An Androsynth visits the dungeon.

For the moment I’m ok with the empty black pits, but I want to do something with the skylights.  Maybe slant them at an angle?  I’ll probably also change the dungeon lighting to some kind of red-orange shining up with the camera light at half-brightness.

I have a lot less free time now than I used to, so I’m trying to focus on specific game features and spend less time fiddling with stuff (like FRP semantics) under the hood.

$ cabal install roguestar-engine
$ cabal install roguestar-gl
$ ~/.cabal/bin/roguestar

- or -

$ git clone http://www.downstairspeople.org/git/roguestar.git
$ cd roguestar
$ git checkout 0.4.0.1
$ make install

New gameplay features:

• Melee combat, sundering and disarming attacks
• Weapons can sometimes overheat or explode
• Gateway teleportation between planets
• Use material-spheres to craft new tools
• Use material-spheres to heal
• Tab-completion of typed commands
• Compass directions to significant artifacts
• “Jump” short distances by teleporting

New objects:

• Chromalite material spheres
• Metallic material spheres
• Gaseous material spheres
• Energy sabres and fleurets
• Gateways
• Monoliths

New graphics features:

• Randomly generated sky spheres and landscapes
• Unique fractal trees
• Zoom-in/zoom-out

Changes under the hood:

• Major re-write of the RSAGL FRP architecture
• Multi-threaded 3D scene assembly and rendering
• Multi-threaded, anticipatory engine
• Various OpenGL performance improvements

For more information, links to the manual and git repository, visit http://roguestar.downstairspeople.org.

Check it out!

An Androsynth standing in front of a stargate.

When you are done on a planet, step through a gateway to move to the next one.