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[Frumple]

Before anything else: Link.

So, what it is!

Dungeon Bash Tactics is a free single-player turn-based mouse-controlled, random dungeon, loot & leveling game with a minimalist plot. It's somewhere between a Rogue-like and a Japanese tactical RPG.

And, ah. There's... not much else to say? It's a neat little game, easily playable in coffee break time chunks. You run around in randomly generated dungeons murdering the inhabitants and looting everything, occasionally doing little quests of the find-foo-kill variety. Very straightforward, but still with enough moving parts to be interesting and tough enough enemies to pose a degree of challenge. There's even an auto-fight function to speed things along (though it's rather stupid, heh.).

It scratches the top-down 2d party & turn-based dungeon crawl itch a little, and so I figured folks might be interested!

[Graven]

Frumple, man, how do you keep finding these games? Seems like you play every major and minor roguelike out there 

Downloaded it, I don't have the time to play it properly, but I love TBSes and squad games, so I'll give it a proper try tomorrow. Everything seems to take way too many clicks, though.

[freeformschooler]

I also think it's cool but needs more keyboard shortcuts. Or I'm not seeing them. It would, at least, be nice to have one for "no action."

[Frumple]

Frumple, man, how do you keep finding these games? Seems like you play every major and minor roguelike out there 

I've got the magic touch. *hip thrust* Un. *hip thrust* Ah!

... seriously though, it's mostly just been a matter of RSSing roguebasin's news section (much less of a pain in the ass before spammers starting hitting the site ), swinging by roguetemple's forum occasionally, and a bit of checking out roguelike developer's posts and whatnot from time to time. I think I found DBT while reading something or other about either Dungeon Monkey Unlimited or... another party-based roguelike that was cross released on the Mac not too long ago, the name of which I'm forgetting (it was also pretty awesome!). Then I'll at least try, well... most of what I run in to. I haven't played every major and minor roguelike out there... just a large majority of them, at least a little. S'a lot of really neat stuff out there.

Downloaded it, I don't have the time to play it properly, but I love TBSes and squad games, so I'll give it a proper try tomorrow. Everything seems to take way too many clicks, though.

Yeah... it's pretty clicky, honestly. You can hold down the mouse on the little arrow thing in auto mode to make that go faster, at least, which is something. It hasn't been too bad once y'get used to it, for me, though. Double-clicks seem to speed up a lot of things a little.

@FFS, yeah, there's not much in the way of shortcuts at all. I think you might be able to enter through a few things, but that's about it, iirc. Definitely a bit of a weakness, t'be honest. Do think there's some particular way or place you can click to default to no action, though. Just... forgetting what it is, bleh.

[freeformschooler]

Okay, so yeah, double clicking your character after moving defaults them to no action. Double clicking a reachable enemy attacks 'em.

I kinda like how you can choose what to train and upgrade. It's worth it to get their basic attacks (absorb, acid dart, etc.) to a high level before having your mages take on monsters without full backup.

[Seriyu]

Link doesn't seem to be working anymore.

[Frumple]

Still working for me. I could probably throw up a mediafire or something mirror for the game's .zip, if you're interested, though.

E: Though... maybe after I take a nap, since I'm apparently sleepy enough to be incapable of spelling throw correctly

[Seriyu]

Yeah, still getting a "webpage is not available" error in chrome, not sure what's up then. I'd certainly take a mediafire!

[Frumple]

Odd. But yeah, try this link, which is the direct link from the site. If that doesn't work, give here (upl.co link) or here (depositfiles, since mediafire has apparently turned into ass since the last time I used it.) a try. Anyone uninterested in those sources and with a better upload service to use is welcome to make suggestions, heh.

[Xantalos]

Huh. Not bad.

[Seriyu]

Odd. But yeah, try this link, which is the direct link from the site. If that doesn't work, give here (upl.co link) or here (depositfiles, since mediafire has apparently turned into ass since the last time I used it.) a try. Anyone uninterested in those sources and with a better upload service to use is welcome to make suggestions, heh.

Thank yah! Those links worked. Chrome also complained about it being dangerous for some reason, which may have been why the website wasn't loading up right. Giving it a shot!

EDIT: This is pretty great.