Hello and welcome, StarDungeon is a passion project of mine birthed from my trying to learn the engine and find where I fit in my post college years as a game developer. The project has changed pretty drastically from my new years 2014 start date and I’m quite proud of what I’ve learned and been able to put together. This project has been put together by myself and is mostly written in c++. Feel free to comment with any questions or feedback and I hope you enjoy StarDungeon.
Current Build: StarDungeon_PreAlpha_v1.1.1
-Added Fist weapon (for punching things)
-Added Sword weapon
-Added Shield mechanic
-Added first person mode (in testing)
-Added the energy core (in testing)
-Added second area for station level
-Created room spawning system for enemies
-Added persistent “Gem” currency
-Complete overhaul to menu system including quality menu settings
-Rebalanced placeholder enemies and guns to feel faster
-Fixed player camera colliding with pawn in tight corners
-Fixed Melee and Melee weapon replication
-Modified color grading on levels
-A lot of animation fixes (way more needed)
-Doors now take longer to open and have sound
Thanks for the feedback ! To answer your question, no I don’t plan on adding a cover system. I was influenced a lot when prototyping the combat by games from my childhood like Battlefront or Socom.
Instructions : Download the build linked and unzip folder. Ensure you’re signed into steam. Select SD.exe and allow the build to play through your firewall
Description: Wanted more control over inventory with this build as well as some fixes for persistent character data items.
Changes made:
-Fixed main menus backdrop clipping
-Fixed a way to get under the map using hit based reactions
-Added persistance to primary weapon change
-Fixed no weapon melee crash
-Fixed guns not attaching correctly in some cases to player mesh
-Revamped and polished the camera system. Now exclusively on player camera manager
-Reworked animations to go with new character system
-Added new guns to character menu
-Added ability to switch secondary gun
-Doors and Rooms Upgraded
-Fixed navigation of the ai to cross doors
-Added Auto Loot
-Aim degradation on move
-Fixed issue with earning experience not leveling correctly
-Fixed portal issues
-Reduced build size
That looked fun The space ship looks really good though I’d be glad to see spaceships that really made sense in their structure. It is apparent that this is very early in development but I guess the space ships will vary in size and structure? Will you also have the standard solo/local co-op/online options available in the end?
Hi , The levels currently are mainly set up for testing the various features I’ve developed thus far. I’ll more than likely keep the levels to being the interior of these ships. To make a comparison with current games that are out I imagine the levels being a bit of a mix between games in the Phantasy Star series and perhaps dungeon of the endless or other rogue-likes with large dungeons to comb through.
With Regards to the coop options, Currently there is only the ability to host a coop game through Steam. I would love to add solo play and local coop eventually though with playerdata persistence currently being what it is this may take some time. Hope this paints a better picture and thanks for commenting! Make sure to check back for the next build!
Description: A focus on network play and seeing what kind of level scale works well with it.
Changes made:
-Added Player nameplate
-Added toggling player name for owner on the character menu
-Added other character health bars to player hud
-Added epic ghost enemy (giggle)
-Fixed crouch for all weapon types
-Added turning in place
-Played with post processing and lighting a bit
-Tuned doors a bit to make them more challenging
-Added Game difficulty which affects which enemies spawn and what experience / health they have
-Doors now spawn enemies and not triggers
-Enlarged main level
-Added health bars for player and enemy as well as visibility logic
-Weapons now have an equip time
-Added random rotation to enemy spawn to increase enemy perception
-Increased Enemy speed and damage oh and health
Hi , Sorry to not reply in so long. I took a bit of a break for a few interviews I had as well as some of the cool spring games coming out. Still working on stardungeon, I’ll have to put some stuff together and make a new build soon.
Description: This build I took a bit of extra time to really get into some of the concepts I’d been wanting to test out and “discover” where I wanted to go with this project. There are plenty of things left to do though I thought it was time to create a build and get some testing done.
Notes:
The only ways to heal are “L” (cheater button) and energy core, when in range.
Difficulty controls enemy health, enemy count, and Gem drop rates
Changes made:
-Added Fist weapon (for punching things)
-Added Sword weapon
-Added Shield mechanic
-Added first person mode (in testing)
-Added the energy core (in testing)
-Added second area for station level
-Created room spawning system for enemies
-Added persistent “Gem” currency
-Complete overhaul to menu system including quality menu settings
-Rebalanced placeholder enemies and guns to feel faster
-Fixed player camera colliding with pawn in tight corners
-Fixed Melee and Melee weapon replication
-Modified color grading on levels
-A lot of animation fixes (way more needed)
-Doors now take longer to open and have sound
Hi , With sessions breaking I’d check to make sure you’re logged into Steam. Typically you can make sure steam’s dlls are working properly by seeing the steam overlay while in the game. If you’re still getting issues let me know, I appreciate you looking at the game!
I played through it, and it was all pretty smooth for a pre-alpha!~
I can see some places that you should prioritize, mostly AI and better level design. I got lost many times, and it’s because each room looked the same. A good way is to put landmarks everywhere. They could be as simple as a colored cube in main rooms for now. It’s always good to have little side paths loop back to a main ‘colored cube’ room so players can easily get their bearings!
But I digress, this is all really excellent work, and there is a good framework here. And the fact that this is all happening over a network is ever more astounding! Keep up the good work!
