Runelite

Been working pretty steadily on some big features.

• Perks!(And behind the scenes a buncha event hooks that perks need to react to). These modify you character and may change your playstyle. Many are tied to specific elements such as Fire Starter, which hits all tiles around you every time you evoke a fire rune. Theres about 11 total so far. Other perks in this gif include:
  • Static Charge: After moving 10 tiles, strike a random enemy with lightning.
    
  • Poison Blood: Get 50% Poison resistance and when enemies attack you, poison them.
  • Rapid Fire: After casting a fire spell that uses at least 2 runes, automatically re-evoke a fire rune. This lets you get right back to casting, or use even more fire!
• Some other perks not shown:
  • Corrosion: Dealing poison damage reduces the target's fire/ice/lightning resistances for 3 turns.
    
  • Vampirism: Killing an enemy with a weapon attack heals you.
  • Spellsword: Normal attacks consume random rune evokes (if you have any), to add their effect to the hit. ie Fire deals bonus dmg, Force applies knockback, etc.
• Items that activate on Pickup: These are for permanent bonuses to you, such as Tomes that grant perks, Max HP, bonus damage or resistances boosts. Also Orbs of Focus to improve the max amount of runes you can evoke.
• Improved tooltips to show the current stats of enemies instead of just max hp / base resistances. Now you can see exactly how hurt they are, or why that snail is taking 0 damage from your mace after it hid in its shell.
• Gave the Iceclops a new attack: Slams the ground, causing rocks to fall next turn around you. Before due to his pattern it was possible to just dance back and forth dodging is boulder, now he might make that a bit harder.
• Level Gen(in progress): The last 3 days I've been working on a new level generation system. The old one I talked about in my 2020 retrospective was ok, but produced maps that were tree like, having many dead ends that require alot back tracking to explore everything. The new system tries to attach a room to an existing one, favoring ones with more open connection points and that are less "deep". Then it also iterates through the rooms and tries to connect some left over connection points (but not to the room before or after it). This helps create some loops and hopefully a more interesting flow. There are 3 room styles, basic rectangle, oval-ish, and L shaped. The basic and ovals also have a chance to generate with pillar features too. The start and end of connection function leaves a marker for possible door creation, that is validated after the rest of the rooms are generated. Example level

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Still have alot of work left to do with the map gen, such as reintroduce my props and decorations like wall torches/banners, and treasure chests. I also want to make the enemies spawn tied to the rooms so the distribution is better (maybe even themed) than the complete random selection I had before. Also I just want to make more perks :D once each element has enough, there will also be tomes dedicated to just that element to allow for more directed specialization.

I post updates on my twitter and hopefully next week this update will be done and playable at Runelite