[DEVELOPER DISCUSSION] One Room Round Robin 2 (SPOILERS)

[Diarmuid]

I'm working on preparing an RC2 anyway with all those little annoyances fixed, for a final round of testing.

[mahric]

Another update:

There seems to be an issue with the ladders in one of the rooms (can't recall who's room).
When I stand at level 7, x:19, y:26 and face the ladder, i can climb the ladder in two ways:
- walk into the ladder -> that seems to work fine
- click on the ladder -> it shows the animation but it seems you end up at the wrong place. If you click the walls and floor is completely borked.
EDIT: walking into the ladder brings you from level 7 to level 6, while clicking on the ladder brings you from level 7 to level 2!!

Some minor points:
- In Neikun's room, in the treasure room, there are two walltexts: "secrets found" and "plates pressed". I don't know what they are for. I expected them to show a number (as in a kind of stats) or is it just debug text?
- In the room where you have to re-adjust the 4 dragons to face the 4-way-goromorg statue, when (in the end) you try to steer a dragon out of bounds, there is a spelling error in the message:
"An unknown force prevents the dragon statue for sliding outside.". I think it should be "from sliding outside"?
- missing pillar in corner on level 7, x: 10, y: 10

EDIT: I'm completely lost on J'kos' room... I enter, the door slams shut, the ogre wants the rott flesh and eat it. Then he walks away (I can hear a door open) and... nothing... In another savegame he opened the door and he and a spider guarded my cell for ages. But nothing happened. Don't know what to do. Any hints?

[Komag]

...for a final round of testing.

I'm thinking for a project as complex as this it might need a few more rounds. Either that or I'll plan on waiting for the 2nd or 3rd updated version before I play.

[Diarmuid]

...for a final round of testing.

I'm thinking for a project as complex as this it might need a few more rounds. Either that or I'll plan on waiting for the 2nd or 3rd updated version before I play.

Oh we had a lot of rounds already internally and via the grimrock skype chat. We had 3 different betas of which we did complete run-throughs (The current RC1 is the fourth "build" to be tested), actually we started testing in december, so most of the things honestly really are ironed out.

[Isaac]

- click on the ladder -> it shows the animation but it seems you end up at the wrong place. If you click the walls and floor is completely borked.
EDIT: walking into the ladder brings you from level 7 to level 6, while clicking on the ladder brings you from level 7 to level 2!!

That's a good catch!

Clicking the ladder and walking are supposed to both work [afaik], as well as clicking the ladder mid-traversal ~that reverses the climb; you can change your mind ½ way down.

[Diarmuid]

Good catch for the ladder indeed. I'll adjust the connectors. Thanks for the other little glitches too, all going to be fixed.

EDIT: I also fixed the ladder at 17, 30 between levels 4 & 5 which had the same problem. (It's accessible waay later, past the 5th seal)

[Diarmuid]

...for a final round of testing.

...for a project as complex as this...

Complex? Naaaah...

Our dungeon.lua just hit 41 000 lines of code!!!

And we have approximately another 24-25K lines of code in 170 other .lua files.

[Dr.Disaster]

wow that's a lot of scripting
It's prolly the largest LoG project to date; all the info-bits so far require us to be pro-grasshoppers

[Isaac]

Does anyone remember any topic or post about "secret doors" needing a certain [minimum] number of nodes and/or specific names for those, in order to evaluate as collision objects for projectiles?

I seem to remember reading it somewhere over a year ago... somebody had figured it out... as it is, certain (custom) walls in the dungeon don't stop thrown items.

[JKos]

Another update:
EDIT: I'm completely lost on J'kos' room... I enter, the door slams shut, the ogre wants the rott flesh and eat it. Then he walks away (I can hear a door open) and... nothing... In another savegame he opened the door and he and a spider guarded my cell for ages. But nothing happened. Don't know what to do. Any hints?

Did you get hint about the loose stone falling from cave-in? Did you find the scroll? Maybe I should make it easier by adding more hint's or something, I know that it can be hard to figure out what to do because of the new game machanics.

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You should dig in to the cave-in and figure out what to do with the scroll found under it