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Other Games / Re: slow paced roguelike / rpg

« on: November 14, 2014, 01:08:11 pm »

Quote from: a1s on November 14, 2014, 10:52:23 am

Quote from: hawkeye_de on November 14, 2014, 10:40:07 am
Unreal World comes into my mind
Does it have a small enough amount of elements? I always thought of it as complex, for a roguelike.

You're right....that does not fit in this respect.

With slow-paced I do not mean that it should not be complex but more for instance that you do not kill 100 monsters / turn. So more focus on stealth, more intelligent enemys and that.
So, in principal, I like games like Nethack apart from this.
My favorite PC game is currently Xenonauts...

Shadowrun Returns looks also cool, thx for that.

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Other Games / slow paced roguelike / rpg

« on: November 14, 2014, 10:40:07 am »

So, lately I've fallen in love with boardgames, which you can also play solitiare (for instance Arkham Horror: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15987/arkham-horror)

The main reason is, I like the slow-paced gaming....you actually see what's going on (game mechanic) and the number of game elements has to be obviously limited.

Can anybody recommend me a slow paced (turn-based) roguelike or rpg in general ? Unreal World comes into my mind, but it's just not my theme....surely it is a great game

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Creative Projects / Re: Submarine Simulation, set in the cold war

« on: November 08, 2014, 02:12:49 am »

@Retropunch: Yes, I know it

but as you say it has another focus and it is not realistic in terms of submarine operations/combat.

@Levi: It does not model history

So the assumption is the cold war got hot....cold war setting means the timeline (80's). So my inspiration is the Sid Meier game "Red Storm Rising".

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Creative Projects / Re: Submarine Simulation, set in the cold war

« on: November 02, 2014, 12:01:51 pm »

Some new Screenshots: http://img4web.com/g/JAK2. Progress is slow but hope is that I can turn most of my coding efforts into the game itself soon.
No question that the UI needs to be polished when the game itself is more mature...

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Other Games / Re: The Roguelike Development Megathread

« on: August 26, 2014, 01:53:32 am »

http://www.monogame.net/ is the inofficial successor.

And btw....there is a cool ascii/curses library for monogame available, it has also windows, controls and that stuff: http://sadconsole.sadlogic.com/index.php/Screenshots

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Other Games / Re: XCOM ...the boardgame

« on: August 14, 2014, 10:49:36 am »

no, it is not out....I think the plan is to release it end of the year or so.

Yes, usually I play (soilitaire) boardgames to get away from electronic stuff...and in the meantime there are some cool paper-AI boardgames available, which often beat computer games AI or at least they give that impression. For the mass market these AI systems maybe to difficult to get into....

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Other Games / XCOM ...the boardgame

« on: August 14, 2014, 01:40:31 am »

FFG is currently developing a boardgame with the licensed XCOM Theme. It is solo-playable and is actually an hybrid game, since the AI and that stuff is implemented via a Web app or a tablet/smartphone app if you have such a device. Looks pretty cool and innovative to me....!

-> http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/163602/xcom-board-game

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Other Games / Re: Any commercial ASCII game out there?

« on: August 04, 2014, 01:05:40 pm »

Quote from: Mech#4 on August 04, 2014, 12:09:47 pm

The original "Rogue" was apparently sold, but that's more there was a version which used ASCII rather than the game solely being in ASCII.

I don't remember playing any growing up in the early 90s.

I was a little ambiguous here: With ASCII I do not mean necessarily ASCII art/graphics but for instance had ASCII-based roguelike like Nethack in my mind. But interesting to know that Rogue was actually sold and was not necessarily free...

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Other Games / Any commercial ASCII game out there?

« on: August 04, 2014, 11:56:46 am »

Just to satisfy my curiosity:

Is there any commercial (not for free) pure ASCII game out there? I've searched but did not found one.

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Other Games / Re: Xenonauts - Post cold war XCOM re-imagining - KICKSTARTER FUNDED!!

« on: June 01, 2014, 02:00:08 am »

Also looking forward playing this...how is the AI compared to the old one?

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General Discussion / Re: Ender's game

« on: May 26, 2014, 12:46:31 pm »

Yes, I was also disappointed from Harrison Ford - although I like him usual. The performance of Asa Butterfield I think was not so bad and somewhat believable.

Yup, I'll read the book.

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General Discussion / Ender's game

« on: May 26, 2014, 12:31:50 pm »

So, I've seen the movie yesterday. On the one hand I did not like the movie that much (too much simulated battle scenes for my taste) but on the other hand I did like the story itself. Has somebody read the novel...I have read in some critics that the actor in the novel is only 6 years old, so it is more a book for children (?).

Anyways, I'd love to read a new scifi novel...maybe there are also other novels with a similar theme out there?

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