Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game

This is really well done! And I particularly like the combat. Filling the field with your attacks and enemy attacks really forces you to decide if you want to risk getting more of your attacks or be forced to take a really big hit yourself. I love the strategy and risk-reward that you provide with this setup.

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game

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Post by ondras » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 3:24 PM UTC

jameskilton wrote: post #4

This is really well done! And I particularly like the combat. Filling the field with your attacks and enemy attacks really forces you to decide if you want to risk getting more of your attacks or be forced to take a really big hit yourself. I love the strategy and risk-reward that you provide with this setup.

Thanks! I am glad that people find the combat system useful and comprehensible. Some have troubles distinguishing colors, though.

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game

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Post by juice_bus » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 3:26 PM UTC

Really well done! The combat is really unique and brings something fresh to otherwise walking-into-enemies to kill them.

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game

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Post by jameskilton » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 3:29 PM UTC

ondras wrote: post #5

jameskilton wrote: post #4

This is really well done! And I particularly like the combat. Filling the field with your attacks and enemy attacks really forces you to decide if you want to risk getting more of your attacks or be forced to take a really big hit yourself. I love the strategy and risk-reward that you provide with this setup.

Thanks! I am glad that people find the combat system useful and comprehensible. Some have troubles distinguishing colors, though.

Ah yes that will be a problem for some. An easy solution there is to use different glyphs for the different colors as well.

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game

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Post by ondras » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 3:31 PM UTC

jameskilton wrote: post #7

ondras wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I am glad that people find the combat system useful and comprehensible. Some have troubles distinguishing colors, though.

Ah yes that will be a problem for some. An easy solution there is to use different glyphs for the different colors as well.

True. Unfortunately, my font of choice (Metrickal) only covers basic ASCII. But its glyphs are very neat otherwise :)

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game

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Post by meseguer1998 » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 3:33 PM UTC

Love it! :D

Re: Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game

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Post by jasonkostempski » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 3:40 PM UTC

ondras wrote: post #5

jameskilton wrote: post #4

This is really well done! And I particularly like the combat. Filling the field with your attacks and enemy attacks really forces you to decide if you want to risk getting more of your attacks or be forced to take a really big hit yourself. I love the strategy and risk-reward that you provide with this setup.

Thanks! I am glad that people find the combat system useful and comprehensible. Some have troubles distinguishing colors, though.

Is there a "wait" command (usually '.')?