I’ve played Flare and, as long as I’m concerned, you should already be proud. But I really like your plan, and hope you eventually get to the zombie part :)

The existential part is what I can comprehend most easily. Pretty two lines of solid mission statement ;)

I really appreciate this ambitious project - especially the open source enthusiast and gamer in me. But referring to the initial post and the other information I read about FLARE I would like to make a point here why I am afraid the goal of creating a fully featured medieval/fantasy action RPG might be a bit too ambitious - at least from my point of view.

The genre is very well known and former commercial games were very popular by gamers. Always during such an open project people will show up an start requesting and comparing - not the engine/framework itself which has a really great potential - but game play, game design and especially game content. This might be very helful and inspiring to some degree, but for me from my experience this is the most annoying thing when something reaches a certain point of popularity. One is never right with what one creates and it is never enough - just because people have expectations from what they know. Do not get me wrong here, it is of course a fundamental part of developing to fulfill potential user's expectations. But, while a big amount of work is linked with the develoment of such an ambitious project this is the last thing keeping one motivated.

And now to get back to what i wanted say actually, you should try some less known genre/setting. Nobody can complain about things one does not know. E.g when the setting does not provide an opportunity to add a fantastillion of equipment - like medieval/fantasy does - developers can concentrate more on quality instead of feeling impelled to add new stuff each day somebody is missing for whatever reason. After testing FLARE for a while I stopped thinking about what is missing and started to think about what kind of setting I would use to build a game on the current state of the engine. A short ancient greek saga was my first idea - all features provided by the engine, common equipement from these times fits the PMOD system exactly, lots of historical documents and references for inspiration, and the genre/setting is less known by potential players. Now after reading the initial post I maybe would rather recommend the zombie survival game, because of its higher replayability which is a great opportunity to get a lot of testing for the framework development.

Anyways, I hope you do not get me wrong here, just wanted to get rid of those thoughts which came to my mind in the last days.

I am really looking forward for more FLARE and wish all you contributors a shitload of success with this project. Keep up the good work!

I think you should definately fit a game editor in there somewhere. Possibly along with a simple scripting language.

I would like to restate that your work is of the highest quality I've seen in some time, and I have no doubt you'll make it. A game editor would help involve even more people, and hopefully create something even more amazing.

Anyways, thanks for the hard work, I'm watching every step of progress intently as I'm sure a lot of other people are.

--Alex