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Posted August 21, 2024
A dungeon-crawling microgame for tired people – Dragon Ruins is now available on GOG alongside its Soundtrack and a Pack that gathers both!

Ancient ruins were discovered near Faselei, the Capital of Isigwere. The Queen calls for brave adventurers to assist in slaying an ancient dragon. Assemble a party of four heroes, delve into the dungeon, decide when to fight or run away, and grow stronger to survive the run to the dragon's lair in this micro dungeon crawler.

Check it out!
Posted August 21, 2024
Appreciate the bite-sized approach for this one, cheers.
Posted August 21, 2024
Super cool! like .... some of the adventurers.... There is a free "prologue"
; ) from decades ago Akalabeth.....

I can see a great progress in Dragons Ruins
Posted August 21, 2024
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GOG.com: Release: Dragon Ruins - a dungeon-crawling microgame for tired people.
In general, I really like what I see.
With at least one (pretty important) exception: the battles are TOO minimalistic for my taste.

From everything I've seen so far (gameplay wise) it doesn't look like I'm making any decisions in battle.

Or rather: I'm making only ONE decision:
(from the game's description):
"Fight through AUTOMATIC battles where you decide whether to FIGHT OR RUN away",
and I understand that as: "whenever an enemy appears, press either 'R' or 'F' (or whatever the keys for 'run' and 'fight' are).

And that's rather not for me. I prefer a little bit more direct involvement.
What a pity.

PS: I also don't like that the enemies are only represented by their portraits - I'd have preferred some "in dungeon" representation (some sprites that actually appear in front of me).

Ah, well...shrug...I have enough other games to play.
Posted August 21, 2024
I guess others will have a different view, but when I'm tired I'd much rather look at something that looks like Trine or King's Bounty than wire-frame corridors and pixelated menus.
Posted August 21, 2024
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Breja: I guess others will have a different view, but when I'm tired I'd much rather look at something that looks like Trine or King's Bounty than wire-frame corridors and pixelated menus.
I agree,i do not understand the appeal of games that look like this,specially in 2024
Posted August 21, 2024
I like pixelart games, but THIS is just lazy.

Wireframe graphics where a limitation of the the time, without any artistic value whatsoever.
Post edited August 21, 2024 by russellskanne
Posted August 21, 2024
Better give the Geister trilogy by the same developer a wide berth then, lest you might pop a vein or something.
Posted August 21, 2024
Mistake
Post edited August 21, 2024 by DJM.553
Posted August 21, 2024
This interests me out of a love of for "old school" style CRPGs and Dungeon Crawlers. I am someone who really likes the game Nox Archaist which pushes the capabilities of the Apple II to their absolute limits (and is IMO a very well polished Ultima-like that captures why that style of game is fun to play) - I think what makes Nox Archaist work is its built around the hardware limitations of the time, which informs how the game is designed. On modern hardware you do not have those kinds of limitations influencing the game design.


Which is to say if this game was coded for a legacy hardware (be it a PC or Console) with some kind of emulation layer it would interest me a lot more than just a wireframe dungeon throwback. Still its priced inexpensively so I can't really complain.
Posted August 21, 2024
The game looks like they were going for the look of the 1980 version of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord but with an automap.

The thing that makes me leary though is that the prior game Demon Lord Reincarnation has no mouse support. Keyboard controls only with no button mapping - arrow keys, enter, backspace. It's fine for games to be inspired by old games or go for a retro vibe, but I have concerns (because of the developer's prior game) that things might be retro to the point that I'd rather just play the actual old games that inspired this developer.
Posted August 22, 2024
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GOG.com: A dungeon-crawling microgame for tired people – Dragon Ruins is now available on GOG alongside its Soundtrack and a Pack that gathers both!
This specific Dragon doesn't eat tired people? How odd! (Could be a microgame of "Odd Realm" announced a couple of days ago)
Posted August 22, 2024
The dungeon itself - specifically, the vector art style of the dungeon reminds me of an old game called "Dungeons of Daggorath" Loved that game, back in the day.
Posted August 22, 2024
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lostintime: This interests me out of a love of for "old school" style CRPGs and Dungeon Crawlers. I am someone who really likes the game Nox Archaist which pushes the capabilities of the Apple II to their absolute limits (and is IMO a very well polished Ultima-like that captures why that style of game is fun to play) - I think what makes Nox Archaist work is its built around the hardware limitations of the time, which informs how the game is designed. On modern hardware you do not have those kinds of limitations influencing the game design.

Which is to say if this game was coded for a legacy hardware (be it a PC or Console) with some kind of emulation layer it would interest me a lot more than just a wireframe dungeon throwback. Still its priced inexpensively so I can't really complain.
Have you checked out Realms of Antiquity? You might like that game, which was coded for a *different* retro computer.

(By the way, hardware limitations can mean things like not being able to easily divide by anything not a power of 2, and I think that comes up in Realms of Antiquity.)
Posted August 24, 2024
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dtgreene: Have you checked out Realms of Antiquity? You might like that game, which was coded for a *different* retro computer.

(By the way, hardware limitations can mean things like not being able to easily divide by anything not a power of 2, and I think that comes up in Realms of Antiquity.)
Completely missed that one, thank you for bringing it to my attention! It is rare to find "new" CRPGS designed around old hardware.
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