Post by zelanius in Gameplay Tips

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I am happy to report that everything seems to be working in v1.03b. It is a bit of a shame that the music is AI-generated as I think they are quite pleasant to listen to, but given that you are essentially making a free game, it is what it is.

Still, there are tons of free music on itch.io. Joel Steudler has a free sample: https://joelsteudler.itch.io/. Tallbeard Studios only releases free music: https://tallbeard.itch.io/. Outside of itch.io, Open Game Art has free music for use as well: https://opengameart.org/.

Separately, should I give you the number of treasures I found and the counter number left by map (including 0s) so you can check for false positive or negative on the treasure counter?

ragtorstone1 day ago(+1)

opengameart has quite an extensive library, pretty impressive. I'll look through it for suitable music for future projects, thanks! I'm making music for fun using Fruityloops and soundfonts sometimes, but my tracks still aren't where I want them to be. Maybe some day. I'm more of a 2d/3d artist and coder at the moment.

I'd be interested in your treasure collection stats. I can check through them if you share them.

Toying with the idea of making little dots appear on the mini map if a treasure is close. What would you think about a feature like that?

Michozo1 day ago

Like with Demon's souldbound? Could be interesting

zelanius21 hours ago

I wish you the best on your music journey! I wish I would be half as skilled as you are at art and coding.

The dots on the mini map would be very useful. I have trouble spotting the treasure sometimes, even when I am literally within centimetres of them, but I mostly blame my bad eyesight.

As for my treasure stats, here they are:

Map	Treasure Found	Counter Left	Remarks
1st Map	16	0	3 at camp, 6 in cave, not counting Blood Ruby
Rok's Fort	12	0	8 in the basement endgame area
Mountain Path	8	0
Akoh Village	1	0
Old Farm	3	0
Shadowy Meadows	5	0
Krihm Valley	7	0
Path to Falgar's Monastery	2	0
Lumbak Town	2	0
Cape Deadfall	4	0
Path of the Fallen	25	0
Fort Langley	6	0
Stahl Dam	11	0
Lower Stahlheim	10	0
Stahlheim Church	8	0
Dark Beach	4	0
Steep Cliffs	14	1
Castle of Eternal Suffering	9	0
Black Lake	8	0
Shadow Forest	2	0
Northgale	4	0
Gohdoh Swamp	8	0
Troll Caverns	6	0
Globrock	3	0
Angel Gate	7	2
Mount Deathridge	27	0
Tranton Village	3	0
Yuath Desert	18	4	I found 10 in the soul stream world area
Ancient Forest	15	0
Freezing Beach	9	0
Falgar's Abode	9	0
Falgar's Palace	12	0
Goraia's Domain	2	0
World Map	24	6	I found 7 in the underworld and 17 in the overworld

ragtorstone8 hours ago

Thanks! You cleared a lot of areas. I'll compare the numbers when I'm home from work.