Stuff

The last couple days I can't seem to make myself work on stuff that needs fixing in The Abyss. I guess I just need to push through it. Well at least I got the layout for one level finished. It's not much, but at least it's something. It would probably help if I play through the game again. Or maybe I need to relax and watch a good movie or something. I don't really know. I should probably try to tidy as many things as possible up and then go ahead with another version release. I really don't want to block off The Abyss again. It's still a big mess, despite the work I've done on it. There are a lot of bosses that still need to be adjusted to the new system (like that giant skeleton), but at least the upgrade orbs are all intact. Problem is, what if I want to give more than one for some bosses? I'd hate to cheat some players out of an upgrade orb. Then again, it might pop up when you revisit the room. So...

But.. yeah. I think I should just start playing through. I believe that's the best way to find things that need fixing. Maybe I'll be inspired to put some new things in that will make the game more fun. I'll try to start playing through sometime today.

I've been thinking about the old rewards that you could pick up in The Abyss. Stuff like gold coin box that gave you an amount of gold coins depending on how many enemies you killed. Two more boxes (5 vigor and 5 magic essence) would also appear if you defeated x and x amount of enemies. And finally the box with the troll ring if you killed 50 enemies.

Should I keep those rewards in? Maybe I should. Or maybe I should have the chests appear regardless. I've considered just moving the troll ring to some location and then removing the other rewards. The gold coins reward probably won't seem very impressive anymore (like maybe 50 gold coins or something...). The vigor and magic essence just seems like a really big reward. Maybe when I get to that point I can better decide whether they should stay or go.