PixelPaladin

Thank you!
A map is definitely helpful (I always had to draw one so that I don’t get lost in all that rooms ^^). It can also be a bit confusing that there are no circles – which means that going NORTH→EAST→SOUTH→WEST does not bring you back to the same room. It is more like the tunnels connecting the rooms are different in length (implementing it this way was the easiest way to get a procedurally generated dungeon that is different each time while keeping the code size small).

I hope that helps.

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PixelPaladin5 years ago

Could be some kind of bug since I remember removing one in the later version but I don’t know if it already existed in this early version. But it could also be that the structure of the dungeon is not that intuitive. The dungeon is different every time and the layout of the rooms is basically a tree structure, so there should be no circles … it’s more like the corridors connecting the rooms can be different in length. Going NORTH→EAST→SOUTH→WEST does not mean that you went in a circle.

 Not like this:       |  More like this:
                      |
 #######     #######  |  #######     #######
 #     #     #     #  |  #     #     #     #
 #  2> .......  3  #  |  #  2> .......  3  #
 #     #     #  v  #  |  #     #     #  v  #
 ###:###     ###:###  |  ###:###     ###:###
    :           :     |     :           : 
    :           :     |  ###:###        : 
    :           :     |  #  ^  #        : 
    :           :     |  #  1  #        : 
 ###:###     ###:###  |  #     #        : 
 #  ^  #     #     #  |  #######        : 
 #  1 5....... <4  #  |                 : 
 #     #     #     #  |  #######     ###:###
 #######     #######  |  #     #     #     #
                      |  #  5  ....... <4  #
                      |  #     #     #     #
                      |  #######     #######

If you have have problems finding your way through the dungeon you can try to always stay at the right or at the left wall. This also works in most normal labyrinths (but not in labyrinths with circles).

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PixelPaladin5 years ago (1 edit)

Thanks! Like I wrote it would be possible to reduce the size of the code and make the card more readable. I made a simpler version at first with a bigger font size and even a qr code that linked to the page on itch.io. But I think the final version is a lot more fun.

Just in case you want to test it, this is the smaller earlier version:

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(EDIT: The code didn’t fit in properly – so I did some formatting …)

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PixelPaladin5 years ago

Thx! I hope you didn't rip up your version of the card =^_^=

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PixelPaladin5 years ago

Thank you! It was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the jam. But – to be honest – I don’t think that this was the original idea behind the rule ‘Your game should fit onto a business card ...’ :)

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PixelPaladin5 years ago

Thank you! 😄️

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PixelPaladin5 years ago

🤔 Hmm … so … do you think it is against the rules?

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PixelPaladin5 years ago

😺

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PixelPaladin5 years ago

Well, I don’t have time to make YouTube videos right now. However there already are a lot of good tutorials out there.

First of all – all the tools and assets used to create this game are completely free.

For the graphics I used KolourPaint, which is a bit like the old msPaint from Windows XP (but for Linux and with support for alpha channels). But I would not recommend this tool anymore since in newer versions there are a lot of bugs – so I switched over to Aseprite (which is awesome).

https://www.aseprite.org/

Aseprite costs 15$ but you can also download it from GitHub for free and built it from source (not sure if you can use it for commercial projects that way).

https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite

If you need good tutorials on Aseprite or pixel art in general, this guy has a lot of useful videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/atMNRArt

There are countless tutorials on the web.

Retro style sounds effects can easily be made using something like sfxr (I think I used bfxr for this game which is essentially the same).

https://stammel.net/projekte/sfxr/

Music is always my biggest problem. But there are a lot of free assets online that can even be used commercially (when using free assets you should always be very careful about the license). One of the best places to find free game assets (not only music) is opengameart.org.

https://opengameart.org/

Programming was done in a language called MonkeyX2. But I also code a lot in CerberusX (which is a fork of the predecessor if Monkey2). Both are completely free* and can be used for commercial games. The communities are very small for both of them but the people there are extremely friendly and will help you if you run into any problems.

https://www.cerberus-x.com/

http://monkeycoder.co.nz/

I hope that helps at least a little bit.

* please support the developers if you like these tools.