And its over - Day 7 Conclusion

In the end I was able to put together very basic game play on top of something that has potential to be an interesting top down graphical roguelike. It implements raycasting for FOV and lighting, smooth movement and most important entity orientation. But top down projection has its drawbacks as its hard to make visually interesting NPC's. I lost a lot of time shaping my vision of the story, which at the and was completely cut out. Rewriting the rendering part (as I realized that making a huge texture from the map data is not the best idea for larger maps) didn’t help either. Now its not much of a game, but more of a playable tech demo. As a game contest, this is definitely a failure, but a playable one ;-).

Features:

Dynamic lighting
Smooth movement
Tile based graphics
Orientation of characters
Keyboard and mouse controls

Planed but Missing:

proper character development
ranged weapons
better enemy graphics
more items
and tons of other stuff

Technical

Developed in Java using my own small 'RL' library and LibGDX. Some parts of code was copy/ paste/edit form an old prototype. Game play and graphics was done during the 7 days. Hoping to make an after 7DRL android port, but only after I make the game fun to play.

Tested on Windows XP an Ubuntu Linux.

Java 1.6 or higher required.

Get the final version here.

Day 7

- Main menu, help, main game screens

- Fullscreen mode.

- Intro story.

- AI updates.

- Enemy variations.

- More weapons.

- UI tweaks.

- Tileset and sprite finalization.

- Level generation tweaks.

- Basic game master implemented.

- Last minutes bugfixes.

Day 6

FUUUCK!

- Rendering engine rewrite.

Day 5

- Healing items.

- Pickable items.

- Death.

- Inventory.

Day 4

- Bugs, bugs bugs.

- Confirm dialogs.

Day 3

- Fuck I'm too tired :)

- New tiles.

- Reimplementing tile types.

Day 2

- Level generator from Fear4k.

- Circular rooms.

- Movement BUG hunting.

- Continuous keyboard movement and mouse interaction.

- Basic AI.

- Messagess.

- Time to implement more in-depth combat rules.

Day 1

22:45 - Basic blood implemented, time to call it a day.

21:45 - And as always, wasting time with graphics :-/

19:30 - First enemy entity.

14:30 - Refuctoring asset loader.

11:40 - Simple UI

10:40 - Camera movement

09:00 - Time to start with the gameplay screen...

True Heroes Always Die

7DRL 2013 Edition