I don't mean to toot my own horn here, but I wanted to share a project that I've been working on for 3 years that has finally begun to bear fruit. In 2004 when I had barely been using Linux for a year, I realized that there was a lack of good role-playing games available, so I started making my own. About a week ago we released our second demo and have had pretty good things said about it. I was hoping that we might collect some feedback here as well. Check it out and let me know what you think, thanks.


About Hero of Allacrost -- Website: http://www.allacrost.org

Hero of Allacrost is a single player 2D role-playing game that shares similar appearance and gameplay as classical console RPGs. In Hero of Allacrost, the player will explore rich environments, solve challenging dungeon puzzles, and fight strategic battles in an active-time based system. The game is free open-source software and is available across several platforms including Windows, OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD.


Screenshots

Below are some (slightly out-dated) screenshot thumbnails from various portions in this release. You can view the full versions of these images by going to our website.

http://www.allacrost.org/media/scree...screen_03a.jpg

http://www.allacrost.org/media/scree...screen_03b.jpg

http://www.allacrost.org/media/scree...screen_03c.jpg

http://www.allacrost.org/media/scree...screen_03d.jpg


Download

Instructions and links are here: http://www.allacrost.org/?q=node/3

In addition to builds from source, for Windows, and for OS X on our sourceforge page, we have Debian and Ubuntu packages prepared and a FreeBSD port available as well.


Thanks!

Congrats that's very cool indeed! Linux can surely use more games.

Whoa. Great job.

Thanks!


By the way if anyone is interested in helping out, we could use some more people on our team. Right now we're actively looking for several new C++ programmers, 2D artists, a 3D modeler/animator, a website designer, and a team manager. You can view details about this here: http://allacrost.org/node/39 We really do need the extra help to continue making good progress on this game so I hope that someone who reads this wants to contribute.

If u need a website designer u can message me. Im quite decent with photoshop and i've known HTML for about 7 or 8 years. lol. let me know.

I'm downloading the game as we speak

deadfolx@debian:~$ allacrost
open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory

Happens all the time. Its an issue with SDL_mixer, not the game itself. But the audio always plays fine for me even when that message is printed out.


Also you have messages disabled in your control panel, so I am unable to send you anything. Do you know PHP or have any experience with Drupal?

oops. guess i should turn that on then. :P

nah.. i never messed with php... and Drupal is something entirely new to me. might have to google that now.

ANY HTML im good with, and photoshop im good with.

Unfortunately knowledge of PHP is a requirement for working with our site. Thanks for offering to help though.