Last time a funny thing happened. I had what I thought was a super hairy, not-realistically-going-to-happen-alongside-real-life-obligations problem that I then solved the next day over lunch. So now I can proudly say that I did what I set out to do. Last time I had a couple of huge issues with the combat: The player's … Continue reading Roguelike Tutorial: It’s Over! →

Last week I didn't get much done but set some goals for myself. How did that turn out? Goal 1: Jazz Up the Escape I ended up going with the Necromancer idea. I'm mostly happy with how it turned out. The biggest blunder was not realizing that if the Necromancer's Skeletons dropped corpses like most … Continue reading Roguelike Tutorial: Back on the Horse →

Last time I mostly wrote about the roadblocks I was stumbling over. This post is going to be short because I haven't committed a single line of code since then. In addition to the roadblocks themselves I had some unexpected life obligations come up and gotten practically no work done on the codebase itself. I … Continue reading Roguelike Tutorial: Blocked →

I'm mostly happy with where my little game has settled so far. My favorite change since last time came when I finally got tired enough of accidentally fireballing myself to do something about it. Since the game already had a TARGETING game-state as well as a targeting_item variable in the main loop, it ended up … Continue reading Roguelike Tutorial: The Beginning of the End →

Last time I thought the Wraith was a complicated feature. This time I found myself implementing an even more difficult one: stairs. If you're familiar with the finished game, you know it already has stairs. But really it's more like a "blow up the entire world, build a new one, then say it was from … Continue reading Roguelike Tutorial: n Steps Forward, n-1 Steps Back →

A brief note about the code samples: My goal is to make it possible to get the gist of what I did, but not to provide a full tutorial. If something makes no sense, please tell me, but if something doesn't run exactly as presented it's probably because it uses other code that's in the … Continue reading Roguelike Tutorial Week 3: The Wraith →

(If you're looking through the blog archives: no, there's no post about Week 1. I didn't blog about it because I was mostly just copying someone else's code.) Recently I discovered the roguelikedev subreddit was collectively inviting people to start a roguelike tutorial. I originally planned to follow along at the same pace, but then … Continue reading Roguelike Tutorial Week 2: Sanding Some Edges →