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[Pixelfish]

I'm planning on creating a dungeon crawl using all the amazing LOFI graphics created by oryx, Oddball, Stargoat, and Geeze. I also plan on using the open license Dungeonslayers RPG ruleset as my base. Hopefully it'll turn into a fun, fast, and replayable crawl.

More details to come ...

[Alec S.]

Ooh, looking forward to this.

[oryx]

 

[Pixelfish]

Here's a rough mock-up of what I'm thinking...


By animusblue at 2009-12-07

[s0]

Lookin' good!

You should make the controls as simple and "modern" as possible. Too few roguelikes (even the "coffee break" ones) do that.

[TheDustin]

Yeah, context-sensitivity is a virtue most roguelikes don't aspire for. Looking pretty awesome so far.

[PDF]

Looks promising!

One suggestion: Don't use a wall tile if it is not adjacent to a floor tile (unless your game lets players to dig through walls); I don't think redundant tiles are artistically pleasing.

[Pixelfish]

My plan is to make the controls lean towards 'modern' plus the ability to bind to keys of your choice. I want item management to be a little easier then having to know which key does what on which item and when. Opening up the inventory screen will allow you to select an item and choose from options that make sense.

I think I see what you mean, PDF. Instead of filling the tile map with 'wall' tiles just fill what is needed. Maybe implementing a sort of roguelike fog of war will also solve this problem. You wouldn't be able to see the redundant walls behind the walls in your view.

[oryx]

He just means make everything black except the 'wall' I believe.

[Melly]

I'm going to have to count the number of lo-fi dungeon crawlers people will be making.

[Lon]

Ooh, looking forward to this.

Me too.

I'm going to have to count the number of lo-fi dungeon crawlers people will be making.

Maybe we can have an 'Assemblee' statistics page, keeping track of kinds of interesting... statistics.