In many communities a survey of people active five years ago will turn up maybe one or two that are still around.
Yet when I read the old roguelike usenet postings I recognize the majority of the poster’s names.What factors have kept you from leaving?
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Releases wire XXX!
One month and a half since the last release wire, this XXX post is hot with lots of newcomers!
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.5.1
Stone Soup 0.5.1 has been released, fixing an abundance of bugs.
Runners
Since the start of development, GH2 has used mostly the same game system as GH1, but that changed in v0.600. The character rules have been streamlined. The number of skills has been chopped from 43 to 25. Conversation is no longer a mandatory skill, and the rumor system has been reworked. It should be easier to create distinct characters with a strong concept, rather than having every character end up the same.
Privateer: ASCII Sector 0.5.4.4
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1210566&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
Privateer: Ascii Sector game trailer from Christian Knudsen on Vimeo.
With our publisher Manifesto Games going down, we are making Kamyran’s Eye 2 freeware.
It features a dynamic world that is never quite the same, armies that fight each other and burn down cities in a branching storyline with multiple endings.
We’re pretty proud of how the game has been shaping up lately, so we’d like to get the word out as much as we can! If you write for a blog or news site, it would be great of you to mention us
Another addition is that you can now let your summons and allies handleyour spare weapons and items allowing for many new strategies and a relative harmless way of testing if an unidentified item is hazardous.
It is done, I have finally released the next update of LambdaRogue, we are now at 1.5.
Anything from later than the First Age has been removed. No more Rings of Power, Grishnakh, Anduril, Saruman, Witch-King, etc. There are some new uniques, artifacts and ego-items (and some just renamed). There are also new item sets, and some reworked artifacts.
# 5 new unique planets (actually 10, but 5 are pretty similiar to each other)
# “Water” in planet display now counts all liquids &frozen water (And i was wondering why it wasnt snowing ever…)
Goodbye Rusted Silk Pantaloons
Newcomers
GORE is GNU Online Roguelike Environment (or “Gore’s not Only Rogue-like Entertainment”). It is written on Vala programming language.
The year is 3069. Earth has since been destroyed by a catastrophic geothermal experiment. Fortunately, you and many others were safely relocated onto planet Esperanza before the blast.
There is a desperate need for some better artwork for the Rocket Launcher (RT) and Flame Thrower (FT), both images and sounds.
The Dawn of The Dead The Roguelike
Dada su condición de Roguelike, cada partida que juguéis se generara aleatoriamente, por lo que es prácticamente imposible que una partida sea igual que otra.
Dungeon Adventure – the 133rd K.R.A.G. R4
The basic premise of the scenario is the story of a lowly Khazad guard, who fails catastrophicly in his duties. Instead of being exiled from the Clan, however, Lord Kandros Fir gives him a chance to redeem himself by drafting him into the service of the 133rd K.R.A.G. (Khazad Resource Acquisition Group).
The story takes place in the early days of the Khazad exodus (exile?) to the the Surface. At this time, the Khazad still have some holdings in the Underhome, and just starting to explore and colonize the Surface World.
A friend of me who loves roguelikes said it’s addicting and I got quite a bit addicted to it as well. Wish I could fight with someone over the best high score.
Non-linear main plot is not based on the ancient evil wake or main hero’s amnesia.
Enjoy the game.
3D RPG DarkHall
Index of /
Dialog engine – Fallout style dialogs that may affect the game
Dev
The editor now supports map viewing. Several additions were made to the engine: a console, support for more than 1 data file, item status is recorded in savegames, new items
A “2009 7DRL Challenge” draws near!
It is that time of the year again!
The sixth international 7DRL roguelike challenge is to take place next week (Starting from saturday, march 7 2009, ending thru sunday, march 15 2009).
Everybody, from in and outside the roguedev world, is invited to actively devote (him/her)self into releasing a complete and playable game.
Don’t miss the date, this year we will rock the house!
And don’t forget…. We are working, obviously, on the honour system!
Releases Wire XXVI
Notables
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.4.5.
It can be played online; see crawl.akrasiac.org and crawl.develz.org. The latter server also allows you to peek into the gameplay changes in trunk (the cool, new stuff).
When a fixer or wingman has left his chair due to a fight breaking out, he will now stay inside the bar and will in time sit down again when the fight is over.
General Guderian now offers the Iron gate mission until you *really* reject it.
The main new feature is cyberspace as an area that can be explored. When you jack into a terminal, instead of getting a menu of options, you instead can enter cyberspace
Newborn
It is pitch black. You are likely to eat someone…
This release adds multiple dungeon levels and items.
You play as an amoeba that decided to grow eating others
Amulet of Yendor / Rodney…
Wizardry / Trebor + Werdna…
Rawdin.. Darwin.. only the strong survive…
blah. cheesy I know.
I have tried to make the game experience varied by designing monsters to be qualitatively different from each other; nearly every one has a special ability or behaviour
After a long travel your group of settlers finished a basic settlement. The land seems to be very hostile. The next group of colonists will arrive after a month, therefore you have to last 30 days. Keep at the end as much money as possible.
Development
CL-TCOD
CL-TCOD has bindings for maybe 75% of tcod functions. All the console stuff, fonts, mouse, colours, images are in (I think).
This version adds some features which make it easier to make and edit drawings.
Bonus
Triangle Wizard 4.01
Sacred Wrath, Cold Breath, Fire Breath and Acid Stream can now hit flying creatures starting from a certain spell level.
Releases Wire XXII
Yay! It is been a month and it is time for a new exciting releases wire. I have been impatiently waiting for this date to come so I could post!
There’s no menu for loading games, just type in the name of the character to load.
Your risk of being scanned at a nav point is now based on: your confed and militia standing, how often you’ve been caught smuggling in the past, how controlled the nav point is by confeds and militia, and whether or not you’ve just attacked or destroyed any pirates, retros or Kilrathi at that nav point.
High performance engines are designed to provide maximum instantaneous power to the mecha’s body. This improved performance comes at the cost of safety, as engines of this type are prone to going nova if handled roughly. In addition, since most of the energy produced is being directly channeled into the limbs, a mecha with a high performance engine cannot use beam weapons as effectively as others.
I know that libtcod offers most of these features, but I think it’s very complicated, and it relies on several other libraries. RLLib doesn’t need any other libraries, and is less bloated.
I just released LambdaRogue 1.2.
Imbue your ranged attacks with a magical seed, which bursts upon impact. Grasping vines hold the target in place while you continue to destroy it from afar, or deal with closer attackers.
Added Goshi Retsu Dan technique. Explodes opponent hands.
If you aren’t familiar with recent versions of Zangband, they feature a fractal random wilderness with multiple towns and dungeons. Z+Angband further enriches the world by adding farms and inns, independent fragments of civilization outside of towns.
Rejoice everybody
News from the realm of Zot
- Akrasiac server (which you can use to play crawl online) has moved to a colocation facility which will enhance connectivity and stability for crawlers. Find it at crawl.akrasiac.org
- Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.2.7. bugfix release by Darshan Saligram