pennomi:

I don't think being able to run away safely is an useless power in melee ! Or when you face 2 dangerous enemies, immobilize one to pull him away and hit a couple of times before the other monster catches up. Or heal. And when collision detection is implemented, it would be possible to block choke points with immobilized mosters. Not to mention what happens if weapon ranges are implemented.

In any case, it would be good to print a message saying why my skill doesn't work (because it needs a ranged weapon).

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Channel is a strange power - it's available to anyone, but it requires a magical weapon. All of these seem to be level 3 or higher (you start with 2 points). So in theory Channel requires 2 Mental, but you can't use it before you have 3.

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I find the current interface insufficient for melee combat. To fight effectively, I have to keep looking at 3 places on the screen that are far away from each other:

- my hit points, in upper left corner

- monster's hit points, on the top

(I need to compare the 2 above to know if I should keep attacking, run away, or heal. FLARE combat seems faster than Diablo's, it's not a big deal for ranged combat because you don' take as much damage)

- my character and enemies surrounding him, to make sure I'm actually hitting them

I have an idea how it could be improved: cursor color could be used to display your HP (for warrior types) or MP (for caster types). The choice could be made based on the skill bound to first mouse button. If it's a melee skill, display HP, otherwise display MP. This would free me from glancing over upper left corner of the screen.

A fairly simple feature that Diablo (and Nox) should be ashamed not to have: sort backpack contents. POWDER is a graphical roguelike, with paper doll style equipping interface and diablo-like backpack (except that items are always 1x1). In POWDER, sorting is not done automatically - but you can issue a single command to sort your backpack. Items are sorted first by class (potion, wand, scroll) then by type (healing, blindness, acid, poison...).

Add a button "sort backpack" and people will be telling you "I wish Diablo had this !". Bonus points for a stable algorithm.

b0rsuk, good idea on the sort backpack thing! Maybe you could use the same algorithm as the vendors?

Not very sure if this is the right place to issue a feature request, but I can not find the right place to post. 

I download the source, compile and play it a while. This is a very good game. I like it very much. 

And I have a feature request. I understand this feature might not be scheduled as this is an open source project, but that would be great if it can be implemented. The feature is about mod system so a game designer, who does not know programming e.g. c++, would still have a chance to create free/ open source games. For example, a game can be created for illustrating stories of a hero in history or in myth. So students or children can enjoy the games, and hopefully to gain some ideas what happened in the past. 

Thanks for making this engine. 

Some other features if possible to be added.

1.) Mist system. so players do not see all monsters immediately until they move close them. 

2.) Also, it seems that the fighting require to face the monster at the right direct (at particular direction) then the attacking would work. It happens several times that my attacking is not suceesffuly because the direction is sligtly deviated the monster. And my character suffers losing lots of HP (sometimes the chacter just dies). Hopefully some auto-adjust can make sure the attacking isn't missing too much.