RunningOnE42

The bow and arrow is here! And it actually drops now. Is it better than the stick?? See for yourself. Thanks for the video @Trader_PT Check the game out here: runningone42.pages.dev

Finally got some real dev work in today. Last Spark Idle is progressing, but I’m juggling 3 big tracks at once: Cloud saves + offline progress UI improvements Long-term balance methods For AI Infra, the design work is done and I have a decent plan for connecting GitHub + AWS.

I got totally side tracked by this AI article thoughtfultechnologist.com/p/automating-m… Now im working on building my own version of this. Then i'll get back to building the last spark, hopefully faster than before :)

Slowing down this week for a vacation, but I’ve got lots of good ideas that are coming… and added in a new defensive core upgrade today called retaliation core! Check it out at runningone42.pages.dev

Taking a short break from adding major new content to the game to focus on backend infrastructure. Decided to go with Microsoft PlayFab and working on accounts/cloud saves with the goal of adding offline progression into the game and eventually a leaderboard.

Elites won’t come in the scrap or science flavors anymore. Instead any enemy has a chance to spawn with the scrap or science auras. These give more loot but buff the enemy. And they can stack :)

A new QoL feature is coming for core upgrades. Auto leveling, unlockable in the research bunker :) plus much higher crit chance and crit multiplier upgrades available and a rework to scrap and science elites. Check it out! runningone42.pages.dev

@stevibe Codex was able to one shot this? Did you give it any technical direction on anything or just let it go?

Weekends are for building something fun. So this morning a thought hits me out of nowhere: how hard would it be to rebuild one of those 2000s isometric RPGs I lived inside back in high school? The bitmap towns, the wandering NPCs, the little doors that take you into a whole new scene. I ask Codex. It says: as long as it's 2D, this is medium difficulty. Not that bad. So I describe the world I want: a retro 2D RPG, world map, NPCs you can walk up to, buildings you can enter, and hit enter. Then I go eat breakfast. When I sit back down, Chrome is already open. And there it is. A tea house. A herbal clinic. A monk standing in the square. Lanterns, market stalls, a hero with a sword. A game. Everyone knows AI can code. But a game needs art too, and that used to be the wall. Codex does both: it writes the code and generates the assets. I ask, and a world appears. I'm not even a gamer anymore. Haven't been for years. But for one Saturday morning I get to walk back into the exact feeling I had at 13, and this time I built it myself.

First look at the new equipment screen.. Lots more coming

Potential theme for the game 😎

1000 commits in about 2.5 weeks. We’re vibing alright

Here is a sample of how my refinement work queue looks like. These are tasks I want to complete soon, and need to provide more detail and design. When done they move into the todo folder for Codex to implement.

Working on offline progression today and introducing weapon systems. Bow and arrow coming soon :) we’re passing 250 tasks done autonomously by codex and over 1000 commits in the GitHub repo

@Trader_PT @maruushae No never saw this. I don’t even know what this is haha. Community event or something?

@maruushae Path of Exile.. so many memories. I kinda miss it, but life goes on. You saw this? @Runningone42

Somebody sacrified his level 100 characters, so the rest of all people can get 1 extra skill point, i fucking love this community ty carn, you legend

Gameplay footage 😎👏 come and give my game a try yourself and let me know how you like it! runningone42.pages.dev

I figured it out. Patch coming soon.

How it’s going

@Trader_PT Health and health regen are the meta now! Refresh your game 😂

@Runningone42 Hehe, I think you will need python to balance the game. you have too many variables in place to do it manually. For now the meta is range, speed, dmg, multiple attacks. You can almost ignore all the other specs and progress fast.

Balancing is way harder than I thought. Too much of this, too little that.. change it all, and repeat.

@Trader_PT What do you mean 1 mob spamming

@Runningone42 Something is off, last run played for 1 hour+ and that's fine since I own the world record of your game obviously. Issue is at that point only 1 mob was spamming. Like every single time, just 1. I ended the game manually. Now trying the second map for the first time.

Working on a little offline progress feature now because I want to progress! But I keep switching apps on my phone.