08.04.2025. Devlog №9: Just to keep ya updated
Not much since the last devlog, but i want to stick to the monthly updates, so hiere you go :3
-Added a little tiny piece of the hub location, enough to initiate a dungeon run from it
-Added the dungeon preparation segment with picking out a place, loadout and magic spells to take with you. Some of the animations here are SO juicy and i'm NOT showing them to keep the surprise >:3
-Added the scene-switching script, then fought it for three days and three nights so now nothing breaks all the way through. The result of this is that now whenever the level generator starts a dungeon and realizes it can't finish it, it will scrap it and make a new one automatically. Repeat for as many times as needed until a dungeon is made! (let's see how horribly this scales with bigger dungeons)
-Added a placeholder entrance/exit room, bringing the game one more delightful step closer to being actually playable
-Got rid of the darkness system lol. I'd love to implement a playstyle where you go around with night vision smashing all the light sources or hop from shadow to shadow in your rogueish rags, but darkness ended up too bulky to implement in a fun way
-Added a handful of new furniture and items, of course. There's always more to add...
-Added various armors. Actually wait, i can give you some visuals on this one! Here you go. The sprites are a little shoddy, but the polising will come later.
-Changed the player's sprite into an assembly of head/body/legs sprites, and added two more species. The game will have three playable "classes", and everything is slooowly coming together in implementing them now.
(Each picture gets extra cool when you click on it to signify your selection, which is why only the ram has colors in the screenshot)
-Added the scripts necessary to give items to entities, so now shelves and such will have things inside them on-generation, and the player gets their picked loadout items
This might sound like decent progress, and it IS decent, but i am still concerned about my schedule. Just two months left before summertime, by which the main gameplay loop should be finished. I will likely need a whole month to achieve enemy ai, which leaves just one month for rigorous bug fixing and putting the game together! Of course, this whole project is just a practice run, but i still want to keep up with my own expectations, Hofstadter's law be damned. And, haha, i won't lie, i've been getting a little distracted with other videogame ideas. I've learned so much since starting this project that now i'm positively itching to make a clean new game from scratch. But this is typical: a simple impish desire every indie developer faces as they learn through practice. I knew what i was going into when i picked such a complex project as my first game, and i am still certain i can handle the heat.
No sketchie-picture this time, but instead, here's little sneakie peekie here at the character select, since this is very much placeholder anyway and you wouldn't see these rough scribblings in the final game :3c
