Hypnagonia

Devlog

• The Plushening
  August 24, 2022 by db0

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  #plushies, #midjourney, #ai

  When I initially started the design of Hypnagonia I don’t hide that I copied liberally from the design of Slay the Spire. However as is obvious, I did apply the theme of Surrealist Dreams instead of... Continue reading

  
• Integrating AI into storyline
  August 14, 2022 by db0

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  #AI, #KoboldAI, #GPT

  As I quickly mentioned before , I have started integrating KoboldAI into Hypnagonia and I am using it for dynamically generating introductions to the various encounters in your dreams. KoboldAI is a b... Continue reading

  
• AI Generated Prompts for first act (experimental)
  August 12, 2022 by db0#AI, #KoboldAI

  I’ve pushed the new update which now uses dynamically AI-generated stories for the first act torments. This is a highly experimental mode and it will take time for the model to improve, so please ke... Continue reading

  
• Diving deeper into AI storytelling with NLP-generated stories
  August 05, 2022 by db0#AI, #NLP, #GPT, #GPT-3, #KoboldAI

  As I finished my one-month subscription for Midjourney which I used to complete ~300 pieces of illustrations , I turned my attention to the next goal which has been annoying me since I started. For th... Continue reading

  
• Exploitation
  July 25, 2022 by db0

  The 8th Archetype and the 2nd Injustice Archetype has just been added to Hypnagonia: Exploited. This card pool will provide a completely different game style than the usual self-harm and immersion mec... Continue reading

  
• All the illustrations!
  July 19, 2022 by db0

  In the past few weeks I’ve been working non-stop to complete my card illustrations for Hypnagonia, as I find having cards look immediately identifiable and unique is a significant improvement for a... Continue reading

  
• Creating card illustrations using the midjourney Neural Network
  July 14, 2022 by db0

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  #midjourney, #GAN, #AI, #illustrations, #art

  2 weeks ago, my plan for the next update was to finally design and release the second injustice archetype, but then randomly, I was introduced to midjourney , a new Neural Network and my mind was blow... Continue reading

  
• Nope. Didn't like it.
  June 25, 2022 by db0

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  2 weeks ago, I finished redesigning the pathos/currency mechanics . I’ve playtested the game in the meantime and I got to admit: I didn’t like it. While it was obviously better than before, partic... Continue reading

  
• The Big Currency Redesign
  June 09, 2022 by db0

  I initially designed the Pathos system in Hypnagonia so that I could have a way to decide what kind of encounters the player has to choose from in each journal page. As there are 7 types of encounters... Continue reading

  
• Look at them go!
  May 25, 2022 by db0

  Where the previous devlog was discussing the changes in the theme and the journal, the next few releases focused making the Ordeal (i.e. “combat”) more visually rich, in a way that the player can... Continue reading

  
• Improving the user experience
  May 04, 2022 by db0

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  #gui, #ux, #logo

  One of the weakest parts of Hypnagonia since the early days has been the UX/UI. This is something I cooked up myself with core Godot Engine nodes and a free theme I found on itch.io. It was functional... Continue reading

  
• Choose your difficulty
  April 03, 2022 by db0

  Hypnagonia is meant to be a hard game. The beauty of the game (and roguelikes in general) is achieving a victory through an unforgiving game, through luck or skill. However even as unforgiving as it i... Continue reading

  
• Best Served Cold
  April 01, 2022 by db0

  In the past week, I’ve been working in adding one more archetype to the game. This time to provide an alternative to the Fearless disposition. The new one comes from the suggestion of a member of th... Continue reading

  
• Pew Pew
  March 21, 2022 by db0

  The latest update brings a new Archetype to mix into your playthroughs: The Laser Cannon. This archetype has been designed by a veteran Slay the Spire player and modder, DioBal and I’ve tweaked the... Continue reading

  
• Switching to first person perspective
  March 14, 2022 by db0

  I started writing this post but then it kept morphing more and more into my experiences with ADHD while doing gamedev, so I wrote about that instead on my own blog . To continue from that post, yester... Continue reading

  
• Final Act is now available!
  March 05, 2022 by db0

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  It’s been close to 2 months since I switched focus to writing tests and there hasn’t been a lot of visible progress to the game, but rest assured I was hard at work in the background. I was writin... Continue reading

  
• Test Driven Indie Game Development
  January 15, 2022 by db0

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  It’s been now half a year since I first started working on Hypnagonia and slightly over a year since I’ve started the card game framework . As the features and complexity of such a project expands... Continue reading

  
• Recurring Nightmares
  January 06, 2022 by db0

  One classic thing that happens with (some) nightmares, is that they might just keep repeating. Usually it’s over many nights, but sometimes the same theme might appear multiple times within the same... Continue reading

  
• Potions and Memories
  December 28, 2021 by db0#consumables, #memories, #potions

  In my last post I was writing that I wasn’t sure what to do with Pathos, but that was not completely true. I has some ideas I was musing in the background but none of them were really hitting home f... Continue reading

  
• What to do with Pathos?
  December 27, 2021 by db0

  A lot of the deckbuilder games like Hypnagonia are using some sort of overworld to move the player from one encounter to the next. Slay The Spire pioneered it and before that, the Magic: The Gathering... Continue reading

  
• The Second Act begins now
  December 23, 2021 by db0

  With 27 commits in 224 files , I am finally pushing the second act of Hypnagonia to be live. This time I avoided pushing frequent small updates in favour of one big one, as it made no sense to push a... Continue reading

  
• Music and the First Act
  December 06, 2021 by db0

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  #music, #myuu, #godot

  As part of my next major update, I wanted to finally introduce some audio elements, so I decided to start by getting some thematic music. The OpenSourceGaming video on Hypnagonia introduced me to the... Continue reading
• Onwards to the next unsettling act!
  December 04, 2021 by db0

  After finishing my initial card pool I turned all my attention to fleshing out the game’s encounters. While the game is fully playable, it just doesn’t have that much variety in the playthrough. I... Continue reading

  
• Exponential combinations
  November 20, 2021 by db0

  After many weeks of work, I have finally finished the card pool of the initial 4 archetypes that I started with. The last one being the Flyer. Today, we have now the following archetypes in each aspec... Continue reading

  
• v0.17.x: Onwards, faster
  November 18, 2021 by db0#ci/cd, #art, #content

  Hey everyone, I am usually posting my announcements on discord, but it might make more sense to switch to posting them here and linking them from discord. v0.17.x sees the finalized CI pipeline, where... Continue reading

  
• Pipelines and Art
  November 13, 2021 by db0#github, #pipeline, #ci/cd, #art

  A recent art collaborator just decided today to grace us with 11 new scetches for some of the hardest cards to draw in the game, the Abusive Relationship archetype! And the art is brilliant! Way bette... Continue reading

  
• Liberating my assets
  November 10, 2021 by db0#art, #free software, #floss

  When I first started with Hypnagonia, I had a bad case of what is colloquially known as “programmer art”. This means that all my GUI and Card illustration, design and so on, where whatever I could... Continue reading

  
• Blog recursion
  November 06, 2021 by db0#blog, #wordpress

  Did you know I have my own personal blog which is where I was writing about my game design stuff until now? Yea! I even blogged about the reasons why I opened an itch.io page in the first place . I’... Continue reading
• Getting information in the most useful way
  November 06, 2021 by db0#card game framework, #usability, #information

  Part of my design paradigm is that I don’t want my players to memorize anything as they play. So it’s imperative that they get information in the way most comfortable for them. To that end, I alwa... Continue reading