Developer posts and news about this game.
I didn't have time to post last week, but I've made a lot of progress recently! Mainly with fixes, balancing and more scripted scenarios. These scenarios appear as islands in the sea of the procedurally generated dungeon, where they grow out of their respective biomes when at ful
This week my main focus was to try and make one of the major custom scripted events that will exist in the game and complement the procedurally generated content. I had as a summer-project to architect more characters and questlines but it fell short as my mind was entirely elsew
Initial feedback This week I picked up development again after a quite extensive summer break. Before summer, I felt the need to digest what I currently had, and to get some initial feedback. The main comment people had was that the difficulty level was too high, which I could so
Most of the focus this week has again been on preparing for a first private test build of the demo. This included adding support for persistent logging of errors and versioning. There is of course a ton of content left to produce, mostly for the full game but it's high time that
This week I started realising an idea I had for how elements should be distributed in the world. My original idea was that various parts of the Coil should have different elements, and these would affect the visual appearance, item properties, mobs, and custom events therein (dep
There were a few lingering things to look into to conclude the SDL3 migration, like borderless fullscreen, audio handling and setting correct glyphs depending on gamepad type. I also took the opportunity to add SNES inspired button glyphs to iOS for the onscreen buttons. If you c
This week I started on a native Linux version. I noticed that the default SDL2 dev library on Linux is now just a compatibility layer (sdl2-compat) to SDL3. To avoid any middleware related complexity, and as I knew I eventually had to migrate at some point anyway I decided that i
I've come to the realisation that the todo list for this game will never be empty as every time I playtest new things are inevitably added. It's all about becoming better at prioritising and consistently moulding the experience to the vision. That said I'm quite pleased with this
This week I've done some work on input bindings and button glyphs; As I intend to make gamepads the primary source of input for this game, it feels like something that is definitely nice to have. Basically the glyphs added can be embedded in labels to show which button is bound t