Basic bolts and explosions aren't the only projectiles in my upcoming game — who doesn't love a good beam weapon?

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Implementing my dual grid system into my main project stepped up the visuals, cut the required tile art in half, and simplified the procedural generation logic.

Give my DualGrid a try next time you might use TileMapLayer and terrains in Godot!

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The core mechanic of my game involves the player inscribing their weapons to create and modify chains of projectiles and effects.

Now, inscribed equipment will also drop! This really helps to teach the player what is possible with different combinations of inscriptions.

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Early playtesters found my initial level-up system confusing and disruptive. While far from unique, implementing a classic pick-3 mechanic solved a lot of those problems.

This was a good reminder that genre staples are important and they're commonplace for good reasons.

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Instead of ammunition, the player has limited resources which regenerate and cooldowns to manage. These new visual indicators go a long way to help inform the player of these restrictions!

The smallest UI changes sometimes have huge impact.

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A core theme of my game is the mists, so I've been spending some time experimenting with how that could be represented in game.

While the final approach will be more stylized than this, it was easy to replicate the basics of a Nuclear Throne style lightning system.

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Taking inspiration from Risk of Rain, difficulty and reward in my game will be controlled by dynamic rating systems. With these systems, I can keep gameplay challenging and rewards relevant regardless of the route a player chooses.

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With the basic mechanics of procedural generation in place, my attention has shifted to creating interesting objectives and events for the player to find around each world.

Chests are boring. Instead, the player will need to complete a quick event to get their reward.

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Huge progress today - a bunch of optimization tricks took what was once a 2 FPS scene to a stable 60!

I've zoomed this clip out a bit so you can see some of the magic happen. This will enable pressuring the player through increasingly difficult and numerous enemy spawns!

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Got all my existing systems to play nicely with my rudimentary procedurally generated maps for my upcoming yet-to-be-named game. #godot #roguelike

Experimenting with procedural generation for my yet-to-be-named roguelike game inspired by @vlambeer.com's Nuclear Throne and Nolla Games' Noita.