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Flare (Free Libre Action Roleplaying Engine) is a simple game enginebuilt to handle a very specific kind of game: single-player 2D action RPGs.Flare is not a reimplementation of an existing game or engine.It is a tribute to and exploration of the action RPG genre.

Rather than building a very abstract, robust game engine,the goal of this project is to build several real gamesand harvest an engine from the common, reusable code.

The Flare engine, which is purely a runtime, is written in C++.

Flare uses simple file formats (INI-style config files) for most of the game data,allowing anyone to easily modify game contents. Open formats are preferred (png, ogg).For creating maps, we also supportTiled with the Flare plugin.

Originally the first game to be developed using this engine was part of thisrepository. As the engine became mature, the game content was moved to anextra repository and is now calledflare-game. (happened around sept. 2012)

Most of Flare is Copyright © 2010-2013 Clint Bellanger.Contributors retain copyrights to their original contributions.

Flare's source code is released under the GNU GPL v3. Later versions are permitted.

Flare's default mod (includes engine translations) is released under GNU GPL v3 and CC-BY-SA 3.0.Later versions are permitted.

The default mod contains the Liberation Sans font which is released under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

The GNU Unifont font is released under GPL v2, with the exception that embedding the font in a document does not in itself bind that document to the terms of the GPL.

The following links are specific to the engine

• Homepage
• Source
• Forums
• Emailclintbellanger@gmail.com

The official game from the Flare team, the Empyrean Campaign can be found on theflare-game repository.A collection of other mods produced by the community can be found on theMods page on the official website.

Flare uses SDL2, SDL2_image, SDL2_mixer, and SDL2_ttf. Please see theINSTALL.md file for instructions.

Settings are stored in one of these places:

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/flare/$HOME/.config/flare/./config

%APPDATA%\flare\configconfig\

$HOME/snap/flare-rpg/current/.config/flare/

$HOME/.var/app/org.flarerpg.Flare/config/flare/

Here you can enable fullscreen, change the game resolution, enable mouse-move, and change keybindings.The settings files are created the first time you run Flare.

Save files are stored in one of these places:

$XDG_DATA_HOME/flare/$HOME/.local/share/flare/./userdata

%APPDATA%\flare\userdatauserdata\

$HOME/snap/flare-rpg/current/.local/share/flare/

$HOME/.var/app/org.flarerpg.Flare/data/flare/

If permissions are correct, the game is automatically saved when you exit.In addition, there is amods directory in this location, which can be used to override system-wide mods.