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Yay finally new demo of Hero

I haven't been very active here at spellofplay.com lately. My time has been divided between work, kids and CrossFit. But now I finally got some work done on Hero and released a new version today on hUb.

Iteration 15 contains a lot of new stuff:

  • Drop all items of same kind option
  • Boost constitution spell symbol
  • monsters depending on level disturbs rest
  • Character generation interface
  • Only three bodyparts, head, body and shoes
  • Enemies can aggravate eachother by speach...
  • enemies heal up when you leavel levels
  • enemies casts spells
  • quick cast spell by doubleclick on spell symbol
  • repair in shops
  • Active spells bars
  • all boost spells should stay when resting but you will not regain mana until they are dispelled
  • Dispell spells on clicking on active spell
  • use potion quick bar
  • sorting of savegames

Enjoy!

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Submitted by dntoll
Tue, 06/29/2010 - 12:43

Go go Hero! Got hUb to work

Go go Hero! Got hUb to work on my linux machine, and I'm so gonna download this iteration of Hero! Be back later with some feedback.

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Submitted by zapakitul
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 09:14

yay, great! I have started

yay, great!

I have started to work on i16, and finally got some work done on the levels and mainquest.

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Submitted by dntoll
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 13:53

finally some life here

finally some life here Smiling

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Developer of Roadclub and Sense: Survival Prelude (Developer blog)

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Submitted by SolidBenny
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 17:36

Indeed live and kicking and

Indeed live and kicking and great work on Hero! Laughing out loud

As you know I played as mage and found the game somewhat quirky and it is apparently mostly balanced/made for playing as a fighter.

Things I found a bit annoying when playing as a mage:

  • No real perks for mages
  • Clumsy interface for casting spells and reverting to moving
  • It took a while before I realized that I myself was damaged by the spells. This making it quite impossible to go into close combat with the current set of spells.

I will now play as thief Laughing out loud

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Submitted by hObbE
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 18:59

I get a d3dx dll 35 missing

I get a d3dx dll 35 missing message on startup. Isnt hub supposed to update dx?

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Solid Core Entertainment
Developer of Roadclub and Sense: Survival Prelude (Developer blog)

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Submitted by SolidBenny
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 20:52

Thanks for testing! Hm must

Thanks for testing!

Hm must have built it with other version of DX?

Going to check it out asap!

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Submitted by dntoll
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 06:47

dx versions

I built hero with august2007 version of dx I should probably used nov 2008

hm hUb only installs when d3dx9_40.dll is missing, but I think it should also check for 31 and 35 since we have useed them in earlier projects still on hUb...

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Submitted by dntoll
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 08:04

Yeah that stuff is kind of messy...

These days Steam tends to do a specific DX install per game, just like running regular installers. I guess this is how MS intended for it to work, just a big pile of stuff lying around in a system folder somewhere..

/johno
"you can't stop the change"

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Submitted by johno
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 08:12

you mean lots of d3dx dlls

you mean lots of d3dx dlls or heaps of entire dx redists?

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Solid Core Entertainment
Developer of Roadclub and Sense: Survival Prelude (Developer blog)

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Submitted by SolidBenny
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 16:22

dlls

/johno
"you can't stop the change"

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Submitted by johno
Tue, 07/06/2010 - 12:35