The game has a similar fantasy setting to most roguelikes, having been inspired by most of the roguelikes of the time: elves, dwarves, and orcs all make an appearance, weapons are medieval, and magic is magic. The dev team has made avoiding cheap shots one of their highest priorities, and instant kills or unavoidable deaths are nearly unheard of. Also, (with the sole exception of statdeath from artifacts) identifying items by using them very rarely causes any life-threatening consequences, and nothing other than weapons, armor, and jewelery can be cursed. Picture a Nethack game in which the most powerful healing potion in the game recovers about 25 HP, you can't trust your god to save you from anything, there is no Elbereth, all of your spells can backfire and hurt you, only certain species and rare mutations can provide permanent resistances, and, most importantly, there's no amulet of life saving or wand of wishing to save you anymore!ĭespite all this, there are two areas where it's actually much more merciful than most roguelikes: very few hazards can even weaken your equipment, and none can destroy outright anything other than scrolls and potions. It is still updated as of 2012, with new versions released every few months. Not wanting to waste the game's potential, a group of people made an open source fork called Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (see Stone Soup on Wikipedia if you feel that's an odd title), and their version is now dominant (similar to the way Hack became Nethack). It was updated a few times but development stopped in the early 2000s. The original was Linley's Dungeon Crawl, made by Linley Henzell in the late 1990s. (Or, more precisely, two games - one an open-source fork of the other.) I've bought everything on iOS from the Nethack and Rogue ports (with the gesture commands!) through to the new 'reveal tile roguelikes' like Sproggiwood - nothing is as deep or as well executed as this at the same time.Dungeon Crawl, or Crawl for short, is a Roguelike game. I've completely switched to CDDA because this iOS client is so freaking good.
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Sure - a full size bluetooth keyboard would work with numpad - but as a new dad my gaming is portable or nothing, I'm lucky I can manage the iPad as it is. I still haven't learnt the yuhjklnm system as an automatic reflex (I have to think every time.and mistakes make you die) so trying to make something like the awesome directional pad we have in the CDDA client has been the primary goal.
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I'm beta testing a software keyboard with a correct numpad (789 etc) but its literally been a two year process trying to cobble together anything remotely near as good as the CDDA client. I've invested probably $100 on various SSH clients and custom software keyboards trying to get a 'nice' DCSS experience, pretty much for naught.
I played Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for ages - using SSH clients/console mode because everyone in the DCSS community seems to think an iOS DCSS client is impossible/a bad idea/too hard. It took me a while to find the sound pack, but I bought it last night. 100% agree, and I've become pretty quick at the swipe up/down, perma-keyboard-hold and two finger command swipe even without using my bluetooth keyboard.Īlso - thank you - I had no idea the sound pack existed - I never paid enough attention to the splash screen first page beyond day 1.
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