How about randomly-placed snipers?

How about a level where the walls secrete low-level monsters, like a mucous monster or something?

Big Brother Posted:

How about a level where the walls secrete low-level monsters, like a mucous monster or something?

maybe in the ‘living dungeon’ levels the place could spawn flesh golems and tentacles and stuff like that.

In terms of hive creatures, like adom’s bees or ants? I’m not sure. If I was going to do that I would do it differently somehow. The game’s going to be heavily influenced by ADOM but I want to pave new ground where I can.

You should be able to male reproductive organshot some monsters.

It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the—if he—if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. … Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having an alt named Esperanza, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.

Re: the lighting.

If the setting was some kind of building (asylum, cellar of a big-bum hospital, military bunker, whatever) that had lighting, you could have the lights randomly flicker on and off, by turns either lighting the whole complex or hiding it in darkness. And for extra lulz, either provide the player with no lighting of his own, or very limited lighting – like a flashlight with limited batteries or something.

What I had in mind here was kind of Riget (Riket?) a la Lars von Trier. I think Stephen King made a ****ty derivative work on it called Kingdom Hospital, but I hear that’s not so good. Basically a ****ed up, psychedelic hospital where everyone is going quietly (or not so quietly) insane, the staff have a wierd secret society, and there are satanists in the basement. Half of the time you (the viewer) don’t know whether to laugh or hide under the sofa, gibbering. In that way, it’s not just the character who is insane, but everyone else, and possibly even the building itself. To take that further, you could have a list on which you roll every 100 or 1000 ticks, with things like: nothing happens, level changes, spawn monster, lights go out, etc etc.

Oh, and when you take drugs, things go back to normal, meaning the weird changes etc stop Log in to see images!.

In any case, my suggestions would be to use either a contemporary or contemporary fantasy world if you want the horror aspect. At least for me, medieval generic fantasy is not particularly scary, even with tentacle-enjoy (no wait, was that a good thing?).

Just thought of something else, dunno if it’d be too painful and complex to implement or what, but possibly location damage could be included? Like maybe have certain traps cripple your char for a while or tear off an arm (this being a game with supernatural elements, there’ll no doubt be magical cures or even magically enhanced prosthetic limbs), and have a small chance certain attacks might damage your eyes, hands and other important bits.

Speaking of traps, ones that spawn a bunch of monsters around the player are a clbumic IMO. Or since this is a horror game, make it so some traps or enemies can induce a ‘fear’, ‘panic’ or ‘insanity’ effect, or something like.

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R2 Posted:

Re: the lighting.

If the setting was some kind of building (asylum, cellar of a big-bum hospital, military bunker, whatever) that had lighting, you could have the lights randomly flicker on and off, by turns either lighting the whole complex or hiding it in darkness. And for extra lulz, either provide the player with no lighting of his own, or very limited lighting – like a flashlight with limited batteries or something.

What I had in mind here was kind of Riget (Riket?) a la Lars von Trier. I think Stephen King made a ****ty derivative work on it called Kingdom Hospital, but I hear that’s not so good. Basically a ****ed up, psychedelic hospital where everyone is going quietly (or not so quietly) insane, the staff have a wierd secret society, and there are satanists in the basement. Half of the time you (the viewer) don’t know whether to laugh or hide under the sofa, gibbering. In that way, it’s not just the character who is insane, but everyone else, and possibly even the building itself. To take that further, you could have a list on which you roll every 100 or 1000 ticks, with things like: nothing happens, level changes, spawn monster, lights go out, etc etc.

Oh, and when you take drugs, things go back to normal, meaning the weird changes etc stop Log in to see images!.

In any case, my suggestions would be to use either a contemporary or contemporary fantasy world if you want the horror aspect. At least for me, medieval generic fantasy is not particularly scary, even with tentacle-enjoy (no wait, was that a good thing?).

sounds like you have your own game there! I don’t know how well that would work as a roguelike, it honestly sounds better as some other kind of more graphical adventure game. Also I’m trying to create a world here, not just a building. Also I’m not talking about “horror” like wereweolves and tentacles and ****. I’m considering more lovecraftian ways of getting that across.

As for the lighting, i’m envisioning something a little different from most roguelikes. light is going to be much more of an issue of importance in this, but i still need to flesh out the details a bit. It’ll be a little related to your memory too, which won’t be picture-perfect like it is in most roguelikes Log in to see images!

Well, it could be pretty cool if you had stats. Like “Bioengineered Supersoldier Shotgun-arm with Webbed toes” or “15-inch prehensile male reproductive organ”.

I actually like his idea.