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Ruler 7DRL

As usual, I forgot whatever lessons learned from last year and yet again tried to do something too big, I’m glad I could at least get a portion of what I wanted!

There’s no manual yet, but this should serve as an introduction:

In RULER, you are the ruler of one of seven tribes which destiny is to become civilizations, your goal is to make your people extend all along the land, and discover the marvels of science and technology…

Be careful though, because you can only count with your life and your loyal servants. If you die, you will never know what will happen to your civilization!

• Find a good place for your first 2 settlements, you want a place with food around (grassland, oceans and rivers are good places). You will watch your cities grow in time!
• Travel around looking for barbarian settlements to claim for you. Be careful not to run out of supplies! you can always go to one of your cities and refill.
• Influence your cities so that Tinkers are born and tech production starts
• Create units in your cities and Enlist them into your group, so that you can keep conquering and expanding!
• If you can’t create units, it may be because you don’t have enough resources! you can try trading resources from one settlement to another. Create a caravan (needs trader specialists) and load resources from a settlement, travel to the destination settlement and establish a trade route to exchange resources!
• Create sea unit and add them to your group to travel the seas!
• Create workers and build roads between your cities

Invested a lot of time trying to get a working Civilization AI, in the end… it works, but it’s not guaranteed to live for long :), I also added units from Stone to Future Age, and 7 civilizations.

I will release the source code, just in case anybody wants to contribute!

Congratulations to all the 7DRL Winners!

Aprox Work Time: 33:30 (25:30 + 8:00)

Almost there

Done

• Units can now be garrisoned
• Cities can be attacked
• Armies require resupplying
• Sea movement including embarking and landing
• Roads
• Science and Ages

Aprox Work Time: 25:30 (19:30 + 6:00)

Download the current version

Trading

Units can now be created at cities and added to unit groups. They need available resources from the city in order to be created. Such resources are captured from the surroundings of the city.

Caravan units can trade 1 resource of one city for 1 resource of other city, so that you can bring the horses to that far away land.

You can also influence your cities in order for them to grow the specialists you need for those cool units.

Time is running out, (I advanced one hour less than expected, and invested about 2:00 more). I guess it’s time to cut the scope again!

Aprox Work Time: 19:30 (15:30 + 4:00)

Settlements now grow over time and collect resources from their surroundings, they also train specialists; units also level up now.

First available version! Download for testing purposes from here !

The cities

The end comes near… I’ve started cutting unneeded scope. For some minutes today, I thought I had lost control of the project and the scope was too big again… but I regained hope some minutes later, it can be done!

Aprox Work Time: 15:30 (12:30 + 3:00)

Combat has been added (although the enemy AI doesn’t attack… yet… but it can counter attack!

Combat (Click to enlarge)

You can also select your leading unit.

Combat System works like this:

• One Unit group fights another unit group
• The front unit attacks the best defense unit of the other army
• The fight has a number of rounds, based on the higher attack speed of both units
• In each round, the attack and defense rolls are done. The loser unit has an 80% chance of losing 1 HP
• If the defending unit has higher attack speed than the attacking unit, it counter attacks for the remaining turns
• In each round, the winner unit has an 10% chance of becoming veteran
• If HP is zero, the unit is destroyed

Serf has been pretty useful to get this far, but I’m still behind schedule… I will have to plan something tomorrow!

Aprox Work Time: 12:30 (9:30 + 3:00)

Barbarians lurk in the land, staring at me curiously!

Barbarians, lots of them

Added confirmation and settlement names

Added barbarian unit groups and simple AI (Lots of object factoring…)

I am a bit behind schedule! must plan a bit tomorrow to ensure this will get done well!

Aprox Work Time: 9:30 (7:00 + 2:30)

Onward!

Run around creating settlements

The Ruler project is now set up using Serf, and basic unit groups, units, civilizations and map are all set up. Calendar is also running, using a passive actor. You can walk in the (randomly generated) map and create settlements using your pioneer caravans.

Next: Barbarians and Creating Units

Aprox Work Time: 7:00 (4:00 + 3:00)

The challenge is on with an outstanding number of 77 7DRL Challengers!

You can still announce yours!

Roguetemple presents you all of them, for your viewing pleasure! (All times are GMT-5)

• ‘Undisclosed’ by Fobbah on 03/08/10, 08:59:00
• ‘Pit of Hate’ by Walter Landry on 03/08/10, 02:30:00
• ‘Bane of the Living’ by Derrick Creamer on 03/07/10, 23:59:00
• ‘Troll Slayer ‘ by Corremn on 03/07/10, 23:16:00
• ‘Dungeonslayers RL ‘ by Kyle on 03/07/10, 23:12:00
• ‘Vapourtek Theatre ‘ by sinoth on 03/07/10, 23:01:00
• ‘AarrrRL! ‘ by Todd Page on 03/07/10, 22:39:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by dto1138 on 03/07/10, 22:08:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Matt_S on 03/07/10, 22:03:00
• ‘Ron Paul Revolution’ by James Meickle on 03/07/10, 20:38:00
• ‘ChuRL’ by jonypawks on 03/07/10, 19:51:00
• ‘Robobot’ by Barry on 03/07/10, 19:32:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Allan on 03/07/10, 19:01:00
• ‘Muert: Racial Prison Riot (Rape) Mayhem’ by pol on 03/07/10, 18:16:00
• ‘Fury’ by David A on 03/07/10, 17:51:00
• ‘PrincessRL’ by flend on 03/07/10, 17:36:00
• ‘GUNFIST!’ by jorbrads on 03/07/10, 17:12:00
• ‘RULER’ by Slash on 03/07/10, 16:53:00
• ‘Rogues in the Ascii World of Open Street Map’ by Altefcat on 03/07/10, 15:28:00
• ‘Toby the Trapper’ by Darren Grey on 03/07/10, 15:05:00
• ‘Earl Spork’ by deej on 03/07/10, 14:51:00
• ‘Quest For 7 ‘ by Andy M on 03/07/10, 12:49:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by kaw on 03/07/10, 12:00:00
• ‘CamelRL ‘ by Sherm Pendley on 03/07/10, 11:54:00
• ‘Smart Kobolds ‘ by Jeff Lait on 03/07/10, 09:27:00
• ‘The Legend of Kalamakkara’ by Miikka Kilkkilä on 03/07/10, 07:48:00
• ‘Lunar Shards ‘ by 10Print on 03/07/10, 07:47:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Nassi_setä on 03/07/10, 04:49:00
• ‘A Quest Too Far ‘ by Geoffrey White on 03/07/10, 03:47:00
• ‘Madness ‘ by hmp on 03/07/10, 03:08:00
• ‘A Lively Fisting ‘ by Jaldhar on 03/07/10, 02:21:00
• ‘The Rogue’s Quest ‘ by failrate on 03/06/10, 21:35:00
• ‘MazeBand ‘ by Legend of Angband on 03/06/10, 21:32:00
• ‘Spell and Spear ‘ by Austin Wilburn on 03/06/10, 19:43:00
• ‘¤ ‘ by Nik Coughlin on 03/06/10, 18:54:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by purplearcanist on 03/06/10, 16:43:00
• ‘Chompy! ‘ by edenicholas on 03/06/10, 16:42:00
• ‘Windfall Serenade: Alpine Quest Dragooner ‘ by Devon on 03/06/10, 16:30:00
• ‘GartenRL’ by Required field cannot be left blank on 03/06/10, 16:28:00
• ‘Math: The Roguelike ‘ by kkairos on 03/06/10, 16:11:00
• ‘Jellies in a Jam ‘ by win on 03/06/10, 15:58:00
• ‘Einherjar ‘ by Fenrir on 03/06/10, 15:21:00
• ‘RunRight’ by trystan.s@comcast.net on 03/06/10, 14:14:00
• ‘RavenousRL ‘ by steev on 03/06/10, 13:55:00
• ‘Bidden ‘ by George Oliver on 03/06/10, 12:28:00
• ‘RogueBand Hero ‘ by flyingofx on 03/06/10, 11:58:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Timothy M on 03/06/10, 11:51:00
• ‘Defender of ASCII ‘ by Holyaxe on 03/06/10, 11:04:00
• ‘Laser Spigot ‘ by Andy on 03/06/10, 10:57:00
• ‘Project Purgatorio ‘ by Chris Wentzel on 03/06/10, 10:55:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Ryan Szrama on 03/06/10, 10:52:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Konstantin Stupnik on 03/06/10, 10:48:00
• ‘Smash Arena ‘ by Ed Kolis on 03/06/10, 10:19:00
• ‘World of Roguecraft ‘ by Tipa on 03/06/10, 10:19:00
• ‘Panicc ‘ by Grandi on 03/06/10, 09:43:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Qwertyuiopas on 03/06/10, 09:27:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Ilmuri on 03/06/10, 08:31:00
• ‘The Ultimate Ending of the Dead ‘ by Pekka on 03/06/10, 08:19:00
• ‘Simulacrum ‘ by Paranoid Death Fantasy on 03/06/10, 08:15:00
• ‘Backward children ‘ by Thomas Berglund on 03/06/10, 07:49:00
• ‘Shopdoom ‘ by pammpi on 03/06/10, 06:52:00
• ‘Hitmen For Destiny: the game ‘ by Timofei Shatrov on 03/06/10, 06:46:00
• ‘Constellation ‘ by Asceai on 03/06/10, 06:43:00
• ‘SpelunkeRL ‘ by Arwus Decker on 03/06/10, 06:38:00
• ‘Go!’ by Sock Puppet on 03/06/10, 06:35:00
• ‘Generic fantasy thingy ‘ by magellan on 03/06/10, 05:23:00
• ‘Divine battle is about to start! ‘ by aave on 03/06/10, 04:58:00
• ‘Old school roguelike ‘ by Vlad Dumitru on 03/06/10, 04:37:00
• ‘Underhall ‘ by elig on 03/06/10, 04:29:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by jab on 03/06/10, 03:00:00
• ‘GenEric Zombie Roguelike ‘ by idontexist on 03/06/10, 02:39:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Oohara Yuuma on 03/06/10, 02:35:00
• ‘This’ by zarat on 03/06/10, 00:26:00
• ‘Project “Hitting Things with Sticks” ‘ by Movius C. Longhair on 03/06/10, 00:08:00
• ‘Undisclosed’ by Sir_Lewk on 03/06/10, 00:01:00
• ‘7SRL. ‘ by Ben on 03/05/10, 21:45:00
• ‘Domination Empires ‘ by Numeron on 03/05/10, 20:15:00

And so it was, that the 7th 7DRL Challenge started…

Well, I wanted to start on Saturday but it was impossible, ended up starting around 5:00 PM on Sunday. Hoping for having a lot of time next Saturday and Sunday!

Lali in the town

See the video

I was planning to just grow out a new game from the Expedition source code… but after spending 30 minutes into the horrible refactoring process I knew it was going nowhere…. although the need of sacrificing underlying code quality (and structure) in exchange for having a working product is something I have accepted before, this time I am going the other way!

So, I used the first day to make the SERF Engine work again, and actually managed to get a walk in the map demo working, with all the needed components. The only missing thing here are autonomous entities (a.k.a. “Monsters”) but I can’t spend more time into it, for now! You can download the source code, for examination, here: SimpleRL source code. Part of Serf 0.7

SERF is a roguelike game framework, you create roguelikes by defining the entities’ structure, their actions, the level generators, etc. It’s meant to save you work with the basic things, but it wont make wonders if you don’t know how to use it! (and it is aimed at developers, not end users).

Someone may find it useful some day, for now, I am the main user :)  It is also open source…

Anyhow, as a result SERF 0.7 has been released. Tomorrow I will start the real SERF module for the 7DRL!

Aprox Work Time: 4:00

The 2010 7DRL Challenge starts next Saturday March 6!

Knights from all over the land are waving their standards into our kingdom… it’s time to play!