New game from me - DataQueen

Darren Grey · Mar 24, 2014

Tired of crashes, disappearing stations and flagrant griefing? Well why don't you ignore the latest amazing 3D space sim and check out a more humble game! I made this last week:

It's called DataQueen and it's a hex grid roguelike, turn-based, with procedural levels that change during play, and has a variety of interesting abilities, enemies and bosses. Bloody tough too

I'm looking for feedback as I polish a few bits up, so any comments helpful! Downloads are free, for Windows, Linux and OSX.

http://www.gamesofgrey.com/blog/?p=461

I strongly recommend pressing '?' in-game for detailed instructions, as it can be quite confusing at first.

Theodrid · Mar 24, 2014

Looks intersting mate, must admit I was struggling to get the 'Blockbusters' game show music out of my head though!

Darren Grey · Mar 24, 2014

Yeah, I find it hard to get past the Blockbusters visual similarity too

Might be less of an issue if I get a tileset and some original music.

Hamerstein · Mar 27, 2014

Been playing it, very good, deceptively clever. Nice one Darren

Darren Grey · Mar 28, 2014

Thanks

Clever was very much the aim in the design.

Asp Explorer · Mar 28, 2014

It looks very interesting, and I'm sure the concept is great.

However, after too many MUD's and DF I am kind of texted-out. Graphical overlay perhaps?

Darren Grey · Mar 28, 2014

Someone has offered to do tiles - I'll see if that works out.

It's much more readable than DF and most MUDs though. Clear colours, low number of characters used, etc. ASCII ain't so bad when it's done cleanly! There are also particle effects to show various statuses and ability effects, which make the action more readable.

Darren Grey · Mar 29, 2014

Here's a shot of some early progress on a graphical version:

Will get ability icons and such done too. Been a lot of calls to make a mobile version of this, so I'll have to put some thought into how the hell to do that

acr0b3rts · Mar 29, 2014

I'll have a 'P', please Bob.

Hamerstein · Mar 29, 2014

Having a few problems with loading a saved game. It appears to hang once it's at 100%, but starting a new game works perfectly. Any ideas Darren.

PS I'm already running it in admin mode so it's not that.

Darren Grey · Mar 29, 2014

Yeah, I've had some issues with that myself :-/ Could you send me your te4_log.txt file from the game's directory? My e-mail address is darrenjohngrey at hotmail dot com.

Darren Grey · Jun 15, 2014

Working with a couple of friends on a mobile port now. This is how it's looking:

Got the control system to be really smooth - it's fantastic