What Heavy Attacks Did For Our Roguelike // Indie Dev Couple Godot Devlog

We're working on our first indie game, a spell casting action roguelike. And we finally found a trick to make it super fun to play! In this devlog, we share our design process and show you how our game is progressing. Hope you like it!
Would be awesome if you'd wishlist Furcifer's Fungeon! :) store.steampow...
Our Twitter: / tweetfurcifer
Our discord server: / discord
Music:
Dungeon Theme - Furcifer OST by Fabian Ruch / @faru-music
No Escape - Hades OST
Tristram - Diablo II OST

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Hey guys, hope you liked our devlog :) What do you say, greenscreen yay or nay? :D

[@FridgeFucker96]

Definitely a yay!

[@sslaxx]

It works, so why not?

[@devonandersson300]

Keine Ahnung was es mit dem Fischmikro auf sich hat - aber nun habe ich Lust auf Fischstäbchen. Furcifer's Fungeon wish-listed.

[@JavaJack59]

Yay. It permits longer continuous shots of real gameplay.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Danke :)) Wir bieten schon einen Half-Resolution Modus an, da merkt man kaum einen Unterschied. Ist für schwache Rechner und Web super. Wenn man auf 1/4 Auflösung rendert, sieht es so aus: twitter.com/TweetFurcifer/status/1520112476666437632 Der Text wird dann leider wirklich unlesbar, aber das könnte man theoretisch lösen

[@Ivorforce]

I'm a strong believer in the 'Everything is a Remix' mentality - stealing ideas usually isn't stealing, it's just the creative process! Good to hear from your experiences, this is going to come in handy for my own game design sessions :)

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Well said!

[@ShakyDawn]

I've experienced it myself, when things go smoothly from the beginning to the end it's such a good feeling, even for basic stuff!! On a side note, since you've been a major inspiration for me to try gamedev and youtube even if not a native english speaker, I want to thank you guys so much!! Love your attitude!!!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Amazing! Keep at it :) Your game looks cool already

[@ShakyDawn]

Wow! Thank you!!

[@gamedevaki]

the game looks so pretty! I especially like the contrast between the bright effects and the dark dungeon

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thank you so much! :)

[@flamelizard]

Awesome video! Looking forward to the demo :D. And thank you for the insight in your game design choices.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thank you very much, this means a lot to us :)

[@TwinStick]

Hi guys! This is looking so good now with the updates and additions you've been adding! I can't wait to get my hands on it :D

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Hey Nathan! Thank you so much for the support, we're working hard on the game :)

[@Lulink013]

Not gonna lie, I only subscribed for all the tips despite your early prototypes looking so rough but with every video on your game it feels way closer to something I actually want to try! Good job!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thats cool to hear! It just takes a *lot* of time to make an actually good game x)

[@jackawaka]

awesome stuff, the game looks real good!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thank you :D

[@gameoppressor627]

Hey....have follower your steam release for a while now.....this game looks very nice and wanted to Say i am a big fan of the cubey artstyle and the interesting gameplay....you go guys....i Also find very fun how your devlogs look more like full reviews of your own games....with nice editing and a whole lighthearthedness. Im gonna have fun with this game fo sho

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thats amazing! I hope you will :)

[@drilkus1312]

I love this! I cant wait to steal it for my game. ^.^

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Awesome! Let me know if you have something you want to show :D

[@xairoh2358]

Doing that is a good idea, can't wait to test the game for myelf :D

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Then we'll work on the demo even harder! >:)

[@VaSoapman]

I am late to this... Here's another fun thing you can steal. Probably best used for a single weapon/spell. Its from Fighting Games. There are types of moves are called Rekkas. You can look it up on the Fighting Game Glossary. If you do a Rekka move again before it finishes, you will do an additional, similar move. Most Rekkas have 3 stages of action/combo, and end with a big hit. You know a Rekka is fun, when players make noises when pressing a button in a Rekka. Often getting louder and to the rhythm of the button presses.

[@Lolboy30]

nice progress on your game! my suggestion towards the art would be to use the saruration a bit to your advantage.. make the environment and non-interactable stuff a bit less sarurated, keep it the same on players and enemies.. it will highly improve the readability on the screen! for example: in league of legends, the environment has the lowest saturation. the characters are one 'level' above that, and on top you got the UI - including the shop window which is the decision of the player that he wants to look at it, thus making it more sarurated helps to immediately identify where to look at :)

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thanks! Good idea, we'll take a look at it!

[@madlobaaa]

Hell yeah, Steal like an Artist! (thats a good book) The demo will be great, I can feel it.

[@SleepDepJoel15]

I'm a fan of simple inputs leading to complex behavior. I'm glad you were able to keep the action buttons to two while enabling additional decisions.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

I think having simple inputs and complex behavior should be the goal, but its hard :'D

[@TorSmawbs]

Magicka had a very complex spell system and was a cult classic. I wouldn't give up on a complex spell system depending on who you want to target. Dragon marked for death also had a similarly complex casting system on the mage and oracle class. Learning to make use of a complex tool can be incredibly gratifying for players if the rewards for mastery are sufficient.

[@charleslamb6500]

Also, thanks for the content, feel I learn something every time, how to be a #dev, etc . .

[@charleslamb6500]

Wow, amazing project, art - style, also good . . 9 / 10 ? . .

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Awww, thank you

[@okok-jf2qw]

I like your content, guys. You're cool enough, we can let you steal somethings

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Awww :)

[@karimsantoro4326]

You’re really cool guys

[@JavaJack59]

Sweet video. The audio levels are unusually low, though, for some reason.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thank you! That's good to know, I didn't realize! Maybe the fish was not wet enough...

[@BlendFin]

Looking good!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thank you so much Janne!

[@charleslamb6500]

Over-all, if it's also fun, I prob. give 9.4 / 9.6, is this just demo . . :'-OOO

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thank you so much! Hope you'll like the demo :)

[@scarm_rune]

godot users when the challenge is not to add a billion vfx into their meh game

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

I don't think this sentence makes sense

[@scarm_rune]

@@PlayWithFurcifer my blud you're making a game not an LSD simulator 💀

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

@@scarm_rune Blud (Russian, Ukrainian: Блуд), one of the Slavic fairies in Slavic mythology, is an evil-deity that causes disorientation and leads a person aimlessly around and round. The term also refers to illicit fornication, the desire for which Slavic clerics claimed to come from the Devil. ????!

[@scarm_rune]

@@PlayWithFurcifer irish slang 💀

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

@@scarm_rune But why use irish slang in an international conversion? And why call me a fairy or whatever it is?

[@AbdouMadjidi_.]

dude wtf you did with your channel logo

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

You dont like rainbows?

[@AbdouMadjidi_.]

@@PlayWithFurcifer rainbows doesn't come without the sunshine and rain otherwise 6 colors rainbows are Doubtful

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

@@AbdouMadjidi_. I dont really get what you are trying to say. You find the rainbow unrealistic? :D

[@AbdouMadjidi_.]

@@PlayWithFurciferexactly 🙂

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

@@AbdouMadjidi_. Well, its pretty hard to represent a rainbow accurately on screen. But thats not really the point anyway, its more about the symbolic meaning, you know?