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Welcome to the November devlog for Helms of Fury!  Over these past two months we worked on the boss in Ghost Spire Castle, new level exits using stairs, better naming for attunements, new website designs, and updates and polish to our combat and AI. Boss of Ghost Spire CastleLast Halloween we shared an animated gif of one of our bosses, giving a spooky glimpse into the spirit realm.  Thi...

Welcome to the September devlog for Helms of Fury!  This month we worked on level exits, Kickstarter rewards, and updates & polish! Level Exits This month we tried some new ideas with how our level exits work.  Before you would go through the same portal when travelling between stages and levels; now you take stairs when going between stages, and use themed portals when travelling t...

Welcome to the August devlog for Helms of Fury!  This month we updated our game to the newly released Godot 3.5, worked on a depth system for 2D, and added new content to our starting portal room. Godot 3.5 Helms of Fury was updated to Godot 3.5, which was released this month.  This was an awesome release with a lot of improvements to the engine, many of which we worked to add into our ...

Welcome to the July devlog for Helms of Fury!  This month we worked on adding new trap rooms, Kickstarter rewards, and gameplay improvements! Trap RoomsWe added 11 new trap rooms that you might encounter during your play-through.  These rooms contain new cannon traps that shoot bullets in a variety of sequences, which can divide up a room and be tricky obstacles to pass through! ...

Welcome to the June devlog for Helms of Fury!  This month we worked on improving our game with more bugfixes, polish, and content! Brew a PotionA new Break Room has been added to the game that lets you brew a potion!   Mix three drops of elixir into the cauldron, creating a special potion depending on your choices. Level Polish We continue to add more elements and polish to our g...

Welcome to the May devlog for Helms of Fury!  This month we worked on the Skull Valley boss and elite enemies! Boss Here's a sneak peek of the boss from Skull Valley!  This crafty goblin is looking to put an end to the heroic knights as he races around the track in his cart.  Loaded with explosive attacks, you will be under a constant barrage of barrels, bombs and things that explode!...

Welcome to the April devlog for Helms of Fury!  This month we worked on scaling our game to multiple resolutions, the character select screen, start screen, loading screen, and customized controls. Game Resolutions One of the things we wanted to make sure we finished this month was scaling our game to multiple resolutions, all the way up to 4k.  Being a pixel art game, just stretching the...

Welcome to the March devlog for Helms of Fury!  This month we chatted with backers about their design rewards, started implementing these rewards, and worked on the char select process for the game.Planning Design Rewards We started chatting with many people who choose design rewards for Runes, Items and NPCs this month!  Many of the ideas seem like they will work great in Helms of Fur...

Welcome to our Helms of Fury devlog for February!  This month we focused on adding more content to the game; more abilities, more rooms, and more things to find, discover and interact with during each run.More Abilities Our Mecha Knight has bombs, turrets and gadgets they can find and use during each run, and these all seem like fun abilities to use with.. fire!  So we spent some time ...

Hey everyone!  Welcome to our first Helms of Fury devlog, hope your year is off to a great start!  We got a few things to cover this month, so let's jump right in! =)Kickstarter Surveys First a quick reminder, we sent out Kickstarter Surveys in December to help fulfill some Kickstarter rewards, such as which name you would like in the game credits.  If you haven't completed your survey...

Want to add a minimap to your Godot game, with simple fog of war reveal?  Then this is the perfect tutorial for you! =)simple minimap with fogGetting StartedTo follow along and see how this works you can download the project files from the minimap folder in my github repo.  The project is for Godot 3.3.3.This project continues our prior tutorial on creating caves using cellular automata in Godo...

This blog has been quiet for a bit too long.. but that ends today, as we finally have some exciting news to share!After countless packs of ramen, pots of coffee and hours of development - Helms of Fury is coming to Kickstarter this month!  October 21st to be precise.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/abitawake/helms-of-furyYou can follow our Kickstarter now for updates, and when the p...

After a little more than 3 years in development, we are excited to announce that Helms of Fury is coming to Kickstarter!!This Kickstarter will be the biggest reveal of our game so far, with information on the knights, level design, progression systems, and much more.  The page will also include teases for some of the minibosses you will fight, items you can use, runes you can discover, and deta...

Making a game where your enemies need to chase the player?  This starts out easy, make the enemy run towards the player!  But what happens when they are behind a tree?  Or around the corner of a wall?  Well, now your enemy looks quite silly as it is stuck against the object, running in place.  Not good!To solve this, you could use the Navigation2D or AStar nodes built into Godot (here's a tutor...

A few months back we wrote an article showing how we created procedural caves in Godot using Cellular Automata.  Today we wanted to share a follow up, showing how to generate dungeons using a BSP Tree.What is a BSP Tree?  I like this articles explanation, so rather than writing a bunch of paragraphs, I'll refer you to that article and just focus on the generation code below.sample dungeon gener...

To kick off our first post for 2020 we are happy to announce our upcoming indie game: Helms of Fury!About the GameHelms of Fury is a dungeon crawling rogue-lite with a focus on fast combat, discovering items and combining runes to create insanely powerful builds. Made to be replayed, you battle your way through procedural dungeons full of enemies, traps and treasures with new things to...

Creating gameplay gifs that look decent on Twitter can be a bit of a challenge, so we thought we would share a few things we learned while making them for our own game.So first a quick note on the process of creating a gif:You record footage from your game, say a 5 minute video.You extract a 10 second clip to show.You convert this clip into a gif.You upload this gif to twitter.At each stage in ...

Want to make a procedurally generated level for your game that includes caves or forests?  We did too, and here's how we learned to do it using Godot!First we looked to see what info was already available; and while there is a lot of great resources like RogueBasin, few of them covered Godot or GDscript. Fortunately, GDscript is very similar to Python, and we found a nice script on github where...

Ahoy and welcome to the first post from A Bit Awake!  We are a new indie studio from Toronto that is using the Godot engine to create our first game.  Helms of Fury  is a rogue-lite that takes place in a fantasy setting, where you play as one of three knights who collect abilities and power-ups to grow stronger, fighting your way through hordes of enemies, trap rooms and boss battles. ...