The Goblin and the Butterfly

The Goblin and the Butterfly game server is up and running, so you can log into the game and have a look at the existing features.

Features:

• 5 Skills available, attack, defense, magic, harvesting and manufacturing
• A PK (Player Kill) map is in game
• Storage feature, deposit your items there tprotect them
• Creatures in game, agressive and non agressive
• Armor and weapons available
• NPC's, stationary ones and moving ones
• Chat system, local chat, channel chat, personal messages
• In game mails for communicating with offline players
• Day and night feature, individual light setting for inside maps
• 2D open source client and artwork
• In game online help
• Newbie helpers, Moderators and Admins features implemented
• Limited resources with moving locations

What is new in this release:

• new quests
• packets on the ground
• inventory window, packet window, storage window and trade window
• magic indicator
• some new secret maps
• death animation
• more scripted stories

What is new in version 1.0.0.19:

• new quests
• packets on the ground
• inventory window, packet window, storage
• window and trade window
• magic indicator
• some new secret maps
• death animation
• more scripted stories

What is new in version 1.0.0.18:

• GUI update part 1: an inventory window was added.
• Items on the ground are now stored in packages.
• New quests and NPCs were added.
• 3 secret places are in the game now.
• Items now have a weight, and players have an attribute determining carry load.

What is new in version 1.0.0.17:

• Some new quests, creatures, and maps were added.
• There is now an overview map (tab key), which allows you to walk longer distances by clicking on it, and an URL catcher (F2 key), which starts the configured browser with the last seen URL.
• The Web site has a high score list, which lists players according to their skill levels.
• Very basic copy and paste support was implemented. Ctrl+arrow up/down lets you scroll through the last 1024 input lines and repeat them by pressing the enter key.

What is new in version 1.0.0.13:

• New player models were added; there are now 5 female and 5 male to choose from.
• When the connection to the server becomes too bad, the client will be disconnected instead of crashing the server.
• Initial support for netbooks, a small screen option in the config file, and a #smallscreen command to toggle the screen size.
• It works for the author's netbook, but might need to be changed to support other screen sizes too.
• This release fixes the #notes command: now you can re-read formulas the NPCs gave you.
• There are two new NPCs in the Newbie School.

What is new in version 1.0.0.11:

• Improves the animations, adding different speeds for walking and fighting/idle animations.
• It adds more new artwork and modifies some maps.
• The first eye candy animation is in the game: a level up animation when your character gains another level in a skill.

What is new in version 1.0.0.10:

• first animations in game
• bug fixes
• first popup windows
• artwork update

What is new in version 1.0.0.8:

• #attack command, toggles attack mode
• bug fixes
• Joker implemented, have fun hunting him
• Underworld implemented, with some ghosts
• New skill: Alchemy
• Quest engine implemented
• First quests to gain knowledge implemented

What is new in version 1.0.0.5:

• Jo's farm + farm animals implemented
• changed the keyboard handling, hopfully less delays now
• changed the attack/defense/damage of some creatures
• changed some stats of armors and weapons
• changed english keyboard layout
• implemented invasions (manually only)
• arrow keys can be used for walking now
• 5% chance to flee from combat, just try to walk away

Requirements:

• SDL