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Had to shelve the platformer project because of poor planning and feature creep. I decided to work on an action dungeon crawler. Right now, you can only move your character and thrust your sword, but I plan on including randomly generated levels.
I'm more experienced with top-down games, so this might be easier.
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I got a random dungeon generation algorithm implemented. It is the same one from this post (https://gameliberty.club/@xianc78/111750085112155644), but written in C++ instead of Java. It's pretty basic at the moment. I plan on having each room randomly pick a design from a template.
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Tried to add random enemy placement to the dungeon, but they all appear in the same room. I realize that the common way to do RNG in C and C++, srand(time(NULL)) uses time (in seconds) as a seed, and since the loop obviously runs multiple times per second, I'm getting the same results.
I think my solution would be to use my own RNG algorithm with a seed that increments every time it is called.
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Added music and sound effects. Though, music was technically added previously, but I muted the previous recording.
Background music is "Dungeon 05" by Beau Buckley, released under the CC-BY-SA 4.0.
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@Mr_NutterButter Thanks. I couldn't use your intro because SFML doesn't natively support video playback.
@xianc78 To be honest the video was more for when you would put it a trailer to make it look a lot more special rather than the idea of it being put into the actual game.
But I can't wait until I can make a logo for this game!
@xianc78 looks like one of those old dungeon crawlers.
You going to add in a boss fight or is the game just survival as long as you can.
Overall super cool
@Mr_NutterButter I plan on including occasional boss fights. They will be on their own floors with a single room.
@xianc78 great progress!
@xianc78 looks interesting
@xianc78 this is coming along really well.
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@waltercool I've done it earlier but maybe I need to readjust them. The levels are randomly generated so I have to set limits on where they *can* spawn.
As for the player taking damage randomly in that clip, I have no idea where that came from.
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@BigDawg869789 @xianc78 i was gonna say, it would probably look better as a sort of unique item. mario has the green mushroom, for instance. if you wanna stick with the... stick... then maybe make his head thinner?
i'd also definitely space out the items more just so that players don't accidentally pick up more than one :)
@xianc78 probably because it's not too important if the game is fun to play.
It's more like window dressing.
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Improved the wall tiles. It looks SO much better now. It's actually starting to look like a game.
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