Greetings Gobbos! In today's dev blog we will be talking about map events. We decided to add Map Events to give a more roguelike feel! Let’s list down what map events we can come across in-game.

Enemies

There are two types of enemies, we have Normal Enemies. They usually have smaller enemies that don’t hit as hard as larger ones. The other one is Powerful Enemies, we wanted to provide players with a “high-risk, high-reward” option where players can choose to fight more powerful enemies that can provide players with better loot.

Enhance your gear

Have you met the Smithy? If you are having a hard time with your adventure, the Smithy will be the best one to visit as he can upgrade your weapons to help you in battle! We thought of adding the smithy because we wanted to make adventures more interesting by providing players with an upgrade path.

Level up abilities
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Battle Guru

! The Guru teaches you how to use your abilities more effectively. He is similar to the Smithy but instead of the weapons being upgraded, it will be your abilities that will be upgraded. Only class-specific abilities can be upgraded.

We wanted to make things interesting, so we added the Battle Guru to provide players with a different upgrade path in adventures. Players can decide which one is a better upgrade, ability, or weapon.

Expensive Treasure

Let’s talk about treasures! Treasures can be seen anywhere in your adventures. Finding treasures will give you a lot of items that you can sell to the merchant for gold. They contain high-value loot that can be helpful to you other than gold. An example would be High-healing food, it can be game-changing having them.

Harvest materials

Harvesting spree! There are a lot of harvestable in the area, it is good to collect as much as you can before you return to the lair! Who knows what you’ll find? Be careful as enemies may ambush you anytime. You’ll randomly find a room full of Harvestable materials in your adventures, this could be very valuable to some if they lack the materials they need.

We added this room to help players gain more materials than they normally would. We also added random encounters to this similar to Treasure.

Rescue captured goblins

Oh no! You see fellow goblins being Captives! Free the goblins and you can add one of them to your team. The other goblins will also be free but will just escape. If you’re down a few goblins in your adventure, this could be a lifesaver.

Look out for the next dev blog where we’ll discuss more Map Events! Check out our discord to find out more about our game!

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Thank you for reading. We hope you will look forward to our next one. Please support us by adding Goblin Stone to your Steam wishlist if you haven't yet!