HammerHelm Dev Blog #5: Dungeons and Traps news

Alpha 0.1.26 includes the Dungeons and Traps system as well as some other features and bug fixes.

Dungeons and Traps (see video below)

• Dungeons can be found as part of the Quest System
• Dungeons are a good source of gold and other useful resources
• Many dungeons have traps inside of them including floor spikes, flame traps, and swinging axes
• To complete a dungeon you must kill all of the monsters inside it. Once that is complete, you receive all of the gold you found as well as a treasure chest with additional loot.

Fixes and Updates

• Pressing Escape when a UI window is not opens a new UI
  • Options to "Save and Quit to Desktop" or "Save and Quit to Title Screen"
  • Pressing Escape again will close this menu
  • When this menu is open, the game is paused
  • You cannot open this UI in dungeons or when another UI is open
• Once an NPC's Quest Button is pressed it cannot be pressed again unless that NPC has a new active quest
• Corrected "shift" in description for opening town management UI (shift-V)
• You can no longer open other UI when the inventory UI is open (I also fixed the pop-up bug in case a player finds a way to open UI on top of the inventory UI)
• Messages should no longer overlap
• Fixed an issue that would cause NPCs to get stuck in their "chop" animation
  • This animation is used when the NPC is chopping a tree, building a structure, or clearing the mines
  • This was actually a really nasty bug that is likely also the cause of the NPC sometimes getting stuck clearing the mines
• The NPC bugs should mostly be fixed, but since the NPC AI is some of the most complicated code I've written, I've added a Debug Button to their conversation UI.
  • Pressing it will bring up a menu that shows all of the things they've been told to do by the system (example image attached)
  • If an NPC gets stuck or is acting strange, you can open this window and screenshot it.
  • This will help me track down what's going on if a problem is encountered.
• Fixed another nasty bug that made the workers scared of the market when loading a save game during the tutorial after you killed the ghosts
  • This means NPCs stopped gathering resources and would never do so, really bad!
• Added a new quest: "Discovered New Mine Level"
  • Allows the player to enter the mines and fight monsters and get more loot and ore
  • I'm also going to add another quest where monsters attack an already cleared level, which means Miners will stop gathering stone until you clear it out again
  • I want to add other non-combat quests for the mines too, such as a Miner being trapped and needs rescue or a toxic gas enters the mine, etc.

Dungeons and Traps Video