Solarus - News

Bugfix release 1.6.5 for Solarus

2021-04-06

A new bugfix release has been released for Solarus.

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Solarus in 2020: a retrospective

2021-02-04

2020 was a great year for Solarus. Here is a recap of what happened last year.

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Ocean's Heart game release

2021-01-21

Max Mraz made the first Solarus game to be released on Steam!

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The Solarus logo is now MIT/CC-BY licensed

2020-10-12

The Solarus logo can now be used in closed-source projects.

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Clarification about Solarus quest licensing

2020-08-01

We often get asked about making a commercial game with Solarus. Here is some clarification.

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Yarntown quest release

2020-07-18

A hommage to Bloodborne in 2D by Max Mraz.

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Bugfix release 1.6.4 for Solarus

2020-04-12

A series of important bugfixes, along with a brand new free tileset.

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You can now shop Solarus goodies!

2020-04-01

Support Solarus by buying official Solarus clothing on Spreadshirt.

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Solarus Labs, a nonprofit organization

2020-02-20

The project is now backed by a nonprofit-organization named Solarus Labs.

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Game walkthroughs on the website

2020-02-09

The website now features walkthroughs, and Mystery of Solarus DX is the first to come.

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Tutorials release on the website

2020-01-12

The website now has a Tutorials section to feature the tutorials to learn to use Solarus.

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Chapter 1 release for Le Défi de Zeldo

2019-09-24

Two years ago, ZeldoRetro made his first chapter of Le Défi de Zeldo. It is now publicly available!

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Solarus on RetroPie

2019-08-20

Latest Solarus Engine is now officially integrated into RetroPie.

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Bugfix release 1.6.2 for Solarus

2019-08-15

Fixing some regressions following the last update.

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New Zelda resource packs are in the making.

2019-08-14

Tired of using A Link to the Past resources and seeing always the same tilsets and sprites?

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Bugfix release 1.6.1 for Solarus

2019-08-10

An update that mainly fixes issues caused by the use of OpenGL.

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Chapter 2 release for Le Défi de Zeldo

2019-05-19

A new game made with Solarus has been released: the Chapter 2 of Le Défi de Zeldo!

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New website release

2019-04-01

The new website is finally released, with lots of improvements!

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Video Ad for Chase Bliss Audio

2019-01-25

A video advertisement made with (almost only) Solarus.

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Solarus on Snap Store

2018-12-28

Solarus is finally available on Snap Store and Ubuntu Software Center.

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Solarus 1.6 released

2018-12-22

Merry Christmas everyone! Today, we are proud to announce the release of Solarus 1.6!

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Solarus Chat has moved to Discord

2018-09-25

We were previously using Gitter to chat. However, it has multiple issues so we decided to move to Discord. You can now join the server to chat....

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Solarus has moved to Gitlab

2018-06-16

With the recent purchase of Github by Microsoft, the Solarus Team has decided to leave Github. We choose its alternative Gitlab, which we already....

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Children of Solarus (6th screenshot)

2018-04-15

Ahoy there! Here you have our 6th screenshot of the project Children of Solarus, which shows part of the castle map. From now on, we will post only 1....

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English release for Zelda XD2: Mercuris Chess

2018-04-01

Who said it was too late? It's never too late! [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2tAk5hRMHk[/embed] Exactly one year after the original....

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Children of Solarus (5th fortnightly screenshot)

2018-03-17

Ahoy there! In this colorful screenshot of the project "Children of Solarus" we show part of the castle, still unfinished and yet splendid.....

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Children of Solarus (4th fortnightly screenshot)

2018-03-03

Ahoy there again! Today we have our worst screenshot until now of the project Children of Solarus. But do not worry, because the next ones may have....

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Children of Solarus (3rd fortnightly screenshot)

2018-02-17

Ahoy there! Today, our new screenshot of the project Children of Solarus shows a delightful house, and a very suspicious clucko wandering around (who....

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Special screenshot: sample map of house tileset

2018-02-11

Greetings, fellows! Today we have a special screenshot which shows a sample map made with our new inner house tileset. Similar house maps will appear....

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Children of Solarus (2nd fortnightly screenshot)

2018-02-03

Ahoy there! The Solarus Team has a second screenshot for you, from the project Children of Solarus. This time we show some houses of the village.....

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Children of Solarus (1st fortnightly screenshot)

2018-01-21

The Solarus Team is gonna show you the progress on our first 100% original free game, Children of Solarus, with a new screenshot each two weeks. The....

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Solarus Press Kit

2017-10-11

As you may have noticed, Solarus recently got some spotlight thanks to several websites. PC Gamer made a interview of Christopho and talked about....

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Situation Review for Solarus projects

2017-08-29

This summer, the Solarus Team has been working hard on multiple projects in parallel. On the French website, The Legend of Zelda: Mercuris' Chest is....

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Zelda Mercuris Chess is out !

2017-04-01

The incredible just happened. Today we are able to offer you, and waaaaaay before the announced release date of 2023, the final version of our....

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Solarus official Gitter

2017-01-17

We created an official Gitter chat for things about Solarus. For the moment, there is only one room, the default one. Gitter is a popular chat whose....

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Bugfix release 1.5.2 and improved sample quest!

2016-11-29

A new bugfix release of Solarus, Solarus Quest Editor and of the Sample Quest was just published!A few annoying bugs were fixed.Additionally, we....

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Git repositories ownership change

2016-10-05

https://github.com/solarus-games Previously, the Git repositories were owned by christopho, our team leader. Please note that now, they have been....

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Zelda: A Link to the Past resource pack updated

2016-09-29

The Solarus resource pack of Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is regularly updated even if I don't always annouce it. Lots of elements are still....

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Solarus 1.5 released, now with a quest launcher!

2016-07-27

On July 27th of 2006, I wrote the first commit of the Solarus project.10 years later, the project has grown a lot! Today, we are proud to announce....

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Solatrix, a next generation handheld console [April's Fools]

2016-04-01

NB: Clarification at the bottom of the article. For several years, we have been developing in great secrecy a project of unprecedented....

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Another update of our games

2015-12-20

Here is a small update of our games! Not a huge one, but it fixes the Italian translation of ZSDX and a few other issues. Changes in Zelda ROTH SE....

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Bugfix release 1.4.5, joypad supported in Zelda ROTH

2015-11-22

A new bugfix release of Solarus, Solarus Quest Editor and our games was just published! A bunch of bugs were fixed. Zelda Return of the Hylian can....

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Currently in development : Oni Link Begins remake

2015-11-16

Christopho and Mymy have begun to work on Oni Link Begins, the sequel to Return of the Hylian. This is also an original game by Vincent Jouillat,....

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New games made with Solarus

2015-09-12

Solarus community had been very active for the last months. People started developing games and some are pretty far advanced. So we had to create a....

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Official Twitter account

2015-08-16

Solarus has now an official Twitter account. It is no more Christopho's one, even if both are obviously tightly linked. You can now follow us if you....

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Bugfix release 1.4.3 (engine and editor)

2015-08-15

Our new game Zelda Return of the Hylian (Solarus Edition) comes with a new bugfix release of Solarus and Solarus Quest Editor. A lot of issues that....

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Zelda Return of the Hylian in English

2015-08-15

Zelda : Return of the Hylian is now available in English! The translation was imported from the original game that was already available in....

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New game release : Zelda Return of the Hylian (Solarus Edition)

2015-08-13

We are proud to announce the release of a new game ! It is called Return of the Hylian - Solarus Edition. However, it is not really a new game, since....

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Bugfix release 1.4.2

2015-05-09

A bugfix version of Solarus was just released! This is version 1.4.1 1.4.2. It fixes some important problems including a crash with doors or chest....

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Solarus 1.4 released, new quest editor!

2015-05-02

A new version of Solarus and Solarus Quest Editor is available: version 1.4! We have been working hard for the last few months to completely....

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Solarus 1.3 is out, now with a sprite editor!

2014-08-21

UPDATE: a bugfix version 1.3.1 was just released. It fixes an error when opening a newly created sprite, and improves the sorting of resources with....

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Bugfix release 1.2.1

2014-08-03

A bugfix release named Solarus 1.2.1 is available! It addresses a few issues with recent features that were not working correctly, like custom....

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English tutorial!

2014-08-03

More and more people are interested in creating games with Solarus. However, there was a lack of tutorials to explain how to do it. There is a....

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Custom entities

2014-05-15

If you are developing a quest with Solarus, you will definitely be interested in lots of new features of Solarus 1.2. But the most important one is....

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Solarus 1.2 is out!

2014-05-07

After six months of development, we are proud to announce the release of the Solarus 1.2!Solarus now uses SDL2. Graphics are GPU-accelerated if....

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New design for the development blog

2014-05-01

As the project grows and gets bigger, we thought it was important to get a new design for the development blog. Here it is ! We merged some pages to....

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Solarus 1.1.1 released, fixed wrong teletransportation

2013-12-01

An update of Solarus, Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX and XD was just released! The main problem was a bug in Billy's cave in ZSDX. You could be....

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Android, Pandora and GCW-Zero ports!

2013-10-18

Solarus 1.1 now officially supports three new mobile systems! You have been waiting for a long time for the Android version. Thanks to Sam101, our....

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Solarus 1.1 released!

2013-10-13

The new version of Solarus is available now! The main change of Solarus 1.1 is that there are no more hardcoded menus in the engine: the dialog....

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Customizable game-over menu!

2013-08-19

The last built-in menu is not built-in anymore in Solarus 1.1! Now, when the life of the player reaches zero, an event game:on_game_over_started()....

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Solarus Wiki

2013-08-14

Christopho began to make video tutorials about how to make a game with Solarus. However, these tutorials are, for the moment, only in French. To help....

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Ice, low walls and other improvements about grounds

2013-08-07

Two new types of grounds (or terrains) are now implemented in Solarus 1.1, as well as improvements in the detection of the ground. Ice ground:....

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Solarus Forums

2013-08-05

Since the Solarus 1.0 release, several people suggested that we create a forum. Here it is! http://forum.solarus-games.org/ We hope that the....

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New entity type: separators

2013-07-27

I have finished another new feature for Solarus 1.1: you can now separate a map in different regions. When you are in a region, you cannot see....

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Customizable dialogs!

2013-07-24

This is a very important new feature of Solarus 1.1. The dialog box system is now fully scriptable using the Lua API! It means that you can now make....

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New format of project_db.dat

2013-07-14

Since Solarus 0.9.0, the format of most data files is being changed to be more readable, easier to parse and more homogeneous. In Solarus 1.0,....

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Maps have now a default destination entity

2013-07-05

Here is a small improvement that will ease the life of quest creators in Solarus 1.1, the future version of the engine. You will be able to set a....

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Controlling the quest size to obtain maximum portability

2013-06-28

Many new features are planned for Solarus 1.1. I will talk about the important ones whenever I implement them. The one I have been working on for....

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Solarus 1.0.3 released, no more blocked blocks

2013-06-25

Due to Murphy's law, I introduced an important bug at the very end of my tests, just before releasing Solarus 1.0.2. This bug made you fail to push....

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Solarus 1.0.4 released, fixed crashes in ZSXD

2013-06-25

And... Solarus 1.0.4 is out! Two crashes in ZSXD remained despite all my tests, and the customization screen of joypad commands was also....

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Solarus 1.0.2 released, ZSDX and ZSXD upgraded to the new engine

2013-06-22

An update of Solarus 1.0, Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX and Zelda Mystery of Solarus XD is available! This update fixes a bunch of bugs of previous....

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A new design to celebrate Solarus 1.0.x

2013-05-16

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)....

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Solarus 1.0.1 released

2013-05-12

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....

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The German release!

2013-05-09

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....

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Solarus 1.0.0 released

2013-05-03

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....

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Separating projects

2013-04-23

I have just reorganized the git repository of Solarus. Our quests are now in separated git repositories. The main repository....

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??Download pages updated??

2013-04-06

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....

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Solarus Lua API reference

2013-02-19

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....

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Work in progress

2012-11-05

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....

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The Spanish release (beta)!

2012-05-20

A new version of Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX(version 1.5.1) is now available. It includes a beta version of the Spanish....

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Windows compilation finally documented

2012-04-17

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....

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The English release!

2012-04-05

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....

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New website name

2012-04-02

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....

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English translation in progress

2012-01-05

Happy new year everyone :) As you may know, Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX is now finished. The French version was released on December 16th,....

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Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX is almost finished

2011-12-10

The completed version of Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX will be available soon. Here is recent trailer showing a lot of game....

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Download ZSXD now!

2011-08-12

Our parodic creation Zelda Mystery of Solarus XD is now available in English, as announced in my previous post. You can find it on the download page....

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Coming soon: Zelda Mystery of Solarus XD

2011-08-08

Yes, the title is correct: Zelda Mystery of Solarus XD, not DX! DX is in progress too, but this is not what I'm talking about today! Zelda Mystery....

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Enemy scripts... finished!

2011-01-18

Last week, I was thinking about the enemies system because one of the things I have to implement these days is the boss of the second dungeon. Then,....

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New equipment system finished, ZSDX is the priority in 2011

2011-01-10

Hi everyone, During the last months of 2010, I worked hard to move all the equipment stuff from the C++ engine to the data files. This work is....

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Solarus moves to Git and GitHub

2010-09-22

I have just switched the source code from Subversion to Git. The code can now be accessed on github, which provides a nicer interface for the history....

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Making the equipment independent of the engine

2010-09-09

Up to now, the equipment is hardcoded in the C++ engine. If you are developping your own quest with the Solarus engine, you cannot add new items or....

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The map editor

2010-08-18

Several people have contacted me to know if I use a map editor for Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX. The answer is yes, and its source code is available....

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Quest files specification

2010-08-06

The project is making good progress these days, though it was hard for me during the last few months to find much time to work on Solarus, for....

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Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX new trailer

2010-03-30

We have just released a new trailer of Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX. It contains various elements of the beginning of the game, including small....

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Technical documentation

2010-03-08

Hi everyone, The blog is under construction and new pages may become available at any time. Today I am starting the technical documentation....

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Welcome

2010-02-10

Welcome to the development blog of Solarus, the open-source Zelda-like 2D game engine. Solarus is the engine developed for the game Zelda: Mystery of....

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