So here’s a special tip for roguecoder – when you turn the lights out you can still move but the guards don’t – a good way to avoid getting seen – you just need to organise how you will move i.e.. 10 moves south, 3 moves east for example
First happy to finish. Very tough week with work, family and 7drl. A week is not very long to build a game !!!!
Am happy with end product but it’s clear I am way way off the qty of so many other 7drlers… Have only had a look at about 6 but the gameplay and graphics are miles above mine. At least it gives me a good idea of where I need to head for next year.
Ok soon honor of Lee Van Cleef let’s break it down
The good
Deployment – learnt a lot from last year. HTML 5/js and asp .mvc was so easy to deploy with visual studio, last year I mucked around with windows installers.
Script engine – ok a bit rough but I decided to try to build a scripting engine (Dominicscript) in a week… and despite its rough edges it sort of works and I’ll expand it in v2.0.
Scott Hanselman – big thanks for him agreeing to be in the game!!!!
The Bad
Graphics -yuk!!!!
Speed – still too slow
The Ugly
Code – The rush to finish led to lots of rubbish code particularly on the last day.
Conclusion
So there it is my 7day experience this year, check out the game (any modern browser is all you need)
domssite.com/roguecoder
Ok this is a fairly crazy game – I built in 7 days (actually would end up to be about 20 -30 hours) with a lack of sleep – if you have a chance to have a play – let me know your thoughts – big thanks to Scott Hanselman for letting me use him as a main character. I’ll publish the code soon
It’s written in asp.net mvc4, html5, Javascript
Just doing some reviews this is the first game i have come across by slash and its seriously cool – great old school rogue-like with very cool IRC feature where I got to chat with the dev – SLASH. Its an excellent game with classic rogue-like features and cool shading effects!!! Also for HTML/JS people this is a great example of what you can do (also includes Websockets – SLASH told me).
Not sure how many I’ll get to but this was a great start.
Cool game http://slashware.net/rodney/
I have just finished (well sunday) my 7 Day Roguelike game. Its an annual comp that requires you to build a game in 7 days. I’ll send some more details out soon and if you would like to play with it test it great. It was built in HTML5, JS, C#,ASP.NET MVC4. I’ll also add the git source control. Big thanks to Scott Hanselman for agreeing to be a character in it.
OK so this is the second year I have entered the 7drl and although i have just over 24 hours left i think the experience of last year (failing) has served me well this year – I am pretty sure I’ll finish – expect some more articles here in the next 24 hours related to the comp. As always doco comes at the end… My game for this year is roguecoder – built using js,C#(ASP.NET MVC4) ,details soon
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