Hey peeps, it’s been a while since I updated this game. The reason being that ever since I started the GenAI stuff to improve it, well, they kinda took over my life . That technology has improved wi...

When I initially started the design of Hypnagonia I don’t hide that I copied liberally from the design of Slay the Spire. However as is obvious, I did apply the theme of Surrealist Dreams instead of...

As I quickly mentioned before , I have started integrating KoboldAI into Hypnagonia and I am using it for dynamically generating introductions to the various encounters in your dreams. KoboldAI is a b...

I’ve pushed the new update which now uses dynamically AI-generated stories for the first act torments. This is a highly experimental mode and it will take time for the model to improve, so please ke...

As I finished my one-month subscription for Midjourney which I used to complete ~300 pieces of illustrations , I turned my attention to the next goal which has been annoying me since I started. For th...

The 8th Archetype and the 2nd Injustice Archetype has just been added to Hypnagonia: Exploited. This card pool will provide a completely different game style than the usual self-harm and immersion mec...

In the past few weeks I’ve been working non-stop to complete my card illustrations for Hypnagonia, as I find having cards look immediately identifiable and unique is a significant improvement for a...

2 weeks ago, my plan for the next update was to finally design and release the second injustice archetype, but then randomly, I was introduced to midjourney , a new Neural Network and my mind was blow...

2 weeks ago, I finished redesigning the pathos/currency mechanics . I’ve playtested the game in the meantime and I got to admit: I didn’t like it. While it was obviously better than before, partic...

I initially designed the Pathos system in Hypnagonia so that I could have a way to decide what kind of encounters the player has to choose from in each journal page. As there are 7 types of encounters...

Where the previous devlog was discussing the changes in the theme and the journal, the next few releases focused making the Ordeal (i.e. “combat”) more visually rich, in a way that the player can...

One of the weakest parts of Hypnagonia since the early days has been the UX/UI. This is something I cooked up myself with core Godot Engine nodes and a free theme I found on itch.io. It was functional...

Hypnagonia is meant to be a hard game. The beauty of the game (and roguelikes in general) is achieving a victory through an unforgiving game, through luck or skill. However even as unforgiving as it i...

In the past week, I’ve been working in adding one more archetype to the game. This time to provide an alternative to the Fearless disposition. The new one comes from the suggestion of a member of th...

The latest update brings a new Archetype to mix into your playthroughs: The Laser Cannon. This archetype has been designed by a veteran Slay the Spire player and modder, DioBal and I’ve tweaked the...

I started writing this post but then it kept morphing more and more into my experiences with ADHD while doing gamedev, so I wrote about that instead on my own blog . To continue from that post, yester...

It’s been close to 2 months since I switched focus to writing tests and there hasn’t been a lot of visible progress to the game, but rest assured I was hard at work in the background. I was writin...

It’s been now half a year since I first started working on Hypnagonia and slightly over a year since I’ve started the card game framework . As the features and complexity of such a project expands...

One classic thing that happens with (some) nightmares, is that they might just keep repeating. Usually it’s over many nights, but sometimes the same theme might appear multiple times within the same...

In my last post I was writing that I wasn’t sure what to do with Pathos, but that was not completely true. I has some ideas I was musing in the background but none of them were really hitting home f...

A lot of the deckbuilder games like Hypnagonia are using some sort of overworld to move the player from one encounter to the next. Slay The Spire pioneered it and before that, the Magic: The Gathering...

With 27 commits in 224 files , I am finally pushing the second act of Hypnagonia to be live. This time I avoided pushing frequent small updates in favour of one big one, as it made no sense to push a...

After finishing my initial card pool I turned all my attention to fleshing out the game’s encounters. While the game is fully playable, it just doesn’t have that much variety in the playthrough. I...

After many weeks of work, I have finally finished the card pool of the initial 4 archetypes that I started with. The last one being the Flyer. Today, we have now the following archetypes in each aspec...

Hey everyone, I am usually posting my announcements on discord, but it might make more sense to switch to posting them here and linking them from discord. v0.17.x sees the finalized CI pipeline, where...

A recent art collaborator just decided today to grace us with 11 new scetches for some of the hardest cards to draw in the game, the Abusive Relationship archetype! And the art is brilliant! Way bette...

When I first started with Hypnagonia, I had a bad case of what is colloquially known as “programmer art”. This means that all my GUI and Card illustration, design and so on, where whatever I could...