CONMON'S PROFILE

All good points. I wanted to make a Dark Souls-esque game in Rm2k3 for a while, and my lack of hardcore event scripting aside, the engine just has too many limitations for a Souls game spin-off/knock-off/whatever-off. The closest thing I came up with is this (perhaps bland) combination of roguelikes, traditional RPGs and the Souls RPGs. Why kindle those souls into healing items, when you can buy them for cheap from merchants? The idea was that the further you get into the dungeon (in a way like Dark Souls) the madder things become. NPCs you may have breathed a sigh of relief at after a bunch of corridor battles might be gone forever, or others might go insane and you'll have to fight them off.

As for the battles themselves, it wasn't meant to be inconsistent - in retro roguelikes there were lit rooms and unlit rooms (represented by "." and "#", respectively, since it was all ASCII-based). I kept that idea - there are lit and unlit rooms, and in unlit rooms there were random encounters, and in lit rooms your were completely safe as long as no enemies were present.

As for the resource management comment, well I have no idea what that means, and I don't know if I want to know! If it's about the redundant undead enemies, we're in agreement, and I've got more varied sprites I can use now. If it's about enemy variety, it's already something I've addressed for later demos.


At any rate, I do appreciate you playing the demo and giving feedback, because this stuff does matter to me.