KleinRL

KleinRL
Alpha Project
Developer	Quendus
Theme	Claustrophobia
Influences	Crawl, Angband, DoomRL, TreasuRL
Released
Updated	{{{updated}}}
Licensing	Open source
P. Language	Python
Platforms	Windows, Linux, Mac OS
Interface	ASCII, keyboard
Game Length	20 seconds to 5 minutes
Official site of KleinRL

KleinRL is a 14DRL (having failed to be a 7DRL) by Quendus. It was released on the 24th of October 2010 (Pacific time). KleinRL is set on the surface of a Klein bottle, and has maze-like geography instead of rooms. Several of the actors in the game can pick up pieces of the wall and put them down again. The objectives are:

• not getting killed by the 2 relentless pursuers who start with better equipment than the player (in a map that's small even for a roguelike)
• tracking down and defeating an extreme coward

Inventories are even smaller than in Angband (10 slots+equips), most items are quite powerful, and enemies will use any nice equipment that they find (no free destruction of objects, so you can't reliably keep items from them). Features implemented:

• Correct display of the player's locale
• Map generation
• Movement, timing
• Moving pieces of wall around
• Non-stupid AI for movement of important actors
• Combat system (will need balancing)
• System of daemons to manage temporary effects
• Magic items/effects
• Line of sight
• AI for equipment management
• Map memory
• Something resembling balance

Features not yet implemented:

• multiple ring slots (never mind)
• lack of lag

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