OnlyLuck

Part time Solo Indie Game Dev. Full time jack of all trades, master of none!

OnlyLuck since the Xbox Live Beta in 2001!

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Dungeons of Desolations Remastered on Steam is Coming Soon!
https://t.co/4qB5a0Hvt6

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@adredev Just release it and pray!? 😂

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@Grummz I honestly wonder how many great products are ruined by people needing to justify their positions.

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@Grummz What about the jobs? If they didn’t fiddle with it, what would the people who worked there do? Just sustain support? You can’t call yourself creative or pay a huge salary for that.

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It is pretty cool when you discover surprisingly awesome character builds in a game you made.

I call this one the “Sleep Blade.” You have a much higher chance to land a melee crit on sleeping enemies, and when you can put them to sleep yourself... fun!

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Other changes:
- Major updates to skill trees
- New level generation system that has a nice mix of procedural and hand authored content
- New enemies and enemies kills
- Changes to shielding spells/scrolls, they now absorb damage instead of increasing defense
- Sealed rooms, defeat all enemies to escape
- Plus more...

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The new bosses are a great addition to Dungeons of Desolation Remastered. Adding some challenge and rewards.

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Been quietly working away at Dungeons of Desolation, focusing on game play balance and UI polish.

Also, new bosses!

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I felt like you still needed to grind a bit for Gil to buy some potions, but not much if you got all the items in the castle and town.

I remember one play through on the SNES grinding Cecil and Kain up a huge amount and in the process finding the Imp Summon that could be taught to Rydia. Only every saw that once.

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@FLManStan @RetroMoviesDB Wow, I remember this show now, I always thought it was called “G-Force”, crazy! Thanks for some good memories.

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@Paintdotnet @inkscape * two

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I have really gotten back into the groove of using @Paintdotnet and @inkscape for my game art. To absolutely amazing pieces of software!

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I really do need to finally upgrade the game to draw layers so I do not need to repeat the same tiles. Some day...

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I have found dull tooling is the perfect use case for vibe coding! The stakes are relatively low as the tooling itself doesn’t ship in the final product and the requirements are usually pretty clear. I have found switching back and forth between Codex and Claude Code based on the latest model and their cost working pretty well.

For my remaster project, I’ve vastly extended an editor I originally hand-coded back in 2012. Having tabular stats and graphs directly in the editor is a much nicer workflow than balancing everything in Excel and repeatedly importing it. I wouldn't have wasted the time building or even vibe coding this a year ago.

Same with vibe coding my own web-based task-management and analytics platform with Git integration, so I can tie all my testing session directly to a Git commit!

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Got my first wishlist deletion today since putting up the Steam page for Dungeons of Desolation Remastered. Thirty-three additions, and somehow it’s the one deletion I’m thinking about 😅

Apparently I’m taking it like a breakup: “Whoever you are, I’m sure you had your reasons, but I’ll do better. Please come back. I can make you happy... the game is fun, I promise...”

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Force wave is another OP spell that is only 8 CP. Damages, knocks back and chance to stun!

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Going to try to make the NPCs in town full characters like the player, instead of just the head icons.

Still going to use the icons for the MOBs in the dungeon for readability, feel it is important you can quickly understand the enemy type.

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More upgrades to the town graphics.

Added lighting to the building! This is something I wanted to do way back in 2012 in the original, but it fell off the priority list. Added old screenshot for comparison.

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The "Whirl" skill attacks all tiles surrounding the player and it only costed 8 CP (Concentration Points) in the original game?! That needs some balancing, way too OP!

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The original "Charge" skill is useful to get out a tight spot, but I think it needs different name, as I keep thinking it should be World of Warcraft charge to close the gap to an enemy...

Hmm, maybe it should, it could use some love.

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Trying out new graphics for the town level. Still needs work but much better than the original.

Removing the player lighting helped a lot. Need to add some other lighting.

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Having an item/skill to display turn order is another new feature that is being experimenting with.

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Also, trying out some new warmer lighting in the dungeon and new floor tiles. Not quite right, but improving...