Game News Dungeon Rats, Iron Tower Studio's Age of Decadence dungeon crawler, officially announced

[Darth Roxor]

I remember trying to set up a Polish translation project for AoD on the ITS forums, but then totally vaporewared on it once I decdied that managing shit is simply not my thing and chose to focus on other stuff. Bits and pieces of it should still be in the translation subforum on the ITS website, some of it might be salvageable/useful (or not, it's probably crap.)

I do not have too much free time on my hands, TBH, but I could help out by doing some translation and the occasional editing/proofing. Localizing Dungeon Rats should be comfortably doable by 4-5 people (number adjusted for folks without much experience with that crap) within a reasonable timeframe, once workflow shit's figured out.

well there is one viable method to make people remain focused

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[Parabalus]

Any chance additional key bindings will be added?

With more characters the clicking will probably get annoying. I'd like to see more than the fast-normal-power, preferably all special attacks + belt slots + consumables (both combat and OOC). I'm pretty sure everything would fit the numbers keys with ctrl/alt/shift modifiers.

 

[norolim]

well there is one viable method to make people remain focused

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I don't think this method is realistic in this case, though. ITS are not willing to spend resources on translations, and I don't blame them.

Anyway, all this is just chatter until we hear something solid back from Vault Dweller or Elhoim.

 

[felipepepe]

Here's a very important question.

Will it have a release trailer made by felipepepe ?

Nah, sorry... I'm self-exiled in faraway lands, with only a shitty laptop... my video editing days are long behind me.

 

[an Administrator]

Jakby ktoś chciał zabrać się za tłumaczenie na polski to jestem skłonny pomóc, chociaż mój angielski jest średniawy. Może właśnie przetłumaczylibyśmy chociaż interfejs/opcje + ewentualnie początek rozgrywki, by zarysować fabułę i pozwolić graczowi poczuć dekadencką atmosferę? Pozwolę sobie zawołać Polaków, jeśli tutaj nie uda się zebrać ekipy to nigdzie się nie uda.
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[Goral]

Updated my ignore list

Joined: Nov 17, 2015

 

[Tito Anic]

Updated my ignore list

 

[Drowed]

This whole post seemed like a feeble attempt at a troll, but this:

- I don't know how costly it would be to change the character portraits but that, for me, has to be one of the highest cost-benefit ratio aspects of every game. If it's cheap, I think it would be the best thing any game can do for itself. Shadowrun Returns looked like it was made by 14 year olds because of this issue. AoD was passable but hard to appreciate and look at for a while. Even Geneforge 1 had so much timeless quality with it's black and white sketch art that was great where it counted---although it was god-awful in other parts. Spiderweb Software knocked it out of the park with Avernum 1 EftP by just having amazing background wallpapers during transitional plot wiritings.

Holy shit, man. This was a 12/10, with a lot of mountain dew and doritos. Would rage again, nice one.

The only good thing about this comment is that it made me look for an image of AOD's portraits, just to admire Oscar (I stand corrected) Mazin's art once more:

Damn. So good.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

That fucking Militiades face man.

 

[Goral]

just to admire Oscar's art once more

I wouldn't be so sure that Oscar is responsible for these portraits. I think it's Mazin Kassis's work.

Edit:
Yup, I was right, it's Mazin's work. Kos_Koa ?

 

[Lurker King]

Yep, the portraits and other drawnings is Mazin work. The environment art is Oscar's work.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Oscar's work:

 

[Goral]

Oscar's work:

Awesome.
On a side note, this hammer made from rock seems a bit too powerful considering the damage of steel hammers in AoD.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Marcus' strength is 9, which modifies the damage. The stone hammer's normal damage is 7-10. In comparison, AoD's bronze two-handed hammers' damage is 9-12.

 

[AbounI]

Oscar's work:

Awesome.
On a side note, this hammer made from rock seems a bit too powerful considering the damage of steel hammers in AoD.

Marcus

Spoiler

You get Marcus when you start the game; he's a very handy guy and has a two-handed stone hammer that hits diagonally, which is a huge bonus

 

[Goral]

Marcus

Spoiler

You get Marcus when you start the game; he's a very handy guy and has a two-handed stone hammer that hits diagonally, which is a huge bonus

How do you know? Are doing French translation and already have the script?

 

[Vault Dweller]

From this post:
http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,7253.msg146638.html#msg146638

 

[AbounI]

Marcus

Spoiler

You get Marcus when you start the game; he's a very handy guy and has a two-handed stone hammer that hits diagonally, which is a huge bonus

How do you know? Are doing French translation and already have the script?

beware the spoil
http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,7253.msg146638.html#msg146638

For the French translation project, we're still looking for few volunteers before starting anything

damn, too slow

 

[Goral]

Thanks for info and thanks for the warning, I won't read the whole spoiler.

 

[Jaedar]

Recognize most of the portraits, but not sure about hooded dude in bottom right or the bronze-man in top left.

Must I play this game once more?

 

[Goral]

Recognize most of the portraits, but not sure about hooded dude in bottom right or the bronze-man in top left.

Must I play this game once more?

Yes. I have no idea how you could have missed them but if you have, than you must have missed a lot.

 

[Craig Stern]

Tbh, the first thing that popped into my head reading the title was "a dungeon crawler where the 'clear my cellar of rats' quest is extended to encompass the entire game." (Which would be funny, but not something I'd actually want to play.)

starting your game name with the word "dungeon" is a terrible idea. There are already 40 RPGs on steam that have the word dungeon in it, many of them are very well known. Consider synonyms that are less common like crypt, mausoleum, catacomb, ect. worst case scenario: someone googling dungeon rats gets wiki pages about rat enemies in dungeon siege or dungeon defenders or darkest dungeon.

If he goes with "Crypt Rats," his game is gonna get buried on like page 232 of Google search results, below roughly a bazillion pages about the Magic card. :D

 

[Vault Dweller]

:there is no spoon:

 

[Alienman]

Oscar's work:

I predict 75% casualties by choosing to make that jump if I understand Age of Decadence correctly

 

[HoboForEternity]

Oscar's work:

I predict 75% casualties by choosing to make that jump if I understand Age of Decadence correctly

only 75%? i predict like 80% with permanent stats loss