Greetings everyone!
Work continues on creating the new spider dungeon - and all the new little systems that come with it.
Spider Species:
I have pretty much finished the new Spider species, revising the art, creating new sounds, and giving them a new ability, a little ball of web that restrains the target. "Restrained" is a new status effect that stops the actor from being able to move, and gives some penalties when attacking while restrained.
I still have to do some balancing of their stats, but the new enemy is pretty much done!
Dungeon:
The new upgraded dungeon is by far the task I have underestimated the most. This is mostly because I'm adding several little systems that didn't exist before, such as the ability for tiles (Spiderwebs) to inflict status effects on actors, applying the new lighting system, and also adding some very much needed features to my dungeon generator.
Overall, I'm really happy with how the new dungeon is turning out, and the new modding tool to edit structures is coming in handy!
Fire simulation:
I have made good progress with the fire sim, adding a flammability stat to objects that affect how easy it is to catch on fire, and also creating the art for the flames (still not final).
Fire now also affects the lighting, which is a cool effect when burning the spider cave to the ground!
I'm also starting to work on some bug fixes, polish and performance issues in preparations for the Alpha 0.5 release. There's still a lot of work ahead, but soon it should be up on Itch!