I’ve implemented lighting source to Ignite. Also grid size of a tile was decreased to 12 px (from 48 px). Monster size will wary from 12 px to 48 px. And there is still 2 tile types – stone and grass:   Advanced color blending:

Recent changes: image and visual + logical components listing background, image and button components implemented software and hardware cursor implemented new graphic to main menu graphics for socket items are done size of inventory items are increased

I have started XNA version of Ignite a hour ago. What have been done: video mode initialized keyboard events frame rate calculator (found sources in Internet for older version of XNA and made so that they work with XNA 4.0); to use it you will need sources and any SpriteFont 2d images runtime loading: Tomorrow i plan to make [...]

Main change in 0.041 build will be refactoring of graphical code to utilize modern graphic adapters (95% that i will use DirectX through XNA, so no Linux support. sorry). I plan to release new version in the middle of february. Planed changes: new graphic engine, move from GDI+ to DirectX interface with full mouse support [...]

I’m really displeased with Ignite perfomance on 24+bit color per chanel modes. And since it is most used mode right now i’m forced to fix that issue somehow. And only way to do it – is to rewrite graphical engine to utilize all power of moder graphical adapters. Tricky thing is that a very big [...]