Hello everybody,

today I’m going to give you a short development update. After the release and the first patch in April 2020, I got some valuable player feedback.

Some players reported headache or a claustrophobic feeling. The problem was that the renderer had a fisheye effect. …

I am very excited to announce the release of version 1.0.0.

Although there was not that much time since the last update, there are many new features and improvements for the final release. Short time before the release, the focus was *polishing*. This is why the new features don't have a deep impact…

Hi everyone,

it's been a while since the last update. Last time I talked about integrating new features that were suggested by the beta testers. There were only few open points left:

• a music track for the end-boss fight
• a tutorial / giving the player hints
• improving visual feedback…

After implementing the last peaces of the push-stone-puzzle and the end boss, I decided to proceed to the next step. I wanted to get some feedback. I built a beta version of the game for Linux and Windows. I created a page on both, Itch.io and Game Jolt and uploaded the game th…

Hi everybody. Again, it's been a long time, but now the summer is finally over and I can show you some updates to the game.

After completing the collision-handling code overhaul and while filling the lower dungeon section with life, I literally wondered wh…

While filling the new lower dungeon section with (undead) life, I thought that playing the game would take about twice the time, compared to the original version. I was glad that I finally got the opportunity to integrate the lantern that I had to cut from the gamedev challenge submission.

D…

Hi,

it has been some time since the dungeon crawler challenge was over. There were many things left to do in my game submission, but I was relatively satisfied with the result and I was tempted to call this a game and move on to other projects. However, things never turn out as you expect. I…

Hi there,

more than a week passed since the dungeon crawler challenge was over and I used the time to take a deep breath. Now I finally managed to get a working Windows build done (thanks to Mingw64, VirtualBox and Stackoverflow ?).

I didn't have the time to fix any bugs, so this is the …

This is the post-mortem for the dungeon crawler challenge submission The Fire of Ardor. You can find the project here:

It is done. The last two months have been exciting, as well as exhausting.

I took the challenge as an opportunity to push the development of the raycasting game engine …

Hi again,

this time I'm posting a little status update video. First of all, there is a main menu (with only two options yet, I'll add options and load/save game if time will allow me). Further, there is an in-game menu which allows the player to go back to the main menu (challenge requiremen…

Hi,

here is a small update on the development status of The Fire of Ardor. The biggest change regards the engine. I introduced the Entity-Component-System (ECS) pattern for the renderers (UI and raycaster). This means that renderers (which were treated differently before) are now usual syste…

Hi, this is my first blog entry here and also the first time that I actively participate in Gamedev.net. I am a software developer who develops application software at work. At home, I develop games in my spare time. I used to read Gamedev.net articles and blog posts for inspiration and motivati…