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[blacktowerbasement]

The Imp finally got his new look! His insults become even opprobrious and his grin even more loose. So meet the Imp, fresh and fragrant of brand new sparkling trinkets.

[Reyn]

It seems like taking away something from the player everytime he dies plus items spent would be a much better approach to death than just checkpoints.
But maybe, you can have checkpoints as some sort of easy mode? Specially if you design this game to be hard... Then again implementing a checkpoint system (and saves) could potentially require a lot of time so yeah your option is much better.

You could also include an Ironman mode, im surprised games often go the only permadeath route when you could have both permadeath and respawning modes.

[blacktowerbasement]

It seems like taking away something from the player everytime he dies plus items spent would be a much better approach to death than just checkpoints.
But maybe, you can have checkpoints as some sort of easy mode? Specially if you design this game to be hard... Then again implementing a checkpoint system (and saves) could potentially require a lot of time so yeah your option is much better.

You could also include an Ironman mode, im surprised games often go the only permadeath route when you could have both permadeath and respawning modes.

So this is a point to no-checkpoint dungeons, in basic implementation. This thoughts of easymode-checkpoints poked me the idea of controllable checkpoints similar to what they have in "They bleed pixels" for example. So this could be a consumable that sets a checkpoint at the certain point, but decreases Magic Find or applies some other penalty. However, these places where you can decided whether or not to set a checkpoint more likely will be predefined. For instance, campfires may serve this purpose as well as their basic functions.

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Finishing up with camera zoom\blood spatter\effects set-up for the riposte. Only some polishing remains. And fix freaking EVERYTHING for windows 10. Don't know why but under this OS NOTHING, literally nothing in the game works as intended. Camera zoom is twisted, hits go wherever they want but mouse pointer, and.. this one is good... enemies keep spawning at the same pack endlessly. This is so weird because dungeon room contain battle interactor wich is actually a predefined list of 1-3 enemies. But as I saw there was at least 10 of them at the same spot lol. We've checked on Win7, 8 and MacOS but this rubbish happens only on windows 10  .
However while I'm going to freak everything up in search of the cause of this issue, check out some FX made for riposte strikes of blunt weapon and swords.

[blacktowerbasement]

Finished the Riposte mechanics! We've tried to make it juicy and with a poweful impact, like blood splattering close shotgun shot. And I think we've achieved it! Check it out:



And this is what happens if the riposte was a final blow for the enemy:

[blacktowerbasement]

So this is small technical transmission. While taking riposte gifs from previous post I tried to colorize enemies in the color of the surrounding dungeon a little:


And this made characters and death-powder effect fit a lot better in the background. And this can be made programmaticaly really easy since we've already colorizing the dungeon back itself and so we have the actual color value. I think we'll stay with this solution for all dungeons.

[blacktowerbasement]

Waaaaaalking!

Oh yes. Finally, The Hero and the Imp walk through the deep caves observing smooth parallax we made  . Actually gif has this little twitching, which has occured during recording, but this one is the best I've managed to shoot. There are no shudders in the actual game, I promise .

[blacktowerbasement]

Rock, Paper, Shotgun made a review about Greedventory!!! Go and check it out, quick, no excuses !

rockpapershotgun.com

[blacktowerbasement]

Barrels. Every RPG seems to exploit them in a hard way. And we are going to push it to the limit. Meet the Barrel after Hero's visit.

[blacktowerbasement]

Everyone, meet Campfire. Campfire, meet everyone.
This is one of the objects one can meet in dungeons. It serves some functional means like increased HP, Stamina and Imp's Vigor regeneration, expel Corrosive bugs from the Bag and some others.
But besides, it will greet player and tell stories to brighten up the waiting! We want to collect as many great campfire stories as we can.
And this is what we do: if you have any awesome tales or horrors to tell in the flickering light near the flame, please share with us and the coolest will be in the game!

[blacktowerbasement]

Here is a little something about Greedventory's braziers in dungeons. It is draggable and hittable and serves to ease a fight if you are lucky and agile with your mouse  .