Current Development In A Nutshell:

after 2 years of ignoring it, i have finally done it. disabling animations actually disables the animations:

(i have no idea how i managed to forget about this for two entire years)

i added a merchant at the end of act 1.

i made some gamejolt thing https://gamejolt.com/c/SoH-62jiqy

i might not do a lot of stuff on there, but it exists

minion summon animation. (yes its different than the death animation i don't know why i didn't just reverse the animation but here we are i guess)

Fcdesert devlog 21

i make a skeleton summoning animation for the lich boss.

also the artist has made the lich sprite:

also we got new artist. this might boost the development of fcdesert

anyways that is all for this devlog

i decided to add some last minute items because why not

the first item is called the orb of freezing:

this item affects all enemies (including enemies that spawn after the item is used) and it basically stops them from doing anything. it will last for 12-16 player turns and will have a cooldown that lasts 12-16 new room generations (the cooldown amount will be the same as the use duration.) this item will not work on bosses (and certain boss minions) and has a 1/30 chance of appearing in act 2. it will also deal 2 damage to the player when used.

the next (and final because there is no way i'm adding 3 items at once) item is the orb of blood theft:

this item is passive and allows the player to heal 1 health when attacking an enemy. i created this mainly to be used with the orb of freezing as a free healing method for the player (assuming all goes well the player will heal 8 health every time). the potion healing upgrade will also increase the healing of this item to 2, which makes the healing upgrade a lot more useful. this item has a 1/20 chance of appearing in the first levels of act 1, a 1/10 chance of appearing in the last levels of act 1. and has a 1/5 chance of appearing in the first levels of act 2.

(wow i did not expect to vomit out two walls of text)

i made a quick thing to use for testing music:

do you think that this is evil enough or should i add more spikes?

this level is easier when the frame rate is higher (and after playing it 1000 times)

the prototype is almost completed

significant amounts of testing and brainstorming are currently being done. if the concept seems good, i will announce the next game. it might take until the end of this month.