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This week's post briefly explains a few systems and the recent improvements to them.
Defense
Previously, items that gave protection from damage had two relevant values: damage reduction (the amount by which it would reduce incoming damage) and defense (the item's "health"). As an item took damage, both its defense and damage reduction would...

This week was spent making background changes to some item subsystems and implementing a new type of item.
Throwing Weapons
While it has been possible to throw items via the Heave trait for a quite a while,

A while back, I started working on a simple game with some RPG elements.
It was dubbed Roguelite (working title) and I whipped up a quick prototype:
Since then, I have been slowly improving on it and putting some meat on its bones.

Ben McGraw recently posted about reviving an old blog Pact. I have elected, against my better judgment, to participate in said Pact.
Posting will commence with a brief summary of my current project, Roguelite, and continue with weekly updates on its progress until release....