I starded making a this dungeon crawler game a long time ago, but I didnt make much. Now Im starting to work on it again so i decided to share my progress. Its not realy a game at all yet, just a lot of concepts and ideas.
So, heres what its hopefully going to be: I want it to be a dungeon crawler game, where you go through floors filled with skeletons, magic trees and moss creatures and chests with weapons and armor and then destroy all root-cores to go to deeper, larger floors. All the floors exept for boss floors will be proceduraly generated by coneecting individual rooms.
Here are all the things i curently have to show off:
(Ive lost a lot of the drawings, so theres very little)
I also made a particle system with fire, lightning and general moving particles
It could look like a decend amount of stuff, but most is still to be created. That includes the inventory and item system, combat and very importantly the name. I still dont know what to call this game.
If you have any ideas of any sort, concepts, game mechanics, bosses, music, anything, write a reply, it will be very helpfull.
I love the dungeon generator!
Every time I see a dungeon generator, it makes me want to make one myself and make a huge dungeon crawler game… …and then I get stuck on something else… …and then I don’t ever finish it.
I would LOVE to see a large scale dungeon crawler like this pulled off in makecode. It could be the big game we need as a high-profile makecode example for the upper limits of the engine. (which are pretty high, there just isn’t enough games to show it)
Hi, i have a bit of an update of what ive been doing. So firstly, there was a bug in the generator that could sometimes leave random color on random spots, but that was an easy fix. Then, i started working on one of the most complicated things in this game:the items. Here is the code i used to test it(if you “play” it, you wont see much. Its mainly about the code)https://arcade.makecode.com/S51337-11350-49365-44155
Also, ive seen a post about an extension that allows you to have two different screens with multiplayer, meaning you cloud bring a friend with you to the dungeon. If i start planing for that right now, it wont be much of a struggle, but if i finish the game and then try adding multiplayer, it would be very dificult.
So
Make it multiplayer
Keep it singleplayer
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Also, @Rune thank you for the exitement for this game, and i would realy like if my game would be seen as a"high profile example". I think that compared to scratch, theres less of big great games in makecode, and i think its propably mainly because its not as populat(or maybie im just not that good at searching)
While multiplayer is a cool feature that could be added, I feel like its a scope creep thing. You should totally focus on making an amazing single-player game first, and then maybe add it if you want.
I worked on the items and animations a little. Its better, but still pretty bad. Drawing low resolution pixel art is dificult. But mainly, i worket on some simple enemy ai and it will work like this: the enemy ai will have different modes depanding on the situation and those modes will controll the enemy in different ways. Heres what the modes will propably be:
Wonder: walks slowly around the place the enemy spawned or around the place where it has last seen the player
Chase: goes straight towards the player and attacks if close enought
Shoot: stands in one place and shoots the player(for ranged enemies)
Retreat: goes away from the player when too close(for ranged enemies)
Search:quickly walks to the place where it has last seen the player, hoping to find him again (this can be “abused” against ranged enemies by hiding behind a corner and letting them come to you making them powerless)
Also, im a member now AND i got a “New user of the month” award, which i really appreciate.
