The Lost Kingdom's Destiny II

Devlog

• And the real treasure is the friends we made along the way....
  June 01, 2023 by The Grumpy GameDev

  And if that is so, it means I have acquired literally no treasure on this journey. As the jam ends, I did add some exposition regarding the macguffin in the game. I also refactored some of the dialog/... Continue reading
• Lord Malus's First Appearance
  May 31, 2023 by The Grumpy GameDev

  Today I mainly wanted to accomplish the initial appearance of Lord Malus. This takes place after delivering all of the packages to the companions, and then walking into the town square. Along the way,... Continue reading
• Movement Events
  May 30, 2023 by The Grumpy GameDev

  Today was mostly consumed with refactoring the dialog system so that I could also use it for the movement event system. Mainly, I needed to trigger a particular dialog when the main character enters t... Continue reading
• Character Descriptions and Features!
  May 29, 2023 by The Grumpy GameDev

  So since last update, I added a new wrinkle to the dialog/choice system, which was to check character counters. Which meant I needed character counters. In this case, the game counts 1 for each delive... Continue reading
• All Five Delivery Quests are in!
  May 28, 2023 by The Grumpy GameDev

  As I figured, the final three delivery quests were a lot faster to make now that they systems to support them are in place. Now there are delivery quests for Selene, Gareth, and Marcus. Next up I will... Continue reading

  
• Two Delivery Dialog Chains Complete!
  May 27, 2023 by The Grumpy GameDev

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  Today I completed the basic delivery dialog chains for two of the companions for the PC. The first one took quite a while, because I need to develop some systems that didn't exist before. The second o... Continue reading
• Character Flags and Item Stubs
  May 26, 2023 by The Grumpy GameDev

  Today, I expanded Master Leo's dialog. Specifically, the parts concerning quest giving. I have character flags to check for whether or not do display a dialog choice. Those choices can now set (or res... Continue reading
• Rudimentary Dialog System
  May 25, 2023 by The Grumpy GameDev

  Two things. One, I renamed the game to be The Lost Kingdom's Destiny II. Why? What about the ORIGINAL "The Lost Kingdom's Destiny"? It was LOST. Duh. Second, I have the first "hello world" version of... Continue reading
• First Day of Actual Work on this Project
  May 24, 2023 by The Grumpy GameDev

  Started a bit yesterday, and which is what I accomplished: I talked with ChatGPT about making a cliché game. I scaffolded a source control project on GitHub I made a boilerplate project in Visual Stu... Continue reading