Created a third enemy that shoots projectiles.

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

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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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Rearranging the HUD.

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

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

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HUD now includes icons to indicated the items you have.

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

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Dungeon now has alternate tracks for different floors.

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

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Added the fourth tileset. I have know idea what this is supposed to be.

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

@xianc78 great progress!

@xianc78 looks interesting

@xianc78 this is coming along really well.

@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 :)

@xianc78 probably because it's not too important if the game is fun to play.

It's more like window dressing.

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