Thursday 12 December 2013

Plans for free time.

I have a few ideas I would like to get rolling once I have some free time.

The first, is removing the randomly cycling tile sets, and instead having multiple exits per floor, each of them leading to a different tile set. Each of the tile sets would have unique themed creatures. Ideally they would all have decent item drops so there is an incentive to explore each tile set.
 Sporesluts will most likely be only in the grass tile set, and Slimes only in the Dungeon one.
 This will also effect Chaos Mode, however I will likely add a option that disables this restriction as well.

 If you have a creature that fits well with one of the tilesets, I'd love to get that submitted as soon as possible, even though I am on a break from working on the game.

 I'd like to put Chaos Mode and the unnamed Mode behind some sort of unlock wall, but have not decided how it will be handled yet.

 Another plan is the removable of Equipment Bags, and making them simply give you the equipment the moment they are picked up. They only exist to separate the equipment loot from the primary loot, but now I have means of making them automatic and there's no reason for them to stay.

 I'd like to also add a certain 'rare' enemy, that only 1, maybe 2 or 3, of spawn per floor. The idea is a Goblin gal that runs around with a bag of loot, and can take treasure chests. When defeated you get all the treasure chests they looted, as well as a base number of chests (probably 2 - 4 randomly). However they will scale in power for every chest they take. I have an idea for what they would Transform the player into as well, but I will keep that a surprise.

 There is of course the crash bug as well, but I have removed a good deal of old code related to the inventory, and I think I have fixed it. Time will tell.

 Anyways, just wanted to let you all know I am still around and still thinking about the game. Looking fore ward to not being dead tired every day because of the current craziness at work.

 PS: Chat removed until I am back to having enough free time. No one was using it anyways. This probably means after the first big update next year.