Raid30

Devlog

• Raid30 v1.0 Released
  September 15, 2022 by Dralketh

  Raid30 is now released and available for free download! Raid30 is an 8-directional "digital shooting" action game about climbing a 30-floor tower full of deadly enemies. Fight to the top!... Continue reading

  
• Release date/time
  September 13, 2022 by Dralketh

  This post is to confirm the final release for the game - Friday 16th September at 00:00 BST (GMT+1), midnight in the United Kingdom. Please be excited to download and play the game then... Continue reading
• Shuffling maps
  August 30, 2022 by Dralketh

  How are the maps in Raid30 randomly shuffled whilst still retaining a fun difficulty curve? The process is first to assign every map a difficulty level, either a number or enum. We have five difficult... Continue reading

  
• Added gameplay video
  August 04, 2022 by Dralketh

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  I added a gameplay video to the page. Please note things are not necessarily final... Continue reading
• Dynamic pathfinding
  August 04, 2022 by Dralketh

  How can we make it easy for characters to navigate a world that can be edited on the fly? In Raid30, all pathfinding data is dynamically generated at the same time the map is loaded into gameplay. Thi... Continue reading

  
• Building levels from scratch with the in-game editor
  July 28, 2022 by Dralketh

  Today I will talk about how I use create levels for the game. There is an in-game editor which I can access when in the developer environment. The first screen allows me to select a map to edit, conta... Continue reading

  
• Turning basic pixel art into satisfying visuals
  July 21, 2022 by Dralketh

  Today's devlog will be on the rendering process - the steps applied to the pixel art to turn it into an appealing final image. This is how the game looks without any extra work done to the raw artwork... Continue reading

  
• Easily creating lots of character animations
  July 14, 2022 by Dralketh

  Today I'd like to go over the creation process for sprite animations for the game. We have a little over 300 animation frames for our characters due to them being able to face in 8 different direction... Continue reading

  
• itch.io page created
  July 13, 2022 by Dralketh

  Today marks the first public page for this project. In the coming weeks, I will be adding new update posts detailing aspects of development up to the release of the game... Continue reading