The MicroLog - Glorious Goals & New Sights

Hi everyone. It’s time for a new update~

• Download [0.12.0-A] (WIN)

The dungeon cleanup/unification phase is mostly complete. As for a general overview of what is in this update, we have;
  • New weapons (axes, staff, spear, swords, sledgehammer, daggers -- placeholder descriptions and stats for the time being)
  • New materials (gold, arka crystals)
  • New and reworked dungeon rooms
  • A dungeon “Goal” room which will teleport you to the start of a new dungeon
  • Unified and cleaned up dungeon aesthetic
  • Controls page (note, rebinding will be saved for later)
  • Item framework rewrite (note, hot swapping items is a little weird right now. I will be correcting this in the next patch)
  • Lootable gold and coin piles
  • General dungeon optimisations

We stand on really solid ground, ready to begin introducing puzzles, mobs and more gameplay focused content.

It’s The Little Things – Areas To Improve

After play testing the dungeon myself post clean-up, I’ve noted a few minor additions/alterations I’ll need to make on the side. I haven’t produced nearly as many shelf variants as I would like, and there really should be more loot/clutter spawners scattered throughout the map. Some shelf loot will remain unintractable until I add more. There are also some minor design issues here and there which need to be fixed (mostly to do with skirting around door link points). I also skipped updating the pink fluid rooms as I felt they were in a good enough state, but some minor detailing and a lighting rework would go a long way.

I’ll see what can be done over the weekend, and may issue a little patch at the start of the new week.

Onwards & Upwards

I wasn’t able to completely resolve the engine issues of last week, however, I have gotten better at working around them. At this point I’m holding out for the next engine update to see if that fixes things, and if not a new PC. While disruptive, thankfully, these crash issues don’t bleed over to builds themselves.

Next on the agenda is combat! I will return with more on that soon. For now, I hope you enjoy taking in the new sights.

Be sure to let me know what you think! I’ll see you soon…