From gameplay to gamedev

While I was learning Go, I made a little console game – two players on one keyboard:

https://github.com/igroglaz/Hotseat-text-RPG

Hotseat-text-RPG is a local text-based multiplayer role-playing game for two players. Your goal is to defeat the Dragon.

The game is raw, for now I don’t have time to test it.. but it’s playable… good stuff to play with a wife, for example =) Despite the minimalism, there are some interesting ideas. In fact, this is kinda a text-based “board game” 🙂 Just balance it a bit and you can publish it in a “paper” form.

Now I’ll finally start doing my multiplayer game in the browser. Technology chosen, a little mastered, it’s time to move forward.

Coming… https://github.com/igroglaz/roglik 

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I’ve recorded guides to the C language on how to create a roguelike at channels:
https://youtube.com/itPhD (EN)
https://youtube.com/WebPomosh (RU)

In the end it become a minimalistic roguelike game template. It’s a shame to leave it forgotten, so I decided to make this roguelike a bit more playable. Now I’m finishing it up 🙂

I continue to finish all sorts of cool things in Tangaria. We have a lot of updates: the game now has a “permanent” (not disappearing after death) RPG-progress – for reaching levels and defeating bosses you get Account Points, which give nice bonuses – the ability to build larger houses, additional space in the warehouse, etc.

Fresh patchnotes arrived just today (in English).

New classes are also introduced. Recently completed the druid, here is a stream with his demonstration (it’s in Russian language, but still might be interesting):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D-HvqoeT6k

Dear Tangarians, you are welcome to download Tangaria’s unofficial musicpack with best fantazy tunes from my favorite games – HoMM2-3, Diablo, Allods 2, Brаvada, M&M4-8 and UO. You may hear it at my streams 😉

Installation:

1) Download .7zip archive: https://mediafire.com/file/kucaov7qfv4dcov/
2) Unpack to Tangaria/lib/music
Archive password – name of roguelike game starting with a small letter

Please leave your suggestions, impressions, ideas  If you would hear any clipping, distortion or any other glitch/bug – please report it discord!

Sometime ago I’ve founded Russian MUD (text based multiplayer games) community in discord and there plenty of visually-impaired people. Some was interested to play roguelikes after listening my stream in Tangaria.

I’ve googled this topic a bit and found that actually atm there are 3 blind-friendly roguelike games. Good info about this topic could be found at roguelike radio podcast.

Also there is an option for text output description of objects on game screen in Nethack..

And finally I found a topic about Angband with this quote:

3. Introduce a “blind-friendly” option to Vanilla Angband. Drawback is that those maintaining Angband may not be keen on additional options and, again, that large changes may be awkward to implement / maintain.

Maybe it’s the time to start working on this option in Angband? As now the game went far forward in technical aspects.. What do we need:

the option to output text description of room – so player will be able to get information about surroundings when they change – in text format. For example.. Player got 0,0 coordinates. All objects around him got relative coordinates. So each turn player will get something like this in Message Window:

“Door 5N3W. Goblin 2S1W. Magic Wand 1N2E”

Also using ‘l’ook command player could  understand where walls and other static objects located..

Maybe there are better ways to represent surroundings.. Lets brainstorm!

As we already have ‘target-close’ monster macro which could help to cast spells or use ranged weapons without need to target precisely certain tiles – it’s possible to play even ranged classes.

Hi! I’m developer of Tangaria (https://tangaria.com/) – free open-source multiplayer roguelike game loosely based on Tolkien’s lore and powered by PWMAngband (derived from MAngband, which derived from Angband 😉 It combines the complexity and unpredictability of roguelike genre and social features of MMORPG: kill monsters together with your friends, chat, PvP (on demand), build a house and open a store to trade your goods with other players… with advanced real-time gameplay – game become semi turn-based when your character is injured.

I was quite shy to promote my game, though in the past I’ve made plenty of promotion there for other great multiplayer roguelikes (MAngband, TomeNET , PWMAngband). It’s funny – but it’s much easier to tell something good about other’s people games than about your game 🙂 But I suppose I should find the courage to declare my multiplayer variant to rlg community too..

So.. I work on Tangaria for two years. PowerWyrm (PWMAngband developer) help me a lot in this – and PWMA became one of the best roguelike game engines where you could do amazing stuff. Recently I’ve finally started to code stuff and made 3 major updates:
1) addeded 18 new races: so now we got 56 races total; all of them are quite classic fantasy and each got it’s special flavours.

2) roguelike housing paradise: Now when you build house (yep, you can do it in this multiplayer game – to open your shop and put there items to trade with other players) – each house got it’s own unique random generated appearence by using hundreds of different walls and floors;

3) charisma: just finished this update 🙂 Recently I’ve returned CHR stat and now trying to make it interesting. Goes pretty well!

So.. I’ll be very glad to answer any questions about multiplayer roguelikes, it’s history (check my article about it).. and of course about Tangaria 😉

Cya in-game and welcome to our discord: https://discord.gg/zBNG369