Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, a roguelike game where players seek the Orb of Zot, winner of the Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year award, and one of my favorite games of late (seriously, I’ve never been able to get into roguelikes but this is really fun), reached version 0.5 recently:
New species and job: Deep Dwarf, [...]
Version 0.11 of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup was released earlier this month; this award-winning roguelike now has new locations, monsters, items, deities, and various UI improvements.
Gaslamp Games has released their roguelike game Dungeons of Dredmor for Windows and Mac OSX, and posted this update about the Linux version on their blog: Linux guys: those of you who have emailed us have hopefully received a note from me. We are still very committed to getting you a Linux version of Dredmor, [...]
What’s your Linux game of the year?
For the more ambitious, what’s your Linux game of the decade?
Mine:
2009: I didn’t really play enough games to make a good call here unfortunately :( – I played Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup more than anything.
Decade: Return to Castle Wolfenstein! I spent more time with this game than anything else [...]
From this morning’s brief Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup session There is a sparkling altar of Nemelex Xobeh here. You see here a legendary deck of cards. _k – a legendary deck of cards Things that are here: an orcish dagger; a goblin corpse _Found 10 gold pieces. _You open the door. _k – a legendary [...]
My friend Hamish Wilson emailed me about a new classic roguelike game named Dungeons of Dredmor and it’s being developed by a new indie GNU/Linux friendly company named Gaslamp Games
Here is what Hamish Wilson writes :
Thanks to the Humble Bundle i’ve discovered also this nice game: Dungeons of Dredmor.
It’s a classic Rogue-like game, you have to move your hero in 10 level of dungeons where you’ll fight against terrible monsters, to get new equipment, skills and fight the big bad Evil guy
I’m really getting more stoked for Dungeons of Dredmor based on the Windows reviews; dammit, come out already! TAKE MY MONEEEEEY (from Ars): Sir Clyde, heeding the call for a hero to save the kingdom, steps into the first level of the evil lich Dredmor’s domain. Before him are a series of vending machines for [...]
Gaslamp Games let us know that they’ve posted a new trailer for their upcoming roguelike RPG Dungeons of Dredmor in the form of a “Late-Night Dwarven Infomercial”: This trailer highlights some of the many exciting ways you can die at the hands of traps. This is part of a series of planned infomercials leading up to [...]