Hey Heroes,
Welcome to this week’s Heroes’ Hall!
We hope you’re ready to put your adventuring gear on as we’re looking at dungeons!
This update will not only look at the dungeons themselves, but what kinds exist and how they work!
You see, dungeons are a large part of Rogue Heroes, I mean where else are you going to get all that sweet loot! Successful dungeoneers will earn the gems and rewards required to not only upgrade their character but also the village.
Oh, and there’s one more thing you’ll want to be aware of heroes, each dungeon is uniquely generated upon entering. This means that no dungeon is the same twice, even on multiple playthroughs!
Main Dungeons
Terakar Keep
Terakar Keep is the first dungeon you’ll encounter in Tasos!
Fear not though brave heroes, you’ll learn the ropes in this dungeon and earn a few gems to get the village off the ground.
This is the first of four primary dungeons that are located in each region of the Tasos overworld. Defeating each dungeon will provide the core progression for you becoming a stronger hero.
Each major dungeon you encounter will have a different tile set and theme, from swamplands and fiery jungles to a mighty ice mountain!
Welestar Chambers
Welestar Chambers is the second primary dungeon, located deep in a murky swamp full of deadly deep mud!
Inside you’ll battle through entirely new traps and enemies as you seek the main chamber…
Side Dungeons
In addition to the main dungeons to explore and loot, Tasos boasts a selection of side dungeons that can be completed to unlock new areas, tools and even hero classes!
Lets take a quick look at two examples of these below –
Mausoleum
One side dungeon you can encounter is the Mausoleum. In order to find it though you’ll need to figure out a secret to make the entrance appear.
Once you’ve tested your brains, you’ll put your brawn to the test as the Mausoleum is a combat focussed dungeon! Those that successfully brave the depths to help out one of the locals will earn themselves a new class to use.
Mines
The Mines are a unique dungeon that unlocks access to new areas of exploration!
Bold heroes will have to fight through twisty mine shafts and navigate mine shaft elevators as they delve through this multi-layered dungeon.
Keep a close eye out for lurking Araknars and use the mine carts to solve puzzles as you climb your way to the top!
How a dungeon is made!
In Rogue heroes, no two dungeons are the same. How do we do this? Well…
The game’s main dungeons are generated by laying out a random path through the multiple floors, adding side rooms and distractions along the way to remove linearity and reward exploration.
So many options!
A different adventure every time!
Small keys are placed in chests and as rewards for those who finish puzzle and combat encounters, giving heroes the ability to unlock doors and progress deeper into the dungeon in question.
Each dungeon will have a boss that needs defeating. In order to access this boss door heroes will need to loot the dungeon until they find the boss key!
Dungeon Rooms
Every room that makes up the dungeons in Rogue Heroes is handmade. The main benefit of this being the dungeon rooms don’t have the drawbacks of uninteresting, fully randomised designs.
Having said that, the rooms have different configurations depending on how you enter them as well as different enemy spawns and randomly picked features so that these room templates can feel different dozens of times!
Certain puzzles in the rooms like block puzzles are completely randomised so you’ll never have the solutions memorised and will have to put your puzzle solving hat on each time to tackle a dungeon.
By combining handmade rooms with procedural layouts, randomised keys, traps, chests, puzzles and enemy mobs we can get the benefits of an infinite dungeon exploring experience without the odd looking and rough elements of being fully randomised.
We hope you enjoyed this first look the dungeons of Tasos and how they’re created!
See you next week!
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