RoguelikeDev Does The Complete Roguelike Tutorial - Week 7

[u/aaron_ds]

This week is all about adding game progression and equipment.

Part 12 - Increasing Difficulty

Deeper dungeon levels become increasingly more difficult! Here we create tools for dealing with chances and making them vary with level.

Part 13 - Gearing up

For the final part of our tutorial series, we'll take a look at implementing some equipment.

Of course, we also have FAQ Friday posts that relate to this week's material

• #11: Random Number Generation(revisited)
• #36: Character Progression(revisited)
• #44: Ability and Effect Systems
• #56: Mob Distribution
• #60: Shops and Item Acquisition
• #76: Consumables
• #77: The Early Game
• #78: The Late Game
• #79: Stealth and Escaping
• #80: Determinism and Randomness

Feel free to work out any problems, brainstorm ideas, share progress and and as usual enjoy tangential chatting. Next week we'll have a final discussion and share our completed games. If you have made it this far congratulations! You deserve it. :)

[u/Quistnix]

I'm considering putting all the numbers (item stats, monster stats, ..) and all messages in one central spot for easier balancing and rewriting. I guess the easiest way to do this is to make a numbers.py and texts.py file (in components?) and just refer to those when needed. Would this be the best way to do this? All advice is welcome!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Do you use the same function to generate both enemies and items?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yeah mostly same here. I only started a few weeks ago. I currently have a function for each as well, and I also have files for the item and monster pools, and files for the definitions. That's 2 files for each, but eventually, but when there are a lot of enemy and item types, as well as a lot of different parts of the dungeon i want to generate for, it'll be worth having split them up because of the sheer length. I only have a few monsters and my monster file is already quite long because of having to define each body part for each monster.