Chevee Dodd – Page 2 – Adventures In Doing

According to my post history, I started writing on this project 12 days ago. I had a working prototype a full week before that. I started taking notes on this idea at least 10 days prior to that. All-in, I’ve devoted a month to this project and all I have […]

Requesting Attributes – Roguelike Design part 6

2020/05/26 in No Rogues Allowed tagged bad code / game / game design / php / prototype / rogue / rogue-lite / roguelike / rpg / web design

Last post, I teased a bit about the Tier input on the form shown here. Between that post and now I added the Variance option… so let’s talk about these two things! Weapons Don’t Have Power While tweaking the randomness generator for adding attributes works for generating weapons with relatively […]

Choosing Tiers – Roguelike Design part 5

2020/05/24 in No Rogues Allowed tagged bad code / game / game design / php / prototype / rogue / rogue-lite / roguelike / rpg / web design / website

Previously, on Whoo Boy I Have No Idea What I’m Doing, we built a function to generate some random weapons. We use a combination of PHP rand() and mySQL ORDER BY RAND() to get random attributes from our tables, and add it all up into something that can be used […]

Creating Better Items – Roguelike Design part 4

2020/05/23 in No Rogues Allowed tagged bad code / game / game design / php / prototype / rogue / rogue-lite / roguelike / rpg / web design / website

In the previous article, I shared some code showing how I’m storing and retrieving things from the database. I want to clear up some things before we move on. In future articles we’ll look at the steps I took to be able to generate weapons of various “level” even though […]

My Code Quality – Roguelike Design part 3

2020/05/20 in No Rogues Allowed tagged bad code / game / game design / php / prototype / rogue / rogue-lite / roguelike / rpg / web design / website

After playing with the name generator I discussed in the previous post, I decided to tackle powers and abilities next. While having a cool name generator is neat on it’s own, I really wanted to be able to use this tool in future game design projects. In order to do […]

Item Powers – Roguelike Design part 2

2020/05/16 in No Rogues Allowed tagged game / game design / php / prototype / rogue / rogue-lite / roguelike / rpg / web design / website

In yesterday’s post, I introduced a simple random weapon generator that I designed and published at https://noroguesallowed.com. In that post, I talked about why I designed it… now I’m going to talk about how. There’s a few things I want you to know first: First: I’m a PHP developer. All […]

Random Item Names – Roguelike Design part 1

2020/05/15 in No Rogues Allowed tagged game / game design / php / prototype / rogue / rogue-lite / roguelike / rpg / web design / website

Sometimes, an idea gets stuck in my head. It could be nearly anything from an art piece, to woodworking design, a game mechanic, or a story that I want to write. When it’s something that’s really gripped me, the idea can consume my thoughts. I find myself thinking about it […]

No Rogues Allowed – Designing a Roguelike

2020/05/14 in No Rogues Allowed tagged game / game design / php / prototype / rogue / rogue-lite / roguelike / rpg / web design / website

I tried another woodcut… and I don’t like it. I messed up the carving a bit too much. I think I got a bit over-confident after trying this a whole one time before. This seems to be my “normal” when learning a new skill. The second one is never as […]

Another Woodcut Attempt

2020/04/09 in Try Every Day tagged art / bad art / bad artist / carving / design / drawing / learning / line art / printing / relief print / sketching / woodcut

I’ve mentioned it a few times in my Try Every Day posts, but woodcut printing is something I’ve always been fascinated with. Woodcut is a type of relief printing where the block medium is… well… wood. There are dozens of other mediums you can use for relief printing, but the […]

Experimenting With Woodcut

2020/04/07 in Try Every Day tagged art / bad art / bad artist / carving / design / drawing / learning / line art / printing / relief print / sketching / woodcut

Bread is scarce right now and I’ve seen posts all over the internet of people learning to make bread… so I thought I’d share one of my favorite “survival foods.” This is Bannock, a traditional Irish/European/Canadian bread that can be fried or baked. This is a type of soda bread […]

Bannock Recipe

2020/03/24 in Musings / Thoughts tagged baking / bread / cooking / recipe

Try Every Day #29 This is a circle. First try. No practice. No pencil. Just picked up a pen and went for it. Why? Well, I have no inspiration today. There’s nothing that I want to draw. So, let this circle represent all the things I should be doing instead […]

A Circle // Try Every Day

2020/03/13 in Try Every Day tagged art / bad art / bad artist / design / drawing / learning / line art / sketching

Try Every Day #28 In the 80’s and maybe even into the early 1990’s it was still fairly common to see hand-drawn catalogs and advertisements for local companies. I remember the print ads for Big and Small Lots, 84 Lumber, and Hills department stores all featured drawn art. I can […]

Advertisement Art // Try Every Day

2020/03/12 in Try Every Day tagged art / bad art / bad artist / design / drawing / learning / line art / sketching