My GitHub Game Off 2012 Roguelike

http://ondras.github.com/star-wars/

by ondras • 14 years ago

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wangfowen• 14 years ago

Cool idea, but it's not really clear to me when I'm able to reflect lasers. Is it completely random? I think the game would be a lot more challenging with less reflecting. I kill way too many guys without meaning to.

ondras5• 14 years ago

Reflecting happens with 50% chance. Which is far less than what we see in traditional franchise :-)

unwind• 14 years ago

Scary from an intellectual properties perspective, but I love how you switched to the "Star Wars" context as way to motivate using the (required) concepts of "push", "pull" and "clone".

The "fork" I'm not so convinced about, but being innovative is of course cool and I do love my 3-way from ancient arcade games which it made me think of.

oms1005• 14 years ago

I agree; very clever use of the context.

dkuntz2• 14 years ago

How is it scary from an intellectual properties perspective?

LucasFilm is very nice with their properties, permitting just about anything to be used unlicensed so long as there isn't a profit being made (they even support people doing it sometimes)...

JoshTriplett2• 14 years ago

Very nice!

Two minor control issues: waiting in place with . does not regenerate health and force like movement does, and non-numpad number keys don't work for movement (useful on a laptop).

ondras5• 14 years ago

In place wait is probably a bug and should be fixed soon. Not sure about non-numpad numbers though; their topology is far from being useful...

ondras5• 14 years ago

...aaand fixed!

xmpir• 14 years ago

nice idea. the gameplay is not too thrilling, but still it's quite funny to play for let's say 2 minutes...

wink• 14 years ago

A bit too realtime for my liking, but awesome idea and execution :)

ondras5• 14 years ago

The game is strictly turn-based, there is nothing realtime in it...

gagege• 14 years ago

I love rougelikes. I'll give it a try on my lunch break.

Here's my entry: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4853421

Good luck in the Game Off!

danielweber2• 14 years ago

Any way to restart without the tutorial?

ondras5• 14 years ago

Unfortunately, no.

danielweber2• 14 years ago

Probably a good thing, as the only way I've found to do well is to hide in good terrain, which I can do while dealing with Mickey Mouse.

rafski• 14 years ago

First reaction - oh cool, this works on my phone!

"Enter to continue" - "Enter" what? Like, a key?

eduardchil• 14 years ago

Really nice

rex64• 14 years ago

Brilliant!

binarydreams• 14 years ago

Here's my entry bro - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4853042

My GitHub Game Off 2012 Roguelike

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