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Development Info Peleron's Brilliant Rebirth v0.105

DarkUnderlord

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If playing early release alpha versions of rogue-likes is your thing, you might want to take a look at <a href="http://www.kolumbus.fi/topi_ylinen/peleron/">Peleron's Brilliant Rebirth</a>:
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<blockquote>The game is set in Ikoniel, a unique world designed by Topi Ylinen. For more details on the game world, refer to the files Introduction.rtf and world.txt in the game docs directory.
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* Traditional ascii-based bird's-eye view, turn-based engine, keyboard interface
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* Build a party of 4 characters
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* Easily move your party around (like in a single-character roguelike); use formations to let your strong fighters protect your weak spellcasters
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* Over 40 starting classes with different sets of available skills; also a number of starting races with unique strengths and weaknesses
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* Skill and level-based character development system: mold your characters by investing stat and skill advancement points, and improve your skills by training
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* A complex magic system with 8 Realms of Magic (with elements such as rarity, difficulty, multi-realm spells, race/class restrictions etc.)
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* Choose your path: become the champion of virtue with a Good party, or steal and plunder with an Evil party!
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* Graduate your characters into awesome advanced classes such as an Archmage, the Grand Inquisitor, or the dread Harbinger of the Night
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* Loose, non-linear plot; quests with random elements - quests can have different endings resulting in different storylines
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* Explore an immense (and expanding) fantasy world, different locations with different landscape, different monsters, different NPCs, different objects, different quests etc.
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* Different starting locations for the different PC races
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* Freeware!</blockquote>
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Version 0.105 has just been released to the public at large.
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Thanks <b>getter77</b>!
 

sheek

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A party-based Rogue-like with a plot, sounds pretty damn good. Any screenshots?
 

Pr()ZaC

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sheek said:
A party-based Rogue-like with a plot, sounds pretty damn good. Any screenshots?
It's a game that is 1.2MB zipped. Are you sure you want to base your impression with screenshots?
 

getter77

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"pseudo-roguelike CRPG"----I hope we start to see more of these one day.

I hope future development will be brisk as opposed to the missing year or so on it. Good progress is good progress though!
 

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I don't think it should have been released in its current state. It feels very very rough. I guess I'll check back on this if there's any news about it in a year or so.
 

cardtrick

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shihonage said:
Hey, textmode can be pretty.

Indeed!

For instance:

But that's a poor example. You want pretty ASCII roguelikes? Check out the Doryen Library and the projects being made with it. For example:

libtcod_proj_ur-full;init:.png


Or check out the Chronicles of Doryen trailer (warning, there's sound).
 

shihonage

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That's not textmode, that's colored text done via 3D acceleration.

Real console (DOS) textmode is limited to a set of specific resolutions, in 16 glorious colors. That's where my screenshot is from.
 

mondblut

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:roll:

They've got zooming maps and dynamic weathers and fancy shadings but *still* insist on battling the alphabet. Is it some sort of freudean aversion to literacy and writing? Like being forced too roughly to learn reading back in childhood?
 

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