r/archipelago_games

Hi all! I’m a big fan of the Souls games, including Nightreign, and I’m also a big fan of the Archipelago randomizer.

I’m currently in my final year of studying Computer Science, so I’m quite busy at the moment, but this is a project I’d really like to start once I have some more time, perhaps towards the end of the year.

I know creating an Archipelago implementation for Nightreign would probably be a very long-term project, but I think it could be really fun to try and get something like this off the ground. I’d of course also want to make the whole thing open source so other people could contribute if they were interested.

For now, I mainly wanted to see whether there would actually be interest in a project like this, and to get some ideas from the community about what could work as checks/locations.

Some ideas I’ve had so far are:

Unlocking boss expeditions

Purchasable items from the Small Jar Bazaar

Items purchased from merchants during expeditions

Defeating specific Night bosses

Defeating each Night for each expedition

Possibly certain Evergaols, field bosses, or other map objectives

Other progression-related unlocks

There would obviously be a lot to figure out regarding what should be randomized, what should count as a check, and how progression should work without completely breaking the structure of a run.

I’d love to hear what people think. Would you be interested in playing something like this? And if so, what kinds of checks, progression items, or randomizer mechanics do you think would work well in Nightreign?

Been doing Elden ring while my friend does Minecraft. I know there's still a ton of issues but I've been running smoothly until today. It still plays fine it's just now today when I boot into the game and grab an item off the ground I get both the vanilla item that's supposed to be in that location and the randomized item that got placed there from archipelago. Any ideas why it suddenly started doing this and/or a fix?

Edit: teleporting to roundtable then back to where I was solved the issue. Must have needed a full reload of the area.

Im in a little bit of a block because I have played most of the games that I know and would have fun with archipelago. I have played Minecraft, Refunct, Portal 2, Cookie Clicker, Jigsaw, and Balatro. Is there any similar games that are good for ap or just fun in general?

By which I mean, you have multiple choices of check to choose to go for and you know beforehand what they are (might be a trap). The only ones I know of are shopsanity settings for games, which tends to be a tiny amount, and Factorio. Factorio's tech-tree implementation is very much a point of interest for me... except I can't get into the gameplay of Factorio.

So, what other games do it closer to that? The vast majority of checks across all games seem to be blind-pickup, sometimes you want to try a change.

Hey guys. Quick question I want answered that I don't want to trust google AI for.

I am starting my first every Archipelago randomiser tomorrow between 3 games? I was just curious do I need all 3 games open at the same time since I am the only player and my strategy is to play one until I potentially get stuck in it then hop to another one.

hi, don’t mind my random name, i barely use reddit, i’ve always wanted to find people that would stick to a run and actually finish it, i know this isnt a place to look and i know about the sync on the server, i just rather play with people more privately and do it at our own pace, I have some experience but i’ve completed only 2 runs because some are unfinished, ditched by others. if you are interested add me on discord : klbkchhezeim

The Archipelago text client says I'm "viewing" my own game, but not "playing". I'm not entirely certain why. I've been trying to get this working with Lunacid, but for some reason the connection screen never pops up during character creation. I'm VERY new to archipelago games, and am surprised I got this far. Anyone know?

SOLVED: As it turns out, I was using the wrong mod version, and the mod wasn't in the folder as I thought it was - I got it to work now, and I may finally rest and know peace.