I hate you for this… and i love you.

I’m better than yesterday, and worst than tomorrow.

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=39617

The Gold Eaters

The Idea

Basically i create a rogue-like where you play a monster. All start for the simple joke/question : why monsters keep gold coins if they do nothing : because they eat them.

So the game became a race to grab gold coins before humans, and other monster.

Objectives

• Make a 2D game
• Create Sprites
• Create randomly generated level
• Create IA controlled monsters
• Add a real progression with even a tutorial

What went good

• I have finished the game, and that’s good.
• I add visual effect : bloom, blur ad chromatic distortion
• I worked mainly on dummy asset and add graphics slowly. It allow me create a better code, and to avoid my usual issue taking too much time on graphics
  The IA system worked but the settings is not perfect to create most of the interaction : human and monsters have condition, objectives, and could really surprise the player. Its a basic FSM, badly implemented but it worked.
• I create the main theme alone with Ableton Live

What went wrong

• No game over.
• A downscale of definition between unity and the webplayer
• No effects or indication when you hit somedbody else (make fight unreadable)
• I’m still bad with UI, and it lack of some button.
• The speed of the NPC is bdaly implemented, as all the travelling system is chaotic.
• It lack of a longer objective.
• The animation of the knight is on 2 frame, and it’s ugly
• I removed a chest system who should have been the main source of gold coins
• the hitbox size is too variable
• the exit door can’t be enter, you only touch them

Improvements

• Add a path finding system
• Remove diagonale movement and let the player move along a grid
• Memorize the room and create connection between them
• Create more source of gold
• Improve the fighting system
• Add other monsters and others heroes.

Conclusion

Third LD not my most innovative idea but i tried to avoid my old issues, and i was pretty proud of myself, it took 20h to reach that based on technics from the 2DRogue-Like tutorial of Unity, but i made so huge modification that it became quite a mess in the code.

I still like this idea of reverse rogue-like, with the what do monsters when heroes are not there, and what are they doing with all that loot.

Maybe a good idea for a bigger game…