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Account for posting about games by FOTD Games Generally whatever game i'm trying to convince myself i'll finish this time.
fotdgames.itch.io/rogue-to-des... No particular fanfare, but i've just pushed the first beta release of Rogue To Destruction to public on Itch. Think Turn Based Brotato, kind of? I would love any feedback.
Rogue to Destruction by FOTD Games
Turn Based Arena Battler
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Well, that was a horrible bout of demotivation... But, Now we've got a magical bow in, with idle, and attack animations. Down to just a few sprites i need to replace before i've redone all the art from #Kenney art. #RogueToDestruction #GameDev
Art... upgrade? Heh. Change at least. Starting to replace the Kenney placeholders. The cat? No, those aren't grenades in his pouch. Don't ask.
The greedy playtesting bot makes decisions i would.. never make. Charge/Zap is... a... build... I guess. To be fair, it's a lot more mobile than i play. #RogueToDestruction #GameDev
One advantage to having a Crowd Excitement mechanic is that you can mine it for cool hype shots from your unit tests! Here we have a rogue utterly dominating the start of Round 9. Debating if i need to replace the Kenney assets entirely before i publish it on Itch or not.
Some visual updates, some new upgrades, and a reward for hitting level 5. #Gamedev #RogueToDestruction
Rogue To Destruction: Upgrades
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Starting to add in the crowd. Now, to make em useful. After all, you can already hear when you get em excited... they should be able to throw you useful things when they like you. Hopefully... they don't have anything to throw if they don't. #gamedev #roguelight
youtu.be/P7sc4v2Czeg A turn based Brotato-Like. Heh. #Gamedev It's fun enough to make testing distracting.
Rogue To Destruction
YouTube video by FOTD_Games
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I found myself wondering how hard it would be, with modern tools, to translate Rom2.4b6 to a 2d graphical game. So, i grabbed school.are, and Claude, and started designing and testing. Now, at this point , i've got a minimal Rom2.5D (heh), that's playable. Curious if there's interest.
Did you know bsky is a game distribution platform? If only most QR code scanners accepted data: urls, you'd be able to play the worlds most minimal version of #guitarhero #gamedev
Ooooh, the minimap is working now. First view of the island the game takes place on.
Slimes in games are always just piles of goo. What happens if you have a pile of sentient rgb goo? Mimics. Mimic's are what you get when you have a pile of sentient, angry, rgb goo.
Huh. Those turkey legs, and bombs keep getting knocked off the belt and into that pit. But if i poke this switch... the turkey legs go through. Bet... there's another switch for the bombs. (Well, there will be when i build it... hehehe) #ZeldaLike #solodev
fotdgames.itch.io/roguelike-ac... Well, it's out there on Itch now. The Wizard, and the Warrior are fully implemented, and 3/5 floors have some content, along with a bit of an ending when you reach the third floor boss. #indiedev #roguelike
Roguelike Academy: Freshman Year by FOTD Games
A traditional roguelike, about a nontraditional school.
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fotd-games.com I think i've cleaned up most of the bugs i know about, and i'm in a passable spot for a game at 0.3.x. Heh. #gamedev #roguelike
Oooooh man. Just got my new logo back from www.fiverr.com/dens_saputra (Gotta advertise the artist), and daum does it look better than the poor little nonsense i made.
So, i've just pushed out a playable build of my game. "Roguelike Academy. Freshman Year" fotd-games.com This is version 0.3.0, so, while it's playable, and beatable, and most of the features are there... bugs likely abound. All of the art, and music are placeholders. #Roguelike #solodev
"Tobias wanders instead of moseying." Extract from my current bug list. #indiedev
Quick tour through the first floor of Roguelike Academy: Freshman Year, as a fledgling warrior. #roguelike
Rogue Academy: Freshman Year
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It feels kinda like a cheat that just generating a level, rotating it 3 degrees, and lerping it past makes a decent title screen.
Out of curiosity, how many people have "Upstairs" projects, and "Downstairs" projects? or something similar? I have one game i'm working on in my office, and the little PoC i just pushed out was (until yesterday) my upstairs project, for when i'm jiggling the baby, or minding the youngin.
imgur.com/a/PtQAnm8 An actual run of the little Randomizer Concept, did better than i did on my initial post. Heh.
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I've built the worlds smallest randomizer. It's got a Sphere 0, a Sphere 1, and a Sphere 2. Proper logic is followed when laying out the items. Sphere 1 requires either the key or the ring of jumping, sphere 2 requires *both*. In theory, there's a sphere 3, ([key|ring] sword), but you can
This is the first image of a succesfull spawn of the third floor, with the miniboss room, the stairs and everything connected. I'd still call it a fail, because the way the corridor is drawn into the boss area breaks some specific corridor rules, but damn does it feel nice to have it in.
I've been working on wizard spells. Here, we get to see one of the wizards starting spells (Curse of Life Drain, a DoT), and one of the more powerful spells, Ice storm. #gamedev #roguelike
All of the wizard spells in the spellbook work. They've all got VFX, and at least some upgradability. All of the base warrior skills are in place. Seems like its time for content, balance, and polish. #gamedev #roguelike
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Been a *while* since I've posted. I've gotten pulled into a roguelike project, that's still nameless, working heavily with Claude. Just pushed a 0.1.0 release this weekend. The warrior is the only class implemented "fully" and balance is... not. genrl-gtft2.ondigitalocean.app Super pre alpha.
Working on a tileset generation tool for my own pipeline. I'm betting there's tools that already do exactly this, but i don't know what they are, and it feels like the learning curve to find and master them is higher than the effort curve of just writing my own.
