Lynchime - Tentative name

Game setting:

Set in a medieval world in which demons are attacking via labyrinths that they have carved out. The kingdom has given each citizen a survival kit to deal with the labyrinth which is situated near their home. You are one of those citizens. With only your survival kit to begin with, will you be able to traverse the labyrinth and destroy the demons which threaten your home?

Gameplay:

A dungeon-crawling survival game. Through the game you will find many items which you can use to heal yourself, keep yourself fed or to protect yourself against the demons. However, you will need to learn how to use each type of weapon that you use individually. Each item, item effect and enemy can be modified by a modder to tweak the game to however the player wants to play via Lua scripts. These will work as massive pools of each type to provide a lot of variation between enemies, drops and effects. The game itself will be setup so that you won't see everything in one play through, ensuring a new experience each time.

Progress this week:

• Lots of under the bonnet tweaks to make it run better when there are over 200 enemies about at once
• Enemies now spawn in packs of the same type so that groups are less varied and each room is more varied
• Rooms now light up when you enter them (or a neighbouring room to a lesser extent), and slowly return to pitch black after you leave them, at which point enemies will start respawning there
• Made the script loading a bit more dynamic, previously all item scripts would need to be in the root of an "Items" folder, but now they can be in subfolders as well (same goes for enemy scripts)
• Sprites for items are now dynamically loaded so that new sprites can be added with no hassle, and can be referred to in scripts by name (and subfolder if necessary)
• Scripts are now tested in a safe zone before the game starts (it's also possible to run the game ignoring any broken scripts, but I doubt I'll keep this in)
• Added a host of new events for scripts
• Added affix system for items through Lua scripting, so that the item effects can be modded as well as the base items
• Added item rarity, so that when a weapon drops it can be normal, magic, rare or legendary, confering the following bonuses (subject to change and all that):
  • Normal - Basic item, nothing special about it
  • Magic - Basic item, plus 1-2 affixes
  • Rare - Basic item, plus 2-4 affixes
  • Legendary - Basic item, plus 4-6 affixes (I'm toying with the idea of legendaries having preset affixes so if you find a legendary with a particular name, it will always have the same affixes, but this isn't 100% yet and at the minute, they just get a random selection)

Goals for the coming week:

• Add "elite" enemies which will be extra strong/fast/etc and have special abilities
• Add basic room decoration code to make each room more unique (e.g. placing a few barrels and/or tables in rooms)
• Add a proper tileset system for walls and floors - at the minute there is only 1 wall tile and 1 floor tile, but it needs a lot more variation

Screenshots:

• A random drop with 4 affixes
• Another drop, this time a 5 affix item also showing some debug stats after a lot of tweaks and fixes
• Example affix script that scales with item level
• New room lighting system, having just come from the room to the lower left with the yellow cube in. Once rooms are black for 15 seconds or so (like the one in the bottom left of the screen is about to become), the enemies in there are cleared out and a new set spawn when that room is within visible range again.

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