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Traps

By Kyzrati | Published: August 18, 2015

Traps. Right, that’ll be easy. Design a handful of spaces that when stepped on by the player cause any of a number of effects. Just a couple days of work. Or not. That might be the case with traps in most roguelikes, but not Cogmind traps. Two weeks later, they’ve been heavily integrated into many […]

Posted in Design | Also tagged Cogmind, Map Generation, Roguelikes | 10 Responses

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