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    The Darkness Below: a retro CRPG in the making - now available on Early Access

    Sure, although there's nothing similar to a "roadmap" at the moment, since the game is on "early access". This alone means that development time is shared between fixing based on people's feedback (bugs, features, usability etc.) adding new content *testing targeted builds repeat when the...
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    The Darkness Below: a retro CRPG in the making - now available on Early Access

    Hmm, I tried to reproduce this with a full walkthrough, up to the throne, from my own development build and also the steam one (last version). I am always getting the "graceful", congratulatory ending. Could you please share your game's folder zipped (and the save.dat, just before the throne)...
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    The Darkness Below: a retro CRPG in the making - now available on Early Access

    Thank you for the video footage :) Hmm, that chain of events shouldn't happen.. I mean, the game should end "gracefully" with a congratulation message and transfer the control on title screen. I updated the game in the last version to transfer control, based on the build you're playing i.e. the...
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    The Darkness Below: a retro CRPG in the making - now available on Early Access

    Hey thanks, I appreciate it :) You can only open a door by clicking the lever on the right with the mouse, or clicking a key on its keyhole on the same place Hmm, I've seen this again and was never able to reproduce it... Can you tell me what display mode you're using ? i.e. fullscreen...
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    The Darkness Below: a retro CRPG in the making - now available on Early Access

    The Darkness Below early access (prelude version) is out :incline: Hit that wishlist button hard or buy it now! ETA Q3 2024 :cool: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2814790/The_Darkness_Below
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    The Darkness Below: a retro CRPG in the making - now available on Early Access

    Hey, The Darkness Below finally made it to Steam (early access) and the app is about to come / approved this week. ETA for full release is set to Q3 2024. Not much imagery to show as I am all things Steam and content creation these days, but here are a few: Wishlist the heck out of it...
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    The Darkness Below: a retro CRPG in the making - now available on Early Access

    hey thanks :) I meant, along with itch.io =) I will still continue to update itch.io, I'll just attempt to add the game elsewhere as well.
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    The Darkness Below: a retro CRPG in the making - now available on Early Access

    Finally, I just wrapped up the final v1.2 version on my itch.io (https://vlzvl.itch.io/the-darkness-below), for both Windows / Linux. It's not even a demo anymore as it lasts about ~3 hours, depending on how much of the map(s) and monsters one wants to explore / kill. And there are loads of...
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    The Darkness Below: a retro CRPG in the making - now available on Early Access

    All the assets that I am using are either CC-BY with attribution, BSD/MIT stuff or paid assets, through various sources i.e. gamedevmarket, itch.io, graphicriver, opengameart etc., along with lots of midjourney ones. Most of them I filter them myself to end up consistent with the general graphic...
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    The Darkness Below: a retro CRPG in the making - now available on Early Access

    Yeah, demo is pretty old and I am about to release the final demo which has all these issues solved. Professions are now more balanced and there are tons of shops and ways to obtain items i.e. from chests, along with books that increase statistics (equivalent to liquids from M&M series). More...
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    The Darkness Below: a retro CRPG in the making - now available on Early Access

    Hey thanks, I am really sorry for the postponement of short release but a lot of stuff happened in the last months, job, housing stuff and also some major life ones. I also had to dig deep with the enormous feedback from last demo by all lovely people that played it and this took a lot of time...
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    Why have dungeon crawlers either thin or thick walls?

    There are plenty of "simpler" 3D game engines out there, merely containing an API or, if you like, they dont come with an kick ass editor thing which seems to be the standard these days. The majority of people involved today are messing up these two (2) things, forgetting or simply were not born...
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    The Darkness Below: a retro CRPG in the making - now available on Early Access

    It seems I am still in the middle of process on completing this, so I wont call it a release yet; but I am close to it. The game currently has around 6-7 maps / dungeons and content enough to spend some hours in but I still need to nurse a lot of it, fix some bugs as well and finally playtest...
  14. vlzvl

    Hey, no worries at all :) I am after comments and feedback rather ratings. Cheers!

    Hey, no worries at all :) I am after comments and feedback rather ratings. Cheers!
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    The Darkness Below: a retro CRPG in the making - now available on Early Access

    Hey thanks :) Unfortunately, it wont be possible to select aspect ratio / resolutions on play the game. The game's engine is built around a "dynamic resolution" shader which renders everything in a scaled pow2 non-filtering texture on whatever resolution the end user has. Otherwise, I would be...

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