Game Project Summary: Crypt of Darne

I wanted to write this quick summary of how my Crypt of Darne game project went, now that I’ve collected data long enough. Without further ado, let’s begin!

INFRA: Urban exploration the game

Yesterday I finished INFRA, a game about urban exploration. I’ll start this bluntly: INFRA got on my “favorite games of all time” -list. It’s just that good. Here are my thoughts about it and I’m sorry that they’re spread a bit everywhere. I’m influenced by whisky as I’m writing this, lol.

In INFRA, you play as a guy called Mark, who is some sort of  building inspector at Stalhburg City. You know, inspecting the state of buildings, infrastructure, all that. Sounds rather.. Boring, right? Wrong!

Tyranny, the game of choices and consequences

Yesterday, after 13 hours of play, I finished Tyranny. I bought the game only couple a days ago and I just couldn’t stop playing it, so I finished it rather quickly. Here’s some of my thoughts about it.

Tyranny is remarkably similar to Pillars of Eternity, since they use the same engine. The only big change is the story and setting itself, so they aren’t tied to each other. I absolutely loved Pillars of Eternity, so I will be doing some comparing between the two. I will write a post about Pillars when I have finished the White March expansions.

Story about why “keeping the scope small” is important

This is another post from my old devlog I’m transfering here. I really liked this post so I thought I’ll keep it.

This happened before I started to make that roguelike, but I feel like I should talk about this, I think it’s important for the newcomers in gamedev. This is gonna be an incoherent rambling, but I hope my point comes across.

Crypt of Darne devlog masterpost

Since I’m migrating all my devlogs here, so I’m making a masterpost for anything Crypt of Darne related. In future all my game related devlogs will be in this blog, so I can keep everything in one place.

This is a list of separate logs, from the first to last. They’re unedited and may be a bit rough, I usually put more effort to the blog posts here.

The “I don’t feel like playing” problem

Sometimes when I read internet forums like Reddit to rot my brain, I stumble upon on threads where people are asking stuff like: “I haven’t felt like playing anything for ages, what to do?” or “I have hundreds of games but no desire to play.” I’ve never really felt this way since I always find something to play, but I have few tips for people who wish to “get back to gaming” again. Hopefully these are helpful.

Ah, Morrowind

I’ve been playing lots of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind lately. It’s an older role-playing game for PC and classic Xbox, but I play it on PC. I got it back in 2005, but I still play it from, time to time. It’s my favorite game of all time.

Santa Claus in Trouble

I am actually one of those weirdos who love christmas. I don’t like how busy people are or any of that, but I like the wait and excitement that I still get, even it’s not as prevalent as it was when I was younger. I also love christmas food and I get this very comfy feeling for some reason around christmas. No idea why, but it makes me happy, even if it’s just a holiday to for companies to exploit blatant consumerism. 😉

Since christmas is within a week, I decided to reinstall one of my favorite christmas holiday games: Santa Claus in Trouble. This game has always put me in proper christmas mood and it’s something I first played long time ago when I was a kid.

Visiting local arcade!

Today I visited the local arcade called “Pelibunkkeri.” My fiancée went to play laser tag with her classmates and that arcade is in the same place so I spent 20 minutes playing some arcade games. I just had to pay 5€ to play all these games as much as I wanted, so the pricing wasn’t bad at all. There was also ice hockey tables etc. but those are obviously multiplayer games and I was alone there, so I just settled with the arcade games.

Unfortunately I didn’t have much time to get properly into the games so this post will be a bit brief. Also sorry about the image quality, I used my phone camera since that’s all I have and the lighting in there was really bad for photos.