Kyzrati

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by Kyzrati 7y ago
So amazing, all these smart people making commercial games in such a short time, and then there's me still working on the same old thing year after year, even though it was released a long time ago xD
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by Kyzrati 7y ago
Indeed, Cogmind's been my full time job for over 6 years now so far and still pays the bills every month. 11% of players even use pure ASCII mode :) So it's... technically doable.
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by Kyzrati 8y ago
Hahaha, thanks. It's funny when I sometimes get notices from new players who've said they got into it after having read all my blog and FAQs. I'm like "you just read... ALL of that?!" (I'm happy to have started
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by Kyzrati 8y ago
Ah, this was mainly because it's easiest to show UI/UX innovation in images :P The gameplay is unique, and much has been written about it, but it's not all in one centralized location like that page, which was easier to put t
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by Kyzrati 8y ago
REXPaint is not based on .Net, and works flawlessly under Wine on Linux. Although there's no native build, there are a bunch of users on both Linux and OSX (especially since a sizeable portion of the roguelike dev community uses non-Wi
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by Kyzrati 9y ago
Ah yes the owner would be me, and I really have to get around to releasing a new version of REXPaint xD. Lots of potential feature ideas, and it's cool to have to many people using this little tool I originally made for my own projects
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
Yeah, I want to eventually have a wrapper to simplify installation for those players. For now there are step-by-step guides on the forums that keep the process pretty simple with regard to Cogmind. I may one day write more about the engine.
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, they've got some really nice music! (still listening)
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
I assume I will, yeah, as they have a good, loyal customer base and are known for quality. Still in early talks, and it wouldn't happen until next year, I don't think, because we'd need to wait for a price drop, and I don&#x2
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
Whew, many thanks for your support :D GOG asked me the same thing when they wrote me last weekend to see if I was interested in joining their platform =p
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
The System Requirements section on the buy page addresses the cross-platform issue (as does the FAQ). I don't make a big point of it because while it works fine through Wine etc., it's not natively cross-platform. As for your othe
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
I actually contributed a bit to libtcod back when it was in active development :D The roguelike I worked on before Cogmind was originally written to work with libtcod's frontend, but I wanted to do a few unorthodox things and rather th
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
With regard to procedural generation, think of it as a normal roguelike in the vein of ADOM/DCSS. Endless replayability. The world is entirely dynamic, even more so than other roguelikes because there is an overarching AI ( http:/
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
Haha, not a virtually never-ending DF plan, no :). I have a very specific goal, an epic story to fill out, and a path to reach it. Cogmind will be done next year, then if it's performed well enough that I can continue making games we&#
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
Not native, no. Cogmind works nicely in Wine (better than many natively ported games due to the simple rendering engine), and we have plenty of Mac/Linux players in alpha. What I hope to do instead is eventually provide a Mac version a
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
It's possible I'll be using a wrapper for the full version, yeah. I've got your info and I'll look you guys up when it comes to that! As for fonts, there are 82 font bitmaps included with the game, so for those seeking m
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
Thank you, and yeah for that first post in the mapgen series I linked to a bunch of good online examples for others to check out, so thanks for that :D
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
Yeah, it's an unfortunate limitation of the custom engine :'( But the alpha does have a rather large number of Linux players since it works great under Wine. And thanks!
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
Many thanks! And feel free to wait until the price drops next year if you need to :). I've got enough funds to see it through to completion, though I'd like to use any surplus to hire a professional composer for the OST.
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
Yup, there's a full game in there. You can (if you're good enough =p) play all the way through to the end. We have only two known winners on record since the game's launch. It's hard. What's missing is the mid/
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
That's good. As you can read in the post-mortem impulse buyers aren't the target audience for early access :) Do come back when the game is on Steam next year!
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
Hey thanks so much Pyxl101! As per my reply to another commenter, the buy page has been morphing constantly over the past several weeks, and has gotten increasingly messy (it already looks better than it did last week, so good thing you did
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by Kyzrati 11y ago
Dev here. Yeah, that page turned into a mess compared to what it was originally designed to be, but at the current stage I'm actually trying to ward off impulse buyers. The game isn't even done yet! I mentioned in the post-mortem