The lost Relic - Explore and trap monsters in 3D dungeons

Game Engine Works in Progress and Game Demos
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Some things that make a roguelike:

  • Randomly generated levels and equipment
  • permanent death (your saved game is erased if you die)

Also most classic roguelikes have:

  • tile based gameplay
  • turn based gameplay
  • single player
  • a dungeon setting
  • hack and slash type gameplay
  • 2d world layout
  • ASCII graphics, where @ is the player and Z can be a zombie and D a dragon and # a wall etc…
####+###
#   Z  #
#      #
+     @#
# D    #
###+##+#

You don’t have to have all these things to be a roguelike, but some roguelike developers are sadly obsessive about them. People will say your game is not a proper roguelike if it has only things from the first category then it is a roguelite, not a roguelike.

Here’s an interesting article about the subject.

I personally feel that only the first category is needed to be a roguelike.

The problem is that things from the second category only work well with 2d games. As soon as you move to 3d you face problems with game pacing and a lack of FUN. I tried keeping turn based gameplay but it just wasn’t interesting. Also look at the example ASCII room above, the dragon takes up a single tile. The player and the zombie likewise. With ASCII that’s fine but think about how that would look in 3d…

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@Smoking_mirror : Ok, well… so my game is absolutly not a roguelike :slight_smile: Thanks for your message, it helps me.

After looking on marketplaces, I guess my game can be classified in “Dungeon crawler” but again I’m not sure and in a certain point of view it’s not really important so I will write a subtitle like “A journey in 3d dungeon” or “Explore and trap monsters in 3d dungeon”… I don’t know yet.

EDIT : Damned, I just read that dungeon crawler games means 1st person game so "The lost Relic"is not like that either :slight_smile:

EDIT2 : Ok, the new subtitle for the game is now : Explore and trap monsters in 3D dungeons

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hahah, don’t worry. It’s not a big deal.
You don’t have to fit exactly in to a genre these days.
I would say the single biggest thing in a game being roguelike or not is randomly generated levels.
If your levels are designed then you’d probably want to call it an Action RPG or third person dungeon crawler…

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:cool:

Actually, I have finished the scripts and assets. Now I’m designing all the 20 levels one by one (no random or procedural generated).

Thanks for your interest.

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Another trading system coded in python. Every scripts and assets are almost done. Now, it’s time to design all the levels of the game :cool:

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Today, I opened the game page on the marketplace itch.io.

I will share the full game for free, and until the final release (I plan to make 20 levels), you can try it playing the first 5 levels.

Please, give it a try and tell me what you think :RocknRoll:

> Download the game on itch.io < Game for Windows PC only (32 & 64bits).

And… share if you like :cool:

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Because someone asked me, here is a 64Bit version non fullscreen in TAR format for Linux usersUse Wine for Linux to play

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Alpha 4 release : The first 6 levels of the game (your save game will work with future releases) - Optimized release, thanks for your feedbacks.

Price : Free (pay what you want)

Game for Windows PC (32 & 64bits).

> Download the game on itch.io <