To practice both painting and faces, I’ve started doing fantasy portraits. Once I get enough of them I’ll upload the set to OpenGameArt.org and maybe incorporate them into Dungeon Monkey Eternal. I wanted to do the pictures in traditional media because in my mind that’s how classic fantasy portraits are supposed to be done. Obviously …
Tag: dungeon monkey eternal
Dec 08
Dungeon Monkey Eternal now installable
I’ve made two quick changes to Dungeon Monkey Eternal. First, I’ve cleared most of the source files out of the root directory. Second, I’ve added a working setup.py packaging file. The good news is that it should now be much easier to pack the game for Linux distros, create an executable version for Windows, and …
Jun 10
Expanding the Blueprints
Engine or Game? One of the eternal debates in amateur gamedev is the distinction between a game and an engine. After making RPGs for twenty years, I’ve come to the conclusion that I do have an engine, it’s just not very engine-y. If you take a look through every game I’ve ever made, you’ll find …
Apr 16
Dungeon Monkey Campaign Idea
As I’ve mentioned before, Dungeon Monkey Eternal was created to help me learn Python and to try out some new systems that I hope to include in a new GearHead game. Unfortunately, because DME creates short static adventures rather than a large dynamic world, it isn’t really a good test for some of those systems. …
Mar 03
Things Dungeon Monkey Eternal can learn from GearHead 1
Continuing from yesterday’s post, there are also a lot of things that DME could take from GH1. Goals require meaningful choices One of the great things about GearHead is that there are a lot of paths for the player to take, each with their own risks and rewards. Many of these paths require particular skill …
Mar 02
Lessons GH1 can learn from Dungeon Monkey Eternal
Over the past few years I haven’t been able to do much programming, but I did cobble together a new entry in the Dungeon Monkey series, Dungeon Monkey Eternal. It’s a fun tactics RPG which is played in short coffeebreaklike adventures. This was my first major project in Python, and a big motivation behind its …
Jan 31
Dungeon Monkey Eternal
Dungeon Monkey Eternal is the latest game in the Dungeon Monkey series, and the first written in Python. I started this project as a warm-up for GearHead3, under the apparently correct assumption that diving straight into a big project using a language I didn’t really know would have been a bad idea. You can create …