Splunge (WIP Roguelike)

[~Memzak~]

A friend and I started working on this a while ago and I've decided to revive development by 'finishing' it off myself. He's cool with it since he's decided to develop a Splunge open-world adventure-type game.

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OVERVIEW

Splunge is an ASCII Roguelike written in C++ using the Libtcod library.
It is set in a series of caves and caverns, filled with all manner of strange beasts and glorious treasure... Splunge is currently in the development phase.

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GAMEPLAY

The game is pretty much fully playable now - a decent combat system is still in the works, but for the moment all the basic features are there - items, monsters who chase and attack you etc.

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CONTROLS

hjkl: Movement left, down, up and right.
yubn: Movement in the four diagonals.
arrows: Movement in the respective direction.
i: Show inventory.
w: Wield item.
W: Wear item.
T: Takeoff item.
e: Eat item.
d: Drop item.
,: Take item on floor.
q: Quit.
<>: Move up and down staircases.

*Testing Controls/Cheats*
%: Sets your hp to 300.
+-: Move you down and up levels of the dungeon.
G: Genocides the next character you press.

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COMPILING

To compile on an operating system other than linux:
* Download the libtcod library.
* Extract the shared libraries for your system and place them in the /splunge/lib folder.
* Compile the source code - see the libtcod docs for details.


Author: Guy Paterson-Jones (Old), Memzak (Current)
Email: Rather contact me in this thread.
Site: splunge.sourceforge.net

Splunge is released under the GNU General Public Licence.

[Clockwork]

Spit shine it and sell it for a dollar on App Store.

EDIT: This is actually really impressive. I have to admit the only game I know that uses ASCII is Dwarf Fortress (that I play), so I felt a bit ashamed when it was the first thing to come to mind. I'm impressed you were able to make this (with your pal).

I still think if you just gave it a bit of spit polish and put it on the app store you'd make a quick buck.
Then again, I don't know how the app store even works. You'd probably have to rewrite the entire damn thing, not to mention that ASCII isn't very appealing to modern gamers anyways. The only select people I know that do play rogues are ones that appreciate the nostalgia, or look past the graphics for depth of gameplay.

[Qwerty]

Sadly, people that look past graphics for gameplay depth seem few and far between nowadays. Those that exist spend most of their time playing roguelikes.

[Clockwork]

I don't really like rougelike gameplay that much. I have no problem with ASCII though, except its strange non-square dimensions.

[Memzak (not logging in)]

Heh, this game has been heavily reworked and completely hacked together in its latest revision in order to just get it 'complete' enough for people to play. It was mostly a fun project to just test out some ideas.

Splunge is now completely rewritten every six months or so when we have a new idea that we want to test and see how terribad the code was when we last left it... (or accidentally deleted all the old code when reformatting the computer, like this last time)

The last version was something more akin to dwarf fortress's adventure mode, but with a mostly empty world. The latest idea we discussed was a physics system for combat. When you hit something, randomizes the angle and force (with in constraints) of your hit and uses material information of both object to see whether the hit is absorbed, damaged, transferred to the next layer, pierced or broken.

Eg: You use a hammer and hit a monster's (wearing leather) upper body and the end result is that, while the leather, its flesh and some of its skin absorbed some of the impact's force, it was still potent enough to go through and break a rib or two.

...so yea, that's that. I can upload the latest version of the iteration I posted in this thread if you'd like? (the terribly hacked together version that sometimes still randomly crashes... but at least it has a final boss)