Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Cogmind began its life as a 7DRL , and a portion of items designed back when the game was overall a very different environment didn’t evolve at the same pace. That would be bad :P. Beta 11 added six new artifacts though, with even cooler (but balanced :P) effects, so that makes up for it ;).

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Funny result though :) The map export issue was similar, resulting in only the top-left corner of each oct tile being rendered, but to a huge mostly empty image. Instead what happens now, assuming the player is zoomed in, is an automatic zoom out, prepare the image, then zoom back in, all behind the scenes.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

If you recall, for my initial Cogmind map zoom demo upon adding Quad support to REX, all I did was change one thing in the game: the map font size. Things get a lot more complex if we want to support both the regular map font and quads, not to mention the ability to swap them dynamically while the game is running.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Overall Rogue doesn’t really have many different item characteristics to modify or games systems to interact with, which is a primary limiting factor in the extent of randomization a game can support. Cogmind’s Strictly Static Items. the majority of roguelikes, especially classic ones).

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Cogmind is now in its 9th year of continuous development, so as usual let’s take a look at the past year of progress in yet another annual review ! and improving the game for those of us who are playing it. Development Time. Development has been going pretty smoothly and I hope to have it out some time within the next few months.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Garrisons were originally added to Cogmind in the months after the first Alpha release in 2015 (see an overview here ) as an optional location for players to visit, adding a unique extra dimension to the world to answer the question “what if I infiltrate these things where many enemy squads come from?”

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