OT - Working on a roguelike game...

[Ed Kolis]

And hopefully this one will get farther than the one I was doing based on Dominions (though I still will base the magic system in this game on Dominions)... heck, I think it already has - you can wield items and fight monsters in this game!

Download link:
http://kolis.dyndns.org/ed/prog/dork.zip

Instructions:
To run it in Windows, run dork.bat from a command line.
To run it in Linux, run the "dork" shell script (might need to assign it execute permissions first) from a command line.
You will need Java 5 installed.
The reason I suggest running it from a command line instead of double-clicking the jar is because right now the dungeon generator's broken and will sometimes hang the program and you will only get error messages if you run from the command line.

Commands:
Numpad with numlock on (or number keys): move and attack
5: rest and gain 1 HP
g: pick up item
i: view inventory
w: wield item
e: view equipment
m: cast magic spell (currently broken)

[NullAshton]

Dork? That's the name of the game? I think you need a better name.

Anyway, that aside... Good luck! (what the heck i thought they were still on java 2...)

[Ed Kolis]

It's short for "Dungeons of Relentless Killing" - does that sound better? Besides, I guess I can't speak for all roguelike players, but I for one am willing to admit that playing (and especially developing) such games is a rather dorky pastime

[Captain Kwok]

I was thinking it was some sort of wordplay on 'Zork' - wasn't that some sort of adventure game?

[NullAshton]

Hehe, acronym is funny

[Ed Kolis]

Yeah, Zork was an adventure game... no, I wasn't thinking of Zork at all when I came up with the name!

[NullAshton]

Dork

[Ed Kolis]

Say, anyone know of a decent free XML editor for Linux? I looked around but couldn't really come up with much... I want to start on some data files, just so the player isn't always Ed, the elven archer, fighting against the same 2 monsters every time

[dogscoff]

'java' is not recognised as an internal or external command.

Where can I get an exe to get around this? I'd love to support your roguelike, but first I need to run it.

Also, if it's a jar, I should be able to upload it to my phoine... I might give that a try later.

[douglas]

dogscoff said:
'java' is not recognised as an internal or external command.

This means you do not have the java runtime environment installed on your computer. You can get it from java.com