Indie Retro News: Rogul - Hack'n'Slash Roguelike for the Atari XL/XE by Bocianu with music by PG

Roguelike. Simply the phrase brings up ideas of ascii primarily based dungeon crawlers with esoteric early ’80s Consumer Interfaces which have the steepest of studying curves which have extra complexity than a B-52 cockpit. There are lots of if not 1000’s of roguelike tasks, every with their very own distinctive spin on the traditional components. Rogul is one such roguelike that deserves a point out at this time, as not solely is it for the Atari XL/XE, however this recreation has obtained a brand new replace that includes quite a few adjustments and fixes, bringing it to model 1.0f.

This is the newest from the web site. “Rogul is a Fantasy-Hack’n’Slash-Roguelike recreation during which we management the destiny of the warrior Rogul, who travels via ten lands oppressed by the minions of a merciless demon. Our activity is to succeed in the final, tenth dimension and defeat the tyrant and ruler Amalotolos in an unequal combat. Throughout your journey, you’ll have to combat lots of of more and more troublesome opponents, and face different adversities of destiny”.

“Your companions in your journey and your solely allies would be the chilly metal of weapons and a handful of scrolls with spells. After defeating a lot of the monsters in a given land, you need to discover one other Portal Key, which is able to can help you teleport to the subsequent dimension. Every dimension requires a barely totally different technique and can throw dozens of its personal distinctive enemies in opposition to you”.

Modifications:

Fastened a bug within the character stats display screen.
Added display screen shake impact throughout boss assaults.
Modified the label ‘life suck’ to ‘life leech’.
The variety of simultaneous enemies now is determined by the issue stage: [8, 10, 12, 14].
Opponents patrol the map at half velocity if they can’t see an enemy.
The final change relating to patrolling monsters makes the sport world appear extra ‘alive’ and introduces extra problem on the similar time. The ‘regeneration’ technique has now turn into barely extra dangerous.