Gone Rogue

Gone Rogue
Beta Project
Developer	Ape Apps
Theme	Modern
Influences	Diablo, Pixel Dungeon
Released	2015 Dec 16
Updated	2016 Jan 22 (0.3)
Licensing	Freeware
P. Language	JavaScript
Platforms	Android,iOS,Windows,Browser
Interface	Graphical tiles,Keyboard,Mouse,Touch,Gamepad
Game Length	Medium (and growing)
Official site of Gone Rogue

Overview

Gone Rogue is a fresh take on the classic roguelike genre that is currently under active development by Ape Apps. Featuring turn based gameplay with elements inspired by Pixel Dungeon and the original Diablo game, Gone Rogue features unique hand drawn graphics, procedurally generated worlds and items, and can theoretically feature near endless levels of play. The game is currently on a monthly update and release schedule with many new features and content planned. Gone Rogue was developed using HTML5/Javascript and is currently available for free on Android, iOS, Windows, and through the web browser from Ape Web Apps.

Current Concepts

Procedural Generation

All levels are generated at run time, so that no two playthroughs are identical. There are pre-defined rules for some room types and floors (to create boss levels for instance), but nothing is hard coded. Items and weapons are also created in a similar manner. Using a system of item prefix and suffix definitions similar to Diablo, there are literally thousands of possible item combinations for the player to find. All items and enemies are placed at random.

Item Socketing and Upgrades

The player may discover items that contain sockets, allowing the insertion of special gems that can permanently boost the stats to the item or player.

Death Drop

Similar to Diablo, when a player dies, his body and entire inventory are spilled onto the ground, including his gold coins. The player returns all the way to the beginning of the game, and may find his body again and recover some of his old loot.

Boss Fights

Some floors in the game feature super-enemies, or bosses that the player will have to fight. Boss characters have an insane amount of health and the player will probably be required to drink several potions during the course of the battle in order to survive.

Future Concepts

Being a game that is currently in beta under active development, many of the planned features in Gone Rogue have yet to be implemented. Below is a non-exhaustive list of things that are to come.

Town

Right now the player can find gold coins in Gone Rogue but has no way to spend them. That will change with the upcoming capability of the game to generate town levels. Town levels will also be procedurally generated based on rules, so there will be no pre-defined town level. That said, all town levels will have specific merchant and NPC classes available, which will be generated at runtime based on a predefined set of rules.

Quests

With the addition of town comes the addition of NPC's. And with the addition of NPC's will come the addition of quests. Like most everything else in the game, quests will be procedurally generated, so that no two play throughs will contain the same quests. The questing system will be similar to the type found in World of Warcraft, featuring farming quests, delivery quests, and 'go kill something' quests. Completing quests will result in the player gaining some combination of experience, gold, and items.

Town Portals

Since the dungeon in Gone Rogue can theoretically become infinitely deep, there needs to be a quick way to return to a town for supplies. Similar to Diablo, there will be town portals that the player can find so that they can create a quick way to get back to safety. Portals will persist forever, and any number of portals can be generated. Each town will be created with a designated "portal area" where town portals will be spawned once created by the player.

Home Location

Gone Rogue v0.2 introduced the concept of beds, but right now they do not do anything except recharge the player's health. In future releases, when a player finds a bed, they will be given the choice to make that bed their "home," so that when they die, they re-spawn in the bedroom that they set as home, as opposed to at the beginning of the game.

Magic Spells

Currently, the player can find mana potions, but there is no way to actually use the mana yet. In the future there will be ranged-attack magic spells that the player can use their mana on.

Team/Party

Players will eventually be able to hire NPC's to fight along their side. There will also be the possibility for characters to spawn creatures to fight along their side, similar to the necromancer from Diablo.

Cooking

The game currently contains various food items that the player can find, but besides giving relatively minor boosts to health and mana, the food items really don't do anything. At some point though, players will be able to find stoves or fire places within the game and use them to combine raw food items into more complicated ones, which will either become more valuable or offer the player different abilities.

Auction House

Given the item prefix/suffix/and socketing system in the game, there are literally thousands of possible items that can be generated by either the system or the player. Since no one item is guaranteed to appear in somebody's game, there will be an interconnected online auction house spanning across all players of Gone Rogue. Players will be able to make money by crafting and selling items and foods, or help themselves in their quest by purchasing items from other players.

More Level Types

Currently Gone Rogue can only generate basic dungeon type maps. Aside for the already mentioned town-type level that is in the works, Gone Rogue will also support the generation of cave like levels and outdoor/forest like levels.

Release History

v0.1 (12/16/2015)

• Initial Release

v0.2 (1/3/2016)

• Random item spawns can now be enchanted
• Added 7 new base items
• Added floor objects, both decorative and special types:
  • Fountain of Health
  • Bed
• Added custom room type capabilities with several initial types
  • Bedroom
  • Kitchen
  • Statue Hall
  • Big column room
  • The Baker's Kitchen
• Enemies can now spawn with a randomly picked weapon from an array of choices
• Added an in-game mini-map
• Increased the chance of enemies (and player) dropping their inventory on death

0.3 (1/22/2016)

• Added basic keyboard and gamepad controller support (tested on Xbox 360 gamepad)
• Coins are now collected automatically just by walking over them
• Increased the radius of inventory death-dumps, as well as the odds that an item will drop
• Enemies will now pick up dropped gear and use it for themselves
• There will now be randomly generated named bosses that can appear on any level
• Added NPC characters
  • NPC's can be either Merchants or Mercenaries that can join your party
• The first area has been renamed from Dungeon to Castle
• Added a new area (now called the Dungeon) with all new graphics/items/enemies
• Tweaked the size and layout of the rooms created by the dungeon generator
• Sleeping now doubles the rate of health regen
• Sleeping in a bed now allows the player to set the bed as their "home" where they can respawn on death
• Added support for "shaman" type enemies that can spawn other enemies
• Added scaled up graphics on large displays (big monitors or TV's)
• Various bug fixes, engine improvements, and layout upgrades

Download and Play Links

• Android (Google Play): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ape.games.gonerogue
• iOS (Appstore): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gone-rogue/id1068609695?ls=1
• Windows (Windows Store): https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh58qqp
• Kindle (Amazon Appstore): http://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/dl/android?p=com.ape.games.gonerogue
• Browser (Ape Web Apps): http://www.ape-apps.com/webapps/gone-rogue.html