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Alternate Reality X – Release 0.1 for Mac OS X

27th July 201426th February 2017 Acrin1 Leave a comment

Choosing your display options in the Mac OS X 0.1 release of ARX

You can now download the Mac OS X 0.1 release of Alternate Reality X over on the Patreon site. Alternatively if you’ve supported CRPG Dev through Paypal then you should have received a download link via email.

It’s identical to the Windows release. I’ve tested it myself and it seems to work really well. In future I’ll release the Mac OS X version at the same time as the Windows version. Unity 3D makes the Mac build really easy.

Thanks for your support for CRPG Dev and Alternate Reality X.

ARX – Release 0.1 on Mac OS X

Alternate Reality X – Save game coding underway

14th April 201226th February 2017 Acrin1 Leave a comment

I’ve made a start on coding the save game feature and so far it’s working as expected. Might be a few weeks before I am able to release a version for people to try it out though.

Alternate Reality X – Display timing issues

1st April 201226th February 2017 Acrin1 Leave a comment

I recently posted on the 8 bit Atari Age forums and some of the regulars there who’ve responded to my AR X posts over the last couple of years reminded me of an often mentioned issue which I’ve still to fix. This is the high speed which the City and Dungeon gate counters spin around. I’m not currently timing the speed with which different computers should display things on the screen which means some people find this very frustrating as it’s way too fast.

Along with the save game facility I’ll aim to fix this problem in the next release. I know what SFML commands I need to look at to help with this and once I’ve worked it out this will hopefully help me to be able to tackle others features such as encounter animation and on screen timed song lyrics.

Alternate Reality X – Save games

25th March 201226th February 2017 Acrin1 2 Comments

Lots of people have asked me to include a save game option in the next release of ARX. I’m really surprised as I expected players would be looking for other features first before they would want to save characters. Anyway I think I’ve come up with a fairly good way of providing a save game option in the next release which will allow players to save their characters AND load them into future versions of ARX. I can’t guarantee this but I’m going to give it a good try.

The next release will allow you to save and load into one of 10 save game “slots” similar to the original Dungeon game.