Go down a dungeon filled with deadly monsters. Call your blacksmith to come down and craft a weapon out of the stuff you find on your way.
Press h ingame for help.
NumPad more or less required.
Q: I always get insta-killed by a J at depth 2 even though I have full HP. Why is your game so broken? A: You just forgot to craft a weapon. Fighting anything else than a N without one is not advised.
Q: How does this fit the theme? A: You craft unconventional weapons out of stuff you find in a dungeon. (I think this is quite obvious but 2 people already asked this)
Love it. it's hard, but addictive. I should mention it took me some time to figure out you can move diagonally using the 7,9,1,3 keys. Otherwise good job :)
Not going to lie, this is REALLY hard. I can never find enough materials to craft a weapon before dying (I guess bare hands are really unconventional). This game is very clever however and despite my lack of skills I really did enjoy this as more of a challenge. Great work!
YM: The stairs are reachable. You need to wrap 3 rows below your character. But its strange that the crafting menu is shown on the map and that there is no 'Done' below your weapon parts...
This is quite hard, having to rely on luck to find medikits is a bit sad. Ascii games remind me when I was programming my casio in high school, yours is challenging and intresting. Good entry.
Took a while to work out how to play but once I did it got quite fun. Then it got super hard. I feel that your QnA about J enemies in unnecessary, I would just make them a little less tough to kill. It takes a while to get your head round the crafting and to even ensure that you get the money and parts so it would have been better if that barrier to entry was not so high. I must say the crafting was brilliant though! I love my SUPER SPIKE SWORD.
Good game in its genre. A bit hard to handle at first but once you get used to it it's really easy to play. The crafting mechanics are fun. I didn't get to the end though, only to the 6th level. :/
An enjoyable streamlined roguelike, now with crafting! I wouldn't call the weapons very unconventional though, weird maybe?
The heavy reliance of RNG is the source of undoing here. 15hp left, spawned in the middle of monsters, closest health item not even in sight! Though luck, try again? Not after the Nth time I won't.
Interesting use of ASCII, nice to see that kind of variety! This was a real challenge - I got swarmed by enemies before I could afford to make a weapon the first time. But a neat entry! :)
I love text games, and I love crafting stuff with randomly generated items. This game was awesome, me and "Mr. Nuclear Sludge" beat the shit out of some foxes. Though I think you could make the controls better (allow more keypresses and the such).
I was not obvious that I can go beyond one side of the screen and appear on opposite side. I thought it was level border. And I didn't understand how to craft best weapon. But in any way this game reminds me about good old times. Thank you for nostalgia feelings.
I found the controls a little unintuitive, but then text-based roguelikes have never been known for friendly controls. Even just letting me hit "enter" to confirm a menu selection would be a great improvement. Other than the controls, it's a great idea and a fun little game. Good work!
I'm not going to lie, I didn't understand the controls very well, actually, the 'h' didn't help either. I'm sorry to ask it, but, could you explain a little bit better the controls to me? (That's the first time I see a game in that style)
Lukbebalduke: Well the numpad key are arranged in a square and you press a key to move in the correspending direction. For example 7 is in the top-left corner so you press it to move to the top-left. The other keys mentioned in the help open a menu each while c and e also work as confirm in their menus. Hope that helps.
"You died. You fought using a double bacon whip consisting of: Whip Bacon Shortsword blade Bacon Golden handle Spikes"
Pretty fun! (Note I'm judging the original version; I'll try the post-compo version later...so if you've addressed some of these issues already, I apologize!) There were a couple of things that I feel should be spelled out, in the help or something...like, the fact that the map is a torus, and that you can use the 5 key to 'pass' your turn. The gameplay is simple, but nice, although I feel there should be some way to recover your HP eventually (I found one item, a first-aid kit I guess?, but it didn't help that much). The combat system is a little hard to figure out, because it's not clear what's happening; Nethack, for example, has a "combat messages" system showing you just how badly you're doing against the monsters. Even showing the HP on the screen would help! Also, I think it would be cool if you had to put more thought into the weapons, rather than just piling everything on. (And it would be awesome if the game could come up with a name for your weapon automatically.) Still, though, it was fun to play!
Chaoseed: That the map is a torus was mentioned in the and that there where med-kits which look like a + too but i cant really expect anyone to read all this text and remember everthing just for a LD game. You are right that waiting was explained (i think i mentioned waiting somewhere in the help but didnt really explain how you could do it) and med kits were somethimes really spare in the original version. I didnt implement combat messages because the combat is fully deterministic. I decided not to show the HP on the main screen because it just didnt looked good at all but it's shown in the inventory menu (stats menu in post-LD) if yu havnt noticed that. The weapon thing you mentioned is exactly what i think but I didnt have time during LD and didnt want to change too much for the Post-LD version (I also cant come up with a good way of generating weapon names without ignoring stuff which the player might find important especially as the list of parts gets longer)
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I wouldn't call the weapons very unconventional though, weird maybe?
The heavy reliance of RNG is the source of undoing here.
15hp left, spawned in the middle of monsters, closest health item not even in sight!
Though luck, try again? Not after the Nth time I won't.
I had some weird issues with keyboard lag, but I was able to fight a few of the monsters. Cool mechanic idea with the crafting.
Whip
Bacon
Shortsword blade
Bacon
Golden handle
Spikes"
Pretty fun! (Note I'm judging the original version; I'll try the post-compo version later...so if you've addressed some of these issues already, I apologize!) There were a couple of things that I feel should be spelled out, in the help or something...like, the fact that the map is a torus, and that you can use the 5 key to 'pass' your turn. The gameplay is simple, but nice, although I feel there should be some way to recover your HP eventually (I found one item, a first-aid kit I guess?, but it didn't help that much). The combat system is a little hard to figure out, because it's not clear what's happening; Nethack, for example, has a "combat messages" system showing you just how badly you're doing against the monsters. Even showing the HP on the screen would help! Also, I think it would be cool if you had to put more thought into the weapons, rather than just piling everything on. (And it would be awesome if the game could come up with a name for your weapon automatically.) Still, though, it was fun to play!
I didnt implement combat messages because the combat is fully deterministic. I decided not to show the HP on the main screen because it just didnt looked good at all but it's shown in the inventory menu (stats menu in post-LD) if yu havnt noticed that.
The weapon thing you mentioned is exactly what i think but I didnt have time during LD and didnt want to change too much for the Post-LD version (I also cant come up with a good way of generating weapon names without ignoring stuff which the player might find important especially as the list of parts gets longer)