Awesome, thanks for trying it :) This looks like some kind of GPU issue, the tiles are supposed to be transparent but their top part seems to be invisible... There's something weird going on between the transparent material and the lighting source, maybe OSX handles it differently, or it could be a Godot bug. I'll have to investigate further!
Well, I'm very much into procedural generation at the moment, and the algorithm is fairly basic, it's just a drunkard walk. Pathfinding, camera, menus, texts are all handled by the engine (which I know pretty well) so I was able to focus on the rest. Visuals are also very simple, everything is made of 8x8x8 voxel models with a pure white texture and transparency applied to the floors and stairs, and RPGiaB's voxel editor is very fast when you're used to it. Sounds were created in a few minutes with the integrated SFXR. The big headache was managing the stairs, which are still broken in certain situations, but hopefully not their navigation paths.
Thanks for your feedback! I agree the small cubes can be hard to spot. I thought about making more distinctive shapes like arrows instead, so maybe I'll try something like that. Regarding text, I've used a tooltip function that activates when hovering objects, but the engine can't handle it without the mouse at the moment. It would indeed be useful to display text when the character is next to an object or activating it. I could also use an actual dialog window, but it would require more actions, so this will need more experiments. Also yes, the character is very nondescript, I'll probably add more distinctive features in a future version.
I'm glad you liked it, I think I'll try to expand the concept with a bit more roguelike components, for example having to visit several "rooms" on the same floor, in a less linear way, to make the stairs appear, and allowing to chose the kind of room that will appear by using items you collect when exploring (currently it's far from obvious, but chosing left or right triggers a different algorithm and create a different shape.)
Dang, thanks for trying again, I'll see what I can do with the developer of the engine I'm using.
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