Category Archives: Roguelike blog

Main problem about events @ Soloist mode that it’s ruins fair RPG character progress. Example of player progress in TomeNET: 1) get fire res 2) enhance weapon +5/+5 3) enhance weapon +10/+10 (going from +9 to +10 is 10-15 enchant … Continue reading →

TomeNET in compare to other roguelike games got almost perfect user experience in terms of keyboard controls. Having ‘last’ object’ option made life so much easier and I wanna say HUGE thanks for devs for adding it. But having fixed … Continue reading →

I wanna to continue discussion of TomeNET’s magic system. Today I wanna talk about making _offencive_ magic spells more diverse, to give players more choice of gameplay styles. Currently TomeNET got pretty straight-forward way of killing monsters with magic – … Continue reading →

TomeNET – online roguelike game based on Tolkien lore (with some additions from other fantasy worlds). Actually you could call it MMO-roguelike: in addition to traditional roguelike features – rng level generation, permadeath, dynamic hack’n’slash experience and freedom of actions, … Continue reading →

Some impressions about early game with Death Knight @ soloist. First of all I wanna point that I had 27 mana at lvl 27 (http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=22152). Please remeber it when reading comments to the spells  In general Shadow magic is better … Continue reading →

IDDC mode in TomeNET has GREAT gameplay mode but there are two nasty things: 1) necessity to clear all dungeon “to zero” – kill all monster to get as much exp from one level as you could. Without exploring every … Continue reading →

Dear friends, please support petition to nerf event rewards in ‘Soloist’ mode:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OwUxNmp4Q86v6qe8MOjN7SLc29lGE3BSvzLxXiK5fnI/edit?usp=sharing To sign petition you only need to add your nickname to the end of this document Also wanna add that I won’t play/stream TomeNET till this cheeze … Continue reading →

xxdeadmonkxxrecently wrote a comment under my stream that ‘black background makes you feel very special in roguelike games, more fantazy than in common graphical RPGs’. It’s gaved an idea to me: what if in certain character states (like ‘stun‘ or … Continue reading →

The problem of TomeNET ladder: there is only top 100 players and most of entries are from 2012-2014 years. “Noteworthy Occurances” also don’t give any sutisfaction when you get there – because they are not permanent. TomeNET ladder are not newbie … Continue reading →

Problem: It is possible to get an OOD-item at lvl 1 by participating in regular events (dungeon keeper & etc) while in “soloist” mode. Events give solid possibility to get endgame OOD-item from the start. As main feature of ‘Soloist’ … Continue reading →

1) I tried to make some exploration in open-world, cause new server had all dungeons in random places. Actually it’s pretty fun to make such explorations, it feels very like playing Dwarf Fortress (where new world procedurelly generated every time). … Continue reading →

UPDATE: this idea already in-game! At IDDC and RPG-server, when you just start to play – it’s could be pretty useful to be able to throw weapons and potions to enemies. Sometimes I got several daggers and other blades in … Continue reading →

Devs just estabilished RPG-server and I’ve made test-stream there (in Russian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmxsxnOjCWw Impressions: 1) It’s awesome to have a chance to play without cheezing. Thanks to devs for giving such opportunity!

Currently I play MUDs and I was inspired a lot by playing them. Actually TomeNET could be called roguelike-MUD MMORPG, cause there is game message windows and it’s possible to give players a lot of stuff to read there. Idea: … Continue reading →

Crafting system could be very good implementation in TomeNET.. Currently I got problem with my hand and I can’t play in fast-paced mode to dual-hand/explore dungeons. But in TomeNET – exploring dungeons is the only thing to do atm. It … Continue reading →