Dracula's Dungeon Update 1.1, trying to expand it into a full game


Polishing the game post-jam.

In this update, my intention was to make the current game more fun, to balance it, make it more fair and enjoyable, here is the changelog:

-off to a great start, the quit button doesn't work anymore you will have to exit via f4.

-redid the sprites for almost all the enemies, the background and the title screen, they look much better.

-introduced a pause system, now you can by pressing escape and unpause, or you can go back to the title screen.

-added a levels menu, now if you can't beat a level you can just skip it and select the next.

-increased the range of the melee attack a little bit, from 24 pixels to 28 pixels.

-added inv frames for when you get shot, this gives you time to recover.

-white enemies now shoot white bullets and spawn with white particles

-redid the tutorial text, it is now black instead of red, it is easier to read, I also turned antialisng off for the text, now every pixel is either fully colored or transparent(I should have done this in the jam, but I didn't know about the option).



How do I plan to turn this into a full game?

The idea for the game is this, Wallachia (the kingdom of which the historical Dracula was king) is attacked by a demon invasion, you, as the vampire king, must fight this invasion going from area to area on a map of Wallachia.

Each area is kind of like a level, but not quite, when you first select an area it is attacked and the demons have control, so you must fight them, like in the current version, after you defeat the area, the demons will leave and humans will appear, they will give you dialogue and sidequests, the reward for which will be upgrades or new abilities. Once you did the all the things which you can do in an area, you can play it in white mode, which is a much harder, optional version of the area(minus the sidequests).

You will have lots of areas to explore, such as rural town, mountains,  forests, fortresses, etc.

What do I have planned for the next update?

-a camera system

-creating at least one area

-making the level selection screen a map of Wallachia

-maybe some upgrades and new enemies?

-changing the title to Dracula: Invasion in  Wallachia, I didn't change it yet because this is just a better version of the jam game.

Files

Dracula's Dungeon Updated Version.zip 10 MB
Feb 10, 2021

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