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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Holy poo poo, Caves Of Qud is really cool and accessible

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
I love TOME and not many other roguelikes and I also love Caves Of Qud. Just keep in mind that you will need to learn a handful of keys and then everything will be great.

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Feb 19, 2008

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ADOM seems like it should be good but then it has things like "you were hit in the face with mud and have to use a special one-purpose command to wipe your face or you're blind forever"

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
DoomRL is now open source: https://github.com/ChaosForge/doomrl

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Is that what Hand Of Fate is about?

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Feb 19, 2008

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What is a broguelike?

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Oh you mean an ASCII Stalker-like

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
As soon as I finish reading Land Of Lisp I'm gonna do this except in Common Lisp.
If any of it works I'll post it on GitHub

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Feb 19, 2008

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I'm excited because I have no idea how to make games and also the tutorial uses a terminal graphics library. Not enough games run in the terminal, you know?

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Feb 19, 2008

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ToxicFrog posted:

libtcod games don't run in the terminal

Awwww mannnn...well, it'll still be fun and informative. Those games you mentioned do have really nice graphics. Maybe I'll try one with ncurses for round two. I'd also like to include 80's-esque sound effects, maybe procedurally generated with a synthesizer library.

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
The stretch goals sound like a longshot at this point. No audio logs I guess :(

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Feb 19, 2008

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Floodkiller posted:

I'm just happy it got funded, it was looking too close to failing on the home stretch.

Yeah, me too. I don't actually want audio logs :)

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Sproggiwood is lots of fun and definitely worth getting while it's on sale

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Gungeon is loving great

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
That's a really good bundle

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Feb 19, 2008

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Pumpkinreaper posted:

I have sproggiwood but not invis inc or nuclear throne. Why don't I own them?
Poor choices were made

Say no more, my dude

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
I feel spoiled by the graphics in Sproggiwood and Cogmind

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Feb 19, 2008

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Ator posted:

Cogmind livestream on twitch right now https://www.twitch.tv/kyzrati

First time I've seen the game in motion, it looks pretty rad with all the cool glitch visual effects and cyberpunk text

edit: :psylon:

cogmind loving rules

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

madjackmcmad posted:

Zircon isn't shilling his Tangledeep Kickstarter but I will :black101:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1363989456/tangledeep-a-dungeon-crawling-tribute-to-the-16-bi

Back this or you think Call of Duty is a roguelike.



Also completely unrelated in any way, there is a new build of Dungeonmans available today.

fakeedit: gently caress, beaten

loving backed

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Jalopy currently has a 50% discount on Steam, if that counts as a Roguelike

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
There's lots of things to like about it. The levels are procedurally generated. It's also very difficult, sometimes to the point of being unfair. As an ETS/ATS fan, it has plenty of the laid-back driving I enjoy. Jalopy has a great aesthetic overall and should appeal to roguelite fans, but it's still quite unfinished. Well worth $6 imo.

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
MSC seems like it was made by someone with minimal technical skill and perhaps a personality disorder

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Roguelikes are so cool and this is such a chill thread, especially considering the "hardcore" reputation of the genre.

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
I'm on the edge of my seat for so many Kickstarters right now. Anxiously awaiting news from Tangledeep, Jupiter Hell, that turn-based Mechwarrior, not to mention the still under development Caves Of Qud and Cogmind. Hopefully I can finish Sproggiwood (on normal) before one of them hits 1.0

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Star Crawlers is really great. It's like a PC version of Etrian Odyssey with procedural levels.

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Cogmind is good

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Feb 19, 2008

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ZearothK posted:

So, Everspace is supposedly a roguelike and came out from Early Access, what's the hot take?

It's great.
  • excellent graphics
  • upgrades between rounds
  • fun space combat
  • certain death
  • procedural asteroid-filled sectors

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Lua is cool and you should give it a try

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Feb 19, 2008

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Feb 19, 2008

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TooMuchAbstraction posted:

Could you provide an example or two of RPGs that don't do this? I'm having trouble coming up with any besides, say, Undertale. I think "numbers going up" is pretty integral to the genre.

Maybe too far off-target here, but the Stalker series?

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Just noticed this one, which is on sale for $2.50 until November 1. Steam isn't very good at highlighting lesser-known games, is it? I can search for Linux games with the Roguelike tag and still never see this stuff.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/372080/Ananias_Roguelike/

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Please buy ADOM, it's pretty cool/frustrating

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Feb 19, 2008

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Angry Diplomat posted:

"you'll probably die, are you sure?"

It's the only way to get the full roguelike experience

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
I remember reading an article about Age Of Empires a long time ago. They calibrated the difficulty settings by measuring the success of their playtesters into standard deviations. It's not a very interesting way to create difficulty, but it did at least achieve consistency.

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
You should get Hydra Slayer while it's on sale and Hyper Rogue too for maximum aspergation

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
I liked Capsized

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Cryptark is definitely not about full-time guns blazing. Stealth is useful, tripping alarms is bad news (but not necessarily fatal), and you need to plan what you're doing. It's fun, but also seriously frustrating.

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Feb 19, 2008

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StrixNebulosa posted:

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
yeah it's fuckin good

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

brainSnakes posted:

...I’m still waiting on someone to basically remake Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall as a steam roguelike so I can die of starvation miles below the surface inside some insane underground lake tower, because I’ve utterly lost the way out of its labyrinthine caves.

Sounds a lot like Delver. It's early access and the Steam updates trickle out at a glacial pace, but the devs are actively working on it and stream frequently.

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