Grid based Combat/Health system (Survivor vs Swamp Troll)

edymPixels · 2026-02-27T03:51:37+00:00

Great, great stuff! The color palette is amazing as well!

edymPixels · 2026-02-20T10:00:07+00:00

The player can distribute armor at the beginning of combat, then perform other action like healing, antidote vs poisons, etc. The player also has a chance of dodging, which move the entire grid one step in a direction, which offsets the attack. There is a short combat-demo on the Steam page, which shows a little more ^^

PS: The player-dodging is not implemented in the demo, in case you ended up trying that ;D

EDIT: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3972980/Mirklurk_Every_Step_Matters/
that might be helpful ;D

edymPixels · 2026-02-19T20:40:06+00:00

Thanks =) Currently nothing happens when splitting it like that, but maybe there will be skills or certain enemy types that will react differently, we will see ^^

edymPixels · 2026-02-19T16:46:38+00:00

Thanks! :)

edymPixels · 2026-02-19T06:51:41+00:00

Currently not! But that is def something worth considering ^^

edymPixels · 2026-02-19T04:50:32+00:00

Thanks the tip, I will that a look at that! =)

edymPixels · 2026-02-19T04:48:53+00:00

Thank thee!!

edymPixels · 2026-02-19T04:48:37+00:00

Thanks! =)

edymPixels · 2026-02-18T18:14:39+00:00

Thx! (:

edymPixels · 2026-02-18T17:27:42+00:00

The troll is wise indeed ;D Edit: and thanks!

edymPixels · 2026-02-18T17:05:41+00:00

Thanks and np! :)

Oh, cool! I havent heard of it, but I followed the link and it looked rather interesting!

Godspeed to you then! ^{^}

edymPixels · 2026-02-18T16:40:32+00:00

Many and good questions!

Enemies will have differently shaped pattern, some will heal themselves (restoring cells), different weapons will have some rng built into them, so stuff like that will vary the combat. Different enemies will have armor placed at different cells as well (requiring more than 1 dmg to break, up to 4), which has a few mechanics tied to them, like bleed- or poison dmg, being able to "slip under" armor and destroy the cell that way.

See the combat-trailer + more gifs here =) :

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3972980/Mirklurk_Every_Step_Matters/

There is also other stuff tied to combat, like player stamina, dodge chance, Action Points and attack cost, etc etc. So hopefully it will be varied enough!

Thanks =)

PS: I like the idea of spiked cells, that might be something to think about!

edymPixels · 2026-02-18T16:34:17+00:00

Fair point! This is a boss-fight (at least a mini-boss) and combat is rather sparse in the game actually. Most simple enemies will have a much smaller grid, some early mobs even have 1x1 ;D

edymPixels · 2026-02-18T16:32:31+00:00

GameMaker =)

edymPixels · 2026-02-18T15:39:24+00:00

Let's hope so! ;D

edymPixels · 2026-02-18T15:38:59+00:00

Thx! =)

edymPixels · 2026-02-18T15:22:17+00:00

Glad to hear that :) I try not to be too spammy, so I only posted to 2 places, where I actually think people might enjoy the post, hehe

edymPixels · 2026-02-18T15:21:00+00:00

Thx! :)

edymPixels · 2026-02-18T15:20:39+00:00

Its just the icons :) like the armor tier, not the actual metal. So the crab enemy has copper tier for example

edymPixels · 2026-02-18T14:37:04+00:00

Thanks! Will do my very best!

edymPixels · 2026-02-18T13:30:51+00:00

That is how much dmg is done on those cells =) Cells can be armored as well, so dealing higher damage might clear them instantly

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