Berserk! 0.8 RELEASED!

Yes, against the crushing opposition I am developing Berserk! further! This release presents the second (of the intended three) gameplay mode of Berserk! – Endless!

Major changes include character development, skills, a lot new monsters (all monsters except the beast now have unique abilities), improved help, game replay, bugfixes and more!

Currently Windows binaries and source are available (you'll need the current FreePascal compiler and Valkyrie 0.4.2 to compile them). If some kind soul ... Read More

Yes finally there's an official version of DoomRL for Linux! (and for FreeBSD as a bonus :)).

Get it at the Download section of the official site:

http://doom.chaosforge.org/index.php?module=downloads

Please read the "unix notes" file before running it. Bot are available in two versions – one with sound (needing SDL and SDL_mixer) and one without. Added in the package are shell scripts for running it under the more common terminals. Don't forget ... Read More

To keep things short - use the WIKI people - you can really find various usefull info there. Also the wiki needs help in gathering more data - details can be found here. I hope that there will be people willing to help out with keeping the info updated.

Recently there was a discussion on the #DoomRL IRC channel, wether we should move to WorldIRC network (currently we are on quakenet). The reason behind this is that the majority of roguelike channels are on WorldIRC anyway (#tome, #angband, #bay12games, #rgrd). So we decided to make a poll!

I especialy would like to know if there are people that:
* visit the channel but won't, once it moves
* didn't visit the channel, but will visit the channel if it ... Read More

So, after a long long time, over a year, I finaly found the determination to do a DoomRL release! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you DoomRL 0.9.8.5.

Here is a brief incomplete list of changes:

• Progress tracking!!
  
• Challenge Modes!!
  
• Difficulty Levels!!
  
• Pain Elemental and Arch-Vile!!
  
• one normal and five new advanced traits!!
  
• revisited special levels, and added two new ones!
  
• boosted melee much!
  
• enhanced berserk and computer maps
  
• a TON of bugfixes!
  

See version.txt for all ... Read More