I always feel like time is flying. When you’re a kid, it’s a sign you have a lot of fun, when you’re an adult, it’s a sign you’re behind your deadlines. So which is it? After releasing Duat, I realized that Goblin Dungeon needed some refactoring, so I made it so you could launch battles independently of the game for faster playtesting. This is nice and you can even play as monsters now.

Last year, I participated in the dungeon crawler game jam and submitted Cosmic Delusion. If you follow this blog, I talked about it here. This was a nice experience and contributed to making me want to develop video games. The 2024 edition of this just finished, and I am proud to present you with Duat. We made this with the team of last year, which shows nicely our individual progressions.

Things are progressing at a steady pace, in a bit every direction, as usual. The aim is to have the Steam Page in May at worst and a public Demo in June at worst (for the Next Fest). Resolving performance issues During playtests, it has come to my attention that the game performed poorly with bad computers or graphic cards that don’t mix well with Vulkan, Godot’s forward rendering engine.

So I’ve been playtesting I’ve spent the last few weeks sending my game to people and get feedback. Getting feedback and knowing weither or not to act on it is very difficult and I’m still learning. With this game, I got inspired by board games I like, where dice building matter and manipulating dice is important. Troyes, Roll for the Galaxy, or even Quarriors. Unfortunately, the first version of my game didn’t have that.

I recently played Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as A King and it was a cute experience. I played it originally on and off, on the Wii at my parents, and I had good but blurry memories of the game. So I decided to boot it up again. I played the original game, without DLC, which turned out to be a mistake for reasons I will expand upon. The game seems to take place after the event of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and you are the prince of a lost kingdom.