Releasing a Commercial ASCII Roguelike, a Post-Mortem

Post by Kyzrati » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 4:27 PM UTC

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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 other question, I should really put a notice on the website that Cogmind is completely DRM free . That's not currently indicated anywhere... (I'll add it tomorrow, thanks!) Edit: Just quickly ad…

DRM free is what really matters to me. Cross platform would be nice, but Windows is my main platform anyway. ;D Game looks great. Expect a purchase from me!

Post by imdsm » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 5:10 PM UTC

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Thanks man. I have one remaining question before I buy it. I noticed from reading the material provided that you've said we're in a complex from start to finish, and it looks quite story based. This is great, I love lore like in Uplink. But more than that I love replayability in games. I like procedural generation such as ADOMs Unremarkable Cave ( http://ancardia.wikia.com/wiki/Unremarkable_Dungeon ), as this allows…

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://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2015/04/living-dungeon/ ). For a general overview of the game that should answer most of your questions, see this: http://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2015/04/cogmi…

Post by Kyzrati » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 1:04 AM UTC

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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

No problem. Do you think you'll be joining GOG? They seem like a great company to me but I've only ever been on the consumer side of the equation. I greatly enjoyed my DRM free copy of The Witcher 3!

Post by Kyzrati » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 1:10 AM UTC

outworlder wrote: post #28

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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!

Installing (and using) Wine on OSX is a major pain in the rear. A bundled installer would help with that. I'd love to read more about the custom engine :)