Sunlorn

Devlog

• Mud, Artillery and Ruined Cities
  February 08, 2025 by Tesselation9000

  I've done a lot of code cleanup and reorganizing lately, pulling methods out of my bloated classes and sticking them into neat little namespaces. Maybe soon I'll standardize the arguments for all the... Continue reading

  
• Raising the Tile Ceiling, Ice Walls and Magic Fountains
  February 08, 2025 by Tesselation9000

  So I finally tackled a looming issue that I've known for months, possibly more than a year, would eventually have to be addressed. Each tile on the map was represented by a one-byte integer, meaning I... Continue reading
• Robbers, Mazes and Portcullises
  January 03, 2025 by Tesselation9000

  I was off work this week, so I had lots of time to make big progress on the game. This includes: Before now I hadn't bothered to use any form of data compression for saving maps. A single sector of th... Continue reading

  
• Illusions, Camouflage and Monster Relations
  December 27, 2024 by Tesselation9000

  I didn't make a post for the last couple of weeks, so there's a lot to update about. Now that the game is getting more stable, I've been having longer play test sessions, with games lasting an hour or... Continue reading
• Monsters Using Items, Scrolls and Debugging
  December 27, 2024 by Tesselation9000

  I just tracked down a mysterious bug that had me baffled for months. In my game, many items that you would normally expect are stackable, like coins, potions, arrows, and pieces of food, but items lik... Continue reading
• Monster Camouflage and Divination Spells
  December 27, 2024 by Tesselation9000

  The agenda lately has been play test, play test, play test. Whenever I sit down to actually play the thing for a while, I've got to keep Notepad++ open because I'll spot a bug about every two minutes... Continue reading
• Action Queue
  November 09, 2024 by Tesselation9000

  I took the ascii explosion animation / mechanic I developed last week and made an alternate mode that causes an electric discharge that only propagates across water. Now, whenever trying to used a lig... Continue reading
• Gas Overhauled
  November 09, 2024 by Tesselation9000

  I took about two months off from working on my project to focus on other things, but I've been pretty active the last couple of weeks. I decided to finally tackle a major issue that I've known for a w... Continue reading
• More Content
  June 02, 2024 by Tesselation9000

  I've just been shoveling content a lot lately. Here are some examples of things recently added: Single use javelins of lightning. Turn into a lightning bolt when throw. Flash pods. Small clay pellets... Continue reading
• Birth of the Gods
  May 20, 2024 by Tesselation9000

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  From last November until March I put in a lot of hours on my project, but since that time I've had to put it aside to catch up on other aspects of life. But this week I had some time to dive back into... Continue reading
• Revised City Generation
  March 16, 2024 by Tesselation9000

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  I revised the city generation algorithms this week and I'm very pleased with the results. I think they look much better now!... Continue reading