Kobold Crawler (alpha)

Devlog

• First zone (mostly) done! +minimap
  November 13, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #itaanwood, #minimap

  While there was quite a lot of miscellaneous behind-the-scenes cleanup involved in formalising our first zone to explore, in the end, the only real visible distinction is that we have a new background... Continue reading

  
• Zone 1 Elite Enemies Done!
  November 03, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #enemy, #art

  Here they are: The Warg, a grown-up Warglet with very high Atk and Def stats! It can deal dangerous amounts of damage even to units with high Def, so it's best to activate your skills or use Magic dam... Continue reading

  
• Basic Zone 1 Enemies done!
  September 30, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #enemies, #artwork, #sketch

  The 5 basic enemies which will appear in the first dungeon have been illustrated and coded in! The Warglet, a standard melee enemy that deals Physical damage. It doesn't have any special strengths or... Continue reading

  
• New UI Look!
  September 04, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #ui, #texture, #text

  My project for the last couple weeks was refreshing the look of the game's interface a bit! A nicer text engine has been added (begone monospace!) and we now have specific textures for buttons and the... Continue reading

  
• Items all illustrated! Finally!!
  August 19, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #artwork, #items

  All 47 items currently in the game have now been given artwork! Huzzah! Here is a sampling: It's been a while since my last update; I had a mental health crisis a few months ago which impacted my abil... Continue reading

  
• Quick status update: Items all implemented!
  May 08, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #item, #artwork, #collectible

  All items slated for the demo release are now fully coded and awaiting artwork. Due to somewhat questionable task prioritisation on my part there are currently a whopping 47 collectible items in the d... Continue reading

  
• Assorted changes
  April 20, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #graphics, #miscellaneous

  A great number of small changes have come upon the game in the time since I've last posted! Spawns in both Siege and Assault battles have been rebalanced! Siege battles have had their spawns slowed an... Continue reading

  
• Roll call! All characters currently in the game
  April 04, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #characters, #artwork, #lalli, #kertu, #miel, #antero, #veitti, #ajatta, #meri, #kulta, #terava, #tykki, #pipuri, #sakka

  I've realised I never really properly introduced the original six kobolds from the alpha, so here they are! LALLI is a Soldier, the benchmark Fighter class that deals Physical damage to a single adjac... Continue reading

  
• Artwork and animations for Sakka!
  March 24, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #artwork, #chibi, #sakka

  Sakka's design changed quite a bit from the placeholder, as I felt he looked boring in general and particularly didn't like how he looked too much like Lalli. I made him taller and ganglier and tweake... Continue reading

  
• Artwork and sprites for Pipuri! SPICY!!
  March 14, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #pipuri, #art, #sprite, #rework, #antero

  Red woman jumpscare Beneath her cheery exterior is a dark curse I think; many terrible things happened to me while I was drawing this. The chili pepper is evil! Physiquewise she's a bit similar to Mie... Continue reading

  
• Slight detour: New VFX for attacks!
  March 01, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #vfx, #gif

  Unfortunately I injured my drawing hand at the gym, so it hasn't been possible to continue the character art for the past week or so. In lieu of that, I've decided to skip ahead a bit to improving som... Continue reading

  
• Artwork and sprites for Tykki!
  February 20, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #artwork, #sprite, #animation, #tykki

  The cannon has its own little 2-frame walking animation! Also I think this is the biggest divergence between the actual artwork's body shape and the recolored sprite template lol The cannon seems to h... Continue reading

  
• Artwork for Terava!
  February 04, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #kobold, #art, #sprite, #terava, #purple

  Distinguishing her from Antero was a bit difficult because they're both tall, purpley, and wear two piece suits, but Terava has wider hips, sharper angles, and most importantly is not wearing a hat an... Continue reading

  
• Art and sprites for Meri and Kulta!
  January 31, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #art, #sprites, #kulta, #meri

  My intent is to give all of the kobolds different body shapes. For example, Meri is bulkier than Miel to reflect that she's a melee fighter, but she isn't as heavyset as Kertu (an armored fighter) and... Continue reading

  
• New character: Sakka, the Druid
  January 19, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #new character, #sakka, #art, #placeholder

  Placeholder art, featuring a rock: Sakka is a Druid, a Psionic class that steadily pulses Psychic damage onto all enemies in their range. Compared to Ajatta, a Wretch, Sakka has lower Atk and HP, but... Continue reading

  
• New character: Pipuri, the Enchanter
  January 16, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #character, #art, #placeholder, #pipuri, #enchanter

  Placeholder art, featuring spicy: Pipuri is an Enchanter, a Mage class that passively enhances the attack power of all other allied units in their range. Compared to Antero, an Arcanist, Pipuri has si... Continue reading

  
• New character: Tykki, the Bombard
  January 15, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #new character, #placeholder, #rebalance

  Placeholder art, featuring incredibly cursed head-on kobold: Tykki is a Bombard, a Sniper class whose attacks damage all enemies within 1 tile of their primary target. Compared to Miel, an Archer, Tyk... Continue reading

  
• New character: Terava, the Agent
  January 13, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #art, #new character, #placeholder

  Placeholder art, featuring the first side view of a Kobold Crawler kobold's head: Terava is an Agent, a Sneak class which attacks 2 targets at once and debuffs their Atk and Def by a small portion of... Continue reading

  
• New character: Kulta, the Sun Paladin
  January 11, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #new character, #placeholder, #sun paladin, #art

  Placeholder art, featuring hilariously stubby legs: Kulta is a Sun Paladin, an Armor class which continuously regenerates the HP of allies in their attack range by 25% of their own Atk per second. Com... Continue reading

  
• New character: Meri, the Mystic
  January 09, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #character, #art, #meri, #rebalance

  Placeholder art, featuring bright blue footie pajamas: Meri is a Mystic, a Fighter class whose attacks deal damage twice; the first hit is Physical damage, and the second hit is Magic damage. Compared... Continue reading

  
• Small monsters, scary monsters, and more!
  January 07, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #screenshot, #gif, #ui

  It's been a very exciting week of assorted, but very important, features being added! A small title card now flashes when you enter a new floor: Trivial map encounters have been made smaller visually... Continue reading

  
• Intro cutscene done!
  January 02, 2024 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #artwork, #gif, #cutscene

  You progress the text by left clicking, and can skip the whole thing immediately by right clicking (very important because the player will presumably see this many, many times) Doing the illustrations... Continue reading

  
• Character select screen update
  December 26, 2023 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #screenshot, #ui

  Happy post-Christmas! I spent most of yesterday working on the character select screen, because what better way to spend a holiday in which one is expected to interact with other people: There's a bun... Continue reading

  
• something even better Soon(tm)
  December 25, 2023 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #gif, #artwork

  I should probably update the title logo at some point lol Title screen music and a new battle music have also been created but I lack the tools and patience to upload it for viewing at the moment (the... Continue reading

  
• The Depinkification (and more)
  December 17, 2023 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #miscellaneous, #screencaps, #icons

  This week saw a bunch of miscellaneous changes that aren't terribly impressive to look at or talk about but do feel very very nice to have cleaned out of my to-do list: Battle encounters on the map no... Continue reading

  
• Veitti and Ajatta updated art
  December 13, 2023 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #art

  Old, stinky: New, shiny: Veitti is easily the worst of the placeholder arts (so far...) so it's nice to see him looking a bit more presentable! And with that, all 6 characters playable in the alpha ha... Continue reading

  
• Antero and Miel updated art
  December 05, 2023 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #art

  New artwork for two more characters! Old, smelly: New, sparkly: I think Antero is my favorite design so far, but Miel somehow managed to become the most intricate because of all the little details I f... Continue reading

  
• New graphics for Kertu
  November 16, 2023 by Mr Frog

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  Old, stinky: New, shiny: Her chibi animations have also been freshened up Next is the magic man Antero!... Continue reading

  
• New animations for Lalli!
  November 10, 2023 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #gif, #animations

  Lalli's new chibi animations are all done! The difference in quality from the old, blurry animations of the other characters is rather comical. Kertu's next!... Continue reading

  
• Sickening developments
  November 08, 2023 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #artwork

  I've not been feeling well the past week so progress has been slow, but I did manage to get some rough metrics for how long it'd take to fully explore a floor with X amount of cells discounting battle... Continue reading

  
• The Prettening (part 1)
  October 29, 2023 by Mr Frog

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  #kobold crawler, #devlog, #graphics

  My activity for the past week has been updating some of the general graphics assets to nicer and much higher res versions. See the comparion between the mouse click icons below: (Old, crusty, bad) (Ne... Continue reading