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I dislike C#, so I don't commentAnyway, I think that the "Early Dev" forum would be more appropriate.
Doesn't anybody do anything on here?
Mostly we just argue about the definition of the word "roguelike." Anyway, if you want to make a close range combat-focused game, the best roguelikes to study are Sil and PrincessRL. Both are excellent games that improve traditional roguelike combat in a number of ways.
+1 organ donation as a resource mechanic. :-)
Shadowrun had a system of 'essence'. Each cyber implant lowered your essence, and your essence score was equal to your sanity or whatever. So lots of wetware made you crazy.
QuoteOne of my main ideas is that every time you're injured, like if somebody shoots your arm and it has to be amputated, you'll be able to pay to get your arm replaced with a better (or worse depending on your money) robotic arm
Would be cool also if you can trade in one of your arms for extra $$$? As in "i would give my left arm for that plasma rifle". then the game informs you you can't fire it because it's a two handed weapon.
If you just want us to play it, ASCII is fine. If you want others to play it then tiles are the way to go.
I like ASCII personally because it can be so versatile and quick.
It really all depends on what your goal is. I've done a mock up of a Scifi starbase space marine type RL, with single color atari/intellivision style graphics. It turned out very cool. So art and theme can feed off of each other. Like Dredmore, good graphics and goofy elements go hand in hand.
Cyber punk and neon can go hand in hand as well. Or maybe a high rez ascii with a dark inner color and light outline of the same color to make it bright. I dunno, just spitballing here.
Tiles are probably the best for mainstream appeal.
If there is to be matrix stuff, you might as well draw as much inspiration as you can from the old Genesis Shadowrun game---though it isn't like the one in Returns is bad so much as perhaps not ideal for the amount of folks you'd have toiling at it.
There's to be a new edition to the Cyberpunk core books and whatnot if my memory serves, to coincide with the forthcoming CD Projeckt RED 2077 cRPG.
)This. As I see it it, "big levels, see everything at once" is mostly a legacy thing. Naturally you can fit lots of ASCII characters onto a screen, but that doesn't necessary mean that you have to, or that it's even beneficial for the game play. Chose Tiles if you're able to make nice graphics that fits with the theme, otherwise don't. I like tiles, but I prefer ASCII over bad tiles.The ASCII/tiles thing depends on the engine and the level size (it's hard to make big levels with tiles while keeping them readable)
Why would that be a problem? I can make the tiles as large or as small as I want. As you walk around the screen will scroll.
Not really unless you greatly stretch Triangle Wizard I guess---just seems like a good direction to go abstract for an...abstraction of reality as it is. Shapes, lighting/glow, zooming in/out, lots of contrast---lots that could probably evoke the feel you are going for without going full on into the traditional graphical armsrace nor the handicapping that strictly traditional ASCII may well present.
I can't decide, so I vote a highly stylized Vector Glyph approach instead to scratch some of each itch all at once.
The ASCII/tiles thing depends on the engine and the level size (it's hard to make big levels with tiles while keeping them readable)
