When you control your minions the game changes into a classic roguelike, with turn-based and very tactical combat. You can also play as an adventurer and assault dungeons made by you or other players.
Dungeon management
You will dig deep into the mountain and build dozens of rooms, corridors and traps. Your minions will train and produce weapons and armor. Prisoners will be tortured. You will research new technologies like alchemy, beast mutation and sorcery.Roguelike mechanics
The world is simulated on a very detailed level. Creatures use equipment and consumable items. There are dozens of special items, spells, attributes and special attacks. You can cut off heads and limbs and blind or poison your enemies. If you're not careful with fire, you can burn an entire forest or even your own dungeon.Large, procedurally generated maps
In your neighborhood you'll find castles, villages, other dungeons and special locations. Slay heroes, dragons and witches for their loot. Every game you play will be different.Online map sharing
Download dungeons made by other players and explore them as an adventurer.An early Alpha19 build is available for testing on Steam on the 'dev' branch. It's fairly complete in terms of gameplay features, but it still needs some bug fixing and optimizations.
One of the non-gameplay changes in this update is to switch back to the single-threaded mode. It used to be just an option, and by default the rendering loop ran on a separate thread. The main purpose was to have a more responsive UI in case the gameplay loop lagged. In addition, it generally increased FPS, but not by much (less than 25%). The problem was that it wasn't very well designed, and there were some subtle bugs. There were also problems with very low FPS on some multi-core systems.
I decided to go back to a single thread for simplicity. The code needs to be more optimized anyway. With proper optimizations, a single core shouldn't have any trouble with handling both rendering and gameplay. With this in mind, I'm going to spend the next week or two optimizing the hell out of every line of code. (or to be more precise, rewriting entire badly optimized chunks of code) :)
As a bonus for this week, I compiled a list of the most deadly enemies in KeeperRL.
Keeper games:
- Bandit (16% of all deaths)[/*]
- Knight 11%[/*]
- Lizardman 8%[/*]
- Archer 6%[/*]
- Warrior 4%[/*]
- Dwarf 4%[/*]
- Cyclops 3%[/*]
- Tree spirit 3%[/*]
- Red dragon 2%[/*]
- Dog 2%[/*]
- Harpy 12%[/*]
- Boulder 12%[/*]
- Orc 9%[/*]
- Keeper 8%[/*]
- Minotaur 7%[/*]
- Ogre 5%[/*]
- Vampire 4%[/*]
- Drowning 4%[/*]
- Doppelganger 2%[/*]
- Wolf 2%[/*]
- Keepers: 11%[/*]
- Adventurers 5%.[/*]
Minimum Setup
- OS: Ubuntu
- Processor: Dual Core CPU - 2.4GHz+Memory: 4 GB RAMStorage: 1 GB available space
- Memory: 4 GB RAMStorage: 1 GB available space
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Recommended Setup
- OS: Ubuntu
- Processor: Dual Core CPU - 4GHz+Memory: 8 GB RAMStorage: 1 GB available space
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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