Day 6 - Dungeons and Distractions

I started day 6's development efforts a little late due to some house chores, as well as some bug fixing from the previous day. Here's the roundup, after 8-9 hours on stream.

Day 6

At the end of this day, I felt quite optimistic about the progress and shape of the game now. Towards the end of the day, I found myself mostly just trying to play and navigate the games mechanics more than focusing on development. Here's most of what we managed to get done:

• Procedural dungeon generator using "growth" method (implementation reference)
  • 0-2 Enemies are spawned in each room.
• Enemy pathfinding behaviour (Dijkstra and A*) (Thanks redblobgames)
• Autotiling with a rule system (which I decided not to use due to time constraints. implementation reference)
  • Because of this, I reverted the tiles used to a simplistic floor/wall system, but this could be improved in the future.
• Performance tweaks (So we don't try to draw offscreen entities)
• Adjustments to the card game mechanics for better gameplay
  • Cards collected from enemies are placed at the bottom of the deck
  • You automatically draw up to a full hand of 3, rather than simply replacing cards 1-for-1.
  • If you _can't_ play a card, or the card action somehow fails, you don't expend the card.
• Converted the "dummy" to "The Sword", and added the next enemy: "The Shield". The enemies drop their corresponding card on defeat.
• Game ending condition was corrected, so you win now when all enemies are defeated and all cards are collected.

Next Steps

As we roll into the final day, we need to be careful what we add from here, so that everything we release is in a usable and positive state.

It's also good practice to make sure the game can be safely built and shared. There's an additional complication for me, because I am not using a released version of DOME at the moment, but a development build, in order to power the text boxes displayed for cards.

I'd like to try and add a variety of cards and enemies throughout the day, and supply some better feedback about actions taken.

Find Out More

You can follow a majority of the game's development by following me on Twitter, subscribing to my twitch stream here, or catching up on my YouTube channel.

One last day, let's go!