We'd always hoped to allow online play in Crawl. I spent a good chunk of time working on it, but eventually had to admit it wasn't going to be possible while maintaining what narrow grasp on sanity we still held. But recently we noticed some people in the community playing online using something called Parsec. We've played a bunch with it ourselves now and had a great time, so we're happy to be able to give it the Official Powerhoof™ Severed Thumbs Up of Approval®! Parsec basically lets you stream a game, and have friends watch and play along with their own controllers. Latency was my biggest worry, but it wasn't a problem when we played, certainly no worse than our dodgy indie implementation of online multiplayer would have been ;) It's really quick and easy to get it set up, and it's also free if you host games on your own computer. Check out our friends at Stumpt playing Crawl online with it!

How to play:

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Download the client from http://parsecgaming.com

Run it and create an account. Get your friends to do the same.

If you want to host, click "Add A Computer". In settings you can set what apps your friends can see/control too.

To join a friend who's hosting, add them using their Parsec username, and request to Co-Play.

Run the game, and friends can play just like they're sitting next to you! [/olist] If you have any issues with Parsec, chat to them on their discord here.

And some more news while we have your attention...

Powerhoof Official Discord

We've just set up a discord channel, so come say hi, maybe find some people to play Crawl with! https://discord.gg/n7t76sZ

Regular Human Basketball

Our next game now has a steam store page and is coming very soon! So check it out and get wishlisting! https://store.steampowered.com/app/661940/Regular_Human_Basketball/

[ 2018-07-05 06:52:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

Crawl

Powerhoof Developer

Powerhoof Publisher

2017-04-11 Release

Action Indie RPG Singleplayer Tags

Game News Posts: 24

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support

Overwhelmingly Positive (5346 reviews)

http://www.crawlgame.com

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Crawl Depot Linux [232.23 M]
Crawl Press Depot Linux [292 M]

Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! It’s bullet-hell beat-em-up meets old-school RPG, in an arcadey party-game for up to 4 players.

One player is the hero, exploring a randomly generated dungeon full of traps and monsters - all controlled by the other players. If you slay the hero you take their place and it’s your turn to crawl! Then it's a race to gain enough XP and loot to reach the final battle, where it's all on one as the other players collectively control the hulking final boss!

Local Multiplayer Arcade Action for 2-4 Players

Play with Controllers, Keyboard or Mouse.
Hone your skills against bots, while you wait for your friends to arrive.

Turbo Charged Dungeon Crawling

Level up, increase your stats, amass powerful weapons and magic items, all in the course of one 30 minute game.
Evolve your monsters from spiders and rats to powerful demons, dragons and undead warriors.

Every Battle is Unique

Explore and inhabit randomly generated dungeons.
Loads of unique weapons, spells and artifacts.
Dozens of unique monsters to unlock and master.

More weapons, spells, and items to collect.
More monsters, traps, and bosses to master.
More environments to explore and secrets to discover.
More polish - Continuing improvements to gameplay, menus, music, sound, and balance.
What about Online Multiplayer? It's a possibility, but if you can't get around a PC with some friends we recommend waiting until we have more news.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu - glibc 2.15+. 32/64-bit
Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalentMemory: 2 GB RAM
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
Storage: 500 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Gamepad highly recommended

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