D'LIRIUM News

Today's announcement is going to be more of a tutorial than an announcement. Due to my departure, the development of D'LIRIUM and The Golden Rogue is getting put on hold for the duration of three months. Moreover, our team is not doing so good and we defenitely could use a helping hand. In order to keep the project moving forward, we have decided to ask our community if they'd like to help. Now, anyone can participate!

As you can see, this isn't as much of an announcement as it is a tutorial on how to create levels and characters. No, nobody is going to have to programm, those who'd like to participate need to stick to draing the textures. And that's what we're going to address below.



The tiles need to match the grid of 32x32 cell size (player's size) and 16x16 (for the smaller things), the first cell should be empty, the others are to be used for the level creation.





Nothing too difficult: the main thing is to stick to the grid of 32x32 cell size (player's size). The levels can be anything from hellish to urban. I'll be chosing which ones will end up in Rogue or in the original game. The hellish levels are especially needed.





The size is still 32x32. The animations required are: the walking animation (4 frames for each of 4 directions), the attack for 2 directions (8 frames), there may be several attacks, a regular and violent death animation, when the character gets torn apart (8 frames each)



You may add your OC in the game. The drawing should stick to the requirements of enemies, but the walking animation alone should be enough. But if you desire for your NPC to be killable...



You may upload your work into Google Drive and post your works in comments below with the description.
Also you can upload your works in our Discord server: https://discord.gg/UzZsuYK

So, that's how it is. We'll import the chosen levels and NPC ourselves, using your sprites and tiles. I hope it'll be an interesting experience for both you and ourselves! Any participant, whose work will be chosen for the game, will get the beta-test key and a well-deserved place in the credits.

It's been a while since the last update on Beta-1 or The Golden Rogue, our Patreon is dead and so is the activity on our Steam page. And the reason behind that is the development of the D'LIRIUM's new update being put on hold, as we told you before, due to the development of The Golden Rogue, which is being developed while surrounded in secrecy. And during the latest week we've made more progress than during the latest month!

Currently, The Golden Rogue is already looking like an almost finished product. The levels are all done and even though they are without a plot yet, they're fully passable. The most of the mechanics have been debugged and are ready. The levels are big and open. The game takes quite some time to pass, especially compared to the original D'LIRIUM. And that's where we've stummbled upon a big, or maybe even fatal problem. Even though the locations are so much better designed and drawn than in the original game, running through them and fighting the same enemies over and over is boring! We're absolutely sure that not adding a deversity of new enemies would make the game fail. That's why we offer our community to try and take a part in the game's development. The details will be in an announcement tomorrow.

Now, let's talk a bit about the reason we're posting this for. The development of The Golden Rogue will be put on hold for the period of three months due to me going abroad for the whole Winter. For the same reason, the original D'LIRIUM will not contain any Christmas or New Year updates. That doesn't mean I won't be working on the game at all, but any significant progress is not to be expected until the end of Winter. We'll try and release the game before Easter. But you'll have to be patient.

So, such is our uncertain piece of news for today. Don't beat us up, please. Everything will be back to normal when I return. Finishing The Golden Rogue in time will be my main priority.

You can support the development of D'LIRIUM and The Golden Rogue on our Patreon page:

For the last few days I've been asked by the people who keep a close eye on the game development: why has there been no special update for Halloween? I'll try to give you a short and simple answer, so noone is left wondering.

Originally, there's been a plan to release a small update that would change the main menu screen and add a Halloween-themed level. But I simply haven't had enough time for making that small idea come to life. That's because our resources are focused on the development of the Golden Rogue in order to be able to release it before the year ends. Moreover, in the new version of D' there are a few features from Beta-1 that is just not ready to be released yet.

So, my friends, you have to be patient. Quite soon the things will get really cool. And it doesn't matter that there's no Halloween event - there will be plenty eventually!

You can support the development of D'LIRIUM and The Golden Rogue on our Patreon page:

It's barely been a day since the previous news, yet the page of The Golden Rogue is already on Steam! The game itself isn't ready yet, and we still can't name the exact release date. But we assure you that the development is taking the big steps and if everything goes according to plan, then it'll be finished really soon!

The game can already be added to the wishlist. The community center is also available. From now on, all of the news regarding the development of The Golden Rogue will be posted there. We're eagerly awaiting your comments and your topics in the discussion section. Thank you for staying with us!

The link to the game page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/860150/DLIRIUM_The_Golden_Rogue
The link to the community center:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/860150

You can support the development of D'LIRIUM and The Golden Rogue on our Patreon page:

Finally, here's time to show you all our new game. Here's a first gameplay trailer of The Golden Rogue - a prequel of D'LIRIUM. Actually, this trailer was made hastily, but it's enough to show you, how things are working here. We're withheld some features in this trailer, and you will get a lot of new experience by playing. But anyway, the game’s design is more than clear. The Golden Rogue page will appear soon in the Steam store and every interested player can add this game to the wishlist. Thanks to everyone who supports us! So, here's the trailer:

https://youtu.be/tUq09daCdfM

You can support the development of D'LIRIUM and The Golden Rogue on our Patreon page: