Rogueliker Plays Demon, Episode 6

Posted by Herbie on July 30, 2015

Episode 6 of Rogueliker’s Demon playthrough. An encounter with a deadly enemy summoner! Who will come out on top?

Rogueliker Plays Demon, Episode 5

Posted by Herbie on July 29, 2015

Episode 5 of Rogueliker’s Demon playthrough. Highlights include a tense battle with some Jiang Shi, and the discovery of a Silver Matrix, which can be used to sacrifice one demon to grant another new powers.

Rogueliker Plays Demon, Episode 4

Posted by Herbie on July 28, 2015

Episode 4 of Rogueliker’s Demon playthrough. Rogueliker encounters and defeats a rather massive horde of demons on the 4th floor!

Rogueliker Plays Demon, Episode 3

Posted by Herbie on July 27, 2015

Episode 3 of Rogueliker’s Demon playthrough. Includes a tense encounter with a certain mad doctor and his pack of zombies.

Rogueliker Plays Demon, Episode 2

Posted by Herbie on July 26, 2015

Here’s episode 2 of Rogueliker’s Demon playthrough. Includes a rather impressive and skillful handling of an unusually early spawn of Ukobach.

Rogueliker Plays Demon, Episode 1

Posted by Herbie on July 25, 2015

This is ridiculously awesome. Rogueliker decided to record an introduction to and playthrough of Demon, and episode 1 is up. Go check it out!

7/23: A Small Group of Small Fixes

Posted by Herbie on July 23, 2015

Nothing too exciting in this build, an adjustment of the time limits on some “defeat X enemy” capture requirements, a small upgrade to hotkey button tooltip UI, and some typo fixes in a few descriptions, But, I wanted to go ahead and do this before getting into the implementation work on anything bigger, so here you are.

There sure are lots of you all of a sudden…

Posted by Herbie on July 21, 2015

A funny thing has happened in the last 96 hours or so…

From 5/30 to about 7/16 or so, there were 120 or so games of Demon recorded on the scoreboard. From 7/17 to now, there have been another 75 or so games. This is kind of an exciting uptick in interest. So first, thanks to everyone who is trying it out, and I hope you’re having fun.

So, I bring this up to ask a question: I had a forum setup here once for Demon, but I closed it because I had lots of spammers but practically no real users (and the few I had were friends I goaded to use it in hopes of it avoiding looking COMPLETELY empty. ) Even people who asked if I had a forum tended to take one look at the total lack of activity and run away quickly.

Is there any interest in me turning the forum back on? If there will be real users there, I’m willing to war with the spammers. If I hear from even a few folks who would be interested in posting, I’ll be happy to turn it back on.

Either way though, thanks again to everyone for trying out Demon. It’s been awesome watching the scoreboard fill up so (relative to previous norms) rapidly. Let me also add a shout out to summoner Xavier, who so far leads the new class of players, having reached Tower:7 on one of his games already. Just under half way to the (current!) top of the tower. Not bad!

I’ll post again soon with an update on what I’m working on for the next build. Cheers!

7/17: The True Nature of Things

Posted by Herbie on July 17, 2015

New build is up, with character descriptions added to the game.

Every demon, unique, hero, and summoner now has a description, which can be viewed in their character sheets. The character description page of the sheets is the default page when viewing characters via inspect or the View Party menu, so they will be easy to find. Remember you can use the left and right arrows on your keyboard to change pages in character sheets (a feature which I admit has not been terribly useful before this build. )

I’ve tried to keep the descriptions interesting but reasonably brief, and I think I for the most part succeeded. I hope everyone enjoys reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.