Tag: npcs

• 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

• 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

• 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