RASCAL, a ZIL roguelike

Playing Beta Testing Requests and Discussion
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It’s mostly an old-school roguelike, it’s a little bit IF, and it’s potentially the next full-size example game for ZILF.

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Fun! This could be cool for future versions of ZIL, going full-out Beyond Zork.

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At first I misread “Kill fiends” as “Kill friends”. :scream:

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Seems fun.

Am I supposed to be able to climb the stairs? I tried plugging in an external keyboard into my laptop, but the ‘/’ key on the numpad does not seem to work.

Googling keyboard layouts, I see that US and UK keyboards (and Chinese) seem to have a dedicated ‘/’ key, but most other locales don’t.

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Petter, if you run any other z machine game on that interpreter does the ‘/’ key work there?

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Not sure which other games use the ‘/’ for single-key-input (I can always enter it in line input, using either the standard shift+7 or the numpad ‘/’ key.) I’ve tried RASCAL in Bocfel (Gargoyle) and Frotz, but I can’t climb the stairs in either. Switching to US keyboard layout in macOS does not seem to help. Does it work for anyone else?

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To use the stairs, you should be able to press < or > - the same characters that are used to draw the stairs.

I see how the way it’s written on screen could give the impression that the key is /, though. Good feedback.

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Thanks! It works now. Sorry about that, it should have been obvious.

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Here’s a new version featuring:

  • more helpful instructions
  • new RNG (seeds work across interpreters)
  • visual indicator when you’re attacked
  • balancing, bug fixes, text tweaks

  • more NPC responses

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Another update, featuring:

  • fix for a map generation bug that made some runs unwinnable
  • defense stat and associated potion
  • balancing, etc.

  • endgame/victory changes

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This is delightfully bizarre, although I’m missing a “run” command.

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What I played worked really well, congrats.

Perhaps check the screen size and abort when too small. I didn’t see the messages at the bottom at first.

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Another update, featuring mainly UI changes:

  • colors (depending on interpreter support)
  • inventory selection popup
  • the bees can now be defeated with poison
  • no more “Which do you mean, the violet potion or the violet potion?”

By the way, there are a few testing commands to make it easier to reach the end:

press F9 twice to enable teleporting to stairs, F10 twice to see the whole map, F11 twice for immortality, or F12 twice to highlight enemies and stairs..

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