TOOT BOOT posted:

Depressing Drawers posted:

The current pre-alpha release is still available on IndieDB, however it's not really representative of the game anymore - Out of a misplaced sense of community however here's a goon alpha release for you guys;

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jvtesvkiy76dr84/Illuminascii_PC.zip

In the best roguelike tradition you WILL need to read the readme included, I guarantee. The game is still in alpha so it is unfinished with bugs a plenty and it is unoptimised as all gently caress but the base gameplay is there.

Best place to watch for updates is either me on twitter (@depdrawers) or on the tumblr http://depressingdrawers.tumblr.com

Tollymain posted:

what's the current consensus on dungeon of the endless?

Cuntpunch posted:

It happens a lot because of the weird pseudo-turns the game uses. The gameflow is easy though:

-Open Door(start turn)
-Something is behind door(good/bad/whatever)
-A wave of enemies will spawn from any unseen rooms(unpowered AND without a hero in them)
-Turn Ends when there are no hostiles alive - this will include healing all your heroes.


But if you don't understand the 'Door = turn' it's easy to assume that there's a timer running like in most tower defense games combined with how the hero movement is all real-time, and then start opening doors as fast as possible, which will get overwhelming pretty quickly.

Cuntpunch posted:

That sums up about how far I've gotten, there's a lot of randomness to the game that adds up floor-after-floor and can take a while to get critical.

There are a few other (maybe?) not so obvious gotcha tactical decisions that hide in plain sight, especially on the later floors:

-Team composition: Recently I've had the most success with 2 Operators and 2 Fighters. Leave the Operators in good chokepoints working a Major, use 1 fighter to 'light up' a dark room, and use 1 to open the next door. If you still have incoming, just fall back to the best chokepoint possible.

Demiurge4 posted:

I picked up Dungeon of the Endless and it's pretty darn hard. I think I got most of the mechanics down but I can't figure out how to manually power or unpower rooms to control spawns. I also keep trying to err on the side of caution and stockpile as much poo poo as possible so I'm usually swimming in industry and just spending all my food on levels and new heroes.

So far I've been playing with the robot guy who gets operator at level 3 which seems really good and the fast lady with a sword. Any other combo's that are good? I'd like to get a competent strategy together so I can get further than level 3 on easy.

IronicDongz posted:

if you can point at a game, then point at Rogue and say "these are alike" it's a roguelike.

Games like FTL not fitting comfortably into that is more a sign that we should have moved past this awkward, clunky term(like how no one calls FPS games Doom-likes anymore) than anything else so that we would have something we could reasonably call those games

Pladdicus posted:

FTL is my favorite procedural death labyrinth

LotsBread posted:

please someone gift me deadnauts please it looks so awesome oh god its done right yes its from those assholes that made zafehouse diaries but holy crap it looks awesome i want to space marine all night loooong

http://deadnaut.com/

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/12/11/deadnaut-pc-game/

Angrymog posted:

Probably a bit late with this reply, but Deadnauts is very interesting. You can either take a random team or make your own. A campaign consists of clearing 4 ships - as long as one dude survives and gets out you'll be able to clone some of the rest. So far the best I've managed is clearing one ship, then got cocky on the next one and had a TPK due to an unstable room.

It's real time and you're watching and directing the action through a industrial looking control panel, which often has a flaky data feed due to the interferance from the security of the ship you're trying to pillage.

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

Do you mean the technical demo? Because I don't see any demos on Steam, and btw they removed the links to the tech demo for being way out of date so that may also be your problem.

Edwhirl posted:

Playing Dungeon of the Endless, for the first time.

Sara and Gork don't like eachother very much. Kind of BS you can lose a character inbetween floors that way, but I suppose I can just avoid that in the future...