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Consider a career in dungeon design!

Legend of Grimrock, the phenomenal dungeon-crawling old-school RPG (now with a built-in Dungeon Editor!), is now available 50% off on GOG.com. That's only $7.49 until Monday, October 8 at 3:59 AM GMT.

Job opportunity! Grimrock Dungeon Ltd. is looking to fill the position of SENIOR DUNGEON DESIGNER. We give you a chance to offer your creative input into the extension and development of the legend of traditional penitentiary facilities: The Grimrock Dungeon. For centuries our facility provided the best services in the area of adventurer detention and we won the "Oubliette Digest" editor's choice award 129 times in a row. At this point we'd like to dismiss the recent rumors about a party of heroes escaping from Grimrock. The said party was in fact a group of professional dungeon auditors, hired by Grimrock Dungeon Ltd. to find the potential security flaws. Their final report inspired staff exchange (our previous Dungeon Designer volunteered to test the new torture chamber) and large-scale dungeon re-design. From our new Senior Dungeon Designer we expect creativity, deviousness, full commitment, and experience in granite stone construction. Sadistic inclinations and a good command of troll language will be regarded as additional assets. We provide weekly wages in gold, rock-solid accommodation, health potions, and wenches. Please apply by raven.

Yes! Legend of Grimrock, the ultimate delight for hardcore old-school dungeon crawling RPGs, has been updated with a Dungeon Editor! All of the traps, pits, monsters, and dead-ends that tormented countless gamers now lie at your fingertips. You can put all of your experience in being tormented by the devious underground into tormenting others with your very own sinister creations. To celebrate the release of this highly anticipated creative addition we are now offering Legend of Grimrock 50% off! That's only $7.49 for the fulfillment of your darkest dungeon crawling desires!

If you already own the game, please head out to My Account, click the Legend of Grimrock box, and download the newest version that includes the Dungeon Editor (accessible from the game's main menu).

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Actually, the devs released a new patch(today, I think), that updates the game from 1.1.4 to 1.3.1. They say it's compatible with the GOG version.

Get it at http://www.grimrock.net/
I just uninstalled my old version and updated with the new one GOG put up. My current version is 1.3.1.

Oh, and don't try to use the new setup if the old installation is still installed, it won't update it properly.
Incidentally, Is there a demo available for this game? I've NEVER played any of the old school first person turn based games, so I don't know if I would like it or not...
Doh! Didn't see this news article when I was posting in an older thread just now. Oh, well! Anyway... *happy dance*

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gameon: So....Where abouts do people upload/download their created levels?
This would be the place. ;)
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vinaysshenoy: Incidentally, Is there a demo available for this game? I've NEVER played any of the old school first person turn based games, so I don't know if I would like it or not...
I don't know about the demo, but Grimrock is not "turn based". It's real-time.
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vinaysshenoy: Incidentally, Is there a demo available for this game? I've NEVER played any of the old school first person turn based games, so I don't know if I would like it or not...
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yyahoo: I don't know about the demo, but Grimrock is not "turn based". It's real-time.
I saw the video. At it's core, isn't it a turn based game? You press a key, he moves forward, the enemy moves forward, then you press a key and swing your sword.. and so on?
Should the main game page mention that the purchase now includes the editor? (I didn't see it mentioned anywhere.)
Post edited October 04, 2012 by tfishell
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yyahoo: I don't know about the demo, but Grimrock is not "turn based". It's real-time.
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vinaysshenoy: I saw the video. At it's core, isn't it a turn based game? You press a key, he moves forward, the enemy moves forward, then you press a key and swing your sword.. and so on?
Nope, the movement is tile based, but you do not take turns with your enemies.
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yyahoo: I don't know about the demo, but Grimrock is not "turn based". It's real-time.
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vinaysshenoy: I saw the video. At it's core, isn't it a turn based game? You press a key, he moves forward, the enemy moves forward, then you press a key and swing your sword.. and so on?
No, you're just confusing the grid-based gameplay with a turn-based one. You can sit still in one square and the enemy will still be moving around. Attacks take time to 'power up'. Sometimes you will have to run away to regain strength over time.
I wonder how hard it would be for the developer or perhaps even users with the Dungeon Editor to implement a pause function where you can at least queue up one round.
I nearly bought it today before the price drop lol lucky i waited.
Does this directly support the developers like on their official website?
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Nirth: I wonder how hard it would be for the developer or perhaps even users with the Dungeon Editor to implement a pause function where you can at least queue up one round.
I guess we'll find out sooner or later. Maybe in LoG2 perhaps? ;)
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vinaysshenoy: I saw the video. At it's core, isn't it a turn based game? You press a key, he moves forward, the enemy moves forward, then you press a key and swing your sword.. and so on?
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mistermumbles: No, you're just confusing the grid-based gameplay with a turn-based one. You can sit still in one square and the enemy will still be moving around. Attacks take time to 'power up'. Sometimes you will have to run away to regain strength over time.
Oh, ok.. That's cool, then! How's the game from an RPG POV? The closest game to this I've played to this would be Arx Fatalis(only a bit), considering the setting. And while I don't mind puzzles in games, I don't especially like them. Is the game worth it, considering my preferences?
I wanted to buy this game since a while, but haven't done so yet. Talk about a great opportunity. Due to certain limitations of my connection, I probably won't play download it until two weeks, though.

A dungeon editor sounds great, but it's unlikely that I will do something good with it (because I never do with these things). But it will be interesting to see what other people will design.
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Garugo: The version number has been updated. I'm downloading it now and the current version is 1.0.0.14 updated from 1.0.0.12.
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Nirth: I downloaded it 5 seconds ago so I can see that now but I can't see that in My Games section. It only says 1.0.0.
Because the web page truncates the installer's version number to the first three parts.