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[eigenbom]

Interesting, when I spoke to you at PAX you weren't going to do Early Access because you thought it would dilute your sales on release. I'm interested in what changed your mind..

Menu looks great btw.

[JigxorAndy]

Interesting, when I spoke to you at PAX you weren't going to do Early Access because you thought it would dilute your sales on release. I'm interested in what changed your mind..

Menu looks great btw.

I talked with a couple of other devs and people, and it basically seemed like it was a worthwhile thing to do!

[muzboz]

It does seem like a pretty good idea.

You get people playing the game earlier, which is nice.  And you can start to get some money coming in.

And you can get a sense for what people want to see more of the most, I guess, too.

- Murray

[eigenbom]

Oh right, well I look forward to the finished game!

[JigxorAndy]

Dungeon Dashers is now available on Steam Early Access!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/252210/

[antoniodamala]

Dungeon Dashers is now available on Steam Early Access!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/252210/

Congrats! I'm waiting for my key 

[JigxorAndy]

Humble Keys will be mailed out as soon as they're available. I'm still waiting on them to process!

[Sandman]

Nice job ! Looks great !

And what about other languages translation ? If you look for a french translation, i'm your man

[Games Inquirer]

I quite like this having just tried it on early access but is there any reason other than to make puzzles that the rogue's blink ability only goes left to right and not inward/outward? It's kind of weird.

[JigxorAndy]

I quite like this having just tried it on early access but is there any reason other than to make puzzles that the rogue's blink ability only goes left to right and not inward/outward? It's kind of weird.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by inward and outward. The Rogue can blink in all four directions - up down left right.

[Games Inquirer]

Oh. Up/down doesn't work for me then. When I press Q it only shows green squares left/right and pressing up/down does nothing. Parts of the early levels were inaccessible because of it. Is it a different key than Q?

[JigxorAndy]

Oh. Up/down doesn't work for me then. When I press Q it only shows green squares left/right and pressing up/down does nothing. Parts of the early levels were inaccessible because of it. Is it a different key than Q?

That is very very strange indeed. Are no walls around when you do that? If there are obstacles, the indicators won't show up.

[Mittens]

I activated my humble key,
about how long till the steam build has multiplayer button?

[JigxorAndy]

I activated my humble key,
about how long till the steam build has multiplayer button?

Working on it

[Games Inquirer]

Oh. Up/down doesn't work for me then. When I press Q it only shows green squares left/right and pressing up/down does nothing. Parts of the early levels were inaccessible because of it. Is it a different key than Q?

That is very very strange indeed. Are no walls around when you do that? If there are obstacles, the indicators won't show up.

Well, I deleted the game before asking you the question because I only wanted to check it out and wait for the final (well, launch) version to play it properly at its best. I just reinstalled it to check this and take a screenshot of the issue for you and now blink works as you said it does. But I'm 99.99% sure it didn't before. I also see a change in how the warrior's charge worked the first time around. Now he seems to cover a whole line dashing until he hits a dungeon wall, the first time I tried it he only covered a few squares. These handicaps were still enough to get through the first handful of levels without issues so I didn't think it could have been a bug but how the game was designed. Does this make sense to you? Was there a patch? I wasn't drunk

[JigxorAndy]

Oh. Up/down doesn't work for me then. When I press Q it only shows green squares left/right and pressing up/down does nothing. Parts of the early levels were inaccessible because of it. Is it a different key than Q?

That is very very strange indeed. Are no walls around when you do that? If there are obstacles, the indicators won't show up.

Well, I deleted the game before asking you the question because I only wanted to check it out and wait for the final (well, launch) version to play it properly at its best. I just reinstalled it to check this and take a screenshot of the issue for you and now blink works as you said it does. But I'm 99.99% sure it didn't before. I also see a change in how the warrior's charge worked the first time around. Now he seems to cover a whole line dashing until he hits a dungeon wall, the first time I tried it he only covered a few squares. These handicaps were still enough to get through the first handful of levels without issues so I didn't think it could have been a bug but how the game was designed. Does this make sense to you? Was there a patch? I wasn't drunk

I have never heard of that before and it sounds truly bizarre. Now I'm scared.

I'll keep it in mind in case anyone else mentions it. Thanks for letting me know.

[JigxorAndy]

I haven't written in this devlog for a very long time now. I guess after the game got accepted on Steam I put a lot of attention into that. There's so much day-to-day business stuff I have to do each day now. Replying to emails can take a very long time.

I haven't been putting time into development of the game itself, which is an ongoing theme of this devblog. But there was a time when I was super productive, pretty much exactly one year ago. I was getting a lot of work done and updating this devblog daily.

I think one of the most useful aspects of this devblog is that it gives me accountability to you, the reader, to keep you informed. When I was in the habit of updating this everyday, I would feel guilty if I missed a day. But then when I get into the habit of missing many days in a row it's equally as easy to keep missing them.

So what I want to do is get back into writing down my daily development progress, even if (or especially if) I don't do do any work. It's been too many days to count now exactly how long this project has been going on. I think it's in the realm of 500+ I'll start writing the date down instead, and maybe I'll get back on track to the day numbers at a later state.

23/11/13
* Added new difficulty option for normal and hard modes

The game is normal by default, but players can enable hard mode in the options menu. Hard mode buffs the enemy HP and attack damage and is really quite a lot more challenging and interesting that I had expected. It makes you play the game a bit differently and a bit more intelligently. I also plan to have an even harder difficulty mode that is unlocked when you complete the game. I may also put in some kind of permadeath mode where players aren't revived after fights (for a given level).

DD has been in development for a very long time in terms of real days and years, but the time spent in coding the game has been less. I am still excited about the idea of writing a book-long post-mortem on the game when it's all complete. There's a lot of things I'd like to talk about and share with others.

As a game developer I do play a lot of other titles. I probably play a new game every day or two. There's so much great stuff out there, and in retrospect, perhaps there are some things about Dungeon Dashers that I could have changed to appeal to a larger audience (e.g. just made a more standard roguelike experience with procedural generation, standard loot, but still with my combat system). It's hard to say. A lot of people like the storyline and puzzle elements of the game. I just hope I can make enough and make it interesting for a long period of time.

I guess there's always an opportunity for free updates with new game modes in the future... or Dungeon Dashers 2.

[jO]

It's good to see you post again. I can understand how business development can slowly make you loose such good habits as posting here regulary (happens to us as well currently). Getting back to this is really good!

[gambrinous]

This looks really fantastic, great job so far!!

Do you have a launch date in mind? Or at a certain amount of features?

[JigxorAndy]

This looks really fantastic, great job so far!!

Do you have a launch date in mind? Or at a certain amount of features?

The game is currently available on Steam Early Access: http://store.steampowered.com/app/252210 but I'm planning for a full release sometime in January 2014. Better get cracking!