Hey guys!

The past week I've been doing some tweaking on the loot system and moved back to the combat system! I've been doing a ton of design with the many player classes, such as creating spells and perks for them.

Skills are your spells and abilities that you use actively in combat and perks are passive abilities that are always active. Perks can do a wide range of things, such as the simpler ones boosting certain stats to the more advanced ones - such as the Knight's ability to intercept and redirect attacks made to nearly dead party members to themselves. I'm thinking that the player should be allowed to have 2 or 3 of these active at one time and probably make them easy to change outside of combat.

I've designed about 70 different perks currently and I got plenty more ideas - the monsters and bosses will receive unique perks too, as well as some legendary equipment might have special perks not otherwise obtainable... The possibilities are endless!

This has led to me having to change and add some stuff to the combat engine, such as the redirect damage thing. Took a while but now it's working perfectly! This week I will focus on adding in and testing perks, expanding the combat system and designing many more spells and abilities!

Hey guys!

As I got the bases of area and dungeon generations done, I decided to work a bit on the loot and item system for some much needed variation.

The past week I've had great progress with the item system. In fact, I don't have much more than balancing the stats and adding more item variations left as far as weapons and armor goes. I also decided to make it very flexible and moddable, so I can easily add anything I can think of. Actually, anyone should be able to add their own weapon names, types, statpools, etc. The only problem would be adding the graphics for the items when modding, don't know how to get around that yet. Gamemaker is a bit tricky when it comes to external graphic assets & texture pages, as far as I know.

The item system is pretty similar to what you find in titles such as Torchlight and Diablo. I love those games and I have gained much inspiration from them for my item & loot system.

Here's an example print in a .txt file of what a weapon might look like:

Hydra Fists of Fervor Both Hands Dual Fist Rare Requires level 22 Damage: 198 +167 Speed +167 Strength +125 Health restored per turn

The Health restore gives the "Hydra" prefix and the Speed+Strength stat combo gives the "of Fervor" suffix.

I need to change the solid damage number to a min-max range instead. Some weapon types will have very close damage ranges to provide an even and more reliable (albeit somewhat lower avg.) damage output whereas some will have very large ranges for the more high risk-high reward type of play.