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FLARE [ARCHIVED]

Hi all 2 questions

remo
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 23:35

Hey all. I just installed the game via the software center, and I am ejnoying the game very much.

I have 2 questions though:

1. The quest from the overseer isn't very clear.. I went to the map area north of town, cleared everything I saw (goblins,zombies,spiderts etc) and still the quest wasn't done. Am I missing something?

2. I saw on the website that there is a version 1.07, which changed the game quite abit (according to the video online) but my client seems different. I tried to download the v 1.07 from the website but I don't really know what to do with the compressed files.

 

I should mention that I am using a Lubuntu 64bit client. And that I am very new to anything linux.

Thanks

Remo.

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ryan.dansie
joined 12 years 2 months ago
Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 06:30
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Hi Remo,

 

1. There is another area you need to go to which is above the area you cleared. Follow the river north and on the west bank, and at the top of the map you will see an entrance to another area. Its not too clear and I expect it will be changed in the beta version.

2. Im not sure about your platform but when I downloaded the windows files from the website, all I had to do was extract the files and run flare.exe.

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CruzR
joined 14 years 3 months ago
Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 12:39
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The latest version of Flare is 0.17.1, not 1.07.

I'll assume the tarball you've downloaded is a source package.

  • First, we'll need to open a terminal emulator. I've never used LXDE, but you can probably open a terminal emulator with Ctrl-T or Ctrl-Alt-T.
  • Before we can compile Flare, we'll need to make sure that our system is up to date and that we've got all the needed dependencies. You can update your package database with
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo ("substitute user do") is a command that can execute a program as another user. If you don't specify which user, it'll default to root (which is similar to the administrator account you might know from non-UNIX systems). apt ("advanced package tool") is the Debian package manager, and apt-get is the submodule of this manager that is responsible for downloading stuff from the internet.
  • Now we have the newest package database, but we still need to update the actual packages. For this, we do
    sudo apt-get upgrade
  • Let's now install the needed dependencies. The following command should be suffice:
    sudo apt-get install cmake libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev
  • We're now done with our preparation. Let's go to the directory where the tarball is. Since you've downloaded it from your browser, it shoud probably be in ~/Downloads:
    cd ~/Downloads
  • Extract the archive (you can skip this step if you've already extracted the tarball):
    tar xf flare_linux_v017_1.tar.gz
  • Change to the freshly extracted directory:
    cd flare_linux_v017_1
  • Generate the Makefile:
    cmake .
    cmake is a portable build system for C/C++ applications.
  • Build the game:
    make
    make takes the Makefile created by cmake and uses these instructions to build the project
  • You should now be able to start the game by running./flare
  • (Optional) If you want to install Flare on your system, runsudo make install
    The game will be installed to /usr/local, which is fine because that way it doens't collide with the version from the software center (which installs to /usr).
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remo
joined 12 years 2 months ago
Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 21:04

Thank you very much for the guide. I was able to get the game to run but I was unable to do anything because I kept getting an error that it didn't find the folder /usr/share/games/ (something in there.. Forgot the full path.

 

Anyhow, I found the solution to this problem by moving all the tar mods directory to the path:
/usr/share/games/flare/mods

and that made the game run completely by running the game from where I extracted the files.

Question is, is there a way to force the game reading mod files from where I extracted the files? or must he read the files from 

/usr/share/games/flare/mods

 

Thanks again, Very good game.

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Stefan Beller
joined 13 years 1 month ago
Friday, March 1, 2013 - 03:02

Flare might be a little buggy regarding where to look for the game mods currently (that is in the development version)
I don't know if that was already the case for the released version 0.17.1

However a question is discussed here https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare-game/issues/160

 

 

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