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Ernesto - A Quick RPG
A free to play desktop roguelite, and is actually quite addictive. Give it a try!
My high score is 67!

Description? Ok... It is pretty much a puzzle game where you need to plot our your path through a dungeon. Start at an tunnel, leae through another tunnel, and along the way collect as much EXP and gold as possible. Monsters grant EXP but also kill you, traps kill you, health packs heal you. That kind of thing. It is pretty easy to get to the last level, but the challenge is getting to the end at a high enough level to kill the boss. Also you can kind of turn back time, but you can't actually backtrack, meaning you need to be strategic about where you go.

Game of thrones thread?
Game of thrones thread.

A Game of Thrones is a tv series based off the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. The book series is expected to be finished by the year 2068, long after Martins death. The series is 100% historically accurate and should be taken on face value.

While we all wait for the Winds of Winter to continue to kill off everybody we have come to love, might as well enjoy the various fan media and groan at the choice of actors for the next season.

Ground rules:
You can talk openly about the show without spoilers.
Because not enough people have read the books, anything ahead in the series from the most recent episode needs spoilers.
Keep it classy.

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This game is pretty cool, you shoot guys and aren't afraid of anything.
I'm getting a little bit addicted at this point, but it seriously is good fun, in that 'Was inspired by roguelikes' kind of way.

So I over the last few days I have started construction on a game I have long been thinking about; FeyScape.

Basically a multiplayer side scrolling Roguelike with a procedural generated world and levels. It is going to be made in C# with XNA. While programming is still in its early stages, and I'm mostly building a skeleton to test concepts, ideas and algorithms with, the game development side has been well thought out, I hope.

I'm going to be taking a lot of inspiration from Zelda 2: The adventures of Link for this one, along with other games like Super Metroid, Terraria, Elona and the Final Fantasy series. Hopefully it should be good.

Currently there is nothing procedurally generated, but I have hard coded a world and levels for testing, so I can give screen shots of those.


Those images are the default window size, but the window is resizable and you can go full screen. The problem is that it stretches the image, so I would like to use a default resolution that will look nice on the majority of monitors in full screen.
Anyway, while Zelda 2 has instances that were pretty much the same for each area, I'm planning to have mine be genned to be a little more interesting and maybe have some secrets lying around for you to find. Also they will persist, so if you build a cabin in the woods, you can come back to it later and it will still be there.

Also going to need to build a better lighting engine, later on at least. I have a very simple one right now that just handles a lighting level for the entire instance. Here is the forest and plains next to each other for compassion.


Right now I'm using partly borrowed sprites, but I will have my own before I release a demo. Everything from the overworld and the Link sprite are all stolen.

Still, back to coding! I want to have an enemy jumping around soon.

Nyfe, A.K.A 'Now your fun ends!', 'Not yet functioning entirely' and 'New York Flower Embassy' is a game I am making while the other games I am making become too much of a chore. It is going to be some what inspired by the greatest game on the NES, Zelda II, although I will be adding all sorts of fun stuff. Vaguely planned functions include:

• Procedurally generated overworld, with towns, forests, rivers, lakes, caves and castles to raid.
• Procedurally generated instances with hopefully interesting monsters and fun combat. Because fun is totally a word you include as a feature.
• A basic stat growth system.
• Maybe multi player, if I feel like it, I'm certainly setting it up to support this later.
• Better art than just a green rectangle. I'm working on it, ok?

So I will use this thread as a bit of a development blog, as hopefully that will inspire a bit more work than some of my other half baked projects.
Questions? Opinions? Personal death threats?

So fun fact, England the United Kingdom looks like a girl. However, the exact pose of this girl is still up for interpretation, as such I call on ye artists, from the mightiest sketcher to the lowliest MSPaint editor, let's draw UK Girl so that we may find the one true pose.

In honer of Englands proud history of awesome archers and geeks.

Bonus points if it looks good, but not mandatory to fill your win condition.


EDIT:
Also, during the coarse of the thread, this happened.

Player Sheet

• Dariush
• NUKE9.13
• Toaster
• Orangebottle
• Urist_McArathos
• Jack A T
• NativeForeigner
• Akigagak
• Xanatos Jr.

Deceased

• Zrk2 - Talos Gravesong, the older brother
• Vector - Joel Berez, the hex weaver

Current Winners

• Simple - Atlus Gravesong, the younger brother

Mods

• Max White
• My inability to sleep