Quartz

Devlog

• Day 8: Post-mortem
  March 10, 2025 by Brain in a Bowl#7drl, #postmortem

  I'm writing this a day after finishing the game. Is that too early for a post-mortem? I wouldn't know, I've never done this before. Background When I started thinking up a concept for the game, I quic... Continue reading

  
• Day 7: It's alive!
  March 09, 2025 by Brain in a Bowl#7drl

  Just on the edge of the deadline, I managed to get this up and running. I think it's mostly working and playable. I'll probably write a bigger postmortem later... Continue reading

  
• Day 6: Hubris
  March 09, 2025 by Brain in a Bowl#7drl

  I should have known better. Fiction told us not to mess with time travel. Authors told us not to write about time travel. Physicist told us time travel is really bloody difficult. And I thought: Yeah,... Continue reading
• Day 5: Catching up?
  March 08, 2025 by Brain in a Bowl#7drl

  A quick update in between coding. At the end of day 5 I was still behind schedule, but I'm catching up. I mostly implemented the time travel bit, and I'm hoping to finish that, level generation, and e... Continue reading
• Day 4: Opposition
  March 07, 2025 by Brain in a Bowl

  More content, more bugs I managed to implement most enemy types in the project, along with a working combat loop. During this I ran into a bugwhere the game would skip every the player turn if you too... Continue reading
• Day 3: Events
  March 06, 2025 by Brain in a Bowl

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  Panic? I'd hoped to have finished enemy types and AI by the end of day three, but while adding the second enemy type I ran into a small bug in the drawing system that led me to a big bug in the AI sys... Continue reading

  
• Day 1 & 2: Visual
  March 04, 2025 by Brain in a Bowl#7drl, #7drl2025

  The whole "Event sourcing" bit took up a lot more time then I expected, with all kinds of new and interesting bugs popping up throughout the project. Still, by the end of day two, I have a working eve... Continue reading

  
• Setting up
  March 02, 2025 by Brain in a Bowl#7drl, #7drl2025

  Time for this years' 7 Day rogue-like ! In 2024 I was quite successful, my project for 2023 was terribly scoped and a complete failure. This year, I've tried to keep my scope in check while still havi... Continue reading