xianc78

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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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xianc78

gamedev 

Created solid tiles, a couple of enemies, knockback, and the sword. I also divided the screen. There will be a hud on top, but right now, it is blank.

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xianc78

gamedev 

I got a random dungeon generation algorithm implemented. It is the same one from this post (gameliberty.club/@xianc78/1117), 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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xianc78

gamedev 

Here is a second dungeon, in case you don't believe me.

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xianc78

gamedev 

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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xianc78

gamedev 

Wrote my own RNG algorithm (just take the sine of a seed and increment the seed by one for the next time). I also made it so that enemies can't spawn in the first room.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added camera scrolling.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Rooms in the dungeon now have different designs (randomly picked from a list of currently three templates).

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added coins. I plan to have them be used for in-dungeon shops.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added hearts. There is a 25% chance that a heart will drop. HP does increase, but HP still has no effect right now.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added health bar.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added a death animation.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added an exit tile (actually an object on it's own and not a child of the "Tile" class) that is randomly placed on each floor. Though it does nothing yet.

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Multiple levels have now been implemented.

The second level is indeed a new one. The procedural generation algorithm made the starting room look like the ending room of the previous one.

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xianc78

gamedev 

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.

opengameart.org/content/dungeo

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added a white sword. It takes twice as much damage. I plan on including "rental shops" where you can buy temporary items like this white sword and they go away if the player dies.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added a potion. It fully restores HP. I also plan on having this being one of the items sold in the shop.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Purchasable items have now been implemented.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added blue coins. They are worth 5 coins each.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Decided to add more rooms in the procedurally generated dungeons to add more variety. Sand rooms can now appear but they are functionally no different than floor tiles.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Replaced the copyrighted, placeholder tiles with my own.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added the Ioncom logo and the main menu.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Improved the wall tiles. It looks SO much better now. It's actually starting to look like a game.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Now, keys (using the coin sprite as a placeholder) are required to exit each floor.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Created a third enemy that shoots projectiles.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added a shield item which reduces the damage the player takes by half.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Dungeon shops are fully functional. Though I will most likely move them to the center of their rooms and maybe add a merchant.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Rearranging the HUD.

(No video this time because I only need a screenshot to demonstrate)

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xianc78

gamedev 

Implemented pausing (something I have neglected for a while).

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xianc78

gamedev 

HUD now includes icons to indicated the items you have.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added an alternate tileset. I plan on having the tilesets change, the deeper you go.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Dungeon now has alternate tracks for different floors.

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xianc78

gamedev 

Added an "ice level" tileset along with an accompanying track.

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Mr.NutterButter

@xianc78 Nice

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🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘
This game was great in 1985 when it was called "The Legend of Zelda."
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xianc78

@Humpleupagus It's Zelda inspired. I'm using BS Zelda assets as placeholders.

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🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘
I'm just giving you shit. Have you ever checked out "Trident of Power" for RPG Maker?
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xianc78

@Humpleupagus I have not. I don't really pay attention to fan games.

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koropokkur
nintendo version of ultima...
they stole it and made it their own!
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xianc78

@koropokkur @Humpleupagus Ultima is an RPG. Zelda is an action-adventure. They are two different things.

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🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘
Fine. It's a rip off of Alien Syndrome. 😏
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Mr.NutterButter

@xianc78 Clean

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xianc78

@Mr_NutterButter Thanks. I couldn't use your intro because SFML doesn't natively support video playback.

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Mr.NutterButter

@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!

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Mr.NutterButter

@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

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xianc78

@Mr_NutterButter I plan on including occasional boss fights. They will be on their own floors with a single room.

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Mr.NutterButter

@xianc78 great progress!

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