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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Infra Arcana, a horror/Lovecraft roguelike (now at v16.0).

« on: April 23, 2014, 04:21:48 PM »

Woo, always glad to see this game get updated -congrats NON on another release.

However I'd like to express one small complaint: Any reason why you decided to go with only 3 presets for character creation? I rather enjoyed creating my own doomed character each time -anyhow it won't stop me from playing just my two cents!

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Classic Roguelikes / Re: Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead

« on: September 21, 2013, 05:07:05 PM »

A great roguelike all around.

I'm also not a fan of the tile set, I'm too used to the ASCII now.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Prospector has returned! (now at R132 0.3 Experimental)

« on: August 13, 2013, 08:42:34 PM »

Wow that's great news! It always bummed me out this one died.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Developer preview: Incavead (Diggr continuation; open-source, pure ASCII)

« on: June 18, 2013, 12:23:39 PM »

Awesome! I was wondering when you'd release your next game, just played it and I'm already very excited for the full version. Will definitely be watching this!

Also, could you explain how Karma and the (what I assume to be) god statues work?

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Other Announcements / Re: Kickstarter Megathread for Roguelikes and such

« on: May 14, 2013, 11:04:35 AM »

Darkwood

http://www.darkwoodgame.com/

Darkwood is a top-down, old school survival horror set in a procedurally generated, open world. It features RPG and roguelike elements, with intense combat and a eerie atmosphere. It's developed by 3 people, who like to call themselves Acid Wizard, and is currently in pre-alpha stage.

This one looks fairly interesting guys. A very different looking horror roguelike-like with permadeath and a random world. They're currently about 10% of the way funded, check it out!

FUNDED, with the first big stretch goal achieved!

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Off-topic (Locked) / Shadow of the Eternals Kickstarter

« on: May 08, 2013, 11:17:19 AM »

So, who played Eternal Darkness for the Gamecube?

A new company, Precursor Games, is attempting to create a spiritual successor in the same mood, Shadow of the Eternals, through crowd-funding. If you like Infra Arcana (or Lovecraft stuff in general) you should check this out.

Homepage: http://www.precursorgames.com/shadowoftheeternals/

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Classic Roguelikes / What roguelike do you consider to have the "best" graphics?

« on: April 30, 2013, 12:16:52 PM »

I've been thinking about this for a couple of days now.

It strikes me that most of us who play roguelikes really don't care about graphics at all, many of us even prefer ASCII, however I'm wondering what roguelikes people consider to have the best visuals, and by that I mean in the traditional "good" graphics sense AND/OR in the sense of what roguelikes have graphics that best fit their theme.

Personally, I think Infra Arcana has the best near-ASCII graphics I've seen in a roguelike, its simple, elegant and fits the dark theme of the game. What do you guys think?

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Infra Arcana v14.0

« on: April 26, 2013, 04:14:47 PM »

So that would be:
'w' - handle equipment (currently 'v')
'i' - browse backpack (same as the current command)
'e' - use items (same as current command)

?

Actually 'w' instead of 'v' does sound more intuitive!

Exactly! However, like Legend said its really not a big deal. Learning new key bindings is second nature to most of us now.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Infra Arcana v14.0

« on: April 26, 2013, 12:03:46 PM »

How would you have it instead? Who knows, maybe I'll find your way better.

A more classic style:

'w' equipping and unequipping armor, gear and weapons.
'i' for inventory management

That sort of thing.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Infra Arcana v14.0

« on: April 25, 2013, 08:50:30 PM »

I'm curious, what do you want to change the keys to?

Nothing big, I find pressing 'v' for the equipment and such to be awkward.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Infra Arcana v14.0

« on: April 24, 2013, 11:57:45 PM »

Wooo!  So glad to see this game get updated! Gotta say I'm outta practice, I keep getting ripped apart in the first four levels...

EDIT: This just occurred to me, NON is there anyway we could have configurable key bindings at some point in the future?

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Early Dev / Re: RogueLegends

« on: April 04, 2013, 04:39:49 PM »

For some reason the idea of fighting hell bears sends chills down my spine. Also, ditto to what Vanguard said.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (now exists)

« on: January 08, 2013, 11:55:28 AM »

Oh, that's awesome, I wondered what happened to Cataclysm. Did Whales start working on a new game or did he just get sick of Cataclysm?

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Other Announcements / Re: Roguelike of the Year - getting the list sorted

« on: December 19, 2012, 12:08:51 AM »

Hmm, gonna have to go for Infra Arcana again, and Diggr.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn-based) / Re: Frozen Depths: cool! :-)

« on: October 04, 2012, 10:48:15 PM »

Oh damn! He updated the site again, I'm looking forward to a new release.