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COLUMN: @ Play: 'Izuna, Legend of the Roguelike Ninja'

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2008-07-01 16:00:15 by John Harris in GameSetWatch
...Roguelike dungeon exploring genre That first generation of games in a new genre tends to not look too critically at the source material. Depending on how charitable one's feeling, this could be considered to be either because of a cynical exploitation of that material or a genuine enthusiasm for it. The "lost" roguelikes mentioned last time...
 
Tags: izuna, permanent experience gain, permanent experience, experience, pokemon mystery dungeon, mystery dungeon, izuna loses, izuna leaves, easy experience
 
 
 
 
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Chocobo's Dungeon producer on a gentler roguelike

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2008-07-01 18:00:00 by JC Fletcher in Nintendo Wii Fanboy
...roguelike, made in such a way that "users who have never played a dungeon crawler can enjoy it as well." Item and experience loss after death, then, is gone to make the experience friendlier. Good for new players, but roguelike devotees may be put off Square Enix was motivated to return to the Chocobo's Dungeon RPG series, Yokoyama said,...
 
Tags: dungeon, dungeon rpg series, dungeon rpg, chocobo, dungeon crawler, game, chocobo game, final fantasy fables, dungeon series
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: @ Play: Towards Building a Better Dungeon

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2008-06-02 08:00:59 by John Harris in GameSetWatch
...Roguelike dungeon exploring genre I've beaten the drums pretty loudly for roguelikes here, I suppose. They are a style of role-playing game that has much to teach game designers, in its tactical depths, its subtle incorporation of logical puzzles, its open-endedness, and the sheer variety in them. As said last time, nothing in computer...
 
Tags: identification, roguelike identification system, games, roguelike games lack, identification game, game, game industry, game design, roguelike game
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: @Play: Roguelikes And OD&D

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2008-05-16 16:00:10 by John Harris in GameSetWatch
...Roguelike dungeon exploring genre As you may have figured out by now, roguelikes are one of my favorite types of computer games. It's not that I hate other kinds of games, or even other RPGs. But roguelikes, good ones at least, provide essential gaming nutrients unavailable nearly anywhere else. They're games of skill instead of patience,...
 
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COLUMN: @ Play: Super-Rogue, Banished to the Deeper Regions

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2008-06-20 08:00:01 by John Harris in GameSetWatch
...Roguelike dungeon exploring genre Rogue was certainly not the first CRPG. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord probably made it out months ahead. Before then, there were interesting , relatively unknown Dungeons & Dragons-inspired games for the PLATO computer network, and which might get looked at themselves here, eventually. But...
 
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@Play: The Delights Of Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer DS

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2008-03-28 08:00:27 by John Harris in GameSetWatch
...Roguelike dungeon exploring genre Note: screenshots from the Super Famicom fan-translated version In recognition of the U.S. release, after more than ten years since its Super Famicom origin, of the DS version Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer, our column again focuses on that game It's very long this time, and divided into three parts...
 
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COLUMN: @Play: Objects of Collection

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2008-12-03 16:00:59 by John Harris in GameSetWatch
...Roguelike dungeon exploring genre I've said this about first-person shooters before, but in the interest of fairness, I admit it's completely appropriate to say it of roguelikes too: from one quite valid point-of-view, they're all the same game Of course when you look at the games up close this assertion falls apart. This perspective...
 
Tags: magic, random magic items, types, previous types, random food types, random, random multi-use items, magic stuff, random magic equipment
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: @Play: Modeling Motion on a Dungeon Grid

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2008-08-04 00:00:43 by John Harris in GameSetWatch
...Roguelike dungeon exploring genre Here's a bit of hopefully-useful insight into a topic that every roguelike designer has to cover eventually: how to simulate variable rates of movement on the game's essentially integral, Cartesian grid One of the most distinctive aspects of a roguelike game is time-equivalency of actions. Moving a step,...
 
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COLUMN: @Play: Phenomedom, Da Dee, Da-Dee-Dee

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2008-10-02 16:00:09 by John Harris in GameSetWatch
...Roguelike dungeon exploring genre A month ago I was roaming the Dealer's Room aisles at Dragon*Con , the foremost convention for those who can't make it to PAX. At that particular moment, I was looking at the wares of the dice guys: some store who rents one side of an entire aisle side and fills it with all, yes all , kinds of dice. d100s,...
 
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