Tiny Dungeons - WIP

[badlogicgames]

I've started working on a game again. Haven't worked on a real one in ages. I don't want to give away to much just yet, here's a screenshot:



It's gonna be a kind of light-weight Diablo kinda dungeon crawler thingy. Sorty, kinda. With a twist.

[Screem]

Wow, I really like the graphics style! Sure looks fun to play. Is this in 2.5D or 3D? Can't really tell from a single picture.

[kwanttitatti]

Graphics is indeed awesome! Im hoping to hear about this more!

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[ReBirth]

The graphics remind me to Kev's game, which I love

[Joshua Waring]

I want to get my hands on a .jar

[Apo]

Looks really nice!

[Giovanni]

Smexy!

[badlogicgames]

First rendering and path finding test, nothing fancy.

Desktop: http://t.co/WQlEF5cm
Android http://t.co/4rFrLFgi
QR:


If you happen to test it on your Android device, please tell me what device it is and what OS version it's running.

[teletubo]

Runs at steady 60fps on my samsung galaxy tab 10.1

Those 3d pixelated walls look great!

[sproingie]

The QR code appears to be a completely blank TEXT code.  No workie.

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[Riven]

The QR code appears to be a completely blank TEXT code.  No workie.

@badlogic: Try the [ qr ] tags of JGO

[badlogicgames]

@riven, sproingie: didn't know about that qr tag, fixed, thanks!

[sproingie]

Steady 30fps on my SGS3 (ICS).

Edit: turning off power saving, it goes to 60 fps.  Actually it alternates regularly between 59 and 60 every couple seconds, so perhaps the FPS counter has accuracy issues?

[ra4king]

55-57 FPS on my Samsung Infuse with Gingerbread.

[EgonOlsen]

Works fine on Nexus S / Android 4.1.2 and runs @ the device's frame cap of ~56fps.

[Riven]

Steady 90fps on my crappy Samsung GT-S5660 (Android 2.2.1)

[Jimmt]

Runs at 60-62 fps, even. Nice graphics.

[ReBirth]

I have been replied to on twitter, but again. 55-59 fps on HTC Desire V (4.0.3).

[Phased]

PC - 60 - 61 fps

A nice little effect might be a gold circular ripple (like the effect of dropping/throwing a water in water) so the user knows exactly where the player is going, could be saved to polishing stage though.

The path finding seems perfect, I have had once or twice a few silly path finding (could be just because of where I clicked) aka the player was on the right side then crossed to the other side then went back to the other side.

[CommanderKeith]

Cool stuff.
60 fps windows 7.
60 fps samsung galaxy 1, android 2.3.3.

The movement would be nicer if the player could hold the mouse/finger-tip down and drag around rather than repeatedly tapping.

[SHC]

Getting this exception.

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Exception in thread "LWJGL Application" com.badlogic.gdx.utils.GdxRuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException    at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication$1.run(LwjglApplication.java:111) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException    at com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.glutils.ShaderProgram.loadShader(ShaderProgram.java:194)    at com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.glutils.ShaderProgram.compileShaders(ShaderProgram.java:173)    at com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.glutils.ShaderProgram.<init>(ShaderProgram.java:156)    at com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.glutils.ShaderProgram.<init>(ShaderProgram.java:165)    at com.tinydungeons.rendering.FloorRenderer.<init>(FloorRenderer.java:38)    at com.tinydungeons.tests.AStarTest.<init>(AStarTest.java:42)    at com.tinydungeons.screens.StartupScreen.render(StartupScreen.java:22)    at com.tinydungeons.screens.Game.render(Game.java:34)    at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.mainLoop(LwjglApplication.java:190)    at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication$1.run(LwjglApplication.java:108)

Using desktop application.

OS: Comice 4
VM: OpenJDK 7

[badlogicgames]

Thanks for all the testing folks!

SHC, what graphics card and driver do you have installed? I guess i ned a fallback renderer for GL 1.5 or lower.

[SHC]

My Card         :   Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics
Video Memory :   128 MB
Driver            :   Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 10)

[badlogicgames]

Ah, that explains it, an integrated Intel card. I'll try to add a fixed-function fallback eventually. Thanks for reporting!

[badlogicgames]

Worked on steering behaviours and path finding. Turns out that having the monsters follow individual paths generated via A* and applying steering behaviours for separation and wall avoidance makes for nasty deadlocks. I simplified the monster behaviour considerably and think the current version is "good enough", but far from being perfect. Monsters are a tad bit to twitchy imo. Obligatory screenshot:



Updated jars/apks, you can press 'd' to toggle debug rendering in the desktop version.

Desktop: http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/downloads/tinydungeons.jar
Android http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/downloads/tiny-dungeons-android.apk
QR:

[Huw]

Works very nicely on my laptop, I like the movement of the skeleton type things.
One thing I would say is that the movement of the map is a bit awkward for me, also, perhaps you could change it so the map can only be moved a certain distance from the player. You've probably already thought of that or something similar.

Nice smooth game so far!

[Vladiedoo]

Runs smoothly on my PC, the camera movement is particularly enjoyable. I recommend adding a zoom in/out feature .

[dragonheartman]

It also runs flawlessly on my Galaxy Nexus.

It's not immediately intuitive that you swipe to move the camera. I was half-expecting the camera to follow the player automatically. This looks like it could be very fun though.

[Thesisus]

It's not immediately intuitive that you swipe to move the camera. I was half-expecting the camera to follow the player automatically.

I agree, I expected the player to stay in the middle and the screen move.  But I like how you can "look around" a bit without moving the player.  I have to admit I want the best of both worlds.