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How to make roguelike games in Rust

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Re: How to make roguelike games in Rust

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Are there commercially successful roguelikes that use ascii art only? Dwarf Fortress is the only one I know of and it's getting an official makeover for the Steam release.

DF is not commercial yet. Partial list of successful roguelikes with ascii:

- rogue - (net)hack - moria, angband, etc

Re: How to make roguelike games in Rust

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Are there commercially successful roguelikes that use ascii art only? Dwarf Fortress is the only one I know of and it's getting an official makeover for the Steam release.

cogmind has done pretty well even if a bit niche. not pure ascii but pretty close, like df. really excellent game, as well.

Re: How to make roguelike games in Rust

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Are there commercially successful roguelikes that use ascii art only? Dwarf Fortress is the only one I know of and it's getting an official makeover for the Steam release.

cogmind has done pretty well even if a bit niche. not pure ascii but pretty close, like df. really excellent game, as well.

Looks really cool!

Re: How to make roguelike games in Rust

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Are there commercially successful roguelikes that use ascii art only? Dwarf Fortress is the only one I know of and it's getting an official makeover for the Steam release.

DF is not commercial yet. Partial list of successful roguelikes with ascii: - rogue - (net)hack - moria, angband, etc

Don't forget ADOM, though it now has graphical tiles too.

Re: How to make roguelike games in Rust

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Are there commercially successful roguelikes that use ascii art only? Dwarf Fortress is the only one I know of and it's getting an official makeover for the Steam release.

cogmind has done pretty well even if a bit niche. not pure ascii but pretty close, like df. really excellent game, as well.

Not ascii technically but close: caves of qud.

Re: How to make roguelike games in Rust

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Are there commercially successful roguelikes that use ascii art only? Dwarf Fortress is the only one I know of and it's getting an official makeover for the Steam release.

I don't know about roguelikes success (Cogmind comes to mind), but I can tell you that ASCII games can be successful if you have a good idea. For example, I spent about 2 months making Rogue Bit just over a year ago:

https://roguebit.bigosaur.com/

And it sold over 25000 copies so far.

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