Noxico (Now at Alpha 0.1.14) NSFW

[getter77]

http://helmet.kafuka.org/noxico/   NSFW

Noxico is one of the first large-scale erotic roguelikes. It features an expansive overworld to explore, presented in glorious full color Unicode. It comes with a full soundtrack courtesy of ModArchive and is designed to be easily user-expansible.

Gameplay
As a hero sent to find a portal to the Demon World and close it, you wander the wilderness of Nox, visit its various towns, and explore its dungeons.

On the overworld, you can freely move from screen to screen to explore. In towns, you can mingle with the many colorful villagers, learn what they know, and if you feel like it, have sex with them. Between towns is the wilderness, where less amiable beings roam. You might also find a dungeon entrance, or some other special area...

Dungeons are generated upon first entry, and play more like classic Roguelikes would. Somewhere there's a special, probably unique item that you could make good use of.

Morphic unstability
Where the world generation and expansive overworld are inspired by Dwarf Fortress, one aspect in particular is specifically based on Corruption of Champions: you can change your character's body, both at will and involuntarily. Certain items, when used, will shift your physical appearance towards some goal, along with certain statistics. As the game's site says, "you want to be a little pony with a fox tail and demon wings? You damn well can."



What is it?

Noxico is a roguelike adventure game that takes a lot of inspiration from games like Corruption of Champions and Nimin Fetish Fantasy. Earlier prototypes were realtime, making it closer to something like Megazeux than a true roguelike. The original engine that later became this game was meant to simulate Megazeux, but quickly outgrew that role.

How is it made?

Noxico is made in Visual Studio 2010 Express, and is written in C#. It uses FMOD Ex for sounds, and pretty much no other external libraries at all. It has been tested and adjusted for running in the Mono framework, running on Arch Linux.

Features

    -Reasonable Unicode support — most of the Basic Multilingual Plane can be used.
    -No external libraries required to run beyond FMOD Ex, and if you disable sound in the ini file, not even that.
    -Use any font you'd like, at any point size.
    -Weapons do more damage because you're better at using them, not because of physical strength.
    -Play anything — you want to be a little pony with a fox tail and demon wings? You damn well can.

Story

TODO: Expand on this.

Hundreds of years ago, some dude tried to summon a succubus. He ended up opening a portal to the demon realm and caused a bit of an invasion to occur. There was a war or something and the portal was more or less closed. Not quite, but at least an entire invasion force couldn't pop out all of a sudden so things were... managable. For a good while, nobody knew how to properly close the portal, and now that it has been discovered, nobody can get close enough to actually do so.

The demons secretly uplifted some animal species in another region. The resulting humanoids slowly lost their demonic taint and integrated into human civilization over the centuries.

So yeah, an ero-Roguelike---can't say I offhand recall any other active ones, or even attempts unless somebody did a defunct *BAND variant.  Still, not unlike the attempts by others at Serial killer plothooks and all that moreso explicit content, it is a thing to note and shall be interesting to see how it develops in terms of gameplay and approach to the lot of it.

[guest509]

  You can choose 'little pony' as your race. Lol.

[getter77]

It has updated with roughly "too damn many changes to list out"----assume various engine improvements and some profile things as per the onsite tumblr.

[getter77]

0.1.14

What happened to 0.1.13?

I ate it.

New stuff in this release:

    -Redid the Look At description
    -Prefix mobs, as long planned
    -Worldsave compatibility checks
    -HP popup notification in the corner
    -Split head equipment slot into mask, glasses, hat, and neck
    -In-game time
    -Doors — a work in progress, but they’re there
    -Lots of other stuff
    -Various bugfixes and probably a bunch of new ones

What’s not in here is the new Villager Task Scheduler. I’m in the middle of that but thought it’d be nice to finally release an update, so I dummied that out real quick.

[jim]

Hahaha, I can't believe this. Too awesome.

EDIT: Very unsatisfying. I was unable to copulate with any of the creatures in town because they were all sleeping. I like that you can be a catgirl who has sex with a horse, but you can't have sex with someone who is asleep. Weird sense of propriety, dev.

[guest509]

  Lol Jim! You were disappointed at the lack of rape? HAHAH!

  Is there a wake up command? Or a 'but I have a headache' command?

[jim]

Not rape! They were all going to be super stoked that I was waking them up with a prodding erection. It's messed up that your mind would instantly assume rape when I was just talking about an innocent catgirl on horseboy sleep sex fantasy with maybe some light bondage in there toward the beginning. You've got some issues to work out!

[guest509]

  HA!

  You see a sleeping Nymph.

  You apply gag. The Nymph is awake.

  You offer sex. The Nymph cannot respond.

  You have sex with the Nymph.

[Kawa]

Hi, main and only coder here. I'd like to take this opportunity to explain a few things.

First of all, the townspeople weren't really sleeping. It was a bug in the scene system that made it always pick the first one that matched the ID, but not the filters. One of the first scenes in the list is marked as "only when the target has a 'sleeping' token", which would cause it to be skipped if they don't. But that part was broken in the initial 0.1.14 release. I've since released a few new builds, all 0.1.14, with a bunch of fixes, so now it throws away mismatched scenes as supposed, and lets you look at catgirls without crashing. Stuff like that. So you might want to redownload. Could be a fair wait until 0.1.15, after all.

In fact, the villagers couldn't actually be asleep because I had disabled the new villager task scheduler for release, and that's what would put them to sleep in the first place.

As for raping (or not) villagers in their sleep... that's certainly a possibility. One that doesn't require much code on my part. Y'see, the problem (and main reason for me being here right now) is that the game needs content. If you really want to be able to "wake villagers up with your prodding erection" or stuff like that, you'll have to write and submit it so I can put it in the game.

And since my main man ran away after promising sex toy scenes to be submitted weeks ago, I could really use one or two more writers.

Damn shame too, dude was a notorious overachiever... very productive. And broken promises of content assistance are what killed most of my other game projects so that kinda scares me...