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[Mechteric]

RogueMek, the roguelike adaptation of BattleTech, is now ready to play! Its first public release uses 3025 technologies and adheres to a major portion of the classic BattleTech rules. It is based on a 1/4th CBT turn using a custom Action Point (AP) system to dictate the movement and weapon fire for each mech. It supports all up to date HTML5 compliant browsers and requires a keyboard for play. Refer to the in game "Controls" menu for all actions available to you. The rest I leave to you to explore!

Watch the release video here:



Play the game here:
http://minimek.sourceforge.net/


And finally, huge thanks to the MegaMek developers as their resources helped this project immensely, and to my brothers and fellow Blazing Aces for their feedback and alpha play testing.

Happy hunting!




Edit: Changed title of thread, the "ASCII" version of the game will be called "RogueMek Legacy" so as to prevent confusion with the new version.

Edited by CapperDeluxe, 05 November 2014 - 06:55 AM.

[Slade Deleportas]

Awesome work. Haven't played yet but watched the video. One issue: makes my eyes go all buggy, all those ASCII hexes. lol.

Edited by Slade Deleportas, 07 September 2013 - 12:34 PM.

[Mechteric]

Slade Deleportas, on 07 September 2013 - 12:34 PM, said:

Awesome work. Haven't played yet but watched the video. One issue: makes my eyes go all buggy, all those ASCII hexes. lol.

Haha yeah I find it helps to zoom in a bit more when I play, I only kept it zoomed out for the video to show more of what was going on. Ctrl and mouse wheel up/down zooms in and out.

[GoManGo]

YAWN nice work but its to OLD School programmed in what Basic? or Visual Basic? Sorry bros but I don't own a 386 anymore to play it on.

[GoManGo]

Come play this======real fun game.

[Toong]

GoManGo, on 08 September 2013 - 07:17 AM, said:

Come play this======real fun game.

Call of Duty?

[Mechteric]

GoManGo, on 08 September 2013 - 07:12 AM, said:

YAWN nice work but its to OLD School programmed in what Basic? or Visual Basic? Sorry bros but I don't own a 386 anymore

I'm glad you asked Mr. Troll! I've chosen it as an art style. Its programmed in HTML5/Javascript and likely many times more complex than most of those lame iOS touch games. At any rate, I do plan on eventually going to 2D sprites. Just not yet.


Anywho, I have just updated the website and provided pages of How-To-Play information. I'll be putting together a FAQ at some point as well to answer other questions related to the present&future of the game

http://minimek.sourc...ueMek/index.htm

Edited by CapperDeluxe, 08 September 2013 - 10:39 AM.

[Mechteric]

Slade Deleportas, on 07 September 2013 - 12:34 PM, said:

Awesome work. Haven't played yet but watched the video. One issue: makes my eyes go all buggy, all those ASCII hexes. lol.

Oh and I made a modification to the game, in that the Hexes should look more like hexagons and less like octagons. Hopefully it will prevent some confusion you had in trying to view the map!

[Stormwolf]

Looks great, too bad the kids won't be able to appreciate it.

[Mattiator]

I love how it looks like the older roguelikes, but still is fundamentally BattleTech. Great work!

Edited by Mattiator, 08 September 2013 - 02:33 PM.

[Victor Morson]

GoManGo, on 08 September 2013 - 07:12 AM, said:

YAWN nice work but its to OLD School programmed in what Basic? or Visual Basic? Sorry bros but I don't own a 386 anymore to play it on.

Kind of an obnoxious gimmick you've got going on there.

Mattiator, on 08 September 2013 - 02:33 PM, said:

I love how it looks like the older roguelikes, but still is fundamentally BattleTech. Great work!

Anyone remember BBS door games?

This gives me fond memories of classics like The Pit and Operation Overkill.

[Mechteric]

I've just pushed an update to hopefully fix some of the crashes, and improve performance a bit by making the animations based on time instead of frames (I know I should have done that sooner). Also I've included some extra UI goodies, such as coloring your bar graph red when armor/internals get down to under 25 percent, and when a weapon is destroyed a red line appears through it (applies to you and your target displays).

My next update probably won't be as quick, as I'm moving on to handling prone mech states, charging, DFA, and trying to make the AI better.

[Itsalrightwithme]

So much fun! Perfect distraction at work. Thanks for this great work!

[WerewolfX]

fine work. +1

[Mechteric]

I've finalized the DFA/Charging code and its now live! Have fun falling over!

[Itsalrightwithme]

It's quite fun, Capper! Nice work on the DFA/falling/charging code. I like the icon representation of having fallen, too.

[Steinar Bergstol]

Love the look of it. Brings me back to my days on the Battletech MU*s back in the 90's. Love it!

[Tolkien]

+1

[Rasfaratu]

As a fan of rogue likes I approve! very fun little game.

Sadly it makes me wish there was a RPG mode, where it was an open world and you had to kill mechs for salvage to pay for repairs and ammo.


Also: Dropping as a medium mech only to be spawned next to a king crab

[kravkalash]

First roguelike I've seen that uses a hex-grid. Nice work!