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The imaginative and prescient was less complicated: Survival recreation + Brogue.
So the factor is that the majority Roguelikes have survival parts in them particularly ones like Brogue and Pixel Dungeon the place meals is scarce and starvation comes fast (versus previous variations of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, the place meals is not scarce and starvation barely comes, or Nethack, the place starvation comes fast however meals is considerable). Pixel Dungeon had the factor much more since you could not simply eat uncooked meat, however in case you discovered some you would want to prepare dinner it in hearth first. And I believed that was cool.
Although that was about it. Pixel Dungeon did not (and nonetheless does not) label itself as a survival recreation. So I believed that I’d develop on that.
However at one level I spotted I used to be simply attempting to make flip primarily based Do not Starve.
…
I did not know what I used to be doing.
However then …
DUNGEON CRAWL STONE SOUP
(I do know that appears wierd. Like,”however then dungeon crawl stone soup”, 
)
I hadn’t even performed Do not Starve for … causes (I plan on doing so finally), however I do know I did not wish to make my recreation too survival.
Roguelikes are about progressing by way of an space, so I did not actually wish to put in basebuilding and although I already applied crafting and an anvil merchandise I additionally did not need it to be within the recreation.
I made the map spacey and cave like however I used to be largely misplaced in course. I used to be simply including what I knew I needed because the fundamentals like a hearth and fuel system.
However the factor is, at the moment, I began enjoying DCSS (Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup)…a roguelike. For me it was …okay. Not higher than Brogue, however okay. I used to be simply clicking tab and “o” (autoexplore and autofight respectively) more often than not after which getting a warning that my HP was too low to autofight and I might manually use the arrow keys and repeat the method till I got here throughout a creature that may oneshot me at full well being. Okay. I stored on attempting and I discovered enjoying as a special class (bezerker) was extra enjoyable, however nonetheless form of … missing.
Then I discovered its alternate recreation mode: Dungeon Sprints.
DUNGEON CRAWL STONE SOUP: DUNGEON SPRINTS
Dungeon Sprints include a brief map that condenses the entire recreation into one dungeon and it is stunning. The primary problem, Dungeon Dash 1 (a.okay.a Crimson Sonja) places the search for “the orb of zot” (merchandise wanted to beat the sport) into one flooring as an alternative of the 15+ it usually takes. DCSS on a traditional has giant maps for every flooring however right here it is compact and all of the fluff is lower away. The extent is identical (no procedural technology) each time but I’ve numerous enjoyable replaying it time and again, checking totally different techniques towards the tough conditions. Enjoying as a Bezerker makes me loopy sturdy however at the price of meals, which in that compact map turns into an issue (not like in the principle recreation the place I largely breeze by way of every thing). The enemies are diversified and every have totally different personalities as an alternative of simply goblin, hob goblin, orc, and many others that principally do the identical factor at the beginning of the sport.
Difficult. Quick. Thrilling.
That is what I needed my recreation to be,
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: Dungeon Dash: Crimson Sonja + Brogue.
+ BROGUE
If you realize me even a little bit, and even in case you do not then know now, that I’ll at all times, most occasions, in most video games I attempt to make, add a “+ Brogue” or cite Brogue as a partial inspiration. The simplicity, the distinctions in objects, the environmental techniques, the lighting. That is why I am going to at all times website Brogue. All it is enemies are so totally different from each other and have a job to play. Lately I got here throughout a brand new enemy in Brogue (after +100 hours of play), the FlameDancer. It was not like any of the opposite enemies I might seen. It is surrounded by flames so you’ll be able to’t get shut with out burning or hearth resitance. It hurls flames and retains it is distance. It cancelled so a lot of my methods for it.
I at all times suppose: “Brogue is nice at placing you in a nasty state of affairs.”
Type of like what Rimworld does however with out the AI storyteller. It is good at difficult your present construct. That point I had some of the overpowered objects, a scale male of “respiration” which allowed me to step on traps of, for instance, paralysis fuel, and never be affected whereas the creature proper subsequent to be will get paralyzed and it is a simple kill from there. However with the techniques in play the fireplace would unfold by way of the fuel and cease it from being as effectivel burning me on the identical time.
And Brogue has issues to counter all builds, so you will should be ready an not depend on one factor. Revenants do not take melee harm, pixies negate your magical effefts and trigger allies to grow to be enemies, Golems replicate spells, and many others.
So I redid the philosophy of “AntiCrawl”. It wasn’t going to be a survival hotpot mess of a roguelike, it was going to be …
Madcrawl.
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