ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I made my own game too adictive, it's 5AM and I am still playing my mage ..
Level 11, no silly mistakes yet, although the lair was .. ewww ...

Now that is so cool!

I was supposed to be studying. Instead, I got my most recent character to level 9 before she died.

or :/

Hehe

I keep saying I'll quit for a while when I can get a character to level five. I regularly get them to four, but they always die before five. Arg!

darkgod wrote:I made my own game too adictive, it's 5AM and I am still playing my mage ..
Level 11, no silly mistakes yet, although the lair was .. ewww ...

I don't blame you...here I am, supposed to be working like fury on my dissertation, but all I can think of is how to get my damn hobbit slinger through the Trollshaws...

I have been playing roguelikes since the late 1980s (Moria and Hack on my dad's old Commodore 64 and Amiga 500), and enjoyed many of the variants in recent years. But ToME 4 has blown me away, and I've never been so excited about any new game before. Since I downloaded ToME 4, I've pretty much forgotten all the other variants I used to play, since they cannot compare to your new engine. You've done awesome work and have taken roguelikes to a whole new level. Bravissimo!!

*bows*

I created a forum account just to let you know that this latest version of T-o-m-e is excellent, keep up the great work.

I'll add to the chorus of praise to say that I *love* how new races and classes have to actually be unlocked through gameplay. This way, the first few games are played with a few simple choices, which is good, and sometimes dying makes sense if it unlocked a new possibility, which is great! I've never seen that feature in a roguelike before. Also, the new talent system works very well for me : enough customization to let one build the character with personal choices, but not too much.

I actually really really like the new talent system. It's simple to use, makes sense, looks and acts clean and has a natural progression. The controls are much simpler for as far as I've gotten, however, they have definitely taken a bit to get used to (I really miss f for fire).

One small thing though. It might just be the color setting on my machine, but having the tiles a color and then the identity dot be white makes it difficult to see what color enemies are, and in some cases, that there is an enemy there. I would much rather prefer the identity dot be a color and the tile be black (or white/blue/red for water/lava/ect.)

Thanks for this great update to a great game series. I really do enjoy TOME in a whole new way.

Thanks

BTW you can simply bind 'f' as the first hotkey and use that.

Not sure waht you mean about white dot ?

Uhm... you know the tile has a dot within the center of it? Well, it's usually white... Okay.. The trollshaws are essentially a forest in T4. A forest square in T2 could be anything, but unless it was a tree, was usually black with a colored dot explaining what it actually was. This made most everything easy to see, as it was almost always the same color (square being black that is). The green, or maybe just this shade/darkness of green makes seen most reddish enemies very hard to see, along with a lot of the darker colors.

Press Escape you can switch the display modes.
Also you can press shift+t to enter tactical mode, all hostiles will be surrounded by red

I just have to say I am really really happy with the progression of the game. The cleanness, flow and progression is just top notch for a rogue-like. The fact that there is a developing story is just fantastic, and that even though it is just in it's 10th stage of beta, it really feels like a finished game. The speed at which content along with bug smashing has happened, the communication between DG and the players is almost unheard of. I really enjoy the game and I am glad that it is happening. I can't wait for beta11.

Thanks again DG, TOME players and coders

Thanks :=)

Beta11 should come this weekend, either thsi night or monday as I am not there this weekend and I want to do a release for the ARRP.
So it will be a bit smaller in scale but still you'll get .. VAULTS ! Yay new ways to die a horrible painful, albeit quick, death !