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Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup is an open source game (and not open source in the sense of "you can look at our code but don't expect us to value your input", open s
by jmduke 13y ago
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup is an open source game (and not open source in the sense of "you can look at our code but don't expect us to value your input", open source in the sense of "make pull requests!") and it's probably the best game I've ever played. I don't think I disagree with you, though: the reason it works so well for Stone Soup is because the game lends itself to personal extension (it's a roguelike, so you're dealing almost exclusively with game logic).
- bhickey 13y agoThanks for the praise. crawl is the only major project I'm involved with, but I'm really pleased with how well development works. The team is totally open to external contributions. For example, some friends and I added a god back in 2009. Late last year we started getting high quality patches from a contributor who then became the most prolific member of the team. One thing that holds crawl together is an overarching philosophy, particularly the Berlin Interpretation (http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Berlin_Interpretation http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=B...). Someone even made fan art for us: http://i.imgur.com/cGO39.png http://i.imgur.com/cGO39.png
- Legion 13y agoI so badly want to learn how to really play roguelikes like DCSS. I've never gotten past the wander-around-first-few-levels of NetHack and DCSS. There's so much there!
- lifeformed 13y agoYou should start with Brogue (https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/ https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/). It's a roguelike that manages to be accessible without compromising the core elements of the genre. The interface is great and it actually looks quite beautiful with its lighting system. The design has been streamlined, simplified but not dumbed down.
- laureny 13y agoTry FTL. It's the most modern reincarnation of the rogue-like genre and it's close to perfect in everything it does in that area.
- AJ007 13y agoI would suggest Moria. I think I was 10 or 11 when I played this. Nethack and DF are very hard, relatively. http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Moria http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=M...