http://www.mediafire.com/?y4o8jp8vxaro40j
No time for a big update this week - Busy with finals and also being sick on finals week.
Big Stuff:
Added racial abilities. I tried to stay true to Elder Scrolls numbers and calculations, but good god damn some of these are OP as fuck. Can somebody let me know if they were this OP in the original games? I can't remember if they were or not. Specifically: Redguard Adrenaline Rush, Breton Dragon Skin, and Orc Berserker Rage.
Part of these abilities are natural bonuses or maluses to resisting disease or elemental attacks, etc. Since these aren't implemented yet, though, none of them actually do anything so far.
Breton and Altmer get bonuses to their max MP, though.
Other Stuff:
-Fixed CTDs when selecting Scout or Rogue as classes and Atronach as Birthsign
-Fixed the restoration starting spell incorrectly displaying as "lesser sanctuary"
-Fixed abilities not deactivating when their duration runs out
Once finals are over I will try to get on getting equipment implemented. Thanks for your patience until then, as well as any bug reports, comments, or criticisms.
Now go slay some bandits!
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Saturday, December 1, 2012
V.03 - Classes, Magic, Skills - Also Now Linux Compatible!
http://www.mediafire.com/?3343h04szqr6ibs
Summary of Changes:
-Added player skills
-Added class selection
-Added spells, MP, and magic system. Player will get spells at start if one of their major skills was a school of magic, besides mysticism.
-Abilities have cooldowns now
-You can select two classes! (No it's actually just a bug that I don't know how to fix yet)
In this release, I've added a number of things. First of all, I've put in skills for the player, which is going to lay the groundwork for a lot of stuff coming up. Second of all, I've added in class selection, so that some of these skills actually matter right off the bat. Third of all, I've added spells, MP, etc., with the player getting starter spells if one of their classes' major skills is a school of magic. (Besides mysticism, whose starter spell is going to take some coding to get implemented)
All of this new stuff has made the game even more unbalanced, of course. In preparation for the next update, I made it so that as the player is now, their attack power is determined by the formula for unarmed attacks. I either borked that formula or something else, so now almost everybody's starting power is 1. This makes the Warrior Birthsign (Who increases base attack power by 10), the Destruction school (Whose starter spell deals 10 damage), and the Conjuration school (Whose starter spell, "Bound Dagger", doesn't actually give you a dagger but does increase your attack power.) all incredibly powerful compared to everything else.
Of course, most skills don't actually do anything right now. The only ones that affect anything right now are hand-to-hand and dodging - The magic skills only affect things in-so-far as giving you starter spells if they are a major skill.
This should, however, change in the next planned update: Weapons, armor, and equipment.
Leveling is still XP based, but next version it will be traditionally Elder Scrolls - level up skills to level up your character.
Current list of Things That Don't Do Anything:
-Speed attribute. Will work it into helping you move faster eventually.
-All skills besides hand-to-hand and dodging. Will be used later, most of them next update.
-Shadow Birthsign. The code for invisibility will be a challenge, I imagine.
-Taking mysticism as a major skill. The code for detect life will also be a challenge.
Planned for next update:
-Putting equipment into the game
-Allowing the player to equip items
-Giving bandits some equipment which they can use and drop when they die
Still long-term plans:
-Balance this fucking game
-Introduce more enemies
-Bring in spellbooks for player to learn from (Shouldn't be too hard, might shove this in into v.04)
-Daedra/Nine Divines worship
-Mutations (Not lore friendly but I fucking love mutations)
-Expand dungeon to have more variation - Oblivion Realms as dungeon branches
A Word On My Design Philosophy, And Other Stuff:
I think about this a lot so it sometimes skips my mind that I should explain what my basic logic behind a lot of my decisions in making this game are. So I'll do that here, for anybody interested.
I basically want to keep as close to the original Elder Scrolls games in terms of formulas used, skills, races, classes, spells, etc. as possible - Later on, equipment, dungeon regions, etc.
I do, however, reserve the right to throw shit out where I think it's silly as fuck, or just won't fit in with the game. For example, this game won't have what skills you leveled determine bonuses in leveling up your attributes. Instead it'll be a flat 5 points for whatever attribute you choose. I also don't have mercantile or speechcraft in as skills, mainly because I don't have neutral or friendly NPCs in the game yet, and I really don't plan on having them until sometime in the far future. (Yes this does mean personality is a nigh useless attribute. I've considered removing it completely, but I think that might complicate things.)
I also don't like Bethesda being the prototype for DCSS-devs by removing a bunch of skills and equipment and things that didn't need to be removed. That's why I have spears, dodging, short/long-blade, and axe/blunt, etc. in as skills.
I also have pickpocket in... But I think it might be a useless skill, given that it's probably easier to just backstab and kill a monster than bother pickpocketing them for their loot. Does anybody have any opinions on this? I think I might remove it depending on how I feel about it come v.04.
That's all I can think of right now. If I have any other thoughts I'd like to share, I'll edit this post or post them with the v.04 release post.
If you have any comments, suggestions, or criticisms, feel free to leave them here, as always. I'm especially looking for bug reports (I have no doubt there's many of them) and balance suggestions. (If it's even possible to do so at this point.)
Enjoy the (horribly unbalanced) game!
EDIT: I will also attempt to put in racial active/passive abilities next version. This shouldn't be too hard, just a bit of sludge work.
Summary of Changes:
-Added player skills
-Added class selection
-Added spells, MP, and magic system. Player will get spells at start if one of their major skills was a school of magic, besides mysticism.
-Abilities have cooldowns now
-You can select two classes! (No it's actually just a bug that I don't know how to fix yet)
In this release, I've added a number of things. First of all, I've put in skills for the player, which is going to lay the groundwork for a lot of stuff coming up. Second of all, I've added in class selection, so that some of these skills actually matter right off the bat. Third of all, I've added spells, MP, etc., with the player getting starter spells if one of their classes' major skills is a school of magic. (Besides mysticism, whose starter spell is going to take some coding to get implemented)
All of this new stuff has made the game even more unbalanced, of course. In preparation for the next update, I made it so that as the player is now, their attack power is determined by the formula for unarmed attacks. I either borked that formula or something else, so now almost everybody's starting power is 1. This makes the Warrior Birthsign (Who increases base attack power by 10), the Destruction school (Whose starter spell deals 10 damage), and the Conjuration school (Whose starter spell, "Bound Dagger", doesn't actually give you a dagger but does increase your attack power.) all incredibly powerful compared to everything else.
Of course, most skills don't actually do anything right now. The only ones that affect anything right now are hand-to-hand and dodging - The magic skills only affect things in-so-far as giving you starter spells if they are a major skill.
This should, however, change in the next planned update: Weapons, armor, and equipment.
Leveling is still XP based, but next version it will be traditionally Elder Scrolls - level up skills to level up your character.
Current list of Things That Don't Do Anything:
-Speed attribute. Will work it into helping you move faster eventually.
-All skills besides hand-to-hand and dodging. Will be used later, most of them next update.
-Shadow Birthsign. The code for invisibility will be a challenge, I imagine.
-Taking mysticism as a major skill. The code for detect life will also be a challenge.
Planned for next update:
-Putting equipment into the game
-Allowing the player to equip items
-Giving bandits some equipment which they can use and drop when they die
Still long-term plans:
-Balance this fucking game
-Introduce more enemies
-Bring in spellbooks for player to learn from (Shouldn't be too hard, might shove this in into v.04)
-Daedra/Nine Divines worship
-Mutations (Not lore friendly but I fucking love mutations)
-Expand dungeon to have more variation - Oblivion Realms as dungeon branches
A Word On My Design Philosophy, And Other Stuff:
I think about this a lot so it sometimes skips my mind that I should explain what my basic logic behind a lot of my decisions in making this game are. So I'll do that here, for anybody interested.
I basically want to keep as close to the original Elder Scrolls games in terms of formulas used, skills, races, classes, spells, etc. as possible - Later on, equipment, dungeon regions, etc.
I do, however, reserve the right to throw shit out where I think it's silly as fuck, or just won't fit in with the game. For example, this game won't have what skills you leveled determine bonuses in leveling up your attributes. Instead it'll be a flat 5 points for whatever attribute you choose. I also don't have mercantile or speechcraft in as skills, mainly because I don't have neutral or friendly NPCs in the game yet, and I really don't plan on having them until sometime in the far future. (Yes this does mean personality is a nigh useless attribute. I've considered removing it completely, but I think that might complicate things.)
I also don't like Bethesda being the prototype for DCSS-devs by removing a bunch of skills and equipment and things that didn't need to be removed. That's why I have spears, dodging, short/long-blade, and axe/blunt, etc. in as skills.
I also have pickpocket in... But I think it might be a useless skill, given that it's probably easier to just backstab and kill a monster than bother pickpocketing them for their loot. Does anybody have any opinions on this? I think I might remove it depending on how I feel about it come v.04.
That's all I can think of right now. If I have any other thoughts I'd like to share, I'll edit this post or post them with the v.04 release post.
If you have any comments, suggestions, or criticisms, feel free to leave them here, as always. I'm especially looking for bug reports (I have no doubt there's many of them) and balance suggestions. (If it's even possible to do so at this point.)
Enjoy the (horribly unbalanced) game!
EDIT: I will also attempt to put in racial active/passive abilities next version. This shouldn't be too hard, just a bit of sludge work.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
v.02 - Birthsigns, Abilities, and Dodging (Oh my!)
http://www.mediafire.com/?qg2vr2uiegidxd1 - New version
Hello to anybody and everybody who may be reading this.
Not many changes with this one, but I feel it's enough to make a new version out of. I don't know if I'm updating too much with too little, so if anybody cares to let me know if I am, I'll thank you.
In this version, you can now select a Birthsign. Half of them don't do anything! The ones that do are the ones that increase your attributes, and the Lord, the Lover, the Serpent, the Ritual and the Thief all give you the abilities they say they do. There's no cool-down on them yet, though, so feel free to spam them relentlessly and break the game!
Since I have those abilities in the game, I should be able to get spells in... Speaking of magic:
I should have stated this in my first post, but the only attributes that do anything right now are Strength, which increases your attack damage, Endurance, which increases your HP, and Agility, which previously increased your "defense" but now increases your dodge chance. Luck also increases the amount of items that can be generated in any room. So if you want to be useful don't take increases in Intelligence or anything like that.
Speaking of dodging... Man I love segways:
You and your opponents now have a chance to dodge! For the bandits it's a base of 25, and for you it's your agility / 2, + 10 if you have the Thief's power activated.
The game is still incredibly unbalanced and you still have no enemies besides bandits, though. Not much different than a regular Elder Scrolls game, I guess.
Plans for next version: Get rudimentary spell-casting in, give abilities cool-down timers so they can't be spammed.
Current Long-Term Plans:
Add more enemies to the dungeon.
Balance the game.
Add features to the dungeon.
Hello to anybody and everybody who may be reading this.
Not many changes with this one, but I feel it's enough to make a new version out of. I don't know if I'm updating too much with too little, so if anybody cares to let me know if I am, I'll thank you.
In this version, you can now select a Birthsign. Half of them don't do anything! The ones that do are the ones that increase your attributes, and the Lord, the Lover, the Serpent, the Ritual and the Thief all give you the abilities they say they do. There's no cool-down on them yet, though, so feel free to spam them relentlessly and break the game!
Since I have those abilities in the game, I should be able to get spells in... Speaking of magic:
I should have stated this in my first post, but the only attributes that do anything right now are Strength, which increases your attack damage, Endurance, which increases your HP, and Agility, which previously increased your "defense" but now increases your dodge chance. Luck also increases the amount of items that can be generated in any room. So if you want to be useful don't take increases in Intelligence or anything like that.
Speaking of dodging... Man I love segways:
You and your opponents now have a chance to dodge! For the bandits it's a base of 25, and for you it's your agility / 2, + 10 if you have the Thief's power activated.
The game is still incredibly unbalanced and you still have no enemies besides bandits, though. Not much different than a regular Elder Scrolls game, I guess.
Plans for next version: Get rudimentary spell-casting in, give abilities cool-down timers so they can't be spammed.
Current Long-Term Plans:
Add more enemies to the dungeon.
Balance the game.
Add features to the dungeon.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Heart of Nirn v0.01 - Early Alpha
Hello, and welcome to my blog. I don't expect anybody to be reading these, but I'm hoping maybe somebody will.
I am developing a roguelike, that ignores all concepts of "copyright". But I guess this is "Fair Use" since I don't intend to make profit, or anything. So maybe it's okay.
The title is "Heart of Nirn", and it is developed in Python 2.7.0, (Which you need to have if you want to play it) and it is a roguelike based off of the Elder Scrolls universe and lore, which I have an undying love for.
I currently have an extremely basic version done:
http://www.mediafire.com/?d2g0gyy93j58875
All it has is basic mechanics, and the ability to select a race which affects your attributes, only three of which actually do anything at the moment. You can find items, level up, and kill bandits for levels on end but besides that there's not much to do.
My next plans are to add skills into the game, skill training, and have training those level you up instead of gaining XP. I might add in miss/dodge chance while I'm at it.
Have fun with it, I guess.
I am developing a roguelike, that ignores all concepts of "copyright". But I guess this is "Fair Use" since I don't intend to make profit, or anything. So maybe it's okay.
The title is "Heart of Nirn", and it is developed in Python 2.7.0, (Which you need to have if you want to play it) and it is a roguelike based off of the Elder Scrolls universe and lore, which I have an undying love for.
I currently have an extremely basic version done:
http://www.mediafire.com/?d2g0gyy93j58875
All it has is basic mechanics, and the ability to select a race which affects your attributes, only three of which actually do anything at the moment. You can find items, level up, and kill bandits for levels on end but besides that there's not much to do.
My next plans are to add skills into the game, skill training, and have training those level you up instead of gaining XP. I might add in miss/dodge chance while I'm at it.
Have fun with it, I guess.
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