OpenSource 3D RogueLike CellShaded SoULFU
 

Secret of Ultimate Legendary Fantasy Unleashed. (Soulfu from now on, quite the mouthfull)
Check it out at http://www.aaronbishopgames.com/

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Soulfu is a free, open source game unlike any other game other than roguelike games.

Stolen directly from the manual:

SoulFu allows up to four players to play simultaneously, and USB Joysticks are recommended. Before starting, you must setup controls for each player. You'll figure it out! There are some things worth mentioning, however...
1. This game is designed to be quick to play. There is no save, F9 pauses.
2. Characters will slowly starve.
3. Most levels are randomly generated.
4. Hold the inventory button down and press other buttons to do "stuff".
5. Light damage is easy to heal, heavy wounds are not.
6. Enchantments tap mana, making it unavailable for other uses.
7. The castle still needs some work. In the training room, jump on the post to hire helpers.
8. High-level characters must be virtuous.

If riding through a dungeon in a warthog while a friend uses the chaingun, running over all types of cute and un-cute cell shaded critters is your idea of a good time, then we can hang out sometime.
You control each arm of your character, and can use swords, bows, magic, and other goodies in each hand. You also have two special attack slots that can hold your character's special abilities.

The character classes are:
Soldier
Wizard
Healer
D'warf
G'nome
Hubbin
Mystic
Elf

If you are looking for a quick pick up and play game with beautiful graphics, try it out with some friends.

Check out the forums. http://www.soulfu.com/forums/index.php
Some fans have even created a save-game feature.
Net-play is coming very soon!
Check there as well for info on Mac and Linux builds.

The cons:
The game is not finished, and some areas a rough around the edges. But the core game is very functional and is very fun to play!

Never before have I liked a game so much, yet it has so little attention. :D

Not true! There is an open-source shmup, called Raid'em, and it's just the right difficulty for roguelike fans.

What's the 'u' on the end stand for?

Secret
of
Ultimate
Legendary
Fantasy
U????

Why, Unleashed, of course.

OP updated, thanks.

And 01d55, you need to read the last four words of that sentence again. I was trying to make a joke. I'll stop trying from now on.




So did you see the news? Eggs are good for you again. Sheesh, will eggs just make up their minds? They need a new publicist...

I'd play, but there don't seem to be working Mac builds. I appreciate that you're trying to fix that on their forum, though, innocuous.

Oh, ha, I just noticed your join date. That's why I don't remember seeing you around (I thought I was just being a jerk). Welcome to our neck of the woods; I hope you hang around.

I am a long-time reader of nuklear power, but I am new to the forum game. So thanks for the welcome :)

Some new builds have come out that just might work for your operating system. Check them out at :

http://www.soulfu.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2904

If they work out for you, please let me know, as I have no way of checking if they do.

I know, I'm a site whore. So sue me.

The download works, though it's a little buggy. I had to ctrl-click "Save As" or it would try to download the disk image as text in the browser window. Or, at least, that's what it looked like it was doing. The game is very hard with no documentation. It says that I can find the controls and such with F1-F4, but those do nothing. The little book I started with isn't very helpful besides "Keep food with you." You mentioned a manual in your first post long ago; where can I find that?

But, hey, at least there's a version I can play now, even if it's a bit frustrating not knowing what I'm doing.

I found it pretty simple myself, but then after doing a little fighting I got killed by 4 rats because they knocked me down, and I then got killed before I could even get back up.

I just think it'g be nice if I could click things in my inventory to use/equip/buy/sell them, instead of having to press i, move the cursor to the item I want to manipulate, then either press q, e, left, right; click some button; or click and drag the item to do anything with it. And some things don't even make sense with that set-up. Why do I have to use my right hand to eat? Why do I have the ability to bring up my inventory with the mouse if I still have to press i to use anything?

But, I'll get used to it, I guess, just like I'll have to get used to the old-school movement control.

Edit: Just so no one gets the wrong idea, I am enjoying this game. I just need some time to get used to the quirks of the rogue-like genre. Though, this isn't really a rogue-like, so much as a Diablo-like with no saving.

One more thing. Is there any way to interact with NPCs other than stabbing them? Like, a way to make the kitty I found follow me, or to talk to the jerks running in circles in the castle? I found out that I can apparently hire one of the violent guys in the castle to help me, but I haven't done that yet.

Also, no Diagonal movement... it's a set back. ANd the character moves somewhat slowly. But i did love the setup and graphics. For such a small package... impressive