Creating an Infinite Office for my roguelike

[@Deynum]

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[@christiancolvin6169]

Did you hurt your own comment?

[@goodrunlesgo]

Cool idea, make melee weapons like a pencil or a pen.

[@kuro.mp3126]

Add floors to your game

[@wizzletons]

y'know, i think it'd be interesting. Maybe adding a receptionist, which gives you your weapon, y'know? So, it's not really an enemy. It just stands there and gives you your weapon. edit: i added this late, but maybe it could be a shopkeeper to sell items and stuff

[@PokePullsDaily]

Are you going to let enemies follow you through doors? Or can you just bail on them.

[@sirdumpybear]

the player should be able to cast a shadow on the projection when walking in front of it!

[@onionturtle3295]

And edit the text

[@genericguymandude]

?????

[@aw1lt]

@@genericguymandude when walking in front of a projector, there should be a shadow

[@genericguymandude]

@@aw1lt ohhhhhh

[@justaduck4897]

Dude your going to kill this man with codeing.

[@CrzzyCat]

Endless cycle of endlessly creating an endless office building.

[@Bunderboats]

For people to endlessly play

[@retinazer7652]

and shoot endless amounts of enemies

[@franqvictoriano5725]

And for endless enemies to spawn against the player

[@stopkillingtanker6358]

Remands me of backrooms level 4

[@doob.]

Endless crashing of Unity

[@CasperHøjslet]

A cool weapon idea could be to have a coffee machine as grenade launcher, but instead of firing grenades, it fires filled coffee cups.

[@mrmissingno10]

The hot coffee in the cups stains the carpet for a brief period of time and enemies that walk on it take some damage

[@humanperson7466]

@@mrmissingno10 Hot coffee molotov

[@FearlesSLaughteR1]

Cups, or Pots? Maybe both?

[@michealfreeman9714]

@@FearlesSLaughteR1 cups for a regular shot, pots for a Charged one..

[@soozymeow]

Oh, and maybe as a bit of threat to keep you on your toes on where you fire, it’ll instantly wake up any Greg’s in the area it hits?

[@seanmurphy1470]

An "intern" enemy that acts as a support that buffs enemies by bringing them things.

[@ZTimeGamingYT]

Ah yes, the perks of Unity, causing game-ending crashes and heart attacks over semicolons.

[@farciarzfunny5326]

Wait so it doesn't detect errors?

[@ZTimeGamingYT]

@@farciarzfunny5326 I'm pretty sure it's trial and error given other research, but I haven't used Unity, so I don't know for sure.

[@goobertnelius]

@@farciarzfunny5326 there are compiler errors and things like that which get logged and then there are errors in how it was made which don't get logged because unity doesn't know your intentions of your code.

[@dazcarrr]

unity is so functional

[@farciarzfunny5326]

@@goobertnelius then why it has a heart attack over a semicolon?

[@HelperWesley]

The end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end

[@marcboss]

(:

[@sssamson1768]

This is the story of a man named Stanley

[@BootifulBlaze]

Stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was Employee #427

[@JasperFuller-w1o]

@@HelperWesley Stanley parable reference!

[@genericguymandude]

Suggestion: if you add power ups in the game, you should call them promotions.

[@kevindonthaveid4389]

agree

[@genericguymandude]

@@gregoryford2532 they should last till the end of the game, it is a rogue like after all

[@kipz]

@@genericguymandude getting powers that lasted the entire game was my favorite feature in rogue

[@Alcremio]

For the reception you should add a receptionist to give the game more character and make it feel more like an actual office

[@f1reflam3]

"I spent FIVE HOURS looking through every line of code I wrote, turns out I simply forgot to remove a semicolon that I placed accidentally" Coding in a nutshell

[@ablobontheinternet7737]

I have an idea for an enemy: Meet Jerry! He likes to play pranks around the office by leaving doors open a crack when the room is cleared. once someone gets close to the door, he will slam it open, pushing the person back, and start chasing them. Jerry is very fast, but not very coordinated, as if he is running on ice. he will also slow down and stop to catch his breath, since he would probably be hard to hit otherwise. Also I think that any "Fast" enemies (Greg and Jerry) should slip if they step onto ink puddles while they are running.

[@Flijo-zi]

Bro dropped the hardest edit in unity crashing 🔥

[@Nallib]

And the song was a banger. Name?

[@Drakar76]

You upgraded your game so much in one video! very cool!

[@wweeeee]

I think it would be funny if the projector actually work like real life, if you walk in front of it, the words will project on you.

[@notbaconzzzzzzz]

While possible, that would be a pretty difficult effect to pull off. So definitely the kind of thing that should be saved for the polishing stage of development. (unless you get a sudden hyper-fixation and you just really, _really_ need to implement it because you think it would look cool and/or would be a fun challenge; that kind of thing's happened to me a few times)

[@badcreatives3239]

A game called Don’t escape 4 days to survive did that

[@notbaconzzzzzzz]

Greg's coffee drinking animation _desperately_ needs to have him tilting back his head while drinking, so as to make it actually clear that he's drinking. The way I envision it is he would take 3 gulps and tilt his head farther back each time in a very _exaggerated_ fashion. (theoretical gulps, *no need to actually animate the throat,* but you may consider adding sound effects to match them later) This does mean that the animation would be longer, so you might want to buf him in some other way. And for good measure have him toss, chuck, or even throw (whichever you choose) the cup afterwards instead of simply dropping it _straight_ down.

[@victoriouswinner7745]

there’s probably a metaphor for how menial office work feels endless and stuff, but that’s all thrown out the window when you get the multi-color gatling pen

[@icoso]

Your humour makes these videos 10x more entertaining to watch 🤣 Awesome progress as usual, Deynum! Can’t wait to see what you come up with next :D

[@JamesThompson-zu3bq]

I think the issue with coffee drinking animation wasn't that you dont know he's powering up. its that the coffee cup just looks like a square, you cant tell there's coffee in it or even that it's a cup

[@notbaconzzzzzzz]

9:41 The door's closing animation lacks _oomph,_ it might even be as simple as just removing frame 5. Another way to improve it may be to mess around with frame 3 and 4. Frame 3 is more heavily smeared than frame 4, giving the illusion that the door is moving faster on frame 3 than frame 4; this is not good, as it makes it appear as though the door is slowing down, detracting from the _oomph_ (which is also part of the reason that I suggested to delete frame 5). You may also consider mirroring some of these changes with the door opening animation, but the _oomph_ of the opening is _much less_ imperative than the closing.

[@The.Quiet.Kid.]

I have a few ideas that could be used for the game. 1. Diversity in enemy appearance - the enemies all look too similar, so it might be a good idea to change up their clothes (or at least tie), hair and skin colour. 2. Map - if the layout of the office doesn’t change until it is reset, it would be good to create a simple map, even if it is just an image of the generation of the office. 3. HUD - a display of information such as the weapons at hand, kill count, enemies remaining and the escape route could fit into the theme if played correctly; a watch could show the time, a pager could show the kill count and enemies, etc. 4. Contact damage - the red outline for items seems too much, and could be turned into something simpler. Maybe a system where anything too close to the player that could damage them could trigger an audio or visual response; a brief alarm or an animated exclamation mark from the direction the danger is coming from. The game looks amazing, and I see great things in its future. Godspeed with the development.

[@alexandrajones4518]

It's always incredible to me that people can take letters, numbers, symbols, and pixels and turn it into something so cool. A cool bossfight/enemy could be a devil who would hold out contracts that reflect shots.

[@doodle_guard]

I like the idea of the endless room. It could appear after encounter with some npc or item. Like, you interact with it, and one other room swaps places with this one, and finding an exit from there will give you cool gun, or an item, or some currency

[@МастерДаркнес]

It would be funny if this NPC would also say a phrase about the fact that there are no too large rooms. Or he could be looking for someone who got lost in this building.

[@doodle_guard]

@@МастерДаркнес OH DAMN YES!!!

[@superspud678]

If it’s possible I would love to see Easter egg rooms added in. For example a 0.01% chance the room is like Michael Scott’s office from the office with a NPC of him inside or room dedicated to different games, then again I don’t know how hard that is I’m not a coder I’m a KZbin commenter.

[@anonymoose271_5]

i third this idea

[@camdensnowden3004]

i first this idea

[@railgunnemesis]

I zeroeth this idea

[@St0rmGuy]

I fifth this idea

[@ArchaicArcadiac]

Another one could be room 427 from the stanley parable

[@thegamingninja1656]

i think it would be better if the the coffee dude slowed down before going to sleep, like maybe he goes from max speed to sleeping in 1 second or 0.5 seconds

[@ushlathe]

Enemy variations would be nice, a shop, and a car, where? Idk, can you drive it? Nope!

[@wizird8454]

You should add an elevator, which could serve as a boss room or a sort of room that locks you in until you kill all the enemies.

[@Deynum]

the evevator is actually gonna be the way you move from floor to floor

[@mktwinsmovies]

Great progress and fun game and animations. Consider a restroom scene where you have to check each stall, some empty, some with surprise enemies. Also could play with time and have lunch break (pauses enemies) and 5pm which could be end of day and you spawn again in morning. Daily goals to defeat enemies so they can't complete the TPS report.

[@neenaw]

So happy to see you making stuff and more importantly, enjoying what you're doing!

[@OliverBeebe]

Your animations are so good! I’m really looking forward to seeing where this project goes!

[@Boybonkers12]

I already said this somewhere, but this game looks amazing! AN idea for another cool weapon could be an coffee machine that acts like a grenade launcher or something idk. But regardless, I cant wait until this done!

[@davidgajic5765]

I'm highly looking forward for the future devlogs. The game looks great so far. Good luck with development!

[@Amalya_DSG]

I still think Greg should look more like he's actually asleep. As I commented on the last devlog: "To make Greg look even more asleep you could have his head sort of hanging down, so that you don't really see his "face" but mainly his hair." Yeah, I still think that that would look good. Keep it up :)

[@the_stray_cat]

8:13 maybe it has to do with how colliders work? like having the enemies in had it prossesing the one glitching door more accurately?

[@acez28]

The most relatable experience I've seen so far in a coding journey

[@banananimator]

When ever you walk in front of the projector a little silhouette of you passes over the screen

[@ChromeSalt]

After you complete a floor could you have an elevator for the next section, stick with the office theme and all.

[@doormatt_lol]

This was such a good devlog! I'm excited for this game, i'll definitely be wishlisting it when the steam page is up! I liked that twist ending too :) ur storytelling abilities are definitely continuing to improve and im here for it xD i also really like that art style. just a slight bit of feedback, unless its an intentional part of the design, the smear on the door animations could probably be toned down just a little bit, as its currently not very subtle :p

[@МастерДаркнес]

How about an enemy who is so tired that he fell asleep at work. You would need to not shoot at him or near him, so as not to wake him up.

[@BlackFrawg]

Really enjoyable devlog, the editing is great! The visual enhancements where very... enhancing.. And yes, the worst kinds of bugs are the ones you can't find how it's breaking. Keep up the work! 👍

[@allopjay.3061]

I think you should have yellow sparks/ lightning bolts appear around the coffee drinker dude as a sign of gaining energy

[@tomkc516]

Great video! Great voice! I'm surprised it complied with that semi-colon there. visual studio yells at me any time I do anything until its perfect haha

[@Deynum]

Thank you, and yeah I was also really surprised by it!

[@Michael-The-Composer]

love the animation of the door, it has so much character, also the office tour segment was amazing, these videos are getting better every upload, i'm happy i finally started watching this series

[@joemcduck2748]

Maybe a rare event could be having a receptionist? You cant harm them, it’s just that it’s rare if they are there

[@yitebluebug3346]

Left/No-Tie Gang shall rise again, Deynum. When you least expect it.

[@Deynum]

You can't just bring twitch jokes to youtube lol, you're breaking all the rules!!

[@yitebluebug3346]

@@Deynum Just watch me!

[@ochreyefroglight]

i like how even though the text is low res, i can vaguely understand what's written in the posters

[@themrfj]

Have you considering adding sleeping employees as decoration? I know you're not at that stage of development yet - Thought I'd propose it anyway... For later.

[@SeanStClair-cr9jl]

Game is looking great! I do feel like your own water jug projectiles shouldn't be outlined in the same color as the enemies, and it is also quite hard to tell what they even are, as all the "wateryness" kinda goes away once the whole thing is encased in bright red

[@bigcereal4382]

Bob's fists or AOE should have that same red outline because right now he has the only attack that isn't red colored.

[@ZERHYX]

What if you make a meeting room for the higher ups of the company and it could be the "boss room" and you would have to fight some kind of boss.

[@Skeffles]

Excellent new sprites! The rooms look so much nicer and it's awesome to see with the level generation.

[@LineOfThy]

You have finally reached the point in Unity development where random things interact with each other completely nonsensically

[@zachthesnack5900]

I recently watched a trailer for Have a Nice Death (new Nintendo game) and Death Inc. is a thing in that universe!

[@drusepth]

This is such a flavorful take on roguelikes. Love it and can't wait to see how it turns out. :)

[@speedykoala]

is it just me who cant stopi thinking of this as the stanley parable with "there is no end" "the end is never the end is never the end"

[@seeksvideos9042]

This game looks so good already!

[@onionturtle3295]

To avoid players getting lost I would suggest a minimap like the dead cells minimap in the corner

[@Deynum]

It's absolutely gonna have a minimap, and even a teleport ability to move back to a previous room

[@ValidFish]

the item pickup enemy should get a shield when he picks up a desk / table

[@justcallmerasya]

It feels good whenever you upload

[@the_real_sharkbait]

I would like it so the red outline is a setting because I think I’d like it without the outline but others would like it with

[@ImTheSiIence]

Idea! If you're making the right room the tutorial presentation at the start, you should put a sign for the 'office conference' or 'seminar' or whatever being held in that room, pointing the player in the right direction. You know the boring office sign that's a board on the three legged stand thing. Would be a fun addition that fits the theme and directs the player where you want them to go!

[@Shrek5when]

9:24 that’s always painful when that happens

[@warning641]

New ideas for the game: New Enemies: • An enemy that uses its tie as a whip. • An enemy that shoots stacks of paper at the player with a fan. Current Enemy changes/additions: • When Steve gets to a printer, he repeatedly makes weak-ish copies of himself to go melee attack and swarm the player until the original Steve is defeated. • When Greg drinks coffee, his speed and strength is a littler higher than it is now and it lasts much longer. After waking up for the first time, every time Greg runs out of energy he doesn’t completely fall asleep, he gets really slow and heads toward a nearby coffee maker to regain his energy. • If Steve and Greg are in the same room, Steve can grab the coffee maker to shoot coffee at Greg to keep him continually recharged. World changes: • More things around the office. • Things around that office that can be affected by enemies and the player (ex: stack of papers that can be shot around with a fan, coffee maker, chairs that can be launched into the player or enemies to do damage by attacking it). •Cubicle walls to help breakup each room.

[@maxrdev703]

Looks really good! My favourite room has to be the reception! Glad you got over that odd bug 😅. I really liked the office tour scene in the video, great editing. Good luck with the rest of the project!

[@Dubcore2011]

You should be able to preload the adjacent rooms and show them connected with some fog of war. That would make it easier to know where you have come from and navigate. Should work ok as long as you clamp the camera a bit to the current room so that it doesn't show much of the adjacent rooms until you go through a door which at that point it smoothly pans to the next room.

[@Theuniversearch]

Simply put: I love these videos! :)

[@martinacocca4225]

Ok we recently did a programming course at school and I swear to god 90% of non working code was missing semicolumns we forgot

[@chang9576]

Power-up idea: There's a small chance that when you defeat the coffee addict, they drop a cup of coffee. It ups your speed and strength for 30 seconds.

[@chang9576]

Your accuracy also goes down due to hand jitters

[@IDENTICYEA]

Better than the last one less gooo!

[@HoodedOlive]

You’ve got to love the legendary semi colon. It always ruins everything with its inclusion or absence. Truly the programmers mortal enemy.

[@oleksiifisher8175]

The game looks superfun. Love the artstyle!

[@danielplocica8766]

Weapon idea: Calculator (with ironically complex usage), when you fire once it shoots a digital projectile projectile, firing again converts the projectile to a area that damages over time, the projectile does no damage but can bounce off walls. Miniboss ideas- supervisor, boosts enemy damage and uses stamps to apply debuffs You could implement some enemies just work at a computer or something else and get up and attack you after you make enough noise or attack

[@Dajuhf]

Suggestion: At first room (reception) could have a receptionist that you can talk and she says like "The boss are waiting for you on his office". This could be also a little bit about the story, where you gonna be fired, or something like this. But the point is that at final you could meet the boss at his room.

[@denifnaf5874]

The infinity room should be the insanity room where if you spend longer than 5 minutes you go insane and game over. With creepy darkness affect closing in all around you.

[@finfeehasahat]

When going into a different room, there should be an animation of the character kicking of throwing the door open, and a punchy and crunchy sound effect playing, such as in Enter the Gungeon. Secondly, in the reception room, there should be a chance for there to be a third door at the top, where you have to dodge roll over the desk, I just think that'd be neat.

[@h-man7620]

I love how the right door is just a normal door While the left door is a menace to society

[@greenleaffisk7166]

Thanks for adding shadows

[@Deynum]

haha, you're welcome

[@lienesauserde7419]

In my opinion when bob smash’s his fists just seem like giant cubes that seem out of place

[@percyjamescoobs1596]

I watched every of your devlog videos so far and I have to say, I am impressed. :-) In your second video you mentioned a lift. This lift (or elevator) could be the hub or safe zone of your player. A tiny cozy room with chill music and fun gimmigs and gags - like a random guy entering and leaving after saying some weird stuff or a quote out of a movie. Or a cleaning lady with her cleaning gear. I think it would make sense, if every floor has a different color scheme and a different theme. The first floor could be the accounting and you have to fight the boss, to get the key card to the next floor. After defeating John from Accounting you could fight Karen from Human Resources. She likes kittens. I noticed all your characters look a little alike. I think it would be a good idea to give every enemy a varity of hair styles and colors. Red hair, green tie, bald head, dark skin. And women are allowed to work too. So for every Bob there is a Barb, and for every Steve there is an Eve. I hope this helps and gives you some input for your amazing project. :-)

[@BoredSai95]

I love greg’s power up animation, that’s exactly what drinking coffee feels like 😂

[@Eclipsegamedev]

10:31 that could be a potential tutorial room

[@mattheww1072]

NPC named tom. He's the janitor and cleans up after everyone. He'll drop health potions or extra ammo if you interact with him. If you shoot him enough times, he'll turn into a secret boss battle.

[@I8UfoBreakie]

You never know the true full power of a semi colon until you start programming

[@georgewashington3505]

Spent 5 hours reading every line of code you wrote only to realize it was a semicolon you put on accident… I felt that

[@TylergarnettMercado-cn7yv]

You could add power ups like coffee that increases ur speed for a while

[@MagWasMinimal]

I think it would be cool to add an enemy that appears to kill you if you spend too much time in a room,mix that with the infinite room and you'll have something interesting to surprise the player with.

[@mrmissingno10]

The manager, comes to attack you because you’re “slacking off”

[@gumikebbap]

maybe u want a map or a compass. super funny the office concept! and loved the video. here are some more ideas: beverage machine (powerups; could be enemy/neutral/allied) fire extinguisher plants relax room: billiards, darts...

[@tituskizer6478]

I sympathize with you. I'm a game developer too and I've had a couple of stupid problems happen for stupid reasons, but I am so glad you fixed that door dilemma.

[@LedyanayaSonya]

I might be too late for a suggestion, but it would be really cool to see those iconic Erich Krause ballpoint pens - bright orange with dark blue caps and back ends. They can be either a weaker earlygame version of the pen gun or a stronger version of the pencil launcher (pen launcher this time, as the color scheme is so recognizable its sprite can be tiny)

[@weckar]

Huh, I'd never seen those before.

[@LedyanayaSonya]

@@weckar probably it's only european thing, Idk.

[@weckar]

@@LedyanayaSonya I'm in Europe :)

[@clonkex]

I've also never seen them before but I'm Australian. Our standard brand of ballpoint pen is Bic.

[@k1ng_chicken]

The pain of seeing a thought to be for no reason bug take up hours and hours of time just to be the result of a minuscule error is felt hard

[@CaseusPetram]

enter the gungeon

[@niphil7437]

Wow! This game is going to be soo cool! Can't wait and will definitely play!

[@puchi76]

Wow, this background change really looks great

[@OrigamiYoshi]

He dropped the hardest unity crashing edit and thought we wouldnt notice

[@willwhite356]

What if you can get a “promotion” which gives you a stat increase or a skill of some form.

[@RockyMulletGamedev]

I really like those new animations, being the dodge roll and those closing/opening doors.

[@OligarchMartial]

I think that Bob should get a red outline when he is smashing down. Otherwise perfect!

[@thelegendarymushroom80]

Why is the ending so funny? haha

[@clawrolinelore4674]

Here's some enemy ideas: A higher up ceo boss (named Fred) and halfway through fighting him, he will spawn a right hand man miniboss. (named Robb Banks) They could switch between certain weapons and drop safes on the player that you have to avoid. Also for steve, if he finds a printer he can stand behind it and make it shoot paper at the player. Alternatively if he finds a computer he will sit at it and type in command prompts that spawn random bullets around that target you, kind of like the unused queen attack from deltarune I could make these as sprites if you want

[@puzzlick7088]

You can add locked doors to areas that have no extra rooms to make it feel bigger or a key you can get by defeating enemies to unlock extra areas

[@cococnutbandit3817]

The transitions between some rooms should be like old windows tabs