Next game: Tickliest Tomb!

Hello, everyone! With the beta for ‘Dungeon Tickler’ out, perhaps now is the best time to talk about my plans for the next game after it!

I’ve been hard at work planning, finding resources, and considering what kind of game you guys might enjoy playing next, and this is the what I’ve decided on.

My next project is called the Tickliest Tomb, an ode to Darkest Dungeon, a game I’ve long adored. If you haven’t played it, I think this video will get you up to speed or pretty much everything to expect in terms of tone and style of writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRh_mlAwxTI

Much like Darkest Dungeon, the tone will be dark and full of verbose horror, and the narrative will be shared by the ten heroes you can choose (Antiquarian, Hellion, Graverobber, Highwayman, Crusader, Shieldbreaker, Vestal, Plague Doctor, Musketeer, and Arbalest). There will be no Brandon and Cissy in this one. That’s because I really want this dark, Lovecraftian vibe, and the two fearless tickle gluttons don’t really fit that.

If you’ve played Darkest Dungeon before, you’ll know that it’s a Rogue-lite, and I’ve tried to incorporate elements of that. There will be some randomization of maps and foes. I’ve revamped the lighting system to make things much more atmospheric. And after each run, you get sent back to the tavern to a recruit a team of four once again. And I’m planning for 30+ tickle scenes of the game over variety (3 for each hero). Allow me to clarify how that will work:

Let’s say your first party consists of Hellion, Vestal, Graverobber, Antiquarian.

On the first floor of the Tomb, you will lose one of your party (let’s say Hellion) and you get the Hellion 1 tickle scene. The rest of your party continues with the other three.

At the next level, another party member will be lost, and you get another scene, until the end of that run.

For your next run, let’s say you choose a party of Hellion, Musketeer, Crusader, and Shieldbreaker this time. The same thing will happen, with one party member randomly being captured at the end of each level. But this time, you will get the Hellion 2 tickle scene, instead of Hellion 1 (but you’d get Musketeer 1, Crusader 1, etc). You will never get any repeated scenes until all 3 of the hero’s tickle scenes have been played.

I’ve made some good progress on the game already, and I think I’ll have something worth sharing before long! 

Hope you guys are as excited for this next one as I am! I'd love to hear your views in the poll or in any of your comments. Let me know if there's any feature in particular that you'd like to see. I'll be making a list of the 30 game over scenes and uploading it later so you guys can see what I've got planned and give some feedback.

And I think that's everything. Have a good one, everyone :)