Replaced the BS Zelda slime sprites with my own.

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Replaced the sprite for the blue octorok-like enemy with one of my own.

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Replaced the BS Zelda skeleton sprite with one from Open Game Art, but it looks to small. I tried to look everywhere for 16x16 skeleton sprites and I can't draw my own, but this was the only one I could find.

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I tried to make crudely drawn skeleton sprites based on this 16x16 character base sprite.

https://opengameart.org/content/base-character-spritesheet-16x16

It turns out that I can't draw a skull from the side so it ends up looking weird from the profile view. It still looks small compared to the player sprite, but I plan on using the same base sprite for the player.

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Replaced the BS Zelda Darknut sprites with my own.

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Added the first and possible only boss, which will appear in the final floor. It's basically just like the Ghoma in the Zelda games except you attack it with the sword as it's the only weapon in the game.

Though given the limited window to attack and the fact that it takes more time to charge at the boss than it is to strike it with a projectile, I don't know how this boss battle will pan out, but I feel like without a proper final boss, the game would end anti-climatically. Also, due to the fact that levels are randomly generated, there is also an issue that the final boss room can be entered from the south, meaning that you will end up behind the boss when the battle starts. Maybe, the final floor can be just a single corridor that leads to the boss, instead of a randomly generated dungeon like the rest of the levels.

Anyway, I just want to get this over with and move on. After working on this project, I can clearly see why Nintendo never considered making a Zelda game with random dungeons. Not saying that it's impossible, but there are so many things you need to take into account (lock and key placement, metroidvania elements, etc) and they are much harder to implement in a randomly generated dungeon compared to a simple roguelike dungeon.

After this, I plan on creating a simple adventure game to practice things like event flags and dialogue trees.

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Made it so that the final boss level is just two rooms. Though I haven't made it so that the store doesn't spawn in the boss room. I've also disabled the staircase for the boss fight until it's defeated.

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The final boss now shoots projectiles at the player. I tried adjusting the timing of when the boss shoots the projectiles, but I either have the boss fight being to easy or it being borderline impossible. I should probably accept that the game will have an anti-climatic boss fight.

I thought about having the boss drop some McGuffin item that will end the game, instead of just opening the staircase, but I don't know what kind of item it should be.

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Replaced the copyrighted placeholders of many of the game's items with sprites of my own.

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Implemented a dungeon map.

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Made the boss drop an item upon defeat. The leaf is just a placeholder. I don't know what it should be in the final game.

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Finally starting to replace the copyrighted placeholder sound effects with either effects of my own or stock sound effects. Though, I couldn't find a good enough sound effect that goes well with the sword attack. The player merely thrusts it (like in Zelda 1), and all the sound effects I could find are more fit for a swinging of a sword.

I tried to take a knife-sharpening sound effect and edit it in Audacity to try to make it sound more "SNES-like" (lower the sample rate) and changing it to a 16-bit PCM, but I don't think it turned out to well. I also need to take into account that there is both a wooden sword and a metal sword.

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Worked on the credits screen. I switched to a completely different format for the file. I also included my "company" logo at the end.

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Changed the sword sound to a "swing" sound and replaced the door sound with a free asset.

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Replaced the BS Zelda "hit" sound effect with a stock asset. It kind of reminds me of Terraria.

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Boss now explodes on death.

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Boss now drops the key which leads to the room with the MacGuffin item. I think it's slightly more climatic that way instead of it just ending abruptly.

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Music now stops after defeating the final boss.

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@xianc78 it is inadequately proportioned in relation to the hero sprite. head is way too small. i'd lend you my skeleton sprites but they're 24x24.

@xianc78 i will say though, for just a free indie game i don't think it matters too much. slightly conflicting art styles is a given for things like that. the closer you can get it the better obviously, but that'll happen.

@xianc78 https://snoblin.itch.io/top-down-skeletons

those look a lot closer to your proportions. it's $2.60 though and obviously not a totally open license. still pretty cheap though all things considered and it might look better.

@beardalaxy That sprite looks more suited for roguelikes anyway. The animation is also way too fluid, I could skip some frames in that animation, but the license is a huge deal-breaker. Codeberg requires me to put everything on an open-license.

The enemy doesn't have to be a skeleton. There is no mention of it being a skeleton in the source code and it doesn't throw bones or anything like that. I just used what made sense using BS Zelda's spritesheet as a placeholder. I also used BS Zelda sprites as placeholders because the size of the characters and tiles are the exact same.