Re: WIP - Demons of Dex
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 4:01 am
I'll try to give it a whirl this week if I can
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Awesome, thanks! I spent about 100 hours on the code (most of the time trying to shave off bytes) so that I could put all the features I wanted in the game.randolph.pickle wrote:I finally had a chance to sit down with this game. I beat it on my first try. My final score was 6660. I think you did a fantastic job! The sound effects, music, animations, varying level themes... All of it was awesome! Those mages on the finally level were a pain in the butt. Sadly, I don't have time right now to get this on the real hardware, but I didn't find any bugs in VICE.
Well... To tell you the truth I'm not sure. There was a period of several years in my life where I played nothing but roguelikes, so I've had a lot of practice. Your game was not excessively unfair (like the original Rogue), extremely long, leaving me more chances to mess up (like most "modern" roguelikes), nor did it have any unusual mechanics (like a lot of 7DRLs). I thought it was very fun, but I guess it could have been more challenging.Since you beat it on first attempt, do you think the game was too easy?
Instead of trying to come up with ways of making the game harder for me, I instead have attached a recording I made in VICE of me beating it again. It does not represent my best playing by far (I was a bit camera shy), but I think watching it will tell you more than I can describe here in words.If so, what aspects should be rebalanced (e.g. amount of loot dropped, fights being too easy)? I imagine you used the staff, right?
Many thanks for the feedback! I'm having problems loading the recording into vice. I'm getting "error loading start snapshot file". Maybe the OS X version of VICE does not support loading history files from the Windows version?randolph.pickle wrote:Well... To tell you the truth I'm not sure. There was a period of several years in my life where I played nothing but roguelikes, so I've had a lot of practice. Your game was not excessively unfair (like the original Rogue), extremely long, leaving me more chances to mess up (like most "modern" roguelikes), nor did it have any unusual mechanics (like a lot of 7DRLs). I thought it was very fun, but I guess it could have been more challenging.
Instead of trying to come up with ways of making the game harder for me, I instead have attached a recording I made in VICE of me beating it again. It does not represent my best playing by far (I was a bit camera shy), but I think watching it will tell you more than I can describe here in words.
I'm still a new to VICE, but I found that if the current video standard in VICE does not match the video standard of the recording, I get that error. I recorded with the video standard set to NTSC. Maybe that's the problem.I'm getting "error loading start snapshot file".
Add one more to the list of VIC-20 users who like roguelikes.phvic wrote:Thank you! Judging from the amount of feedback I got so far, I think there seems to be only a few vic-20 users interested in roguelikes, so it's nice to get any feedback at all.