These are exciting days at Gaslamp Games. Publicity is kicking up momentum and the game is nearing completion. A handful of sites have been writing previews for Dungeons of Dredmor (hey, if you’re a writer, drop us a line to the contact email in the sidebar). Our beta testers have been furiously breaking things as well and I’ve got a few thoughts on that to share.
And here’s a diggle.
But let’s have a look at those previews first eh?
…With commentary.
Our Dredmor version numbering system has run off the rails a bit as we’ve done a lot of builds in a short time period due to quick turnaround on tester feedback. Regardless, I just did a little playthrough with a focus on our smithing craft skill and took screenshots as I went along. I’ll even try to remember what I was doing at the time of each shot.
Let us begin this tour. Be sure to click on any thumbnail to view it full size.
1. The title screen. I’ve still got to do a polish round on this art (and I think we’ve got some work to do on wherever that tutorial button is supposed to lead).
2. Choosing the difficulty of the game. I’m still amazed at home readily certain-people-who-know-who-they-are have beaten Going Rogue. It does help us find out which skills to nerf, thankfully. … I’m going to go medium, because I’m really in this for taking screenshots.
As Dungeons of Dredmor approaches a release – and yes, folks, it will still be before Duke Nukem Forever – we have put together this fabulous new trailer to show you what we’ve been working on.
Additionally, we now have a website up at http://www.dungeonsofdredmor.com where you are encouraged to sign up to be notified the moment that Dredmor ships – and, as an added bonus, if you enter your e-mail in our handy little drop-box, you will automatically be entered into our free Dredmor give-away contest. Go check it out!
As you all know, it is a tradition amongst the Gaslampers that when somebody has a birthday and we can be bothered to remember it, David draws them a birthday comic.
Sadly, today is David’s birthday. He mentioned this to me this morning, prefaced with a mournful “… I hope somebody draws me a birthday comic.”
“Ah,” I said. “It could be arranged…”
Consequently, I took graphics tablet in hand and set out to draw something suitable. After an hour or two, I had this:
… let us never speak of this ever again.
BONUS picture from the Twitter-feed:
Well thanks to some trial and error from a helpful user I have addressed the issue with some users getting the message, “Banned IP address”. Hopefully no one took offense to the wrongful banning. We don’t hate you guys, that’s for the diggles. If you ever get into any website related issues please feel free to email me at webmaster (at) gaslampgames.com and I’ll hop right on any issue or take any feedback you may have. Now back to my cave.
The good news: we have people who want to access the forums. This is good, if a bit out of character.
The bad news: we’ve had a number of people who have tried to sign up but have received messages about “Banned IP Addresses.” Rest assured, we love all of you, and your IP is probably not banned deliberately. Derek, our top-of-the-line webmaster, has been roused from his smoky Chicago office and is desperately scrambling to find the neural stimulyzer needed to repair our malfunctioning websoftware. We’ll let you know when it’s working; in the mean time, if you too have suffered from a banned IP address, let us know via the contact information conveniently located in the panel on your right.
This would be a good time to come hang out with us on Twitter. Just saying.
It’s been quiet, which means we’ve been working hard. The Business Acumen guys are on the case, taking our slavishly-created product and figuring out the hows and whys of getting it to the masses. We have learned an enormous amount about contract law, which was extremely boring and killed my will to live for a few days. We got picked up by a few websites. Hi, websites! So, yeah, it’s been pretty quiet.
In the absence of anything else, we passed a recent build of Dredmor to a couple of ardent followers on Twitter. To our joy, they’ve been having a wonderful time, exploring the skill trees, using all the skills that David and I never use when playing the game, and generally having a whale of an experience. Some quotes:
“You love dungeon hacks? You need it [Dredmor]. Throw some humor in with some hardcore nethack-inspired gameplay and a slick GUI and you have the best indie RPG I’ve played since Avernum 5.”
“You really have an amazing game on your hands here. Gameplay wise, it’s near perfect. Really wacky, challenging and fun.”
“Initial feelings of Dungeons of Dredmor: I dig it. First levels a bit happy on the diggle spam, but it really pokes fun at Roguelike Tropes.”
“What’s your favorite part about Krong? MINE IS KRONG”
“I keep getting flashes of that same charm that was in all the Quest for Glory games, the various little touches.”
“DUDE BE CAREFUL DIGGLES ARE EVERYWHERE THEY CAN’T BE TRUSTEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDD”
“Really loving it. Got about 4 floors down until the entry to the stairs crashed the game, heh. Definite purchase though.”
“Enough good things can’t be said about the in-game texts.”
“I love traps. I love placing them and letting enemies murder themselves slowly while they chase me around.”
“KROOOOOOOOONG!”
… so, yeah, that happened. Why not follow our Twitter-feed? Do it or the Diggles will eat you.
Official Friend-of-Gaslamp Alex Mosolov just released the first alpha of his indie space-combat/rpg/sandbox game “Starfarer”, now available to customers who pre-order the game (at half price!).
Congratulations to Alex for shipping this release!
There is some Gaslamp involvement with Starfarer, I should add: All graphics were done by myself (David) and SF’s sound was made by our own Mr. Matthew Steele (who made all the sound and music for Dredmor).
I want to thank Alex for having me work on his game – it’s incredibly fun to draw spaceships and planets and it’s been a project I’ve wanted to do since I was 10 years old. It should be said also that in part Alex has made Gaslamp Games and Dredmor possible by hiring me to work on his game.
We also owe a lot of thanks to Alex for helping us test many painfully early in-development versions of Dungeons of Dredmor.
So best of luck to him on sales and the future of Starfarer and Fractal Softworks!
You can pre-order Starfarer from the Fractal Softworks page here. It runs on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
You can read more about the game’s features and planned development in the features section and the faq as well as follow development on the Fractal Softworks blog (which I occasionally post to as well). Additional screenshots and videos can be found in the media section.
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