LDKittenRL

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.83
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★1.83
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★24%
PLEASE READ README BEFORE PLAYING

About
=====
LDKittenRL

Your friend has ventured into a cave without you and is lost and alone! It is
up to you to save him! Battle through hordes of 90s boy band members, people
who work in predatory industries, and other horrors of the deep!

Don't read any of the source files if you care about spoilers. This includes
the ./game file that runs the game.

Requirements
============
You'll need Ruby 1.9.3 and a terminal that supports colors.

Playing
=======
Navigate to the directory in your terminal and run

` ruby ./game `

without quotes. If you're a seasoned Ruby user, you may have a different
command for running Ruby files. Also, Linux/OS X users may simply

` chmod +x ./game `
` ./game `

This will give the file permission to be run, and the second command runs the
file.

Controls
========
y - Northwest
u - Northeast
h - West
j - North
k - South
l - East
b - Southwest
n - Southeast
> - Down stairs
< - Up stairs
U - Use item, follow up with the key in your inventory
g - Pick up item
. - Wait a turn

Tips
====
When you level up your unarmed damage and health go up. Try to avoid insurance
salesmen at early levels. They're pretty mean.

Good luck!

screenshot

Comments15

Gaeel19 Dec 2011, 19:18
A competent roguelike, funny character names, and difficult as hell ^_^
rawbits
rawbits20 Dec 2011, 23:24
I'm not install anything to play a game...
zackhovatter
zackhovatterauthor22 Dec 2011, 18:18
@FredericRP
I can't really package Ruby. It's usually included on operating systems (that aren't Windows I guess). Thanks for attempting to check out the game though :P.

@rawbits
Cool story, bro. Have fun not playing any game ever since they all have dependencies of some sort (DirectX?!).
A-Type
A-Type24 Dec 2011, 08:42
No directions for incompetent windows folks? :/
jagttt
jagttt24 Dec 2011, 10:58
Found my kitten at last. I have to say you've made a quite well done roguelike engine in 48 hours. But really I think it need more enemies and items other than potion :)
Anyway a nice game.
summaky
summaky25 Dec 2011, 13:07
I don't have ruby, so I can't play it. It looks good, though.
zackhovatter
zackhovatterauthor26 Dec 2011, 15:51
@A-Type - I thought my instructions would work for WIndows, but I guess not. Sorry!

@jagttt Thanks! I was working on content in the last few hours, but I ran out of time before I could get anything really good done.
ratboy271329 Dec 2011, 17:43
That was a fun little rogue like, though I must complain about some of the corridors stretching for too long, without a reference point you can't even tell if you are moving. I just held down the button and ran into an insurance salesmen and died. Also, once you hit level 2 you are pretty safe, and once you hit level 3 nothing can really hurt you. There should have been one more "difficult" monster on the final level. Still, very funny and very fun. Good job
ratboy271329 Dec 2011, 17:43
That was a fun little rogue like, though I must complain about some of the coridors stretching for too long, without a reference point you can't even tell if you are moving. I just held down the button and ran into an insurance salesmen and died. Also, once you hit level 2 you are pretty safe, and once you hit level 3 nothing can really hurt you. There should have been one more "difficult" monster on the final level. Still, very funny and very fun. Good job
dock
dock1 Jan 2012, 19:00
I was excited to play this, but unfortunately I'm not able to get it running. I hope you're able to make a browser build or EXE. Good luck with LD!
xilefian
xilefian3 Jan 2012, 16:28
I like it, I didn't actually find it difficult which is good as I usually die within 2 hours on rogue-likes.

The simple game-play does good for it, installing was a pain and running it was too (I'm on Windows), once it was running all was good.
philhassey6 Jan 2012, 04:00
I don't have ruby. Sorry :(

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