As you may have seen, Solarus 1.0.1 has just been released. The project is becoming quite big, as it incorporates an engine, 2 games (3 games soon) and a quest editor. With the aim of increasing the project’s visibility, an official logo has been made. We hope it will remind you vintage 90′s video...
Read more →An update of Solarus 1.0 is available! This update fixes a bunch of bugs of previous versions (some of them were very old!), and improves the documentation as well as the quest editor. It is recommended to upgrade. Because it is a patch release (1.0.0 to 1.0.1), there is no change in the...
Read more →As promised in my previous post, I have just released new versions of Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX, Zelda Mystery of Solarus XD and Solarus! These updates still use the old 0.9 branch of Solarus because I haven’t finished to convert both games yet to Solarus 1.0. And you have waited long enough for...
Read more →The “I love Lua” release. Good news! After a year and a half of hard work, the engine is now considered to be usable to make your own games. This is a major release. The version number switches from 0.x to 1.x because there is a brand new Lua scripting API. I now consider...
Read more →I have just reorganized the git repository of Solarus. Our quests are now in separated git repositories. The main repository (https://github.com/christopho/solarus) no longer contains quests. It contains the engine, the map editor and some other tools. Here are the new repositories for our quests: Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX: https://github.com/christopho/zsdx Zelda Mystery of Solarus XD: https://github.com/christopho/zsxd...
Read more →Hello everyone, It is now easier to download the latest releases of our games. So far, there was no real download page here: you had to visit our French Zelda website, even if its download pages were available in English. Now, there have proper download pages here on solarus-games.org. I have just added a...
Read more →The new Lua scripting API discussed in my previous post is making good progress! I have written the full documentation. The goal of the Solarus engine is to be a generic Zelda-like 2D game engine, so it needs a powerful scripting API, as well as good documentation to make it usable. This brand new...
Read more →For you, gamers: ZSDX translations and ports A new version of Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX (1.5.2) should be available soon. I hope it will include the following new stuff: German translation: Stella has just finished to translate the game and she is now testing it in German. Android version (thanks to Sam101). We plan...
Read more →A new version of Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX (version 1.5.1) is now available. It includes a beta version of the Spanish translation! Changes: Spanish translation (beta) Fix some issues in the English translation Skyward Tower: the hero could get stuck in a wall Skyward Tower: other minor improvements Fix blue flames shot by some...
Read more →A few days ago, I received an e-mail asking how I proceed to compile Solarus under Windows. That’s because the compilation instructions were very incomplete. As I made a quite detailed answer, this problem is fixed: the compilation instructions now explain how I compile Solarus with Windows. In short, I compile Solarus with Code::Blocks and MinGW32, i.e. in...
Read more →We are proud to announce a new version of our main creation Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX. This is version 1.5.0, and the quest is now available in English! Download now on Zelda Solarus Big thanks to the OpenPandora community who initiated the translation work, and to Jeff, Rypervenche and AleX_XelA who completed it. The translation was...
Read more →Hi, The English translation of Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX is almost done! I am currently testing the game in English to make a last check. The game will probably be released in English in a few days. Some changes will appear on this website. First of all, the url has changed: it is...
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