm a really average programmer in C++, but I'd like to check some files in source and try to add a new page in the journal with such entries, if such an idea would fit your vision :)

EDIT: TexturaLiberaTenuisX (what a cool name) supports foreign characters, which is very cool. Now I've got important question (maybe not appropiate on this forum), but if I'd add Polish characters to Alex Brush in a software such as Font Forge, could I upload it on flare-game repository (as I think, it is released with open license)? Or do I have to look for solution, that doesn't affect original files?

I've managed to reproduce that bug with alpha_mod. I'll presents steps to do that below:

1) Enable "fantasycore" and "alpha_mod" in "Configuration->Mods" (fantasycore should be higher on the list)

2) Create new character and enter the game

3) I didn't move from starting point, eventually I've opened inventory, attacked air twice and then got back to main menu

4) In the main menu I could look at preview of existing character, go to "Configuration" menu. After that, I quit the game.

5) After that, every attempt to launch "Flare" looks like this - process "flare" is being created, eating exactly 25% of my Quad Processor - I couldn't kill process, and even launching from terminal didn't provide me any output. Launching another processes of "Flare" gives the same result. Only solution is turning off my machine.

Laptop specification: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Intel Core i5 Quad Core, Intel Graphics + nVidia GT520M Optimus (using only nVidia), 4GB RAM

After launching OS again, I've managed to bring "Flare" back to life. Here I'll describe how:

1) Go to save files location (in my case (HOME)/.local/share/Flare/saves)

2) Remove folder "flare0.19"

And now, either:

3a) Go to config folder (in my case (HOME)/.config/flare) and open "mods.txt"

4a) Remove "alpha_mod" from the list and save changes

OR

3b) In the game folder go to "mods" folder

4b) Cut "alpha_mod" folder and paste in anywhere higher (I pasted it in the game main folder)

5b) Launch the game, go to "Configuration->Mods" - on the right there is only fantasycore enabled, there is no alpha_mod - do any change, either enable empyrean_campaign, disable fantasycore - whatever you do with mods, save changes and quit the game

After that:

6) Get "alpha_mod" folder back to "mods"

7) Launch the game

8) Now you can once again enable "fantasycore" and "alpha_mod". The game will run just fine, as long as you don't create new character in "alpha_mod" and will not quit the game.

Other things:

1)I like the idea of in-world books describing monsters, simple enough and fullfiling my point enough. If it fits development plan, It'd make me happy.

2) If there are some texts in the game, that I would like to translate, but aren't placed in "data.*.po" file, can I somehow add entries of those texts myself, to make them translatable? I tried to place "-1  Dagger" from merchants_journal.txt in the same pattern, as previous translatable texts, but it didn't work.

3) I managed to modify font, so when I'll add all glyphs I need, I'll upload it on github. I checked if it works with the game by original font with my modified version in fonts folder of empyrean_campaign, adding some texts directly in "merchants_journal.txt" with polish characters, launching the game and opening Abasi's journal.

4) Minotaur Necromancers AI needs some tweaks - they are capable of summoning skeletons, healing them and running like mad - I have nothing against it, besides they very often come so close to my character and they never attack directly, but I can easily smack them. If they can't attack, they shouldn't come so close to player.

Thank you very much for your attention, now that bug is no more.

I've added Polish glyphs to AlexBrush-Regular, now they can be seen, when used in merchants_journal.txt. I sent pull request with updated font.

For now I don't have any complaints or problems. Now I'm getting through campaign once again - this time with melee warrior - I've beaten Seagate, so I'm doing better than I thought - and I don't have any great items (only the best dagger I've seen so far and pants from St. Maria's Garb)

Thank you very much.

I had to reinstall my OS (now I have Ubuntu 15.10) and I've lost my save files (I had lvl 11 Scout and lvl 5 Brute) and now I have to start campaign all over again (I wanted to pass campaign with Brute on permadeath mode - with scout it was relatively easy). So I I'll find something new or I'll have a new idea, I'll post it here :)

EDIT: I've completed campaign with brute - it was quite difficult, without Battle Cry and Axe throw it could take me much more time than 2 hours.

And I found a bug - if I stand in the correct spot, just around the corner and near the wall and some melee enemy has seen me, we stand in positions like these (picture under this post), the enemy doess't attack even once, but I can strike him (I was waiting for about 15 seconds, two times on the same level).

Thank you very much for quick fix :)

When I was editing previous post, I forgot to mention one my suggestion (I tried to add this information for about three days, but my internet suuuuucks...). When I was playing with Brute, I was using throw axe skill very often, and because I had many items, which speed up my mana regeneration (these are very common in game) and I choose a "flow" skill from mage tree, I had pretty much mana and I could almost spam axes to kill every enemy in sight.

I was wondering, if a cooldown for throwing skills could be made longer (maybe 1-1,5 seconds), to make fighting bit more difficult?

EDIT: Okay, I've downloaded newest source (11.03) - Black Oak Farm has been made more difficult thanks to much more variety in enemies and cowardly necromancers AI (now skeleton minions are some kind of threat) - it's still a shame that they don't attack even if I get them cornered, but it's definitely harder and I like it (good thing that minions are so fragile).

EDIT 24.03: After reading about a new area being added (sewers in Black Oak Farm) I've downloaded new versions of flare-game and flare-engine. Stages completed, visited treasure cache in Nazia Underground and achieved level 12 with my Brute character. During the gameplay I've found one issue, which I hadn't previously - probably just because I was lucky.

It's about Goblin shakers. Sometimes - and it's very hard to reproduce this - when I'm about to attack (I think when my character has his sword above his head - I've noticed it once, probably I should record my gameplay...) and Goblin uses quake, which stuns me - in terms of gameplay everything's fine, but the sound is a mess during this effect - I think it can be that when some sounds in the same time have to be played (sword swing, quake and hurt sound) it gets buggy and it's like one very loud tone playing during stun. I had this issue three times during my 15 minutes gameplay and I was really paying attention at it at the third time. If I'll manage to record it, I'll attach it here.

Another thing - not as problematic, but kinda unwanted. When several monsters surround me, some melee enemies, which are far away from me can wander constantly from one point or another until it gets back on track to find me - I can only assume it's because there are two enemies near me and there is much of space to get me between them, but there is a tree in line of sight of that skeleton (I've marked his path and positions, where it constantly was turning back).

The last thing will be a suggestion - I had full inventory (yeah, I did that on purpose) and couldn't pick up anything from the ground - as expected. What I wanted to do, was to have inventory screen open, throw some of my equipment on the ground and pick it from the ground, to have it automatically equiped or grabbed with a cursor. Unfortunatelly it's not possible and to reequip my boots, I had to throw some thing from my equipment on the ground, pick up my boots to appear in the empty slot and equip them again. Is it possible to:

a) give the ability to grab an item from the ground and have it attached to the curson (thus dissapearing from the ground and not being placed in the equipment, so I can place the item in the equipment or as a part of my armor

or

b) place an additional option in settings to automatically equip an item, if there is a free slot (and of course, requirements for that item are met)

I'm attaching a screenshot showing said situation with skeleton.

Another Edit: I've uploaded a video with said skeleton on dropbox - https://www.dropbox.com/s/n8aznyctc367hfh/skeleton.mp4?dl=0

And about that sound issue - I suppose it was only some kind of problem with my system. I entered the game, stood near Goblin shaker for 3 minutes attacking air and sounds were playing normally, so I suppose i called an false alarm with this one.

Thank you for your answer and fixes :) Auto-equip works flawlessly. I didn't check skeleton AI yet, but I didn't have any problems with AI lately.

After beating campaign with my brute, I've created an female adept withour permadeath. After beginning the game I've encountered one problem (and I'm not sure if it's supposed to work that way - correct me, if I'm wrong). When I'm very close to the enemy, my basic spell doesn't hit the target (tried it multiple times), but if I use some other spell (for instance, fire ball), it hits the target.

I'm sending a short video showing these situations.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0uvo905b78rw6k2/shooting%20spells.mp4?dl=0

And about translating texts in the books - these texts are placed in data.pot and I've updated my translations in data.pl.po file. Everything seems to be in Polish, except for "Book of the Dead" and "Abasi's Journal", these are still in English. Can you check out where lies the problem?

BTW: Spells look preety nice :D

EDIT: After my death, enemies were retreating (one of them was Geno in St. Maria: Mausoleum) and they were flickering, showing just one frame of their animations. I'm attaching another, very short video of that problem

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9kj48bi8pjftxgg/dead.mp4?dl=0

It happened my twice already - in both cases I dragged Geno far from his point of origin.

EDIT 2: Books can be translated now, thank you!

Thank you very much for everything :)

Someday I'll download new source but for now I'll finally try to play Flare on Android (I've finally managed to compile it on my Sony smartphone) - so I'll check every feature of it and maybe create some new topic focusing on bugs/suggestions, if I'll have one, and here I'll be posting my impressions on new additions to the game itself.

For now - once again very much for your patience and sorry for so much spam.

Hello again. Today I've finally downloaded new Flare source and - of course - I've completed Fort Nasu already. It's always cool to have a new level with unique reward, but I have to say that I'm finding touching all these switches very tedious. I remember that in alpha demo there was such a level, where touching the right switch opened the door, and touching the wrong one resulted in player's immediate death - and It was cool, because there were clues to help player choose the right switch.

When I got to the last room and found out that there are 8 switches, I just wanted to leave this place.

Maybe I didn't found any clues, maybe there are some hidden in this Fort, but if that's not the case, I propose to put there some little map with puzzle, for example.

@dorkster

Thank you for a quick response, I've downloaded new source and replayed the quest. First thing I noticed was that there are runes on the floor, and if in one of the room there was a glowing room after activating the switches, the same rune can be activated in the next rooms.

In the first room I've randomly picked a switch. In the next one I was watching at a wall and noticed, that two of the switches were on the same lines of tiles as curtains, so I turned them on - and it worked. Another room - I could look on the floor and picked switches, which were close to some rune. Basically - in the first three rooms just look on the floor and choose switches, which have a rune nearby.

I still couldn't find a pattern for the last room. There are 8 switches placed in pairs. I've noticed that if there was a torch right in front of the switch, then I shouldn't touch this one, but the second one - but it could be applied only for two pairs of switches - I'm not sure why should I choose other switches, which opened the door... Maybe it's just my problem and I can't see a solution and maybe I was too harsh in the previous post. Maybe if someone would explain this to me, then I'll probably smack myself in the forehead and say "Of course!". For now, I'm not complaining anymore about that :)

And thanks for that book with the drawings of the beast :) That's a small touch, but it's something I wanted to see.

Now something off-topic. I was playing for a short while close to a friend of mine. When I explained him, that it's an open source hack'n slash, which is constantly updated, he asked me why it's not on Steam, or Steam Greenlight, because it looks like it can easily surpass many paid indie games. Have you thought about it?

Of course XD I've entered that room every time and I didn't notice those runes, and I thought that's weird that these are the only such big rooms and one of them doesn't seem to have a purpose, but that's it, I didn't investigate the room on the south further. But I think that others can be better observers than me. Thank you.

And thank you for your opinion on Steam Greenlight. I'll try to spread the word about Flare.

I've found a new bug. If I'll stand between wall and Necromancer (close to him), he won't use his shield and won't move from this spot. I've recorded it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4ouxxveb2vdy5bm/necromancer.mp4?dl=0

Also please tell me - should I be able to hit Necromancer, if he has his shield up and I'll use War Cry, which makes me immune to knockback?

And very rarely if he has his shield up and I got to him and I'm close to a wall, knockback work on me only once and I'm able to hit him, but that's something so rare I couldn't record it.

Okay, thanks for making it clear :)

Hey, I'm back on the forum :D I've completed the game with an adept character on level 13 with permadeath option turned on.

First of all - I really like changes made to ranged enemies' AI. They're definitely not as easy targets as before, they're greater threat and aren't so annoying.

For now, I've opened a portal to Underworld with, I've got two unique items - an Mog's Axe and some book (and statues, of course, but I'm not counting them) and three items for three different sets - I like bonuses given by all these items, which makes them useful even after finding items with higher levels.

I can see that the campaign is coming to the end, which is a shame, I presume that it can be finished with a level 20 character max. But for now my biggest complain is reusing assets - one sound for goblins' death, one sound for them getting hit, one for hero getting hit etc., it gets pretty annoying after playing whole campaign. It doesn't bother me as much in terms of graphics, just audio.

I hope that soon the game will be complete and will be getting more polish even after 1.0 release :) Thank you for your hard work.