BASMENT DWELLERS on Greenlight

[HappyPonyLand]

Hi!

I've posted a couple of times about my game BASMENT DWELLERS. It's an epic, proc-gen, next-gen CRPG about killing monsters and taking their treasure. Not quite a roguelike but they have many things in common (turn-based, random map, permadeath, character progression, etc).

The game can be downloaded from http://www.happyponyland.net/basment.php or you can telnet basment.happyponyland.net 4000 to play online with shared scoreboard.

I've recently put this up on Steam Greenlight, mostly for laughs. If you have a Steam account, you can vote for it here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=696615043

[Lord_Mork]

I enjoyed it; fun & visually appealing. It's close enough to a traditional roguelike, but a bit on the simpler side and the side-scrolling bit reminded me of WazHack.

I'd like to mention that I tried the Telnet version with the Windows Telnet client, and it didn't work. The text display became unreadable after selecting a few menu options. Most likely something with the client itself, but still worth noting.

[HappyPonyLand]

Ah, thanks! It doesn't really aspire to have much "tactical" depth, it's more about seeing what kind of weird stuff you'll run into. I've never actually played WazHack and I didn't know about it when I came up with the concept, but I've been told it's very similar.

The telnet issues are hard to resolve (even getting keystrokes portable across multiple platforms can be a problem). You might have better luck using a more sophisticated client such as PuTTY (it can run in telnet mode in addition to SSH).

[Krice]

next-gen CRPG

Is this a part of the joke? If it is, I don't get it. Also, I don't understand why people post about their shitty non-roguelike games here. Stop fucking doing it.

[HappyPonyLand]

next-gen CRPG

Is this a part of the joke? If it is, I don't get it. Also, I don't understand why people post about their shitty non-roguelike games here. Stop fucking doing it.

sry man, didn't want to hurt your feelings

I understand it must be super stressful seeing other projects actually being successful.

[Krice]

I understand it must be super stressful seeing other projects actually being successful.

I don't care how successful they are. Minecraft is successful. Is it a good game? No. It's not. Is it a roguelike? No. And neither is your game.

[HappyPonyLand]

[Krice]

Oh you are Finnish like me, so there is no chance for you to handle this properly.

[mushroom patch]

Friends, let me tell you, this game is:

1. Good

2. Cool