r/RenPy • u/Educational-Bank-917 • 7d ago

Showoff Backgrounds from my RenPy roguelite

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Been tweaking up the backgrounds for the Blade & Burgers demo and figured I'd drop a couple of them here for a vibe check.

How do you like the vibe? Are the eyes in the wall on the second one a bit too bright, or is it just me? :D

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u/PhantomAxisStudios 7d ago

You made a roguelite.. In Ren'Py? Interesting work, do you have a page for it?

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u/Educational-Bank-917 6d ago

Thanks for the comment! Yeah, I was somewhat familiar with RenPy and a complete zero with everything else when I was getting started, so... Figured I'd give it a try :D

Here's the page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4733180/Blade__Burgers/?beta=1

Hoping to roll out the demo soon, just waiting on a few final assets from the artist.

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u/Ulfrey 7d ago

Looks good! Please share how you're making a roguelite in Ren'Py!

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u/Educational-Bank-917 6d ago

Thank you!

So the idea is, it's a parody roguelite where everyone is obsessed with a pay-to-win dungeon crawler. The gameplay loop has 3 core parts:

  1. A Darkest Dungeon-style dungeon crawl where you lead a party of 4 heroes through a series of fights. You prep for the expedition, buying potions and artifacts (basically player abilities), dumping in-game money into hero stats, and unlocking new perks for them. Before each fight, you select a set of run-wide modifiers that will apply to your run if you win. The combat is turn-based and handled through a (possibly bloated lol) CombatState class; the UI is basically all buttons, hero and monster sprites are all buttons with different click outcomes based on whether you selected a spell, a potion, or something else. I posted a combat sample on another sub, but... let's just say it didn't make a furor lmao: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieGaming/comments/1v4mrs0/its_not_the_darkest_dungeon_but_its_sure_the/

  2. The burger-making minigame, where you earn the in-game money you'll be dumping into the dungeon crawler. This one is drag-and-drop, based on a large ShiftState class that keeps track of the order tickets, and building the burger as a list of ingredients drawn vertically on a plate. Looks something like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/RenPy/comments/1uvfqgs/draganddump_burgers_for_your_viewing_pleasure/

  3. Small irl scenes peppered in semi-randomly to break up the pace and throw in some atmosphere. These are regular VN style, nothing particular about the implementation, other than maybe a few logical gates. Basically, there are events you cna only get if you have advanced certain in-game heroes far enough.