Welcome

Welcome to the beggar website! Beggar is a rogue-like game written in java with XML inputs for expandability. I do hope you enjoy the game as the community and hopefully the additions grow! I encourage you to post any comments or thoughts on the sourceforge forums. God willing, I hope to remain an active developer for a while and look forward to input from those that matter... the end-users.

To download Beggar just click here. To get the current news go to the sourceforge news page.

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Currently...

I'm reworking the way items are stored, parsed, and used. Hopefully that will mean a more robust world. The latest version has a quickly maturing slime game.

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So far...

Updating the changelog here and on sourceforge is a bit much, so until I have time to rework this site, (I'd rather work on the game itself) read the news.

Release v. 0.4.8

•  Wrote the xml file that I'm trying to parse
•  Added some more fun stuff to the slime code
•  Redid a few of the stat handling equations(needs work)

Release v. 0.4.7

•  Added Help Menus
•  Cleaned and optimized code
•  Added death screen (needs work)
•  Now you can restart if you die
•  Added fog of War
  

Release v. 0.4.6

•  Added descriptions for what you see
•  The maps are now randomly generated
•  There is now a grass tileset
•  Slime no longer "breaths its last"
•  Other minor bug fixes

Release v. 0.4.5

• Added menu to start the game as well as an options screen
• Implemented an config.ini file which holds the options
• Options can be changed through an options menu
• Other minor fixes and GUI improvements

Release v. 0.4.2

• fixed viewport equations to make other resolutions possible.
• added various stats to the main player
• The messages now scroll and change color
• wrote a roadmap. I'll put it up seperately later

Welcome to Beggar v. 0.4.0

• A very basic engine w/ tile support

The roadmap-ish

This is very likely to change, but it's the plan at this point. Believe it or not I do have the history from version 0.1.0 on a scrap piece of paper somewhere. So I'm making progress! ;-) However it might be useful to note that the amount of time required increases exponentially per development phase. It's like the Richter Scale for earthquakes! I may just make a crawl variant much sooner, so that the game is more interesting to play while we wait for the grandeur of version 1.0 ~ Perhaps version 0.5.0 or so...

• Optimize and clean code (0.4.6)
• Remove certain globals and add help menus (0.4.8)
• Create more sophisticated stat handling equations (0.4.9)
• Allow monster/map xml inputs (0.5.0)
• Create more robust tiles (0.5.5)
• Create an effects class for area effects (0.6.0)
• Clean again (0.6.x)
• Expand basic game elements, items, sprites, etc (0.6.5)
• Expand xml support (0.7.x)
• Outline game in xml (0.7.x)
• Add any missing interactions (0.8.0)
• Debug (0.8.5)
• Balance (0.9.x)