Gerty

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• HIGHLIGHT 5/8: ROGUE-LITE ELEMENTS
  November 06, 2018 by GertyGame

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  What does it mean to be a rogue-lite? That’s the topic of our Highlight-series this week. It all started with Rogue, a dungeon crawling game in the 80’s. Then came games “like-Rogue”, which eventually evolved into into its own genre, the “roguelike”. But what does it mean to be a “rogue -lite “? In the most simplest of terms, it means taking elements from roguelikes and integrating... Continue reading

  
• HIGHLIGHT 4/8: CO-OP
  October 29, 2018 by GertyGame

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  Fun with friends is the topic this week on our Highlight-series! Co-op was planned for Gerty pretty much from the very start and we’ve had a long time to develop and tweak it along the years. Countless difficult choices have been made to make the co-op experience the best it can be. Since bringing in additional players tend to usually make a game easier in most cases, we decided to not fight aga... Continue reading

  
• HIGHLIGHT 3/8: LEVEL GENERATION
  October 29, 2018 by GertyGame#Highlight

  This week on our Highlight-series, we’re taking a look at how our levels are created. At the heart of most rogue-like and rogue-lite games is a procedural generation system. For the uninitiated, this means generating content using algorithms and rules (i.e. it’s not totally random ). While it can be used for creating many things (enemies, items, etc) it is most often used in creating levels... Continue reading