Dragon Down

Devlog

• Adding item system
  November 10, 2021 by blackears

  The game now has a rudimentary item system. So the player now has an inventory the can carry around. I've also created some simple menus for consuming items and buying things in shops. Godot's UI syst... Continue reading
• Whoops - posted wrong build for Devtober. Fixed now.
  November 01, 2021 by blackears

  I just realized that the final I posted for Devtober was actually an earlier in-progress build and not the actual final. I should have double checked after uploading. It's now been replaced with a ver... Continue reading
• Devtober Postmortem
  November 01, 2021 by blackears#devtober

  I participated in Devtober this year and now that Hallowe'en is upon us, it's time for the post jam postmortem. Spooky! Origin story This development arc for me actually started about a week before th... Continue reading

  
• Devtober Wrap-up
  October 31, 2021 by blackears

  It's October 31 and the Devtober jam is nearly over and Dragon Down has come a long way. I learned quite a bit about drawing sprites and tilesets, composing music and learning lots of the weird quirks... Continue reading

  
• New town, dialog, cut scenes and scene transitions!
  October 28, 2021 by blackears

  There have been a lot of additions with this update. First you may notice you now start in a town area. This is a new tileset to provide a new terrain for the user to explore. In the village are a few... Continue reading

  
• Boss fight!
  October 18, 2021 by blackears

  DragonDown now has a dragon! Just walk through the dark cave entrance to start the fight. This turned out to be a much bigger challenge than I was expecting. A three part monster (body, head tail) whe... Continue reading

  
• Missiles, health drops and a new enemy
  October 12, 2021 by blackears

  In this update I wanted to add secondary items such as heath picks and missiles enemies can throw. So I created a rock throwing bat! Try to stay out of the way of the rocks he tosses... Continue reading
• Working on enemy AI
  October 11, 2021 by blackears

  Enemy AI is something I'm new to and it's turning out to be pretty complicated! I've been able to smooth out some of the earlier kinks, so fighting should be a lot more fair now. I've also added more... Continue reading
• Adding a win condition
  October 09, 2021 by blackears

  More art and game development. I've added some doors to the cave, so it's possible to get in and out (not that there's anywhere to go at the moment). More importantly, there is now a win condition! Ju... Continue reading

  
• Fake scripting
  October 08, 2021 by blackears

  Next Devtober blog! Biggest change is refactoring the Enemy code so that its state machine is broken into several classes. Does not change gameplay, but makes organizing the code much easier. Instead... Continue reading
• Initial upload - sprites and fighting!
  October 08, 2021 by blackears

  This release demonstrates some of the game sprites and world tiles I've created, as well as an early glimpse at the combat system. There's no story yet - just defeat the one lizard guy. Or not... Continue reading