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[PenguinHat]

What about some sort of auto-roguelike?

When I read the first line there I immediately thought, 'Car Wars'.

That's also cool.

[Movius]

soon

[Ivan]

holyshitthatsawesome!

[Mr.Flibble]

Some great idea's here guys.  A quick mock up of the Zombie Roguelike that I hope to make in the near future.

[Hideous]

soon

Awesome.

I should do PongRL to freshen up my pascal skills.

[Eclipse]

Robotacon, have you tried Shiren the Wanderer?

it was also on the SNES (only in jap), and there's a translation project too

[JimmyBignuts]

I'd love to see a RL based on the world of Kingdom of Loathing.

[cyber95]

I'd love to see a RL based on the world of Kingdom of Loathing.

I'd love that, too. I'll be a Sauceror. Maybe a Pastamancer.

[DYRE]

I'd like to see a RL for DS with pixel graphics and non-standard in every way that makes it a mainstream sell-able product.

If you have a way of playing homebrew on your DS, try POWDER.  It's similar to other roguelikes, but it's very much simplified.

Also, to contribute to the topic, maybe a roguelike based on pirates would be cool.  Preferably, it would have detailed sailing and naval combat, though also there would be gameplay on land (digging up treasure and pillaging towns, of course).

[JimmyBignuts]

There is a problem with having vehicles in a roguelike due to an inability to move and rotate in any more than 8 directions. Submarines and boats should be fine with this though navigation would be more simplified than one might like. Simulating car handling seems near impossible in the framework, as awesome as they might be.

[PenguinHat]

There is a problem with having vehicles in a roguelike due to an inability to move and rotate in any more than 8 directions. Submarines and boats should be fine with this though navigation would be more simplified than one might like. Simulating car handling seems near impossible in the framework, as awesome as they might be.

This leads me onto another one.

Real time RL without tiles. Like Diablo but with less character leveling and more something else. Anything else.

[Don Andy]

This leads me onto another one.

Real time RL without tiles. Like Diablo but with less character leveling and more something else. Anything else.

Notrium?

[FARTRON]

There is a problem with having vehicles in a roguelike due to an inability to move and rotate in any more than 8 directions. Submarines and boats should be fine with this though navigation would be more simplified than one might like. Simulating car handling seems near impossible in the framework, as awesome as they might be.

Far from true. See Ascii Sector for example. Roguelikes are no more bound to 8 directions than any other tile based game.

[george]

Zracer for another car handling demo.

[Melly]

People come up with crapton of different definitions for what's a roguelike, and while I don't care much about them, one of the usual consensus is that the game must be completely grid-based, and nothing can extrapolate it (besides maybe menus). Obviously, you can call this a bunch of bollocks if you want.

Other bollocks:

- Must be limited to the 16 console color pallete (which I altered for my game because the original is shit).
- Must be turn-based.
- Must have some kind of dungeon-crawling-esque gameplay.

[dmoonfire]

Heh, I was actually working on notes for a Kingdom of Loathing RL last week. At least, how to do it properly.

EDIT: Which is to say, not properly according to a RL developer and "properly" as how I would write it.

[William Broom]

How about a poaching roguelike. Explore uncharted lands, find strange creatures, and hang their heads on your mantlepiece. Yes, you actually have to return home and decorate your house, Sims-style, with all kinds of furniture made from dead animals.

[Xion]

A roguelike where you're a patient in an insane asylum, and have to escape. You can spend time leveling your insanity by fighting the demons that haunt and torment you, and gain spells and abilities to fight them off, or spend time leveling your reality by fighting off the workers that are trying to capture you, but you cannot fight reality by imaginary means, nor can you fight the demons with conventional means. What is to you a +1 cursed sword is in actuality a spork with sticky honey on it so you can't drop it. You have to identify items for what they really are before you can fight with them in reality, but then they become ineffective against the imagination.

[Terry]

That's fantastic :D Please make it!

[Seth]

Yeah that sounds awesome, though I think it would be cool if the line between reality and insanity was blurred, so that it was never too clear which was which.