Ignite

Now player character can mine stone walls, collect resources and build shelter from mined blocks:

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:

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
• ragdoll inventory with items drag and drop
• persistent world with no separation to world map and dungeons (maybe added later in 0.042)
• bigger effects and objects (in older versions of Ignite max size of objects may be 48*48 pixels)

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 part of code must be refactored and i don`t think that i can do it without any help from the side. I speaking of emotional support. I definitely will write a new engine (with a lot of things in mind that i had learned while developing an Ignite) that will use hardware a lot better, but there is a lot chances that there will not an Ignite or even a roguelike game. I don`t see a point in game development if i will be the first and last player of this game. *sadness*

Sadly, but i found that Ignite have really bad perfomance at True Color monitor settings and as developer i can`t really do something about it (beside of rewriting all graphical code for DirectX or OpenGL rendered). If you want to increase your perfomance – change your color setting to High Color (16 bpp).

This sad fact and a lack of positive replies likely will force me to rewrite engine, so it will support graphical acceleration, but it can lead to the fact that it will be a totally different game. I must admit that the decision to use a GDI+ was erroneous.