Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: The Open-Source Roguelike

[Rosstin]

Wrote a new article for Gama:
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RosstinMurphy/20130709/195915/Crawl_The_OpenSource_Roguelike.php

Not sure how good a job I did, but too tired to do better! I hope I get featured.

Does anyone here play Crawl? I dearly love the game, if you're a fan of Roguelikes you owe it to yourself to check it out.

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/

The Webtiles version is particularly cool if you have a stable connection and want to play online.

http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee493/rosstin2011february/title_shadyamish_octm_zpsf0f927e0.png (https://crawl.s-z.org/#lobby)

[Domochevsky]

Man, has it really been that long since Cogwheel threw himself down the stairs in his dungeon runs on here... :smallsmile:

[Zen Master]

... wasn't that Mewtarthio?

[The Succubus]

Paging Dr Cogwheel to this thread...

That evil swine got me hooked on roguelikes. Dungeons of Dredmor, FTL, Spelunky (sort of) and a whole bunch of others I can't recall.

[Cogwheel]

Ooh, a Dungeon Crawl threa-

Dear god, people remember that trash? Why?

(Also no Mewtarthio did ADOM and it was much better.)


Anyway yes I should pick this up again. It's been a while and I could always stand to ascend a fourth time and/or die. Good taste, by the way. Octopodes or whatever they're called are second only to Felid berserkers in excellence.


Thanks for the thread, nice little reminder.


Edit: The wiki is 403ing me. Bother.

[BlackSheep]

If you're using an old bookmark for the wiki, it changed structure recently. Here's the link from the DCSS main page. It works for me as of just now:

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Crawl_Wiki

P.S. I loved your LP's, Cog, particularly the epic of Meepo.

[Vitruviansquid]

Ugh, I beat this game only once, back when mountain dwarves existed and the beehive gave you effectively infinite food. You just reminded me that I have to beat this again, now that all my old tricks got nerfed. :(

[Cogwheel]

If you're using an old bookmark for the wiki, it changed structure recently. Here's the link from the DCSS main page. It works for me as of just now:

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Crawl_Wiki

Thank you, but it doesn't work. Judging by some other sites, it may be a Chaosforge problem.


P.S. I loved your LP's, Cog, particularly the epic of Meepo.

Why thank you but it's a complete embarrassment and I would delete all traces of it given half a chance.



At any rate, I downloaded it again and decided to try a Felid Monk.


http://oi40.tinypic.com/nz50lj.jpg

For a silly idea, there are worse ways to go down. Not pictures: All the orcs and centaurs I slaughtered before this point.

My build, it burns with the legitimacy of a thousand totally optimised suns.

[Xefas]

+1 for Cogwheel's and Mewtarthio's Roguelike stuff getting me into Roguelikes.

I still play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup off and on, but recently I've been playing some Tales of Maj'Eyal. Still haven't won either of them. ._.

[Cogwheel]

+1 for Cogwheel's and Mewtarthio's Roguelike stuff getting me into Roguelikes.

I still play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup off and on, but recently I've been playing some Tales of Maj'Eyal. Still haven't won either of them. ._.

Yes good. ToME is good times. Best times.

I should start a thread for that.

[Rosstin]

ToME seems like it has become vastly more popular recently, I think I'll look into it when I got the chance.

Just started a Tengu Air Elementalist, going to try the new summoning fixes.

[Anteros]

Ooh, a Dungeon Crawl threa-

Dear god, people remember that trash? Why?

(Also no Mewtarthio did ADOM and it was much better.)


Anyway yes I should pick this up again. It's been a while and I could always stand to ascend a fourth time and/or die. Good taste, by the way. Octopodes or whatever they're called are second only to Felid berserkers in excellence.


Thanks for the thread, nice little reminder.


Edit: The wiki is 403ing me. Bother.

We enjoyed watching you suffer. I also enjoyed your Avernum playthrough more than I enjoyed actually playing Avernum.

[Domochevsky]

...
Why thank you but it's a complete embarrassment and I would delete all traces of it given half a chance.
...

So bad that it got me interested in roguelikes as well back then and start GenCrawl. Shame on you. :smallwink: