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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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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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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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