LDKittenRL by zackhovatter

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made by zackhovatter for LD22 (COMPO)
PLEASE READ README BEFORE PLAYING



About
=====
LDKittenRL

Your friend has ventured into a cave without you and is lost and alone! It is
up to you to save him! Battle through hordes of 90s boy band members, people
who work in predatory industries, and other horrors of the deep!

Don't read any of the source files if you care about spoilers. This includes
the ./game file that runs the game.


Requirements
============
You'll need Ruby 1.9.3 and a terminal that supports colors.


Playing
=======
Navigate to the directory in your terminal and run

` ruby ./game `

without quotes. If you're a seasoned Ruby user, you may have a different
command for running Ruby files. Also, Linux/OS X users may simply

` chmod +x ./game `
` ./game `

This will give the file permission to be run, and the second command runs the
file.


Controls
========
y - Northwest
u - Northeast
h - West
j - North
k - South
l - East
b - Southwest
n - Southeast
> - Down stairs
< - Up stairs
U - Use item, follow up with the key in your inventory
g - Pick up item
. - Wait a turn


Tips
====
When you level up your unarmed damage and health go up. Try to avoid insurance
salesmen at early levels. They're pretty mean.

Good luck!

Ratings

Coolness 24% 506
Overall 2.50 435
Fun 2.83 167
Graphics 2.00 550
Innovation 1.83 563
Theme 2.00 561

Feedback

Gaeel
19. Dec 2011 路 19:13 UTC
A competent roguelike, funny character names, and difficult as hell ^_^
FredericRP
20. Dec 2011 路 21:31 UTC
Could you package this game into an exe please ? (can't install anything on my current laptop and don't have ruby on it)
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2011/12/20/packaging-and-preparing-your-game/
rawbits
20. Dec 2011 路 23:19 UTC
I'm not install anything to play a game...
馃帳 zackhovatter
22. Dec 2011 路 18:13 UTC
@FredericRP
I can't really package Ruby. It's usually included on operating systems (that aren't Windows I guess). Thanks for attempting to check out the game though :P.

@rawbits
Cool story, bro. Have fun not playing any game ever since they all have dependencies of some sort (DirectX?!).
馃帳 zackhovatter
22. Dec 2011 路 18:15 UTC
@FredericRP
Actually, when I get home I'll look into http://ocra.rubyforge.org/
A-Type
24. Dec 2011 路 08:37 UTC
No directions for incompetent windows folks? :/
jagttt
24. Dec 2011 路 10:53 UTC
Found my kitten at last. I have to say you've made a quite well done roguelike engine in 48 hours. But really I think it need more enemies and items other than potion :)
Anyway a nice game.
summaky
25. Dec 2011 路 13:02 UTC
I don't have ruby, so I can't play it. It looks good, though.
馃帳 zackhovatter
26. Dec 2011 路 15:46 UTC
@A-Type - I thought my instructions would work for WIndows, but I guess not. Sorry!

@jagttt Thanks! I was working on content in the last few hours, but I ran out of time before I could get anything really good done.
ratboy2713
29. Dec 2011 路 17:38 UTC
That was a fun little rogue like, though I must complain about some of the coridors stretching for too long, without a reference point you can't even tell if you are moving. I just held down the button and ran into an insurance salesmen and died. Also, once you hit level 2 you are pretty safe, and once you hit level 3 nothing can really hurt you. There should have been one more "difficult" monster on the final level. Still, very funny and very fun. Good job
ratboy2713
29. Dec 2011 路 17:38 UTC
That was a fun little rogue like, though I must complain about some of the corridors stretching for too long, without a reference point you can't even tell if you are moving. I just held down the button and ran into an insurance salesmen and died. Also, once you hit level 2 you are pretty safe, and once you hit level 3 nothing can really hurt you. There should have been one more "difficult" monster on the final level. Still, very funny and very fun. Good job
dock
01. Jan 2012 路 18:55 UTC
I was excited to play this, but unfortunately I'm not able to get it running. I hope you're able to make a browser build or EXE. Good luck with LD!
xilefian
03. Jan 2012 路 16:23 UTC
I like it, I didn't actually find it difficult which is good as I usually die within 2 hours on rogue-likes.

The simple game-play does good for it, installing was a pain and running it was too (I'm on Windows), once it was running all was good.
SonnyBone
04. Jan 2012 路 12:11 UTC
Also cannot play.
philhassey
06. Jan 2012 路 03:55 UTC
I don't have ruby. Sorry :(