RogueLife

by fedorl
co-authored: @sil
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.20
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.72
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.12
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.91
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.66
RogueLife is a game about trading your life as well as other currencies with mysterious inhabitants of the dark tower.
Find the secrets behind the characters by the items they offer for their lifes.

Gameplay footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJyWJxQoVmk

Linux build was tested on clean ubuntu 18.04, required sdl installed: "apt install libsdl2-2.0-0"

screenshot
Tools: SDL

Comments20

BadRAM
BadRAM29 Apr 2019, 21:41
love the DF aesthetic, will definitely play and rate if ported to windows! (sorry.)
VuvuzuellaInc
VuvuzuellaInc29 Apr 2019, 21:57
Very nice game ! Love the graphics !
Keep the good work !
slimabob
slimabob29 Apr 2019, 22:10
Beautiful graphics. Would love to know what you made this in.
kristinnes
kristinnes29 Apr 2019, 22:24
I love the looks of the game. I found the game itself pretty confusing.
SuperGamersGames
SuperGamersGames29 Apr 2019, 22:41
Interesting twist on the game Rouge, but I don't completely understand what is going on, besides taking humanity to destroy doors.
ilPrinny
ilPrinny29 Apr 2019, 22:44
Dont know if this was intentional, but I managed to kill stairs
SefrZ
SefrZ29 Apr 2019, 22:49
I'm very confused what's going on, but I love the aesthetics. Intentional or not, I killed stairs and couldn't stop laughing.
FedorLauthor29 Apr 2019, 22:58
@supergamersgames the more humanity-saving way to pass the door - to open it. Interact with the door with "e" and it should opens.
killing also works though
FedorLauthor29 Apr 2019, 23:01
@sefrz it was unintentional at first, but than we decided that kill the stairs and stay in the tower forever is quite good for the atmosphere
Matthew Hrehirchuk
Matthew Hrehirchuk29 Apr 2019, 23:54
this has been my favourite entry so far! i love the roguelike aesthetic, the mechanics matched the theme perfectly, all in all a great game.
zampi30 Apr 2019, 06:41
ASCII is gorgeous
SamuelDeboni30 Apr 2019, 12:55
To be honest, I have no idea what I was spouse to do in the game, but It's a ASCII game made in rust, and that is enough for me.
Tezza48
Tezza4830 Apr 2019, 18:42
I'm a fan of roguelikes (i'm not good at playing them but they have cool history), you've done the graphics justice, i love the raycast LOS, you can attack pretty much anything which is fantastic, in particular attacking the stairs!
Using life in general as currency is a cool idea, i didn't expect to see necromancy come from the theme and now i feel stupid.
aCactus
aCactus1 May 2019, 02:18
"Green eyeball" is mispelled as "gren eyeball", and trading things besides my own life doesn't seem to remove them from my inventory? Love the games aesthetic, it's beautiful. Humanity is for the weak.
Mitya2 May 2019, 11:24
The game is cool and makes contrast with other games on jam, I like it, although, without much understanding)
xiashj2 May 2019, 11:29
I don't quite get the message of the game, like, what is the goal?
The aethetics is impressive.
FedorLauthor3 May 2019, 00:23
@xiashj getting to the last floor supposed to be a challenge and a set of difficult decisions between humanity loss and bad deals. But during the jam we had not much time to balance it right, so enemies offers too many items and its quite easy to get to the last floor.

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