Lots of new minor things in this new WIP:
Check it out, let me know what you think of the improvements. More to come later this week. Stay tuned!
While working on some new assets for the game, I discovered a much better way to work with Blender / GIMP to get what I want out of the graphics, so here’s a side by side comparison of the images. Look for a new link later this week with maybe some updated graphics and gameplay.
Old Pixel Bat Render
New Pixel Bat Render
Tonight I played a bit more in my asset creation sandbox and added some eye candy to the first encounter.
Nothing new from a gameplay perspective, but I enjoy the flames, so I thought I’d share. 
The game engine is coming along very nicely for Project:Dungeon Crawler (P:DC abbreviated from here on out). I am able to add AI Controllers to any unit and give them customized actions.
For now though… auto-attacking is working and the block-men along with the bats will attack if enemies approach them. So the encounter I am posting here is highly undertuned, but it’s merely a test of the engine and some fun for my followers.
Try to kill both bats. =)
Man, it’s way too late in the evening to even start thinking about a blog post, but I’m going to write a quick one anyway.
I’m still working on the internals of the game engine I’m using to create all of the encounters in project: Dungeon Crawler, but tonight I think I hit a milestone I’m pretty pleased with. The bats have very limited intelligence, but they thirst for blood. The bat will roam (toward the lower left corner), until he finds a block dude within range and attempt to persue him. If the bat gets within range, he begins to attack dealing damage to the unsuspecting victim. Muahaha…
Controls:
LMB: Select a unit
‘M’ or ‘V’: When a unit is selected, this will let you move units to the given point by clicking the LMB.
Enjoy!
