zenorogue

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   by zenorogue 8y ago

   Smart Kobold (and other games by Jeff Lait, such as Vicious Orcs) have interesting, weird geometry indeed, but it is still "flat". A bunch of Euclidean square grids glued together. HyperRogue uses actual hyperbolic geometry, which
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   by zenorogue 8y ago

   Funnily, the title of the HackerNews post about HyperRogue in 2015 was "non-Euclinean roguelike". But it got fixed later.
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   by zenorogue 11y ago

   I will think about it :) I am a bit unhappy with gog after buying Spelunky there and seeing that some features (such as the daily challenge) are available only in the Steam version, but I guess this can be done better.
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   by zenorogue 11y ago

   There is a post on the blog discussing how the hyperbolic geometry affects the map generation and gameplay: http://zenorogue.blogspot.com/2012/03/hyperbolic-geometry-in... It is not up-to-date with some of the new
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   by zenorogue 11y ago

   Thanks! I guess there were 11 lands back then, and there are 22 now. And the new ones show many new things in the hyperbolic plane, like wars between huge armies (the Hive), large circles (Camelot, where you have to find the center of a cir
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   by zenorogue 11y ago

   The author of HyperRogue here. Thanks to stared for sharing, and everyone for playing!
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   by zenorogue 11y ago

   Thanks for reminding me about this! I have removed the Desura links from the HyperRogue website.