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What kind of RPG is this?
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What kind of RPG is this?
jackuars
Monday, February 25, 2013 - 13:27
Real time, Turn Based or Rogue type?
Real time, diablo like, so rogue type is the closest one
Uh ? Roguelike games are turn based...
This is *NOT* roguelike game...
Flare is an Action RPG. Kinda like Diablo, but with less emphasis on random maps/items/etc.
Am curious. Is FLARE the only real-time free RPG available out there. Since I haven't heard of many real time free RPG's (which isn't online). Most of the ones that I run into are turn based and rogue like.
Anyways' I'm gonna play this game right now.
Freedroid has real-time combat I think. And I think Dawn RPG is real-time. I'm writing a real-time RPG, Erebus ( http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/erebus-a-new-rpg-which-reuses-flare-gr... ), I'm sure there must be others too. An earlier (unreleased) RPG I was writing was turn based, but I think it slowed the pace too much. I think turn-based works better when you have no animation, so characters can still quickly jump from tile to tile (or whatever), making it still fast, but not so much if every character has to move in turn.
Also see http://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4070 for a similar topic about Free RPGs.
I do find it interesting that most open source games seem to be rogue-likes - in particular, it seems strange you have games that can be very complex technically, but then opt for ascii or simple tile based graphics; other genres in open source gaming feature graphics (whether good or bad!)
Diablo was sometimes considered rogue-like because it shared features with those in the rogue-like genre (hack and slash, randomly generated dungeons), though it wasn't turn based. Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike ) describes other features of rogue-likes in general: randomised effect of magic items, single player, permanent death. This comes from http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Berlin_Interp... which features a longer list.
I'd say rogue-likes are more a vague subset of RPGs, and not a 3rd classification to turn based and real time.
Thanks for the info mdwh. Much appreciated. Good luck on your new game :)