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Agree that there's definitely a lot of potential here, with room for improvements - but still sounds like it hooked you which is great! Thanks for playing, glad you enjoyed it! 

Sorry, I understand I might have caused some confusion with this, but I revised the versioning so v2->v1.1, v3->v1.2, newest version v1.3

This is a shader compilation issue that only seems to affect Linux users, should be fixed in latest version!

Thanks for playing, that's a boss killer all right!

Hello! I have made/collected/purchased a lot over the years, and even on stuff I buy I also often end up often doing modifications, extensions, color swaps, etc (assuming the license allows it), and for that I use https://dacap.itch.io/aseprite for it.

A large portion now comes from or is based on tiles by https://pita.itch.io, which is really great and straight replaced a lot of my older stuff.

Thanks for the support! unfortunately my slot is closed. The rules give 7 days to do the job, where you can start whenever you want on the first weekend, and finish the same time on the next weekend - the jam on itch stays open to accept entries from later starters in late timzones. It's all good though - from past experience I know people play the bug fix version anyway.

Many thanks again, fixed for V3! This was present in the original version too, but doesn't happen every time - it was caused by receiving resources after death

Hello many thanks for reporting! Fixed and fixed!

Day 7 all the way:

I have been awake working on this for ~30 hours, and I am exhausted! The game is live here :

https://numeron.itch.io/necrofactory

I'll do a post mortem post in the coming days.

Day 7:

It's past midnight and I'm desparately trying to pull everything together before midday. Not really got time to share much, but thought this was a neat shot of a test play. Keep your peepers peeled in about 12 hours, because I'm sure this will be a success - just can't really take my attention away right now.

Day 6 (part 1)

Just a little level generation as a treat.

Day 5:

Functional buildings are all complete! So, conveyor belts carry items around, push them into storage or processors which can be configured to make shiny new items. Summoners can be created to generate undead from certain places around the world, but the summoned creatures will instantly attack them, so walls can be placed to divert them into damaging towers. And so, as you move through the map, you can gain resources by clearing out enemies and setting up new mini factories - and use them to create new armor/weapons/health potions etc to help you keep going.

Today, I'm onto world generation, which will have a few zones, but I'm trying to keep them generally small and uncluttered since player might spend some time building in each one before deciding to move on. Stressing about time as usual at this point - hopefully procgen doesn't take too long because in the past it's always been a killer, and I really want to spend more time on the gameplay this year.

Starting with some story, our hero sets off to build an army:

Day 4:

Fixed a lot of jank in yesterday's work, and added heaps of functionality - processors and storage piles and so on all work great, as well as mostly the towers. I'm still stuck against some big bugs though, one with clipping in the ui that's ruining lots of my stuff (as seen in yesterday's screenshot, how the scroll list isn't clipped to it's window), as well as missile animations being inexplicably broken, and infact causing rendring of the whole screen to screw up momentarily. Hope to get on those tomorrow - also consious of the fact that I'm half way through now... Tomorrow might hopefully do some quick wip level generation, and stuff to make me feel better about the timelines.

Anyway, have a processor (the world-graphic of which needs replacing) creating a product from inputs, and a picker pulling the prodcut out onto a conveyor:

And here's some towers in action (icons of which need some improvements also):

Day 3 (part 2):

Time slipped way from me, and I really need to get to bed so no detailed update, just a few gifs and screenshots:

Round robin conveyors accept evenly from around them, to prevent locking up any lines

A storage accepting some items:

Slightly broken picker and processor GUI

Day 3 (part 1):

Just wanted to quickly share this gif of an item on a build conveyor belt, which moves turn by turn as I wait. More gifs toward the end of the day!

Day 2:

Quite a lot of UI stuff today, with pretty much all of it out of the way. I'm not super happy with the book background but everything is operational up to and including assigning build options to the hotbar and entering/leaving construction mode. It's also prepped to send messages to the internal server to actually action, so tomorrow I'm hoping to complete constructing things, as well as operational stuff like a processor building to process bodies, and the conveyor belt functionality to move things around.

Don't mind the messy test map ;)

Day 1:

Not much in the way of game progress, but I have warmed up to the code base again after not touching it for a long time. I also had to sorted out a few of bugs that popped up - last year I merged everything I thought was useful code from that 7drl back into master, but never tested or tried to use any of it so there's plenty more functionality but lots of it is half broken. I've set up the project, added the menu screen and an introductory story, set up some basic look and feels, and some of the enemies (since they talk during the intro). Anyway here's the cute vignette I made for the menu screen to help get back into the swing of 3d and make sure it all works (it didn't initially!)

Edit: This game was a successfull completion of the 7DRL - check it out here: https://numeron.itch.io/necrofactory

Hello! My name is Numeron, and my entry for this year is:

Necro Factory will be a bit hack-n-slash, a bit of tower defence, and a bit factory building - The idea being that killing mobs drops resources that you can use to make towers, conveyor belts, constructors, and new mob spawners. For now, the idea is that you are trying to build your way up the map, which means clearing out harder monsters but access to more/new resources (like graveyards for creating skeletons), ultimately taking down a well defended city.

I'm not starting from scratch - I've been at 7DRLs for a long time now, this will be my 17th entry! I typically use the bones of my previous year's entry - ripping out stuff I don't need and building in everything new. This year will be no different, so the backing game and graphics engine of many previous years will be the same.

At midday on Saturday at my location, I will begin (about 30m!) so that's my deadline next weekend.

Best of luck to everyone!

As promised, the game is now up, please enjoy!

https://numeron.itch.io/rogue-vampire

Day 7:

It has been a long one! I've been working 24 hours straight to meet the deadline which is just now past - and the game is a success! I will package everything up for download after a bit of a break because I'm exhausted. I've also been dealing with a stupid swollen thumb from the bee sting.

Overall, the game came out better than I expected, I had low hopes at one point - as mentioned earlier, I wasn't really sure what direction to push the stealth mechanics, and through the week I was worried it would end up too combaty and samey as some of my past games, but it definitely isn't. Whether or not the new stealthy mechanics are any good though is up to you all! Your hero has very low health, and while he can go toe-to-toe with any one enemy, needs multiple enemies worth of blood to heal just one HP. There's lots of luring and cat-and-mouse with enemies, dashing out of view and then chasing them up from behind with a back-stab when they give up the fight.

Unfortunately I had to backtrack a bit on the planned abilities - I removed the spell book I had from the Day 2 gif, and simplified the UI and controls for 6 locked in abilities. These are available from game start, although 4 of the 6 cost blood from fallen enemies. There is no real character progression, however the world progresses instead - the enemies get harder, and the challenge increases. 

Will update soon with the itch page, and include there all the fancy finished product gifs :)

Day 6 Part 2:

I was stung by a bee on the thumb. There is a lot of natural land around where I live, so they're around, and they do come in the house after dark. I think sometimes they don't always make it back to their hive before nightfall and they get lost in the dark, attracted to our house lights, then work their way inside. Once in they're angry and confused, and this one whapped me on the back of the head so I grabbed at it and it stung my hand. Today (Day 7 morning) it's swollen making typing a little difficult... I was hoping I wouldn't have to pull an all-nighter tonight to get a full 24 hours of final work in before the technical deadline of Sunday 10am, but if this impedes me too much I might have to.

Anyway, on to progress from yesterday. I did something I never even conceived I would have to do and that's write an extention to my hedge maze algorithm (seen in green in the post above) to detect/remove swastikas - it created one for me clear as day, perfectly separated from the rest of the maze. Glad it happened to me and not someone else, so I could fix it ahead of time.

I've done full enemy placement and patrolling, and some AI improvements to better track the player based on where they last saw you, but still act predictably. Also to because they have limited FOV now, to keep looking at the player when they have to go around and obstacle to approach.

I added a peek ability that offsets the player fov by one tile so you can peek around corners.

I think I might re-do my UI a bit, because I want to streamline that part a bit - I'll just give all the abilities to the player up-front, and not have item pickups or anything, but they are still cost-gated by the amount of blood you have

Day 6:

Just some screenshots for now, showing some spawns, including those out of direct LOS. Will add words and stuff in a follow up post later tonight

Day 5 part 2:

Some shots of the final world to close out the day -

With all this in place, also faced some pretty serious performance issues, which are resolved now.

Day 5:

Stuck still on world generation :( the detail is taking much longer than anticipated because lots of terrain features from my older games haven't translated into the 3d engine as easily as I had hoped. Mostly old things which form dynamic connections to images next to them, are static multi-tile objects, or even just stick up a bit into the tile above are all messed up... For example, fixing all the stuff in this open courtyard -

such that it now looks like this -

Has taken a significant chunk of today. Luckily many of these assets are reused throughout the world so it's a larger step forward than just this area, but time is running out to actually make a unique feeling game out of the world.

On the minor plus side messing around with textures gives some great looking bugs. This is the same menu screen as the gif in my Day 1 post haha

Day 4:

Much map generation done today - most of the framework of the world. Still plenty of detail to fill in, but the whole game is connected start to end, and everything has a place to go. Below is a potato quality gif of a generated world start to end, with a bunch of differently styled areas. The mapgen has come out fine I guess, but I'm not sure how I feel about the approach as a whole...

Leading up to the challenge I was in several minds about what direction exactly  to take this game, and I think I panicked a bit and went with what's most familiar to me, which is one large "corridor" level. I'm not sure this is really best though... It's going to have to lose some purity with stealth, there will be definitely be unavoidable direct combat as a result of some choke points.

I still have time left tonight to fill this out, so tomorrow should hopefully be all complete, and I can work more on abilities and interesting AI and whatnot. Clock is ticking!

Day 3:

Started on map gen, but didn't get very far. I had some real-life errands to sort out and then after that I was plagued by a lighting bug that was causing the screen to flash red for one frame every few seconds, and it was giving me a migrane. Thankfully fixed now. Map generation always take a few days out of the time, so I'm not happy at the delay. I'm not really getting into the groove with it either, I'm not super happy with the results so far. I might need to revisit the overall world structure or something. I did find a cool maze drilling algorithm in my trash code pile though that I'm looking forward to bringing back to life for small hedge mazes in the castle garden area.

I'm having trouble with some terrain features, that are drawn in pixel art with a front/top perspective - especially multi-tile features I'm resigning to leaving "flat" like the statue below. It doesn't quite look right but it looks good enough I guess to keep going... It's gonna kill me though the more stuff I add because I'm kinda a perfectionist.

Can really see it in the super secret side perspective (not available in final game haha)

Day 2:

Been fixing up the in-game GUI and filling out my test map with new random things like fog and other various models, though there's still some replace-me images like the items below. I have a vampire main guy and here he is observing some human circulatory systems through a wall.

As a stealth game, you'll get to know where everyone is, though when they're out of sight it's just this - no enemy type or facing information. Enemies have half or quarter circle field of views which can only be seen when they're in line of sight.

As you acquire blood from defeated enemies, you can use it to purchase and power spells.

The spellbook is partially done, but will probably put it off now and finish it up later as I start putting together the actual spells.

All this UI taking much longer to do this now because unlike past games it's a) using a 3D engine which is more demanding of time and setup, and b) now includes mouse driven actions and audio which I've not historically had much experience with. Some of my animations and 3d work looks a little rough too - there's some nice smooth movement but it's jarred by occasional pop in/out for things entering leaving view and things like that. The fog is also jittery at the edges. If you look at the above gifs or just take it in general it's fine but the close details are messy. I'm going to have to keep my head on straight and ignore it until the end, otherwise I'll start to fall behind.

Tomorrow I want to skip ahead and start working on map generation. As a stealth game, the enemies and abilities all needs to fit in with the layout of the terrain.

Day 1:

Created a cool little diorama for the menu screen, featuring our protagonist sleeping in a coffin. I kinda want the menu options to scale x1.5 (x2 is too large) but all my text rendering is currently works with integers so it could be a huge can of worms to start digging around in. Other code using it might be assuming float->int casts, so perhaps better to leave it, or maybe re-create the backing font image instead.

The 3D work this time is coming easy, as the groundwork is all golden from last year. The coffin model took a bit, because I haven't really done any modelling beyond cubes and billboards, but after than I was able to put together the above screen quite fast. I have the 7DRL week off work so I definitely have time for *some* of this kind of frippery, but probably no more modelling because I'm not experienced enough to bash out quick and dirty models for everything that will exist.

I spent more time than I would have liked trying to fix some audio issues that made the background music jolt around in volume when fading to/from different screens. I really should spend some time after this competition smoothing out my audio code because it's all very slapdash - last year was the first time I've ever used audio in any of my games (embarrassing I know) and it's extremely 7DRL quality code. Anyway one of the recent Humble Bundles has a lot of great music to go with so that's a plus, and SFX is really hard to find but last year's set is still good for re-use.

The game kind-of loads a simple test map (with lots of missing textures and models) based on my pre-existing engine, but rather that starting to look into that, or UI or gameplay just yet, I instead got a short simple opening story sequence in, and also got a good way into knocking the help screen and the win/lose screens into a shape suitable for this game. Once all of this framework is more-or-less out of the way tomorrow so I'll get into the fun part!

EDIT: This entry was successfully completed - check it out here:

https://numeron.itch.io/rogue-vampire

Hello!

My name is Numeron, and my entry for this year will (likely) be called Rogue Vampire.

I haven't exactly worked out the goal and drive of the full game just yet, but it will be a stealth focussed game with a protagonist that is a vampire - Lurking in the shadows, surprise biting and using an array of vampire tricks to advance around a ye olde fantasy location.

Full disclosure, I'm not starting from scratch - I've been at 7DRLs for a long time now, this will be my 16th entry! I typically use the bones of my previous year's entry - ripping out stuff I don't need and shoving in everything new. This year will be no different, I am using the 3D graphics engine from last year's Dungeon Cards, and the backing game engine of many previous years.

It's 10AM on Sunday at my location, so that's my deadline next weekend.

Best of luck to everyone!

Requires Java 8+ to run - https://www.java.com

May thanks to DFuxa for a great playthrough!

Thanks a lot!

Added new version with option to disable the camera sway

Hey, thanks for your support!

I couldn't reproduce your issue exactly but I narrowed it down to a couple of potential things (depending on what you mean by can't escape) - an issue with the wonky hack I use to wait for the shooting animation to complete before allowing turns to continue (had lots of problems with this during the week), or bad telegraphing of being out-of-energy (note also you can draw a new hand by click the draw pile!). I fixed the latter by flashing the energy cards when trying to play abilities without enough, the former I'll need some more time for... Incidentally while playing around with it I found some unrelated issues with the mage aoe, in the case when it kills another mob so fixed that too!

I have released V1.1 with these changes, thank you!

Dungeon Cards - https://numeron.itch.io/dungeon-cards

Deep in the forest lies an ancient temple built upon a cursed ruin. Evil radiates from the depths, but you know that great risk comes with great reward. You're a rogue after all...

Dungeon Cards is a tactical deck-building roguelike. The cards in your deck are weapons you pick up along your descent. Positioning is very important, and taking a wrong step can put your limited health pool at risk, but as a sneaky rogue you're adept at maneuvering into the right place for the right attack.

I am crazy tired, I had to pull that all nighter after all, and even so I only really got a few hours to actually play test the game... the balance is probably completely shot, but hey, it's ready to goooo!

Day 6

Finally got all the enemy types in as well as moving and dying when injured, as well as card graphics, and also damage indicators which will be be important for an understanding of the consequences of a particular move. Also three level themes, starting with the forest seen below (having just jumped down a hole in a forest, this seems apt for the first levels).

This is going to sound crazy, but the game doesn't really play yet - the enemies have AI that positions them for attacks, but doesn't execute them yet.. so for 6 days I've been running on the hope that this whole idea actually works, because if it doesn't I've really painted myself into a corner! I may be starting on the last day, but it's technically Saturday morning and I started on Sunday midday - so really have until then and I can pull an all-nighter to keep polishing if I need, effectively giving me an additional day's of dev time. We'll see...

Oh incidentally, altering the graphics so often leads to a great bug if I forget to update the sheet - all the textures get mixed up haha it's a different trip every time

Day 5

With only 2 days to go I'm swinging between feeling like I have it under control, to being behind. I keep getting pulled back by additional clean-up detail like audio, and dual control with mouse/keyboard - I've never had audio or mouse in any game I've made before, so this really is a mold breaker. I got a start on all the attack cards, including working out what they do, how they upgrade, and how they go from being picked in the hand to applied on the board (different cards have different ranges, directions, may or may not be blocked by enemies etc). They aren't quite ready, but I really need to focus on a complete game to feel better about my timeline so that's today's job - enemy types, AI, and dungeon generation. Where previous years map generation has taken multiple days thanks to the sprawling nature of my past games, this will pretty much just be placement in the one room per level. Once that's done I can go back to the extensible stuff, like more or less cards, depending on how much time I have at the end.

Below is the current state of shield, spear and wand, but I also have sword, bow, axe, and dart

Thanks, lots is bought or acquired through creative commons, but most of it in some way yes! The tile sets I get help set a consistent design language (which I'm bad at doing from scratch), but often don't fill all the holes I'm after, so from there I extend and alter and re-color and re-size quite a lot.

Day 4

Progressing alright, but definitely feeling the pressure - I'm hoping the time left is enough, it sure helps that I've taken the week off work but I still only have 3 days!

The code base is really turning into a mess, I have a lot of animations and transitions and stuff, and rather than having a central controller for timing and input handling under certain conditions (e.g. disabled while transitioning) I've just added timer after timer, and there's a mess of "if this timer running do not do". I also have a lot of magic numbers to place things just so, which in some cases need to be kept consistent with other magic numbers making changing things hard. My HandHandler class is now 1600 lines long because it handles logic it's not supposed to and so much more! I will definitely be throwing this game in the bin after the competition is over, but keeping on with 3D in general for sure. I'm learning a lot!

I have effectively completed the card handling, and I added functionality to view the deck, upgrade/delete cards, and select new cards from an offering.

This is pretty much done, including card upgrade ability which as can see below adds a + to the attack title, and doesn't allow upgrade of energy cards above level 5.

I did this after the "level up" cards though so they are added to the hand and handled there - I'll probably move them over to the new system