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Tonight we're letting out Markland--a great step towards a more functional map. Markland stacks map objects by their proximity to each other.

We're looking forward to Asgard 0.3.10 Arbor Grey which should implement a semi-functional game editor to help facilitate our growing map.

Thanks to everyone who made this release possible. Interested in contributing to the project? Visit http://wiki.asgardrpg.org.... read more

Tonight, Asgard Team releases 0.3.8 codenamed 'Halfspent'.

Halfspent provides a beautiful playable character which moves to points on the map in response to user clicks. Additionally, the map will automatically pan when the playable character approaches the margins of the screen.

We're very excited about the developments in Halfspent, and we're looking forward to bringing win-ability to Asgard in the next two releases.... read more

Asgard is proud to announce 0.3.7 codenamed 'Lif'.

Lif is the third regular release made on the 15th of even number months. It provides various speed improvements, major code reduction and a simple event handling system. We're also excited about our progress on user controlled Map Objects which will be available in the next major release.

Want to contribute? Visit wiki.asgardrpg.org. Thanks.

Source Tar/GZ:
bit.ly/xnt9WZ... read more

In this minor release, we've added a layered graphics engine which can animate sprite sheets loaded from the database.

Download:
http://download.gna.org/asgard/asgard-0.3.3.tar.gz

Website:
http://www.asgardrpg.org/
http://wiki.asgardrpg.org/

Transition from Python to C++.
Usage of sqlite databasing.
Scheme for loading and storing map objects.
Standard GNU Autotools Build System

In this release, we have added the some minor enhancements to allow for running and defending in battle.

In this release Asgard supports saving and loading binary saves and a variety of monsters and magics which are stored in static XML formats.

First public release of Asgard. Now with support for magic.