Gatecrashers!

[GuyNamedJoe]

Gatecrashers is an old-school dungeon crawler with new-school visuals, interface, and design principles. In the vein of the Brogue/Shiren/Rogue style of gameplay, the items you pick up in the dungeon play a heavy role in progression.

I'm going to be posting a beta for the module contest, but am also posting an pre-release/alpha so anyone who is interested can try it out! I'm interested in hearing any feedback - PMs or replies to this thread are both great!

Huge thank you to Nicolas Casalini and Darren Grey for making great example modules!

Links:
Module, music: http://www.fileswap.com/dl/v5aTXYzqTV/
Module, no music: http://te4.org/games/gatecrashers
Standalone, music: http://www.fileswap.com/dl/y9159cHmyP/

Examples of Stuff You'll Encounter in the Dungeon:

Bat: One of the monsters you'll encounter early in the game - moves twice as fast as you do and can fly over water tiles (normally impassable on foot). There's something like 30 monsters in the current version, and like the bat they all have abilities that make them unique.

Goblin Ringleader: A monster from the middle dungeon floors. It's ability to summon allies and tendency to flee when injured make it tricky to fight, but fortunately its allies are as cowardly as it is.

Skeletons: These monsters are dangerous on their own, but become more dangerous as they kill enemies. When a skeleton kills a monster (the bow-wielding skeletons may do so accidentally, while the axe-wielding skeletons actively look for monsters to kill) they level up into deadlier skeletons.

Pots: Items with inventories, inspired by Shiren. Some are simple storage, others duplicate, transform, improve, or destroy their contents.

Staves: A more traditional roguelike item (other classics include elixirs, swords, and rings.) Staff effects include freezing monsters, transforming monsters, digging through walls, sealing enemy abilities, making walls, controlling speed, and many more.

Food: Gatecrashers doesn't have a traditional food clock. Instead, food fills up a stamina bar, which slowly turns into life if you are injured.

(More to come!)

Features for (hopefully) November:

-Floor variety: Dungeons, caves, and forests will soon be joined by volcanoes, graveyards, and the legendary Vault of Wonders!
-Many new monsters, character classes, and items.

[Zireael]

Waiting eagerly for more information (and you know, you can upload modules to te4.org instead of looking for filesharing sites)

[GuyNamedJoe]

Thanks - appreciate the tip! I'll have to move stuff over

[darkgod]

Woh !
That looks very well done; the contest keeps getting more fun

[darkgod]

oh and you can now upload BTW

[GuyNamedJoe]

Thanks, and thank you for hosting the contest

New version (alpha 3) is up now: http://te4.org/games/gatecrashers

New features include multiple zones, new monsters, new items, and the ability to name items!

[darkgod]

Woh that looks seriously nice !!
Hum ants that tunnel through things make trees look weird though

May I suggest a small hotkeys toolbar for items ? (and make the number of charges in staves not count in the name for binding items )
Oh and charsheet doesnt work, but I suppose you know that

[GuyNamedJoe]

Thx for the feedback - I'll put those in for v4

Didn't realize that I broke hotkeys with the new name system haha

[grooog]

After playing this some more:

Gatecrashers is the perfect break from ToME, and ToME is the perfect break from Gatecrashers.

Are you tired of feeling forced to explore every level and kill every last stupid rat for the exp? Play Gatecrashers, there's no exp and you're better off avoiding fights where possible. Are you tired of avoiding fights, running out of food, and skulking about paranoidly? Play ToME to experience the satisfaction of mowing down enemies with a vast array of talents, items, and attacks.

These two games should be married.

[GuyNamedJoe]

Thanks! I'm really psyched to hear that's your take on it, because the whole skulking around angle is exactly the sort of feel I'm going for

[grooog]

The ring of passage was really the a-ha! moment for me. Prior to that I was assuming that there was experience/leveling but I just couldn't see it in the UI. Then I picked up the ring, and i was like what good is th- oh, I can/should avoid fights.

[GuyNamedJoe]

A new version is up! Content includes hotkeys, identification improvements, ranged weapons with animations, curses, weapon and shield powers, and better graphics for digging walls

[darkgod]

Amazing !

[darkgod]

Though I had a cursed shield, zaped purification at myself but it didnt remove the curse (nor a charge)

[darkgod]

Oh and you really should make it compatible with 105 (I doubt it's any more complex than changing the version in init.lua )