
Ruby Dungeon (demo)
A downloadable game for Windows
Recently, near a small secluded village, deep into the forest, emerged a tower.
No one knows how, and no one knows why, and none that dared to enter it even found what lays at its very bottom. If there is a bottom to it at all.
Some claim that inside this tower the deads come back to life, and others says its very walls are ever-shifting.
Most would believe such stories to be the demented dreams of a troubled soul, but the sheer number of coinciding claims begs curiosity.
Either way, what is certain is that this tower holds both treasure, power and secrets.
You are an upcoming adventurer, and set out on a long and perilous journey to uncover this tower's depths.
Gameplay :
- Explore a randomly generated dungeon to pillage it's treasures.
- Create varied builds and teams with a simple yet deep turn-based combat system.
- Buy equipment and slay the monsters inhabiting the tower to become more powerfull in this frenetic RPG.
- You can explore the dungeon alone or with friends via turn by turn local co-op.
Death in this game will make you lose your journey into the dungeon, but you can exit it to permanently save your progress and come back stronger.
Roadmap :
The demo currently have most intended features for the game, but in a limited area.
It currently has three unique areas and one boss available in it. Around twenty more areas and over ten bosses are intended for the full game.
The full game will be free, but donations help me greatly to develop more games.
Updated | 7 days ago |
Status | In development |
Platforms | Windows |
Author | Bruoche |
Genre | Role Playing |
Tags | ascii, Dungeon Crawler, Fast-Paced, Retro, Roguelike, Roguelite, Text based, Turn-based, Turn-Based Combat |
Code license | GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL) |
Average session | About a half-hour |
Languages | English, French |
Inputs | Keyboard |
Accessibility | Color-blind friendly, High-contrast |
Multiplayer | Local multiplayer |
Player count | 1 - 10 |
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Development log
- Mini-Update - Sfx optimisation and main menu tweak.7 days ago
- Hotfix 2 - Music transition issues fixed9 days ago
- UPDATE - Dialogs and fixes10 days ago
- MAJOR BUG FIX - Boss spawn issue.61 days ago
- Hotfix 1 - Small balance adjustement94 days ago
Comments
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my goodbye note came too soon :'( please keep working on this one Bruoche
Thank you so much! Really glad you enjoyed your time with the game : )
And don't worry, even if it's gonna take a bit to make all the content I have planned, I'm not stopping untill it's done!
For those wanting to play it on linux, you need to install ruby and a few dependencies :
and then you can run the game (like op said) using :
ruby RubyDungeon.rb
Do you know if there is anyway to run this on linux ?
Sorry I don't have linux so don't know how to make an easy launch executable of the game for it...
On the other hand you should be able to manualy launch it in command line if you install the Ruby compiler following their doc : https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/
You will also need to install the dependancy packages, I think it should just be those two (but I haven't yet verifyed on a fresh install which are needed so don't hesitate to tell me if an error arise) :
- https://github.com/piotrmurach/tty-screen
- https://www.ruby2d.com/learn/get-started/
Once everything is installed you can open a terminal in the same folder as the .exe and use the command "ruby RubyDungeon.rb" to execute it... Again I didn't test it so no guarantee it'll work on Linux but it might.
really liking the rough, grimy look of the ascii graphics here, will be following this one
Thank you so much! I felt the hazy ascii fitted the vibe I wanted well too :)
WARNING : Windows defender will likely get a false positive from the game
This is due to the library I use to create the .exe file (ocran) that apparently make it so the .exe has to download and install the compiler my game use, so the game can work without having to download and install it yourself manually before playing (and Windows defender do not like that at all).
At least, that's the likely explaination given in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/nioqku/my_ruby_game_is_getting_false_posi...
To not simply take my word when I say that this game is safe, you can verify it yourself as the game's code is entirely open source on my Git Hub here : https://github.com/Bruoche/Ruby-RPG
Here you can therefore review the code for any risk yourself and even make your own executable via the Readme's instructions (granted you're techy enough to install the required dependencies and run it).
Alternativly, a thourough virus scan of the files should show a normal activity coming from the game.