LambdaRogue: The Book of Stars

Devlog

• Back to roguelikes
  January 10, 2021 by Mario Donick

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  #2021

  Hello and a happy, peaceful and healthy 2021, everyone. Wow. It's two years since that last big update to LambdaRogue. It's certainly not as long as has been between 2012 and 2018, but still. Time fli... Continue reading
• Thanks and how to report bugs
  January 31, 2019 by Mario Donick

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  #bug reports

  Hi all, LambdaRogue 1.7 is now about one month old and I'm quite happy about the downloads so far. Also, thanks a lot to those who donated; much appreciated, and going to be used for future artwork co... Continue reading
• Future Release Cycle
  January 02, 2019 by Mario Donick

  Now that LambdaRogue is back on track, I have thought a bit about future releases. In a previous devlog post I already mentioned that, in the past, larger updates usually happened in fall and around C... Continue reading
• Issue Tracker
  January 01, 2019 by Mario Donick#issue tracker

  I have set up an issue tracker on LambdaRogue's official website: https://lambdarogue.com/2019/01/01/issue-tracker/ This is a simple manually updated post, in which I'll add any feature requests, bug... Continue reading
• Guide / Manual
  December 30, 2018 by Mario Donick#guide, #manual

  Hi everybody, first of all thanks to everybody who downloaded LambdaRogue since yesterday's update, provided feedback or donated. All of that is much appreciated. I have started to put the user manual... Continue reading
• LambdaRogue Major Update (now v1.7)
  December 29, 2018 by Mario Donick

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  #major update, #LambdaRogue

  The roguelike role playing game LambdaRogue has received a huge update to v1.7 today. LambdaRogue: The Book of Stars is a complete roguelike role playing game, with unique features and story, distinct... Continue reading

  
• Final Tests before release
  December 28, 2018 by Mario Donick#update, #LambdaRogue 1.7, #website

  I've started the final tests before releasing update 1.7... if all goes well, LambdaRogue 1.7 will be available tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. I've never though a few weeks ago that I would spend... Continue reading
• LambdaRogue v1.7, Trailer Video
  December 27, 2018 by Mario Donick#LambdaRogue, #update, #trailer, #video

  Okay, I finally managed to create a short trailer video (HD 1080p) for the next update: Music is "The Price Of Valour" by Kai Engel ... Continue reading
• Late game (and Merry Christmas)
  December 24, 2018 by Mario Donick#level generation, #christmas, #LambdaRogue 1.7

  I've used the time this afternoon to finalize some endgame level improvements. The last level of the main dungeon is now generated in a different way, making it much more interesting, I hope. Meeting... Continue reading
• Traditional roguelikes in "Full HD" and the perception of time and space
  December 19, 2018 by Mario Donick#HD, #update

  Well... actually I find it a bit over the top to play a roguelike in full screen at 1920x1080 ("Full HD" *lol* ), especially since, in my opinion, the best way to play a roguelike is in classic ASCII... Continue reading

  
• LambdaRogue v1.7 still in 2018 -- Roadmap
  December 17, 2018 by Mario Donick#LambdaRogue, #v1.7, #Update, #christmas

  Hi everybody! After my last posts, in this post I want to publish some kind of roadmap for LambdaRogue v1.7 and beyond. Initially, when I re-published the game on itch.io, I just intended to "archive"... Continue reading
• A few more preview pics of LambdaRogue 1.7
  December 15, 2018 by Mario Donick#roguelike, #screenshots, #update

  I think it's time to show some more preview screenshots of the next version 1.7. The following shots are pretty random, just a few scenes of an early, quickly done character: 1. I enhanced the sewers... Continue reading

  
• Special Levels
  December 12, 2018 by Mario Donick#LambdaRogue, #levels

  Yesterday and today I've implemented a feature that was on my mental wishlist for a long time: semi-random special levels between the regular dungeon levels. If you've played LambdaRogue, either since... Continue reading
• Some gameplay additions for LambdaRogue 1.7
  December 10, 2018 by Mario Donick#preview, #gameplay

  I'm writing a lot of additions currently for LambdaRogue 1.7. Some of these are pretty standard in roguelikes but have been missing in LambdaRogue so far (and a reason for that may be that I'm writing... Continue reading
• In-game preview of new tileset
  December 07, 2018 by Mario Donick#work in progress, #pixel art, #tileset

  Here are four screenshots of LambdaRogue: The Book of Stars, version 1.7, which is currently in development. As I wrote a few days ago, it will include a new 40x80 tileset, created by Brazilian freela... Continue reading

  
• Revisiting a game you developed years ago, Part II
  December 03, 2018 by Mario Donick

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  #WIP, #postmortem, #LR:TBS 1.7

  This is part II of my postmortem series on "LambdaRogue: The Book of Stars" (LR:TBS). Part I is here. In the last 6 days (after I uploaded LR:TBS to itch.io), I have played my own game a lot. The goo... Continue reading
• Preview of upcoming graphics improvement
  November 30, 2018 by Mario Donick#pixel art, #development

  LambdaRogue is a roguelike built on a "virtual" ASCII terminal: Even when you use the game in its default graphical mode, which uses the SDL library, internally everything is represented as a 80x25 co... Continue reading

  
• Revisiting a game you developed years ago, Part I
  November 30, 2018 by Mario Donick

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  #LambdaRogue, #Abandon, #Nostalgia

  It's a strange feeling coming back to a game you developed years ago and then, quite suddenly, abandoned. The irony is that in 2012 LambdaRogue was in the most polished state it ever had since develop... Continue reading

  
• Now using Butler for providing downloads and updates
  November 29, 2018 by Mario Donick

  Still getting used to distribution via itch.io. If all goes well, the zip files I uploaded manually will today be replaced by builds created with itch.io's Butler tool. This will make future patches e... Continue reading
• LambdaRogue: The Book of Stars now on itch.io
  November 28, 2018 by Mario Donick

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  LambdaRogue: The Book of Stars is a graphical roguelike RPG which I developed from 2006 to 2012. I have made it available again now on itch.io, including builds for current Linux distributions. If you... Continue reading