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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Brut@l ASCII roguelike for PS4

« on: December 06, 2015, 04:48:56 AM »

In Brut@l you will choose your hero: Ranger, Mage, Warrior or Amazon then descend into a procedurally generated world constructed entirely from ASCII. Your goal? Reach the 26th floor, vanquish the fearsome Guardian of the Dungeon and claim his crown.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Roguelike Mega Collection Torrent Has 700+ Free Games

« on: July 27, 2015, 11:23:41 PM »

Free games are great and roguelikes are the best of all games, so a torrent containing more than 700 of the blighters is a lovely thing to discover on a Thursday morning. The collection is the work of ‘foamed’, a Reddit moderator and roguelike curator, and it’s more than a big pile o’ fun. As well as containing some of the greatest games ever made, this is an important archive – there are variants and minor games included that are no longer available elsewhere, and as long as there are seeders, any future disappearances will be protected until our computers turn to dust.

Read more:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/07/23/torrent-free-roguelike-mega-collection/

See also:
http://forums.roguetemple.com/index.php?topic=3523.0

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Classic Roguelikes / Nice NetHack article

« on: December 12, 2014, 04:10:43 PM »

http://www.linuxvoice.com/nethack/

The best game of all time?

It’s tremendously addictive. It takes a lifetime to master. And people play it for decades without completing it. Welcome to the strange world of NetHack…

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Announcing Rogue Class Linux version 10

« on: November 28, 2014, 08:49:25 PM »

Announcing Rogue Class Linux version 10.

Rogue Class is a toy Linux distribution for playing games and reading books.  Rogue Class Linux supports joystick controls in most of the programs.  RCL favors turn-based games, such as puzzles and rogue-like games.

Version 10 adds big, easy-to-read fonts, faster boot-up, full-screen zoom in NetHack and other DOSBox games, a pre-installed image to import into VirtualBox, plus new games including ADOM, Hydra Slayer, Knights, Noteye Rogue, Sword of Fargoal, Veins of the Earth, and Wizznic.

http://rogueclass.org/

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Rogue Class Linux 9

« on: September 03, 2014, 02:49:14 AM »

Thanks for the feedback. 

There are many good rogue-like games nowadays; it's like being a kid in a candy store.

-Ben

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Rogue Class Linux 9

« on: August 31, 2014, 04:44:42 PM »

Announcing Rogue Class Linux version 9.

Rogue Class is a toy Linux distribution for playing games and reading books.  Rogue Class Linux supports joystick controls in most of the programs.  RCL favors turn-based games, such as puzzles and rogue-like games.

Version 9 adds a VNC viewer plus new games including Escape, Infra Arcana, Letter Hunt, PRIME, Sil, and Vicious Orcs.

http://rogueclass.org/

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Rogue Class Linux 8

« on: June 06, 2014, 11:39:42 AM »

Announcing Rogue Class Linux version 8.

Rogue Class is a toy Linux distribution for playing games and reading books.  Rogue Class Linux supports joystick controls in most of the programs.  RCL favors turn-based games, such as puzzles and rogue-like games.

Version 8 has been trimmed down for computers with 128 megabytes of memory.  New games include Dungeon Minder, Monkeyjump GNU Go, Moria, Pysol (over 1,000 solitaire card and mahjong games), Reword, and Unnethack.

http://rogueclass.org/

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Rogue Class Linux 7

« on: March 17, 2014, 12:06:15 AM »

Rogue Class is a toy Linux distribution for playing games and reading books.  Rogue Class Linux supports joystick controls in most of the programs.  RCL favors turn-based games, such as puzzles and rogue-like games.

Version 7 features support for 33 USB joysticks, hotplug joystick setup, a new favorites menu, the Bard eBook reader, a viewer for CBZ comic books, text to speech in all eBook viewers, and the ability to uninstall games.  New games include The Last Rogue, Mines of Elderlore, Omega, Robot Odyssey, The Slimy Lich Mummy, Ularn, and Wanderer.

http://rogueclass.org/

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Off-topic (Locked) / Re: 2048

« on: March 14, 2014, 04:34:28 AM »

Thanks for the link, that is a fascinating game.

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Off-topic (Locked) / Re: never say roguelike

« on: March 08, 2014, 10:34:44 PM »

Perhaps proper pronouns?

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Off-topic (Locked) / never say roguelike

« on: March 08, 2014, 04:27:54 PM »

Clubby – inaccessible, requires lots of explanation. Makes you feel like a cool insider when you use jargon, but hopefully by now, as developers, we can all agree that not making potential future players feel stupid is better for business in the long-run.
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In the indie game space, design and marketing are often so tightly linked that we may forget the power we have over our product's message.  We aren't used to the idea that we're shaping the player's narrative about our game – that the terms we use on our websites, in our Kickstarters, or elsewhere in our marketing might skew the attitudes of our fans, and our industry.

-- from http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TanyaXShort/20131119/204988/Never_Say_Roguelike.php

If the term "roguelike" makes someone feel stupid, imagine the experience of actually playing a game with instant death around every corner.  The best things in life are free, and so are the best roguelike games.  The roguelike player comes for the dungeon crawling, not for the marketing.  He or she is not a mindless automaton to be led to the altar of commerce.  The new marketing term "procedural death labyrinth" fits more nicely in the same sentence with business, industry, kickstarter, and twitter.

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Other Announcements / Re: Do you listen to music when playing Roguelikes?

« on: February 02, 2014, 07:00:02 PM »

There's a lot of Vangelis on Ultima Thule, and IMHO it goes well with roguelikes.  http://ultimathule.info/

-Ben

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Other Announcements / Re: Felicia Day endorses Tome 4

« on: January 25, 2014, 03:11:52 PM »

Vangard, this thread started as a positive message.  I hesitate to respond, but for the record, Felicia Day's post is more substantial than you make it out to be.  She discusses specific aspects of Tome 4's game mechanics that make it fun.  You dismissed all that and focused instead on her gender and sign-off message about grinding.  We all have different tastes, and you needn't be bothered by what others say and think.  You have the liberty to be more fun and friendly, and I invite you to try it.

-Ben

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Other Announcements / Re: Felicia Day endorses Tome 4

« on: January 24, 2014, 01:58:42 PM »

Felicia Day is the creator of The Guild, a funny TV show about gamers.  Her talents go way beyond having a specific chromosomal arrangement.

-Ben

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Other Announcements / Felicia Day endorses Tome 4

« on: January 24, 2014, 01:26:01 PM »

"Randomly got Tales of Maj'Eyal from Steam and really enjoying it!"
https://plus.google.com/+FeliciaDay/posts/PWuGAWUqFof

+1 for the RNG,

-Ben