The Dawn Age - Dungeons!!!

This week I've worked on: core gameplay mechanics, AI, editor tools and other stuff. I don't have much to show this week, since I replaced all the placeholder environment with colored blocks(it looks ugly) to do some tests.

The gameplay mechanics that I have implemented this week:

Game system. This system controls the entire game(managing entities, entity turns, etc).
Entity movement.
Basic combat.
Key/Door system.
Chest/Treasure generation.
Item/Equipment system. There will be blessed and cursed items. The current system already supports random stats generation.
Monster generation.

For the AI, I created a system called AI Blocks. This allows me to create generic enemy behavior like patrol, hunt, attack, flee.... Each one of these are basic AI Blocks that I can put on the enemies or extend them to create more specific behavior.

Art Section

The concept artist, Jonathan Arnold, created two new creatures.

Goblin Mage


The Blob


Ghislain Girardot started the modeling of the Goblin Mage.

Goblin Mage Preview


Every dungeon will introduce 5 new enemies(6 if count the bosses). Some dungeons will have some previously introduced enemies in addition to the 5 new ones.

Next week I will work on visual stuff(UI, First Person Hands, animation setup, etc).

BONUS:

 

Looks really cool. How are you handling the dungeon generation?

 

I use a 2D matrix to store the data(25x25 in this case). The algorithm is quite simple:

1 - Generate room at any position and add it to the rooms list
2 - Random a room or corridor from the list(in my case i don't pick locked or secret rooms. Only corridors and rooms)
3 - Pick a wall from the randomed area on step 2(do a few checks) and put a door
4 - Generate a room or corridor for the door(do a few checks)
5 - Place the generated room or corridor on the map and on their respective list
(2, 3, 4 and 5 are inside a loop.)

Of course this is a simplification, but this is the base of the current algorithm. The generation of chests, levers, monsters and other stuff should be easy after this.

This is how the matrix look like:

* - Empty space
0 - Wall
1 - Walkable
3 - Door
4 - Locked Door
5 - Secred Door/Wall

 

New development update(first post). My indiedb page is up http://www.indiedb.com/games/the-dawn-age