Battle through a new 8-bit "zeldavania" game in the world of AdventureQuest. Available on a real NES Cartridge and emulators.
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"That guy's always giving me the cold shoulder!"
The Frost Lich hails from the Frozen fortress in the snow-covered Northlands... those who cross him become frozen with fear. Just talking about him sends chills up my spine. Oh, and beware of his ice zombie's frost bite. Should I keep up these puns or... let it go?
Here is a sneak peek of the boss fight in development. Still working on his animation and timing, but you can see this is a much more meaty boss fight.
Looking forward to having you test this boss fight-- needs a little bit of polish and a feature fixed. We also creates ANOTHER boss fight this weekend. More on that below...
A few moments before I started writing you this post, a player on the Artix Entertainment Discord Server tagged me and scolded me for playing "some game" called Asesprite ALL WEEKEND! >_> He was right. I was in Asesprite all weekend. But Asesprite is the pixel art program we use to build the art for Dungeons & DoomKnights. LOL! We accomplished a lot XD
Every good story begins with a problem. Ours was a pretty big one O_O. Last week we ran out of code space.
See that solid green bank in the picture below? That's the Grim Reaper pointing at an empty hourglass.
If you do not understand what you are looking at... no worries. Just focus on that worried face. It tells the whole story.
Special Agent Dale Coop to the rescue! (again) He has been working on a new save game system with a menu for Dungeons & DoomKnights. Actually, he has been helping with a ton of things. He was able to move a low priority section of the code to another bank. Now we have ultra shiny diamond-like valuable code lines available.
*wipes sweat off brow*
Our physical carts have the ability to save your game progress. Save points will be located in prominent locations including: town, dungeon entrances, and outside certain boss fights.
The shield spell you saw in the last boss test reflects projectiles. However, it was using the same "target enemy object" AI that the monsters use when they shoot at you. Which means the shield did not really reflect the projectile. It actually shot it back at the monster who fired it at you. "right back 'atcha!" Which... to be fair, sounds like a really cool feature! Unless, you are trying to design boss fights where a multiple monsters are firing at you and the goal is to strategically bounce them at the main big boss enemy. There were also some other edge case bugs that are too weird to explain here. The important thing... is that we now have a true reflect. Which means, Dungeons & DoomKnights now secretly contains the power of Pong!
"Oh, my beloved over-used giant red fireball, how I will miss thee..."
Monsters can now have custom projectiles. You can see the tiny ones in that screenshot from the Chaos Labyrinth. There are also some new Monster A.I. tricks to make the fights more fun. It feels so good to actually be able to create some of the fight ideas that I have had in my head forever.
Most people stopped reading a long time ago. So, to you... way to go! A lot of new code dropped into the game this weekend. Not just new tiles, movement fixes, and AI. One of the new things added, will be in the next Boss Fight test: The Frost Lich. It is a secret. So, whomever finds it and posts about it first will be recognized in the following update post as the 1st of our "8-Bit Secret Slayers".
See you in the next backer-only boss fight test post.
Battle on!
Artix
P.S. How weird is it that this year, we built created 27,000 plush moglins, held a multiplayer battle-concert with Korn, and are building a new game for the 1985 NES? If we walked up to someone on the street and told them that, I think we would break their mind a 'lil bit. *thumbs up* Good job community! Let's keep the insanity at max.
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Greetings 8-Bit Undead Slayers,
Dungeons & DoomKnights pits you against the endless forces of undead darkness: zombies, vampires, skeletons, mummies, and DoomKnights. But also... ChickenCows.
Just going to put this out there. This may be the weirdest update post I have ever written.
While the animations will not be in until later this weekend, the Chicken Cow lays eggs which will eventually hatch. I highly recommend dealing with them before they hatch.
No, not the fact that the Chicken Cow was laying Dricken Eggs. (Dricken = Half Dragon / Half Chicken). Think about that for a second. Wait, don't. Instead notice that our hero is now moving in 8-directions!
I could watch this animated GIF all day.
*one day later*
Let's continue...
I love coming home to a bright & sunny place. Even in a game filled with doom, death, and despair... you need a breather. That is why town, located smack dab in the center of the world map, will kill you with happy green foresty creatures instead. You know, like Frogzards, Sneevils, Chickencows, Drickens, Slimes, Flying Eyeballs, Sandsharks, and... turns out with a pretty easy palette swap from sand to blue, Sandsharks become actual sharks.
Some good news! Jongaar, who did all of our 8-Bit music & soundFX for Dungeons & DoomKnights is now with our studio full time.
Some... sorta good news? Pixel Artist Claymore (Who is animating the chickencow and dricken as I write this) quit his night time job. A bold but good move. He lives in Canada. His dream is ultimately to move down here and work with us full time too. We're doing everything in our power to make that happen. First... by making Dungeons & DoomKnights a masterpiece for you.
Again, I need to give insane props to Dale Coop. He cleaned up the games core code giving more space for variables. (Every byte you free feels like discovering a shiny diamond when working on an NES game.) He also created a more advanced save feature & fixed serious glitches in the monster's movement code.
I have been maintaining a pretty insane schedule. This week more-so than any other. I work on Dungeons & DoomKnights every night. During the day, we do weekly updates for 5 of our video games. And this week...
The band Korn is going to be play a Battle Concert in two of our MMORPGs-- AdventureQuest 3D and AdventureQuest Worlds.
Check out the details at Http://www.Artix.com/Korn
You are officially invited to come join me in the multiplayer monster filled mosh pit.
Be sure to bring your 8-bit gear. I would LOVE to see some screenshots. This is the biggest event of this type we have ever done. Well, it would have been if we were doing it in just one game. But we are doing it in two. So, there is going to be a 2D and a 3D version of the Korn event. It starts Tuesday. You can grab a free magic ticket in AQ3D right now which will teleport you to the event when it starts.
Battle on!
Artix & your 8-Bit Doom Team