Warlock Of Firetop Mountain roguelike

[Samildanach]

Release Candidate 04 is out.

Removed a crash bug on ranged combat

Offical version 1.0 is a pipe dream I am sure

You'll get there!

Thanks for that, quite a funny read!

My personal favourite from Turn to 400 is Forest of Doom. I guffawed. Yes, an actual guffaw.

[Samildanach]

So close! Arrrgh! I had 3 HP and no means of healing when I met the minotaur but I survived...only to be felled by a dwarf a few minutes later!



I should play more of the other version as well. Warlock's Mountain or something, I think?

[Samildanach]

I did manage to fell a certain Warlock today, and retrieve a certain item from him (really nice touch, the effect that item has in future) but I was completely flattened on my way out because I was missing something vital I needed. Damn it, DiMaggio!

Still, very enjoyable game!

[corremn]

I did manage to fell a certain Warlock today, and retrieve a certain item from him (really nice touch, the effect that item has in future) but I was completely flattened on my way out because I was missing something vital I needed. Damn it, DiMaggio!

Still, very enjoyable game!

Oh how close!  Honestly I totally forgot I added that reward!  I guess I probably intended for that effect to happen only if you won the game as it is super powerful. But well done anyway.
Too bad you could not get back to the surface. Not sure if you realised you could use the 'green plus' which should almost make you invincible

Thanks for playing.

P.s I  probably would not bother with Warlocks Mountain for long, it has most of the improvements that I have now added into this game. However it does have classes, graphics, special rooms and improved special levels, but it is a very incomplete and probably unwinnable.

[Samildanach]

Too bad you could not get back to the surface. Not sure if you realised you could use the 'green plus' which should almost make you invincible

I probably could have got back to the surface as I was in pretty good shape, but there was no getting away from the dragon without DiMaggio's book. Still trying!

[corremn]

Too bad you could not get back to the surface. Not sure if you realised you could use the 'green plus' which should almost make you invincible

I probably could have got back to the surface as I was in pretty good shape, but there was no getting away from the dragon without DiMaggio's book. Still trying!

The pack of cards gives you access to Zagor's spells. I.e slow monsters and teleport-self spells.

[AgingMinotaur]

Just a note: I tried this in Wine, with a Norwegian keyboard, and experienced that the keys were acting funky. I'm guessing they were somehow emulating an Anglophone keyboard. Eg. I had to press the "_" key to get help, and I couldn't get any key to act as ">" or "<", so I was stuck on the surface level. On a related note, I'm always happy when games with diagonal movement allow either the regular numerals, vi keys, or something,  anything, in addition to numpad (which I don't have on my laptop).

As always,
Minotauros

[corremn]

Hey Mr Minotaur, I am guessing this is because I am using "windows.h" for all keyboard input as opposed to a decent input library. I think maybe for the moment I will add alternative key-codes for basic commands.
I really did not want to rewrite this game, it was just an update to the original code for fun. Incidentally these issues were what "Warlocks Mountain" was supposed to address.
I will look at how hard it will be to give an alternative input option (or optionally turn off  diagonal movement, i don't think it is necessary to complete the game)

Cheers

[TheCreator]

Hey Mr Minotaur, I am guessing this is because I am using "windows.h" for all keyboard input as opposed to a decent input library.

I'm guessing that you just haven't added support for alternative keyboard layouts. It is not a trivial stuff, so no one is going to be angry at you, just don't blame Microsoft for everything .

[corremn]

Yep turn out I just screwed up the code. I wrote specific code for decend, ascend and help but for got to do anything with it I will update soonish.  In the meantime shift-comma and shift- fullstop *might* work for up and down.

[AgingMinotaur]

Thanks. Shift-comma and shift-fullstop works

As always,
Minotauros

[Virtua Sinner]

I have a huge Fighting Fantasy collection including, of course, Warlock of Firetop Mountain, so couldn't resist downloading when I saw this.  Your rendition of WOFTM is one of the few traditional ascii roguelikes I've played - I'm usually intimidated by the daunting command sets and confusing gameplay.  But this was fairly easy to figure out quickly, and I very much enjoyed it.  Thanks for the fun game!  I look forward to playing further

[corremn]

Cheers Mr Sinner.  Although rather flawed in a lot of ways the original book was highly influential on me. Obviously!

It was an easy adaption to the roguelike genre and it was my first ever game, so like the original source is somewhat flawed. That been said any feedback, especially from a fellow reader, is always welcome.

Hopefully one day I will finally release the final version.

I am a fan of very traditional roguelikes. I struggle to play most of the 7drl released for that reason.

[Virtua Sinner]

Uh oh.  So, I've made it to dungeon level 10.  I've killed Zagor.  I've killed the dragon.  There's a chest labeled (29) (2) (5).  I have all three of those keys.  But when I try to use the chest it tells me I don't have any of the correct keys.  Am I missing something?  Unfortunately, I have to go to work, and there doesn't seem to be a save feature!

[Virtua Sinner]

Hmmm... went back and picked up all the keys I'd dropped - I've cleared every level and every special level, collecting every key the game has to offer - still says I don't have the correct one.  I'll leave the game running and a note asking my wife not to turn it off while I'm at work on the off chance that someone can supply an overlooked solution by the time I'm home.