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NAME REDACTED
Dec 22, 2010
Has anyone here seen Doko Roko on Kickstarter? It seems to be it's more of a rogue-lite than a roguelike, but so far it looks really pretty, and it's already been funded with 10 days to go. Can anyone with more experience in these matters spot any obvious "this isn't going to get made" red flags, or can I throw some of my money at it without reservation?

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ToxicFrog
Apr 26, 2008


100 HOGS AGREE posted:

I'd personally like some easier roguelikes, I am bad at video games and don't have the time to invest in getting good at them, and I've always been hot garbage at learning the internal mechanics of games.

DoomRL is free, mechanically pretty simple, and not too hard on easy/normal difficulties. It also has an option of graphical or TTY interface (and I host a server for the latter).

Dungeons of Dredmor is commercial and has an awful inventory UI, but is easy and accessible and makes a good beginner roguelike.

Sproggiwood looks cute and welcoming but will tear your face off and eat it.

Lilli
Feb 21, 2011

Goodbye, my child.

ToxicFrog posted:

Sproggiwood looks cute and welcoming but will tear your face off and eat it.

I mean, it's pretty easy on the casual difficulty. Honestly I tend to recommend it for anyone who is vaguely interested in roguelikes but doesn't have an entrance point. It's got a very simple and intuitive system, it's fairly forgiving with some of its classes, and deaths only affecting a single level (which tend to be fairly short) makes it pretty accessible.

Zereth
Jul 9, 2003



NAME REDACTED posted:

Has anyone here seen Doko Roko on Kickstarter? It seems to be it's more of a rogue-lite than a roguelike, but so far it looks really pretty, and it's already been funded with 10 days to go. Can anyone with more experience in these matters spot any obvious "this isn't going to get made" red flags, or can I throw some of my money at it without reservation?

The guy making it describes himself as an art school dropout down at the bottom, which doesn't seem like a great sign to me.

Kyzrati
Jun 27, 2015

MAIN.C

NAME REDACTED posted:

Has anyone here seen Doko Roko on Kickstarter? It seems to be it's more of a rogue-lite than a roguelike, but so far it looks really pretty, and it's already been funded with 10 days to go. Can anyone with more experience in these matters spot any obvious "this isn't going to get made" red flags, or can I throw some of my money at it without reservation?
Maybe a yellow flag.

The developer has never actually finished a game before, so it's pretty much guaranteed they'll be dealing with a lot of surprises and unexpected roadblocks down the road, and how a developer deals with those will vary based on personality. Many crash and burn, while a minority are able to forge ahead and survive to the other end...

That said, the release date is rather realistically placed two years from now in 2017. Also, what's been done so far is pretty impressive.

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

(towerclimb spoilers) ahahaha get hosed zardo. I love this game so much

TOOT BOOT
May 25, 2010

ADOM has been submitted to Steam for review:

http://www.ancientdomainsofmystery.com/2015/11/alea-iacta-est-steam-build-finished-and.html?showComment=1447202369480#c2105374477515544590

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

wait what the fuck??

lets hang out posted:

(towerclimb spoilers) ahahaha get hosed zardo. I love this game so much

That's amazing.

Awesome!
Oct 17, 2008

Ready for adventure!


lets hang out posted:

(towerclimb spoilers) ahahaha get hosed zardo. I love this game so much

suddenly i want to know more about towerclimb. that is not what i expected from looking at the games store page

Kobold Sex Tape
Feb 17, 2011


myself, a couple of elderly men, and that one dude from finland who created like 95% of the pages on the wiki are extremely pumped for this!!!

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

Awesome! posted:

suddenly i want to know more about towerclimb. that is not what i expected from looking at the games store page

things start off pretty mundane, with your bug level and your plant level and your lava level, but the second half of the game really goes places.

with a lot of these roguelike platformer things i feel like they don't go far enough, like by the end i always wish things escalated further and there was more to do. i don't think towerclimb has that problem. there's just so much crazy poo poo to find and die horribly to.

btw here's a video of the fun thing i posted in spoiler tags. it's got some dude's face down in the corner yelling a lot but i mean like 3 people play this game so this is as good as it gets for videos.

uPen
Jan 25, 2010

Zu Rodina!

lets hang out posted:

(towerclimb spoilers) ahahaha get hosed zardo. I love this game so much

Well I guess I'm converting my beta copy into a steam version.

Zereth
Jul 9, 2003



lets hang out posted:

things start off pretty mundane, with your bug level and your plant level and your lava level, but the second half of the game really goes places.
Okay I am now actually interested in Towerclimb.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Zereth posted:

Okay I am now actually interested in Towerclimb.

Shoot, I might be also. Would be great if there were a casino in there somewhere.

TOOT BOOT
May 25, 2010

ADOM is going to be released to Steam Monday, November 16th.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/333300

coolskull
Nov 11, 2007

For some reason I saw ADOM and thought of IVAN, and figured a new nightmare was upon us.

TooMuchAbstraction
Oct 14, 2012

I spent four years making
Waves of Steel
Hell yes I'm going to turn my avatar into an ad for it.
Fun Shoe

LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:

For some reason I saw ADOM and thought of IVAN, and figured a new nightmare was upon us.

We need someone to give IVAN the Goat Simulator treatment.

DeathBySpoon
Dec 17, 2007

I got myself a paper clip!


Finally added some new enemies and areas to Roggle! Picking a fight with a Bipput 31 levels my senior was not a good idea.

Tax Inductions
Jul 9, 2007

I carry refreshments to the good guys
I made the good guys some home fries
Towerclimb chat: What's the deal with the eyeball dudes in the Temple of Devotion? I thought the gimmick was you can't move while their gaze is passing over you, but they seem to be chasing me even when I'm standing still. Just hosed my game by having this happen twice (no sword). Is it line of sight in addition to movement?

ExiledTinkerer
Nov 4, 2009
Not entirely sure what the update entails, but it doesn't even matter because Red Rogue is, and will always be, freaking awesome:

http://st33d.itch.io/red-rogue

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

Mr. Wednesday posted:

Towerclimb chat: What's the deal with the eyeball dudes in the Temple of Devotion? I thought the gimmick was you can't move while their gaze is passing over you, but they seem to be chasing me even when I'm standing still. Just hosed my game by having this happen twice (no sword). Is it line of sight in addition to movement?

You're not getting really close to them are you? If you're in the green cones you'll set them off moving or not. If it's not that, I dunno what's happening to you. Never had them come after me when it wasn't obvious that it was my fault. If they're beelining at you from across the map for no reason maybe report it on their forums or the steam forum so if it's a bug they can fix it.

e: if you're getting caught by the red cones when you're pretty sure you aren't moving maybe it could be some kind of analog stick problem? Like the stick is old and it leans to the side just the tiniest bit? Had that happen with controllers before. Dunno if that would set them off though.

lets hang out fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Nov 13, 2015

EAT THE EGGS RICOLA
May 29, 2008

lets hang out posted:

(towerclimb spoilers) ahahaha get hosed zardo. I love this game so much

what the gently caress

Tax Inductions
Jul 9, 2007

I carry refreshments to the good guys
I made the good guys some home fries

lets hang out posted:

You're not getting really close to them are you? If you're in the green cones you'll set them off moving or not. If it's not that, I dunno what's happening to you. Never had them come after me when it wasn't obvious that it was my fault. If they're beelining at you from across the map for no reason maybe report it on their forums or the steam forum so if it's a bug they can fix it.

e: if you're getting caught by the red cones when you're pretty sure you aren't moving maybe it could be some kind of analog stick problem? Like the stick is old and it leans to the side just the tiniest bit? Had that happen with controllers before. Dunno if that would set them off though.

Ah, thanks for the info, I think I must have been too close, at least the second time. the first time I think I was further away but I was hanging on a wall and it's possible I slipped up.

It was a rough end - those things don't stop chasing you even after killing you over and over. I went through all 6 of my extra revive potions trying to get away D:

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

oh wow, that sucks. Whenever they see me I take it as my cue to start burning jumps like crazy, since if I do manage to get away at least I can count on there always being a witch outside the zenith. And also, from my extremely limited experience there, I think the zenith's random generation is less inclined to present you with situations where you need jump potions, and if that's true you might as well burn them when you do need them. Maybe?

oh also you can try nailing the eyes with corrodes. You probably won't kill them unless you brought a lot with you but it does get them away from you and it takes them like a second or two to recover.

protomexican
May 1, 2009
Invisible Inc. is free to play on Steam this weekend.

Galaga Galaxian
Apr 23, 2009

What a childish tactic!
Don't you think you should put more thought into your battleplan?!


Hmm its been a while since I played Armoured Commander, let's see how its been doing with all those upgrades.



Yup, still hates and brutalizes me. loving gun needed a 4 on 2d6 to penetrate me, so of course it rolls a 3. :v:

Still, its had some excellent improvements since a few months back. I suggest anyone interested give it another go.

Dr. Dos
Aug 5, 2005

YAAAAAAAY!
As somebody who's cool with ascii, and a big fan of ADOM, I'm now really curious as to what entering the chaos plane looks like with tiles.

Because in ascii it looks like this and it's amazing.

Kobold Sex Tape
Feb 17, 2011

Dr. Dos posted:

As somebody who's cool with ascii, and a big fan of ADOM, I'm now really curious as to what entering the chaos plane looks like with tiles.

Because in ascii it looks like this and it's amazing.



underwhelming! it's just normal dungeon tiles, although the steam version's coming out in two days and i hope it spices it up because ascii chaos realm kicks rear end. there's different tilesets for the ice queen realm and fire temple so They Have The Technology in theory.

Zereth
Jul 9, 2003



What, really? It should be a completely random mishmash of every single tile and art asset in the game. :mad:

Happylisk
May 19, 2004

Leisure Suit Barry '08
ADOM has dropped:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/333300

It might've taken Biskup 3 years, but he's brought the game into the 21st century. TB might be a bit on the eccentric side, but ADOM is the reason I play roguelikes (to the exclusion of all other games), so my view is the least I can do is drop him some support.

omeg
Sep 3, 2012

quote:

You have donated a total amount of $25 during the crowd funding campaign. This is not enough to warrant a free ADOM Deluxe access code ($40 was the minimum limit).
Rip. I assume that's the Steam key? :v:

Happylisk
May 19, 2004

Leisure Suit Barry '08
Yep, $40 min for the ($15) steam key. You done got Biskup'ed son.

Dr. Dos
Aug 5, 2005

YAAAAAAAY!


Edit: Seriously though the loss of the 2nd line of the HUD kind of sucks? I liked seeing how many missiles I had equipped and also if I'm burdened/strained!!

Dr. Dos fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Nov 16, 2015

Kobold Sex Tape
Feb 17, 2011

Dr. Dos posted:



Edit: Seriously though the loss of the 2nd line of the HUD kind of sucks? I liked seeing how many missiles I had equipped and also if I'm burdened/strained!!

you can change that, via some option somewhere. you could in the last pre-steam release at least because i remember loving hating the new HUD and changing it at some point

e: ctrl+n and then m unless it was changed in the steam version. i'm buyin' that later so i'll czech it out then.

Kobold Sex Tape fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Nov 16, 2015

andrew smash
Jun 26, 2006

smooth soul

omeg posted:

Rip. I assume that's the Steam key? :v:

Lmao, what a fuckin rear end in a top hat. I can't believe people still want to give this dude anything.

Big Sean
Jan 18, 2010
Hahaha that's amazing.

In other news, I've been playing a lot of Invisible Inc, which I've gone from thinking is a good game to thinking is a great game. I was inititally turned off by the art style and so didn't buy it for roughly forever, but the core mechanics are really good and are refreshingly new for someone who has played a lot of other roguelikes. Suprised it doesn't have more of a following here.

Galaga Galaxian
Apr 23, 2009

What a childish tactic!
Don't you think you should put more thought into your battleplan?!


Well, it does have its own thread.

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Been playing Bionic Dues and Deadnaut and that's been filling my rogue holes pretty satisfyingly these days. Bionic Dues plays nice on a flash drive and still... lacks cohesion and interesting dungeon design but generates difficult enough scenarios to kill off a coffee break. Deadnaut recently came out with a patch that lets you adjust difficulty and now has unlockable campaign types, but is otherwise very much the same. My dream version of this would be to have actual people to direct from that little console you're stuck behind.

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010


I've made a huge mistake.

doctorfrog posted:

Been playing Bionic Dues and Deadnaut and that's been filling my rogue holes pretty satisfyingly these days. Bionic Dues plays nice on a flash drive and still... lacks cohesion and interesting dungeon design but generates difficult enough scenarios to kill off a coffee break. Deadnaut recently came out with a patch that lets you adjust difficulty and now has unlockable campaign types, but is otherwise very much the same. My dream version of this would be to have actual people to direct from that little console you're stuck behind.

Keep Bzzting And Nobody Ftzes.

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Pumpkinreaper
Jan 19, 2010
I started playing ADOM recently and bought it on steam today. Definitely scratches that roguelike itch, but could seriously use some cleaning up controls-wise.


Today on a troll fighter I randomed, I was doing troll stuff and eating whatever was on the floor (except kobolds, too much trouble) and picking up pretty rocks and a pixie shows up.

I immediately jump on the fucker and kill it, knowing from previous experience that they like to drop a lot (for the part of the game I'm in at least) of gold. The fucker left a corpse too.


So I eat it.


Cue me teleporting randomly every few turns and 'accidentally' stealing a ring of damage and a nice broadsword.

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