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xianc78

gamedev 

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

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xianc78

gamedev 

Implemented a dungeon map.

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xianc78

gamedev 

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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xianc78

gamedev 

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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xianc78

gamedev 

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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xianc78

gamedev 

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

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xianc78

gamedev 

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

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xianc78

gamedev 

Boss now explodes on death.

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xianc78

gamedev 

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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xianc78

gamedev 

Music now stops after defeating the final boss.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Placed the end-game item on a pedestal.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Decided to bite the bullet and add bombs because I feel like I need at least one more boss fight in the game. If I can't make bombable walls, then I can just have enemies that can only be killed by bombs instead. The game is too boring with just a sword.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Explosions now kill enemies.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Increased the size of the explosions.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Key now only appears after killing all of the enemies in the room.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Finally added something that I should've added at the start: a debug menu. I don't know why I keep on putting off doing this. Debug menus are so useful, but up until now, I was debugging levels by modifying save files instead.

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xianc78

gamedev 

The blue Dark Nut-like enemy can now only be attacked via bombs, finally giving the bombs a practical use.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Created a second boss. This one is like the Dark Nut-like enemy, but you have to bomb it once, then it turns yellow, then you can strike it.

The screen goes black in the video because the game crashed due to a segment fault.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added a trap door to prevent the player from escaping the boss fight. It's currently using the regular door sprite as a placeholder. The final sprite won't have a keyhole.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Trap door now has it's own sprite and sound effect for when it closes. The McGuffin sprite is now a mirror. (shout out to @Mr_NutterButter for the idea)

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xianc78

gamedev 

Working on the end text for the game. It's obviously in a rough state right now. I need to implement proper word-wrapping (the current text is wrapped manually), and have it better timed before the credits.

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xianc78

gamedev 

End text is now word-wrapped and appears letter-by-letter.

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xianc78

gamedev 

There is now a freeze frame when a boss is killed.

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xianc78

gamedev 

There is now a spark where your sword strikes during the boss kill freeze-frame.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added a third boss, which can be hit anywhere except head-on.

You may notice a glitch around 00:35. I have no idea how that happened. The sword is still in it's place after the last thrust but it sets the "active" flag to false when not in use, so it shouldn't be detecting collision.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Fixed the bug from the last video.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Started creating a prologue for when you start the game. The White rectangles appear presumably because the font I'm using apparently doesn't support apostrophes.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added the fourth (and second to final) boss. I plan on having it teleport after shooting.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Boss now teleports.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Boss now faces the player (within the constraints of 4 cardinal directions).

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xianc78

gamedev 

Boss now has sound effects when shooting energy balls.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Decided to call my game Refactored Depths. The name is a mirror reference and a reference to the randomly generated levels.

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xianc78

gamedev 

The levels are now bigger the deeper you go. It was something that I realized that I haven't implemented yet. This is the second to last level and the video demonstrates how it's bigger than usual.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Title screen finally has a logo.

Shoutout to @Mr_NutterButter for designing it.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Title screen's typo has been fixed.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Created the last boss. (Last boss created, not the last boss that appears in the game.)

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xianc78

gamedev 

Created a new room layout. Zelda 1 had water-maze rooms, and I realized that mine didn't so I created one. Though I am kind of limited because the key will always be placed in a random room and the room coordinates for the key (in tiles) is always (10, 5), so I have to accommodate that when designing rooms like this.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added a blue sword, which is even stronger than the white sword. There is no shop item for it yet, and as you can see in the video, there is no HUD icon for the blue sword either.

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xianc78

gamedev 

You can now purchase bombs which will increase your maximum bomb count.

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xianc78
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gamedev 

Octorok-like enemies now shoot after walking a certain distance instead of being timer-based. SFML's built-in timers run with no way to pause which is why you often see them shooting when the player enters a room. This is honestly a better approach to this.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Main menu now has a background. It honestly looks like the most professional thing I have ever made.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Boss now only appears after the player is out of the doorway and the trap-door closes. This prevents the player from leaving before the shutting of the trap-door.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Ending and credits now have a background too. I was inspired by early fantasy RPGs like Final Fantasy 1-7 and the first two Ys games which featured a space background, despite none of those games (except FF4) taking place in space.

Space backgrounds are often associated with deep philosophical thought or the meaning of existence. Or maybe the protagonist is transferred to another world after starring into the mirror. I don't know. I just felt like the ending and credits screen needs a background too.

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xianc78

gamedev 

There is finally boss music. It was hard to find a good track because I don't want anything too epic as I might use that for a better game.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Title screen now has music.

Title music is "RPG Lost In Time" by Hitctrl. (Released under CC-BY 3.0)

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xianc78

gamedev 

Rewrote (or had AI rewrite) the ending text to better fit the situation and the background.

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xianc78

gamedev 

One of the bosses (the one that you are supposed to bomb) now has an original sprite. Previously, it was just a large version of the blue, darknut-like sprite which changed to yellow when bombed. Instead I made it a skeleton with armor and the armor disappears after being bombed, but reappears after being stabbed.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Replaced some of the copyrighted placeholder sound effects for items with stock sound effects. It's really hard to find any good ones, and these are the best I could find. The heart sound is a bubble sound effect because that's the closest thing I could find. The hearts in the Zelda games always made what sounds like bubbles or liquid, so I guess it fits.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Replaced the sprite for the teleporting wizard boss with a sprite of my own. Just one more to go!

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xianc78

gamedev (help needed) 

Okay, I need a "level complete" fanfare along with a more extended version for obtaining the mirror. I'll promise to give credit.

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xianc78

gamedev (help needed) 

CC: @beardalaxy

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xianc78

gamedev 

Replaced the sprite of the bug boss with a sprite of my own. Now every boss is using original sprites.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added a "death animation" for bosses (actually for all enemies but I don't think it works well with them when I tested it) instead of just a single frame. There is supposed to be an additional frame but it doesn't appear in game.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Decided to get rid of the penalty of taking half of your coins when you die. I realized that this game is brutally difficult and losing money on top of your equipment just seemed way too harsh, so I decided to just have it reset your equipment to level 1 and leave it at that.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added red coins after realizing that a lot of the shop items are too expensive. They are worth 10 coins each. I hope it helps.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Finally found a "death whirl" sound effect for when the player gets killed. It took me forever to find one because I didn't know what it was called. Obviously it's not in sync because it's a stock sound effect that I just downloaded, but I plan to sync it in due time.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Tried to make the "death whirl" animation in sync with the sound effect. Now, I realized that I need two delays. One before the player starts spinning (just to allow the mind to process that they got hit) and one for after the player disappears.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added a delay after the player sprite disappears and before the level restarts. I kind of cheated by just copying the same transparent frame like 6 times just to give the illusion that there is a delay between the death animation finishing and the level restart, but the animation is still going up until the restart of the level.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Trying to replace the BS Zelda male avatar sprite with something that I own (well a modified version of a public domain sprite).

I'm not a good pixel artist when it comes to humanoid characters. I tried to get help on OGA's forums, but activity is too low on that place and I don't know anywhere else that I can get help. This probably won't be the final sprite, but I'm running out of options, and I want to get this game done so I can move on.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Tried my best to add hair to the sprite. I still don't like it that much. I think I should redo the shield because is side walk-cycle has him swinging the shield but that's because the base sprite has both his arms swinging while walking.

And of course, I also have to reposition the sword during attacks. I might have to redo the sword sprite because it looks way to big for him.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Bosses now drop life capsules upon death (assuming your max HP isn't maxed out). During my test playthroughs, I noticed that I reach the end of the game with my max HP still in the single digits for whatever reason. I also want to make it possible to reach a max HP of 20.

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binkle

re: gamedev 

@xianc78 hey that looks pretty nice :hapyday: it's funny how it's the little things that really bring it to life. You may consider moving the start/continue/exit up slightly just to give that copyright text room to breathe
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xianc78

re: gamedev 

@binkle That's what I plan to do. Thanks.

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cool_boy_mew

re: gamedev 

@xianc78 I like the pre-boss music
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xianc78

re: gamedev 

@coolboymew Thanks. But I didn't compose any of it. That music was composed by Beau Buckley on OpenGameArt (repository site for stock game assets).

opengameart.org/content/desert

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beard :meru_dab:

gamedev (help needed) 

@xianc78 ye I saw it I'll see if I can spin up something, got a bit of work on my hands with the game and the demo releasing soon

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xianc78

gamedev (help needed) 

@beardalaxy It's fine. Take your time, and thanks for the offer.

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beard :meru_dab:

gamedev 

@xianc78 cheat whenever you can lol

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