Added a locked door that appears before each exit room.

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Created a sand tileset. That appears in-between the snow tileset and purple tileset.

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Added lives, including an extra life item that sometimes appears in the dungeon shops. I even plan on going so far as to delete your save file if you run out of lives.

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Finally, the key is no longer using the coin sprite as a placeholder and now has it's own texture.

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Created a texture for the extra life item. It looks kind of weird. I tried to make it look like a stick figure with a plus sign, indicating an "extra life", but it turned out kind of odd.

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Finally added text on the game over screen. It's weird that I always neglect details like these.

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Implemented saving and loading. Game saves automatically every time you enter a new floor, but you loose your save file if you run out of lives.

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I'm thinking about what else to add. I could add more enemies, but I need to come up with enemy behaviors that don't require major reconstruction of the base Enemy class.

I don't know if I will add bosses because the player only equips a sword, which severely limits the potential for boss battles. Originally, I planned on having the player equip bombs for bomb-able walls, but placing such walls would've been difficult for the dungeon generation algorithm. Arrows and other projectiles seem kind of pointless. Either I limit the amount of arrows that can be shot/thrown, or I give the player unlimited arrows. The former would make it frustrating if the player was in the middle of a boss battle that required arrows and he/she ran out. The latter would effectively make the sword useless. That leaves only the boomerang as a possible second weapon.

Anyway, I don't plan on making this game grand or anything. This is really just a "practice game" for something I plan on making later on. That future game will have a much better dungeon generation algorithm.

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Well, I did add one enemy, but it is just a stronger variant of a previous one.

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Added a slime enemy that takes one hit to kill.

I plan on balancing the enemy placement, having the stronger enemies appear in later levels because right now there is no change in difficulty whatsoever.

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Added text on the health bar to represent the HP and maximum HP.

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Key and shield icons are now dark when they player doesn't have them, but light up when the player has them, instead of just appearing on the HUD when the player has them. The sword icon now indicates whether you have the wooden or white sword.

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I got the credits implemented. Right now, it's literally the same as the credits in Distant Ruins because I used the same source files along with the credits.txt file from that game.

And I forgot to upload the video.

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Adding the difficulty curve to the game by making it so that certain enemies only appear in certain levels. For example, for the first four levels, only the slimes and skeletons appear.

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Added a "game over" jingle.

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I'm now in the process of replacing the copyrighted assets with free-to-use assets or my own. So far, I only replaced the graphics for one enemy.

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Replaced the BS Zelda slime sprites with my own.

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@xianc78 You need to fix the spawn points to prevent being attacked as soon your character move to the next screen

@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.

@xianc78 You could always make it look like a magic floating sphere or something, or a glowing bottle. Lots of games with iconic 1up items make it something unique and shiny

@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 :)

Did you attach a video to this post? I can’t seem to view it…

@d7094945513d0072aa9e2d300c65fba336be751ef60eecbbf0d7a4871561d41a I did. Maybe it's not viewable from your Nostr client, or the Nostr-Fedi bridge is being funky.

Still cannot view the video. Using #Damus

@d7094945513d0072aa9e2d300c65fba336be751ef60eecbbf0d7a4871561d41a Just view it from the link here:

https://gameliberty.club/@xianc78/112321497123095809