Graham Games

cooking up a bit of lore for #Roguefort

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Edit: it doesn’t work well after playtesting for a bit. It’s annoying when you can’t land on the tile you want. I can imagine especially so for people with accessibility requirements. Will try for a straight up speed stat boost so you are essentially faster than enemies when on road but walk normal

Tearjerker Music Pack: Sad & Emotional Piano Music That Will Make You Cry by Tungerman 10 beautiful, heart-wrenching piano pieces for emotional scenes in your game

Perusing itch.io to find a game soundtrack and can I just say, this is how you do asset pack marketing

tungerman.itch.io/tearjerker-m...

Experiment with roads and paths making you walk faster - in this case two tiles per step. I think it works kinda well? Handy in a tight spot but always with the option for YASD

#ROGUEFORT #roguelikedev #roguelikes #indiedev #solodev #indiegames

[choosing red button to push meme]

finalising the demo build for the polished Steam game

or

adding the ability for town guards to arrest you for being naked in Roguefort

Let’s not wait til the water runs dryyyy

Aww thank you, it’s just really basic what I’m doing here, like it’s so crude if you look at the code lol. But I appreciate it!

My misspent youth is finally paying off haha

Gosh that's a lovely looking game - wishlisted. I hope the leadup to release goes well

Oh nice - it can be such a time saver and also I find it also shapes the design of the game in new ways too, like it opens up creative pathways I didn't think of. What is your game? It sounds intriguing!

omg that is so true!

Thank you 🙏. It's a mix of a lot of things - cities, dungeons, ruins, shrines, mines, camps, etc. They're all real locations in the game that generate procedural detail when you visit the chunk. Caves of Qud style persistent world with really really basic hand drawn 16x16 sprite graphics

this one is 40000x40000 tiles

about 40x the size of Skyrim's map

experiments with procedurally generating continents and filling them with POIs

#roguefort #indiedev #gamedev #roguelikedev

Frotnite confirmed

Thanks J.A. It’s you guys that keep me going on it - I don’t think I’d have any inspiration to keep going if not for the community. It’s just so fun making stuff and sharing it. I’ve loved roguelikes so long and always dreamed one day I’d actually put myself out in the world of real devs

Aww thank you so much! I went with a fish and loot table that I hand designed, but it’s probabilistically governed based on biome, time of day, weather, lure/bait, rod type, and some stats that get influenced by skill and enchantments you can apply

my failed career as a fiction writer (going back 18 years now) has also come to the fore. I am just ripping ideas out of half finished stories

that's very kind - it's just very basic but I appreciate the encouragement!! I've been cannibalising code from older dead projects I never finished and won't finish, so it's starting to become a "kitchen sink" of all the ideas ive had

Amazing game, by the way

Yes!!

But instead of it being water that the culture is defined by, it's cheese. Cheese is like the melange in Dune in this game but it's also just cheese too, depending on the cheese

Tomorrow morning after I get some sleep I'm going to upload the major update on itch. It brings a full open world, inspired by Caves of Qud and Quest for Glory I (EGA of course) and The Forest. I guess it's just games I wish to see mashed together

You can now go fishing in #Fortrogue

I've spent way way too much sleep time working on this, and now it's an entire mini game with hundreds of fish, skill-based stats, rods to collect, lures, enchantments to apply. Why is this in a traditional roguelike? I don't know.

#indiedev #roguelikedev

Aww I don't think I have it in me to change them now. It took me 15 seconds to make this rabbit and now I'm wedded to it

Polydangerous on Steam You lost your body. Now fight to earn it back, contractor. Polydangerous is a roguelite tower defense where you mine, build, and shoot your way through waves of enemies. Die, come back with more knowl...

Just submitted the demo build of #Polydangerous to Steam

Available for wishlisting now store.steampowered.com/app/4323770/...

#indiedev #solodev #indiegames #gamedev

When I saw the original post on Reddit last year it was so inspiring. and that artwork - it's so evocative and fits perfectly

Why do I not feel like actually making a proper sprite for the rabbits in this game