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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I have been making my character gen even more complicated and I think I'm almost done - Thorn Eustace the Craven Hollow-Eyed Gallant Artisan, for instance #roguelikedev #indiedev #godot

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

more character builds with traits now, I have no idea if half of this is balanced but there's a heap of weird stuff you can do when making a PC now #roguelikedev #indiedev #godot

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

setting traps to cowardly murder your opponents; although tbh the complexity of this game is doing its best to murder me #roguelikedev #indiedev #godot

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

working on arcanist powers, here's the gameplay: calling water elementals from puddles; leading them to attack a nearby shaman; having the shaman heal the pc; killing the elemental and then infusing their "cadaver" to create miasma clouds, diseasing all involved #roguelike #indiedev #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

esoteric ebb is a pretty good game IMHO, and i shudder at the thought of how insane it was to write dialogue like that with a million branching options

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

new dialogue system with some dummy options to give you the idea about what i want to do with this - this will no doubt change the focus of the game a lot from being a simplish hack n slash experience to something a bit more complex #roguelike #roguelikedev #indiedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

infuse coin spell being tested on the player and others, bribe a fire elemental with a gold coin to create human torches. a fairly deadly replacement for a torch #roguelike #gamedev #roguelikedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

the blah work of menus for stuff like this is not my favourite and does not make for a particualryl good video, but here is what happens on level gain

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

been a while since i've done something constructive on the programming front, but today i added special abilities for my sneaky blackguard class with hamstring and trip attacks implemented to add some variety to combat #roguelike #godot #indiedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

scraps of weird religious texts found on parchments and scrolls to trade to religious pilgrims in exchnage for something (???) #roguelike #godot #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

made brandy to get drunk, made brandy flammable, made brandy throwable and splash into puddles of liquor, made lit torches ignite flammable substances when thrown, made fire spread to nearby puddles, made fire burn items and actors, and introduced about a million bugs #roguelike #godot #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

working on blackguards: blowguns are new ranged weapons with charges that inflict poison condition on enemies. really trying to emphasise the sniping from darkness gameplay style #roguelike #godot #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

containers like chests now generate with items, and i've linked item rarity to dungeon depth, with items in containers getting a rarity boost. all sounds great until you battle a bandit to loot their chest to find their life savings was two bones and two cudgels #roguelike #godot #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I spent so long searching for the right minimalist pixel art to work with but the answer was in front of me this whole time, it’s too late to go back now but part of me will forever yearn to make a game with this, no colours, no effects, only the most amateur of programmer animation

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

here is the arcanist's infuse gem ability. You infuse a gem with a fire spirit which makes it explode on being picked up and then leave it around to kill unsuspecting innocents. I'm pretty happy that the item, ability and AI systems all come together nicely on this one #roguelike #godot #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

it's a bit hard to work out from this but the dude with the staff is a healer who doesnt fight but goes around casting 'nine herbs charm' and injured friends, a charm that gradually heals over time. This was a bit complicated with an all new ai but works well now #roguelike #godot #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I made my first arcanist class power, which is basically my magic system but with the spells being more subtle than simply dealing damage directly. This one is offering food and wine to summon a slyph to follow you around as light source #roguelike #gamedev #godot

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

testing out the confirm prompts for attacking allies on Olaf the Bald and all looks good. Here you can see poor Olaf going hostile and then friendly again and being offered terms before being finished off. The health bars are now coloured to show allied/friendly/enemy #roguelike #godot #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

the unsexy work of giving every entity a unique ID and working on properly serialising every piece of data means that complex AI states are now properly saved and allies now share knowledge of who has annoyed them between each other, as depicted below #roguelike #godot #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

it is hard to show action from a turn based game but i did 'offer terms' ability so you can show mercy to your bandit bros and chill around the campfire after a tough battle. using this is going to be a gallant class feature ability for goofy chivalry conduct rules #roguelike #godot #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

not sure if a feature or a bug, but I decided to earnestly play my game to see how far I could get and I was cruising until I got one-shotted out of nowhere by a goblin with a two-handed sword who critically hit me and then rolled exceptionally for damage #roguelike #godot #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

working on dungeon layout with specific themed rooms with appropriate fixtures and npc generation. It seems to be going ok and this is meant to be a bandit camp with a few beds and a small chest #roguelike #godot #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

playing with torches and lighting. when you equip a torch, you light it and it retains that effect when you drop it but gets put out when picked up and put into your pack. this lets the player do tricky things like light up an area with torches on the ground for combat #roguelike #godot #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

flame cloud effect - this will be the environmental effect that is used for burning objects, gases, actors, etc #roguelike #godot #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I got webs, which seems easy I know but I had to write a heap of code to make environmental effects impose passive effects on actors. Next I want flame clouds to burn actors, then make webs burn, then make spiders spawn in a web house #roguelike #godot #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

throwable mud as a way for goblins to initiate combat, blinding their opponents with a mud pie to the face to reduce their perception, I think I am well on the way to writing the most annoying enemies possible

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I thought the whole time that I mostly wanted just human enemies in this game but it was starting to feel a bit samey so I added goblins and the creatively titled goblin mobs that can spawn: goblin, goblins, more_goblins, and goblin_horde #roguelike #godot #indiedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I just realised that when I gave undead the lowest possible perception score, I also made them effectively blind in the dark. Not very scary when skeletons just stand still in dark rooms doing nothing while you bash them to bits

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

this is the start of some of my more complex gameplay ideas now that combat is feeling fairly settled. i need to implement altars and shrines to various saints and more weird and unusual spirits and the offer terms ability was always a planned part of the chivalry system #roguelike #godot #indiedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

ive been a bit absent but I’m still working away on recreant. it’s all fiddly stuff behind the scenes but pretty important - xp and character levels, stat increases on every 2nd level, different feats for classes #roguelike #godot #indiedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

that purple guy is my end-game boss. now that I've added a goal, someone generous might even call this thing a game at this stage. Llofrudd should be almost invincible, but I have no doubt that the roguelike community can figure out a way to kill him #indiedev #gamedev #roguelike

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

ive been working on spawning npc's as mobs with a bit of logic about them and then generating appropriate mobs for the dungeon level, and i think im getting dangerously close to a playable "game". If you want to test play, here's the link: patjw.itch.io/recreant?sec... #roguelike #indiedev #gamedev

pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

mobs generate more cohesively now and there isn't an initial battle royale as enemies spawn side-by-side. First step towards more intelligent dungeon design, because I'll be able to build encounters by difficulty soon and increase the challenge as you go deeper #roguelike #godot #indiedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

added food rations, which was a little bit tricky to give them different food sprites but to also stack them in inventory. This wasn't to add a food clock, but instead food restores a stamina point. I also added a satiation condition which prevents you from eating two foods in a row #roguelike

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I'm trying to work out ways to make the intangible skills more relevant. Perception adds a bonus to critical hits, and I've made it so that it now adds to view radius so they can see better in the dark. It also makes wineskins more interesting because they add courage but minus perception #roguelike

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

luring friendly NPC to his doom through a trail of coins, i'm not too sure why he didn't go for the closest coins first but maybe the fact that he's stuck in a dungeon in the first place means he's not the sharpest tool in the shed #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

im going to make coins and gems throwable so that, combined with the greedy ai behaviour tree, the optimal character build is a rich coward who hansel and gretals his opponents into a room full of undead and then loots their corpses #roguelike

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

programming thrown items really was not one of the most enjoyable experiences, from making the code for using items recognise thrown items, hacking together a targeting system, telling the combat system to use a different weapon than the one wielded, and then dropping the item in another place

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

smaller but more frequent special vaults. Here's a couple of levels being autoplayed to show how it looks #roguelike #indiedev #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I think my last upload had some issues with being at 2x zoom along with some annoying bugs so here's an updated web build whcih i pray works adequately patjw.itch.io/recreant?sec... #roguelike #indiedev #gamedev

pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

tweaked the dungeon generator to include "big rooms". maximum of one per level and often not one at all but the idea is to create big structures to branch off in different ways and to also add complexity to the use of light, darkness, and ranged combat by creating space #roguelike #indiedev #gamedev

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pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

patjw.itch.io/recreant?sec... sneaky dev build. Expect rough edges and incomplete features, but it’s pretty playable. Because it’s web, saving and loading games and levels doesn’t work, so ignore that! Also, pick merc and confessor as class because the others aren’t done yet! #roguelike #gamedev

pat-tweet.bsky.social @pat-tweet.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

holy symbols are now holy periapts, a relic that charges up from inflicting pain on others. The more charges, the greater the light radius, capping out at 3, and charges allow for the user to heal themselves. The confessor starts with this item as a central class feature #roguelike #godot #indiedev

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