Into The Vortex

Devlog

• Dijkstra's algorithm
  November 24, 2020 by Desolate Sole Games#difficulty, #Dijkstra's

  Many will already be aware of Dijkstra’s algorithm for path finding, well I’ve now implemented this in the game. If you’re unfamilar then take a look at the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedi... Continue reading
• Another revision of the scoring system
  November 08, 2020 by Desolate Sole Games#difficulty

  Following on from the scoring stars, I have adjusted to use a take on both the old and the new system, using oxygen to represent moves remaining and then allocating stars based on performance. This me... Continue reading

  
• All about level progression
  October 28, 2020 by Desolate Sole Games#difficulty, #maze theory

  The best thing about the last version of Into the vortex was finding a level that felt like a challenge to play. If you got lucky and found a generated level map that had just the right number of dead... Continue reading
• New assets, camera and render pipeline
  October 19, 2020 by Desolate Sole Games#Assets, #Graphics, #Game polish

  This project has been in progress in one form or another since December 2018 (albeit paused, binned, rewritten entirely, shelved again, and so on, since then), I spent a few days revisiting the look a... Continue reading

  
• Difficulty curve refined
  October 12, 2020 by Desolate Sole Games#difficulty curve

  After some play testing yesterday with a difficulty rating of 0 - 100 it became obvious that basically that rating was too far reaching, and too easy at both ends of the scale, so this has now been re... Continue reading
• Difficulty curve
  October 11, 2020 by Desolate Sole Games#Difficulty Curve

  Core feedback so far suggested the difficulty curve was far too random, during play testing this exact same feedback arose. The main reason for this is the random procedural nature of the levels, duri... Continue reading