Thanks for providing linux build. I laughed at the title screen. I took screenshot of it, but somehow it made the game freeze for couple of seconds. I guess I am not going to be making many screenshots.

• I closed the game to type the above, and after relaunching I was greeted with different animations on the title screen. That’s a really cool touch.

• I found the teleporter in mines level 2. I used it and it put me back at the start of the game. I clicked on the teleporter in “town” to go back to mines lvl 2, and the game hanged on the loading screen. I relaunched the game, and the only thing that was saved was my character’s name. All gear, and level ups are gone.

• There was a significant fps drop when launching fireball for the first time.

• All goblins pretty much die in one hit, so there was no reason to use any larger weapons.

• Honestly just punching goblins to death at the start was the funniest. The whole game feels like bullying.

• I sometimes did not know where to go.

• I find it amusing how the player character looks like he should be on a quest choking some ogres and there he is just slapping goblins.

Random screenshots of my progress through the plunderground:

Promising Diablo clone! Not much to complain about other than just minor things. The UI could be bigger, sometimes the doors are hard to see when right behind a wall or in a corner. Encountered some visual glitches in the 2nd floor where light would flash from the ceiling for a split second. Also encountered a bug where an enemy seemed to be dead but it was still standing, not moving, and you couldn't target it. The enemies could move around more, it seems like they stand still until you get close and sometimes they don't do anything until you're literally in their face.

Looking forward to seeing this game expanded with more levels, loot, and enemies!

I streamed this a little bit with Plunderground_fixed.exe/Plunderground_less_lethal.exe : https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2026108854 . It is rather rough around the edges. Are there two mine levels in total? It would be nice with a button for the level overlay, I guessed at some point that pressing the tab key would show it. The gameplay was not all that fun in the beginning (also with technical mishaps), archery duels later on were a bit fun, but the game is also early in development, and it is starting to take shape.

I gave it a try on the newest windows version (Plunderground_testing.exe). Beat the first level of the dungeon, then got a couple bugs that stopped progress. I took notes as I went:

Game started in a weird window that wasn't fully on either of my screens. not a big problem, switching to windowed and then full screen fixed it.

First time starting the game, it seemed to load forever after briefly playing music. Worked fine second time I tried.

I feel like the palisade should have its supports on the outside if it's trying to contain the gobbos.

The walking animation seems to be spending a frame longer on one leg than the other?

I'd like it if you could walk by just holding down the mouse button, rather than having to click repeatedly.

I think the trees and torches in the opening aren't being accounted for when pathfinding, unlike the tables in the mines.

Ho ho ho, now I have a bow. Combat feels good so far.

Duke's experience as an FPS protagonist is really showing in the ranged combat. Not a single missed attack - Kalemonvodude could really learn a thing or two about shooting from this guy.

Poise meter isn't an orb? Or at least a round shield? This is heresy. Naw but seriously that's interesting. Not entirely sure how it works, you flinch if it reaches zero?

The escape menu should probably pause the game.

Potion drinking animations, huh? I like it.

The melee goblins seem to have a bad habit of losing track of me. Probably a pathfinding thing.

Chests keep their outline after you open them so long as you keep the mouse over them.

Items can drop behind doors and be unreachable. I had my first cloak drop behind an open door and nearly lost it, and I'm pretty sure I did lose a health potion, which I was really missing at the end.

Nice cloth physics on the cloak, but it seems a little light and floaty. Also not a great fit with the super block art style.
The attachment point between the physics mesh and the regular mesh is pretty obvious, too.

The particle system highlighting dropped weapons seems to become active again briefly when you equip them after picking them up. That's a neat bug.

Greatclubs seem really slow considering everything dies in one hit so far. If they could hit multiple enemies at once, that'd be a big improvement. (I died before being able to test it on a tougher enemy, maybe it makes sense then)

I was low on health entering the second level so I tried the town portal and after that, tried using the waypoint to see if there was a merchant that might sell me a potion.

But the waypoint's only function seems to be to take all my gear and reset my level and stats, without giving me any health back. (I'm not sure if my max health also reset to lvl 1)

Think my game might be over but I'll press on.

Immediately on entering the second level, I get stuck, unable to go through any of the doors in the first room after opening them.

Fortunately, the yellow goblins eventually notice me through the open door and give me a warrior's death.

Got an error message on exiting to desktop, which isn't a problem but is funny.

But overall, this seems like a really promising start. The lack of to-hit chance and potion drinking animations make me feel like it's a tiny nudge closer to being an action game than a traditional orblike. In the grand tradition of orblike balancing, bows seem kinda OP - they let you dodge enemy attacks and despite low damage often kill enemies faster because you don't need to walk over to them first. Should probably have a slower shooting animation (obviously, the bow punch is just perfect 10/10).

It's ok. It has a slow start, but from the level 2 it started picking up due to stronger goblin archers actually giving me a taste of what it feels like to delve into a goblin nest. Very soulful title screen with different variants. Slapping goblins with a bow is a nice touch. I'm digging the lighting.

The first time I opened the game I couldn't do anything in the title screen, no mouse hover nor click effects. Lots of stutters, especially when first casting fireball freezing the game for a few seconds. There are also some short blue light artifact probably connected to loading too. One goblin spawned completely frozen and it was impossible to attack it. A hood I picked up appeared in the equipment as a simple sprite, being placed on top of other items and not having any mouse interactions to do anything with it. Not all walls become transparent, so many goblins are hard to see.

Duke decides to bully the local goblin population: The game

Had fun with it. I'm a bit out of the loop with the project, but from the oher comments I saw that you switched to Godot. So far so good!
The runescape-ish aesthetic has a softspot in my heart, and more orblikes are always welcome.

I vibe with the cape physics, it's the little things that make games soulful

Some suggestions/problems:

- The game freezes for a couple seconds when using fireball for the first time

- Enemy AI takes a bit to react to the player when they enter the room

- Could be cool if fireball had a bigger splash damage range, even if it was more expensive for it

- Shadows on the cape were a bit glitchy

- Enemy placement was a bit weird (6 goblins on a perfect square position), but I imagine is just placeholder

Keep it up!

Video response: 

The recording is a little messed up but the main thing is that there is a lot of optimisation improvements you will need to get done. I got a crash when i tried to cast a fireball. Hope this helps.

Edit: itch always gives me so much shit when I try to put screenshots in my posts. So I had to move them and screenshot them again. Hopefully you can associate the screenshots with my feedback.

Right off the bat something a touch odd. The game started partially off the screen but it seems to believe it's fullscreen. My monitor setup brings out these issues a lot because I have a normal main monitor and a TV screen as a second monitor. My screen is mirrored between these two resolutions and it makes games freak out in different ways. Going from fullscreen to windowed back to fullscreen fixed it.

You are a real one for the pogo3d shill!


An empty UI prompt is presented to me upon teleporting to the town. Confusing.
All of the windows opened from the bottom HUD do not have "X" buttons to close them at the top right.
I'm getting performance stutters. It freezes momentarily as I walk around. (This stopped being a problem in the mines)

Just now the player character stopped and walked in place until he stopped getting caught on whatever it was he was caught on. (This stopped being a problem in the mines (mostly, it happened once when I paused))

The waypoint says it goes to Town but there's just a mine here?

I can't equip the greatclub until I unequip the shield. That's reasonable, but it would be nice if the game told me that. I think it would be reasonable for the game to just equip the greatclub and unequip the shield

So much light from such a small area!

The loading from mines level 1 to mines level 2 froze the screen for a while. Windows had to step in and turn my mouse to the spinner.

Aaaaaand then hard crash. I had a bow on my left side and the greatclub on my right side. This seemed weird so I tried to drag the greatclub to my left side and the game took a shit and died.

I restarted and I'm ready to go again. The save selection screen confuses me. I think it should just go to the one I select, or just prompt "Start <name>?" y/n

lil bro is stuck in the door and unattackable.

Pathfinding is a bit triggerhappy. If I'm holding down LMB to move and move over ground that isn't reachable, my player character decides to auto-traverse the entire dungeon to get to that cm of ground.

Something about the sound makes everything feel very distant. Like I can't associate the cries of the goblins with them.

There seems to be a bit of a delay between me entering a room and the goblins reacting

Proc gen? May want to massage the algo to not generate weird edges like this. (Edit: I lost the screenshot for this but they were 1 tile wide little weird passages on the edge of the room that looked odd)

I'm enjoying that this is my Goblin Slayer anime simulator.

There was a hood on the ground. I picked it up, and I guess that was more than I could hold in my inv. So I dropped a shortbow. But what's odd is the hood is now not interactable with in my inv. And then it disappeared later!

Sometimes enemy archers can be right beside walls and the walls don't disappear so it's impossible to see them.

When I run out of mana, my spell slot shouldn't turn into an attack, that's just confusing.

Slightly weird: when I choose "Save and quit", it goes from a maximized window (what I like playing in) to a non-maximized window.

Overall I'm very impressed with what you were able to convert from React to Godot. There's a lot of fun orb-like systems here. I'd say give it a layer of polish then introduce some non-goblin enemies! (Maybe there are some, I died a shameful death on level 3 of the mines).

Looks like the game will be great! Wish combat had a bit more nuance to it but it's a start!

Can't seem to get past loading screen on W10, game crashes after the music starts. Any chance the game dumps logs anywhere?

Got some problems on multimonitor setup, turning  on window mode was a little tricky

I know this is an orblike, but making camera less riggidly following player and adding some delay and interpolation will make it look less stiff

Overall great potential!

Alright, got a problem on W10:

The game is either fullscreen and I can't touch anything or it shows up borderless and I can technically click stuff but then it goes back to fullscreen.

I even tried going to the options to set it to window mode but because of the weird stuff I mentioned, it's really hard.

Ended up setting to window mode with keys at least. so I could play it at that point.

Punched some goblings to death, then got a hatchet, hood, cape and shield.

I kinda like that you keep items even after respawn.

But there may be some weirdness with goblings having walls/doors in front of them, though.

Playing this right after the tower of kalemonvo was a mistake lol

The movement looks kinda stiff, but it's still too early to make judgments since everything still looks mostly like placeholders

I look forward to seeing it evolve in the next DD.

Neat that Godot can just pack all the game content into the executable. Art style looks to me like Runescape, which I didn't get much into but always liked the idea of it.

Movement can be a bit glitchy sometimes, and the shadows/lighting seem to freak out sometimes. Could be that I'm running the Linux version but maybe other people get it too. There was also one point where I didn't realize I was behind a wall, the occlusion blended in too much and I couldn't tell until I stepped further away from it.

I only got one healing potion on the first floor so if it hadn't been for leveling up I might've died. The goblins are a little slow but I don't really like orblike controls so that gives me plenty of time to dodge arrows and such. I'm not sure what poise means here, is that a bit like a shield of regenerating health?

For someone not into this sort of thing, I quite like it. Unfortunately I got stuck in this doorway on the second level so I didn't get any further.

Din't look any weapon so I just punch my way, this game is the reavengecne of agdg but you're playing deputy amrstrong of texas university. Droped lot of book so I know he lift in the librairy. Also too much (too) door

it is awe inspiring how quickly you were able to get the game to this level after switching engines, excellent work! i had a blast blasting gobbos with my bow (and fist!)

the atmosphere is already on point. most notable for me was the chest opening sounds, the slow creek with the sound echoing across the red caves. very nice.

there were a couple of issues i had , which i thought were worth mentioning:

performance when the game loaded and for 2-5mins after was sort of wonky. sometimes everything worked, sometimes it would pause for 1 second. usually happened the first time a specific action was executed. cast fireball -> 1 second delay. cast it a second time, no issue.

there would be a screen-wide light flicker every now and then. probably tied to lights being culled or turned on someplace. 

enemies had a long "react time" to me. i'd walk into a room, and they take a bit to activate.

otherwise, all was smooth.

the mapgen is surprisingly decent. the main thing i look for (which tok lacks!!) is interconnectivity - can you circle back to the start room only going forward? in your game, yes! that's a great sign. keep it up.

the little touches (animation to pick up, to drink, burp sfx) are all charming.

unsure if there is a next level, but i made it this far before stopping for now. we'll see if save+quit did it's job

great stuff! eager to see more.