The first level presents little challenge. At this point, Ive led enough doomed adventurers into the dungeon that I know theres not much that can kill you here except inexperience and poor judgment. Im taking a more cautious approach than usual, though. Im deliberating over each choice, rather than barrelling through the early levels.
You’re missing all your apostrophes.
Are you guys using different tilesets or just different fonts?
I must be thick. I don’t see it on Steam, and if there’s a link somewhere in Tom’s article to a download source, I’m just not seeing it.
It’s not actually Tom’s article. It’s Brain Brian Haskell’s. But the forum posts them all under @tomchick for some reason…
Maybe because Brian doesn’t have a forum account? Telefrog’s front page articles appear here under his name.
The front page does list his byline as “Brian Haskell.”
There’s a front page?!
(Or are you pointing out the typo? ;))
The only roguelike I’ve tried is Nethack, and my enthusiasm for it cooled quite a bit once I learned a guide was needed to make any real progress in it. This Brogue sounds like a lot more fun.
Corrections:
“it won[’]t harm”
“it[’]s not some magical suit”
“if it[’]s enchanted”
It is a lot more user friendly. Jump into the seed challenge and have a crack! The latest seed is 11152016.
And just because I haven’t said it lately, I really appreciate that you take the time to post corrections like these. Thanks, Merc!
-Tom
Brogue seems like a nice modern take on Rogue. It has a similar feel. Maybe Nethack is like that too, I don’t know.
I’m not sure I can get over how you can’t move diagonally around corners of walls. All these modern conveniences and they leave that out?
I’m pretty sure ‘no diagonal movement near walls’ is a conscious design decision, not an omission. It’s the same way Shiren the Wanderer works.
Here’s a fun talk by the Brogue creator about the procedural generation used to create the levels:
Brogue moved from single dev to “Community Edition” at some point in the past few years. It’s being more actively maintained and developed now:
I still play this from time to time. Nice to see it’s still being supported.