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For the rebalance of skills into some sort of streamlined tree or crazy web-thing like in Path of Exile, I would offer a partial suggestion: Keep many of the crazier or more esoteric skills, but keep them off the "tree" as it were proper. Instead, let them be the purview of random, secret scattered hermits/gurus and whatnot that would perhaps impart them to you via a personal quest and/or some varying but possibly significant factor of time spent learning them to a master level that could prove a future edge for your character but would essentially take them "out of the world" for the time it took do to so----thus adding some degree of risk for unforeseen consequences as things develop without your input or even awareness.
I can't imagine that any of my feedback could be anything more than redundant, but I downloaded and played your game. Locational damage is awesome and I think your priorities will really differentiate URR from other new Roguelikes. I'm very eager to see where it heads. So please quit your job, abandon school, let your personal life atrophy, and develop this full-time. September is a long ways away.
. Mythical creatures are going to be a very small (and entirely optional) part of the game, since I very much want to focus on making something akin to a strategy/4x game in ASCII, as well as a roguelike. My current intention is to take about a month and a bit with only minimal development (it won't stop, but I need about 20k words of thesis written in the next month and a half) and then blitz 0.2.0 in September. 0.3.0 is going to be much smaller (just mechanics like sleeping, food, drink, morale, etc) so that should be much earlier after.Congrats on the grand fix release, here's hoping no further showstoppers emerge and you can take a well deserved sojourn to the land of everything-other-than-URR.
Depends on where the log dumps to-- there is a data file for the character I was playing (it's filled with gobbledygook), but otherwise I don't see a log file.
EDIT:
I ran it again and got another crash. No log file but I did get a runtime error.Code: [Select]src/console_c.c
Line 220
dat != ((void *)0) && (unsigned)(x) < (unsigned)dat-> w && (unsigned)(y) < (unsigned) dat->h
Occurred the first couple moves after walking in a newly loaded area. It occurs regularly.
Congrats on the Alpha release!
The vast array of skills available is pretty overwhelming. I was happy to see some presets to choose from, but I would very much like to see either ADOM style or Ogre Battle character generation-- general questions about moral situations and stuff like that to generate our character. It may also be better if the skills are combined into sets-- would also be interesting if some skills aren't explicitly known to the player, but that's not remotely necessary either way.
I agree with some of the previous posts that the landscape can be a bit jarring, but it's obvious enough where trees and cliffs are. I did not, however, notice a Cyclops that blended very nicely into the terrain.
I assume the health/stats portion of the gui isn't up because we're invincible for now, correct? I love where the combat is going- only being able to hit the legs of the cyclops was pretty interesting. Will there be a variety of attack types and a combat economy revolving around stamina and stuff of that sort?
Lastly- I hit a crash shortly after running defeating the cyclops. I'm not sure what the cause was, but it happened when making a few moves after probing the full functionality of the current GUI.
Love the work put into it man- good job.
Excellent work on making the first release----keep at it on all the hot fixin' excitement and come end of July you should have a sizable expectant audience awaiting 0.2.0.
So much moreso when you slay your cross-platform demons successfully as that'll be a major hurdle cleared.
I'm digging it so far. One thing I couldn't figure out was how to look at the health/injuries of my guy (army?), during and after combat.
It crashed two times for me. Both times was when the game loaded a new map-portion...
Seems cool though
Oh sweet I was wondering if this one was going anywhere. Good to see.
Left justify might make it more readable, have to agree with Darren there.
I love these over ambitious monsters. Lol!
- yeah, I agree, I've left justified it now!
Looks interesting and over-ambitious. I really hope you have the long-term determination to see this through
A few quick interface points:
- Left-adjust the combat log text. Hard to read at the mo.
- Colour theme the log text so it's easy to see what's going well or bad. "You miss" should be red, "you hit" green etc. Don't use too many colours, and keep consistent. Problem is the log is repetitive at the moment and it's easy to miss important details. I don't care what type of club he's wielding, I only care if he breaks my arm off.
- Group injuries together on the status window, and don't bother saying if something is uninjured.
- Have a little rethink on the display of grass in that second screenshot. At the moment it's messy, and it's hard to pick out the important details. Too much colour is the biggest problem. Stick to a small palette of similar colours, or preferably one constant colour. Also I'd suggest . instead of : for the symbol to make it cleaner.
For future development I would suggest focussing on the combat and in particular getting multi-unit combat fun and interesting. The rest of the game should surround this, as this is the unique point of the game that will hopefully stand out as the fun element. Also, it's probably more fun to code. Jumping and climbing are far less interesting. You won't get anyone to play your game if it's an epic jumping simulator with a side of combat
. To take your points in order:..
I would assume the level of the lake is the same as the level of the lowest land adjacent to the lake. Or the lake would just sort of run out. Right? :-)
Cliffs are fun to throw evil off of. And to jump down to escape the cowardly mooks that dare not follow you. You are probably wanting to make a realistic world with fewer cliffs. But in heroic fiction there is always plenty around.
http://swordofahkranox.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-year-comes-with-new-features.html
A bit tangential perhaps to the goings on afoot here directly, but these folks are definitely figuring some stuff out bit by bit at a good clip as far as these sorts of things go.
I have written a terrain/river generation program a long time ago, and the algorithm was simply something like "start river in a random point; while river has not reached the ocean, find the lowest pixel next to the river, and add it to the river". This algorithm did not generate meanders or deltas, but it did generate nice lakes (if the river falls into a local minimum, it fills all the land around it, until it breaks the wall). I am not an expert on rivers, but I have a feeling that flat lakes and rivers going strictly downwards are more natural (don't rivers carving through hills, subterranean rivers, canyons, and lakes with towering cliffs form simply because there is a kind of rock (limestone) which is very poor at blocking the water, effectively making the river generation algorithm treat it like air?). Anyway this was intended as just a fun simulation, not a game.
