Development Info Guild 1.0 released

Tags: Guild

<a href="http://www.guildgame.com/">Guild</A> has <A href="http://www.guildgame.com/downloads.htm">been released</a> for Windows. What is it? It's a rogue-like where you control a party rather than just one adventurator. Here's the post from <a href="http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.announce?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8">rec.games.roguelike.announce</a>:
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<blockquote>The main gimmick in Guild is that, instead of playing a solo
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adventurer, you control an entire group. At any given time you have
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direct control of one of the characters; the rest will follow you and
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make themselves useful (attack nearby monsters, heal wounded party
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members...) You can give the other characters orders ("follow me!"
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"shoot that goblin!" "run for your life!"), or you can switch to
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directly controlling one of them.
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I released a demo version of Guild last year, but this version is much
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bigger and better. It's a complete playable game, featuring:
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- 30 different kinds of monsters
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- about 50 spells
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- nearly 200 types of objects
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- four quests (one easy, three hard)
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- several randomised dungeons
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- a town level where you can shop, recruit new characters, and talk to
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NPCs
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- a house level where you can store your stuff and 'hang out'
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- character advancement as far as 5th level
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You can get Windows binaries at guildgame.com. Source code and/or a
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Linux version may follow in the next few weeks. </blockquote>
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Judging by the <a href="http://www.guildgame.com/empty%20level.html">screenshot</a>, you can divide up the party. Nifty!
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t3h grapfix suk

But, seriously, you should post screenshots in *.txt format. Would be more apropriate.

 

omg! houses are so useless! where's the run-your--own shop level??&??$%

 

Imagination, man, imanigation! Cannot you see the walls, the monsters and the treasures?

 

I can remember playing a game like this, back in the late 80’s. Your character was a letter and all the monsters were different letters, like O for orc. Surprisingly it was fun as hell. LOL! This is like a flashback.

 

Dude, such games are still being made and are called roguelikes. My favourite is ADOM, but some people like some clearly inferior ones like Nethack or Slash'em.
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Yup, a good chunk of roguelikes out there are ASCI graphics. Most are open source as well.

 

I had no idea, but I guess I'm not surprised. Every game ever released can be found somewhere on the web. Either copying an older style or the actual games themselves. I still love my MAME.

 

Tower of Doom played via MAME is one of the best co-op games ever.

 

There's a roguelike called Tower of Doom, which has a Warhammer 40k type setting. I post about it occationally.

 

you need an insane Tom Hanks to get the full experience