Category: Bones of the Lost God

• A quick tour of Entity-Components in BotLG

  I’ve started working on a better entity system for BotLG. The current code for dealing with entities — monsters, NPCs, things you can interact with in some way — is a bit of a rat’s nest of objects referencing each other, and creating a new monster or NPC means adding references in a half-dozen different…

  March 13, 2020

  ecs, entities

• Entities, components, actions and certificates

  Saw this article about LetsEncrypt, the service I use to get my HTTPS certificates, accidentally revoking millions of certificates… and then noticed the email from them in my inbox informing me that they’re very sorry, but all of my domains are affected. On Wednesday, March 4, Let’s Encrypt – the free, automated digital certificate authority…

  March 3, 2020

  ecs, letsencrypt

• Merchants, items and inventory

  Two major things and a whole bunch of polish this week. I wrote earlier about improving procedural dungeon generation, so I won’t rehash that; the other big feature this week was getting merchants and shops into the game. I now have the ability to add buying and selling as actions when interacting with an NPC.…

  February 14, 2020

  inventory, items, merchants, npcs, procedural generation

• Procedurally generated dungeons

  I finally got around to improving the way procedurally generated locations work. Now, locations can have a procgen tag, which causes the game to look for a default set of rules for generating the location when the player enters it. This lets me specify things like which dungeon generation algorithm to use, what tiles to…

  February 10, 2020

  dungeons, procedural generation

• Work, work

  I have some news. About four months ago, I quit my job to work on BONES of the LOST GOD, and, after a few mis-steps and prototype dead-ends, it’s now nearly finished. I’m really pleased with it and the work I’ve done. However — I need to go back to work and start earning some…

  February 6, 2020

  employment

• Questing and crafting

  Two new things this week; quests and crafting. Quests When you enter a location containing an NPC who has something for you to do, you’re presented with a little message: When you find the NPC, you can interact with them to see what quests they have available, and to hand in any you have completed…

  January 31, 2020

  crafting, quests, recipes

• People, places, and things

  I’ve worked on three things, mainly, this week. I started out by implementing NPCs the player can interact with. Under the hood they’re essentially just the same as monsters, only they have a dialogue system for their main action, instead of combat. But there’s no reason why in future you couldn’t fight NPCs or parley…

  January 24, 2020

  ever-burning staff, items, leopold barrow, npcs, rooksfoot

• But is it a roguelike?

  It’s been an interesting week for thinking about the word roguelike. On Tuesday, I was finally forced to admit that the game I am making is, in fact, a roguelike: I’ve been working on procedurally generated maps this week, you see. And with that final piece of the puzzle slotted into place, I finally felt…

  January 17, 2020

  berlin interpretation, humbit, roguelikes

• Making a monster

  I’m working on combat. It’s kind of slow going, because it’s the most involved part of the game, and it needs a lot of other structures and objects to be in place first. Not least of which are monsters. Thanks to an audience suggestion, I’ve started with skeletons, a classic 1 hit dice monster. For…

  October 24, 2019

  monsters, npcs, skeleton

• Character and Item generation

  I’ve been working on BONES of the LOST GOD’s Character and Item generation this week. First of all, here’s an example character, wearing a few items: The stats rolled might look a little off if you’re used to Dungeons & Dragons‘ traditional 3-18 range. Instead, each ability score falls in the range 11-16, with lower…

  October 18, 2019

  character generation, characters, item generation, items, redmaine carvolo