Risk of Rain Streaming Tonight!

The old school action continues with another new game: Risk of Rain. It's a sidescrolling action platformer roguelike. If that sounds like a lot to handle, it is. However the game was on sale this weekend for 3.39 USD, and I picked it up along with about a million other gamers. With all these roguelikes in the mainstream, it's hard to believe people used to gape in awe when I talked to them about NetHack. 

Risk of Rain is hard like NetHack, but the UI pains that plague many ASCII games are being washed away in the modern generation of games like TOME, FTL, Binding of Isaac, and Risk of Rain.

The game is awesome. The music kicks ass, the sprites are tiny, and the action is huge. Classes are varied and uniquely fun. You can play as a commando, bandit, engineer, mutant, miner, and 5 other equally cool classes as you battle through hundred of enemies in your quest to survive the horrors of the strange planet. Each class is very different. The bandito relies on trigger-fanning shotgun blasts and nimble dodging while invisble. Acrid the Mutant, however, requires you to get up-close and personal as you stack poison on mobs of mobs.

Want to experience the awesome? Then come check it out tonight on www.twitch.tv/Robot2600 or check out the embedded video at the end of the post.

Risk of Rain is brutally difficult, and the longer your game lasts the more difficult it gets. After 40 minutes of action you reach "HA HA HA HA HA" and "I'm coming for you" difficulties in which all good manners are forgotten. I managed to make it this far last night, and I'm hoping to beat the game tonight. I made it to the last level but couldn't take the heat and died in the kitchen.

On top of all this, you can play with up to 4 people in truly epic co-op. The server-side stuff is a bit complicated (I hosted a game and then my computer decided not to allow a second game despite the fact that I changed no settings in the interim). If you want to play come drop by the twitch channel or post a message here. You could be on (twitch) TV! Wow! You'd be totally famous and popular.

Anyway I'm off to a place where there is a risk of rain in space. For great justice and adventure!

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Day 3 Streaming Dwarf Fortress Starts Now!

Join the Dwarf Fortress phenomenon. Yesterday I streamed for 12 hours. Today? Who knows!

If I can take out the ghost in the above screenshot, so can yooooooou!

As always there will be awesome 8-Bit music rocking all day.

Dwarf Fortress Marsh Titan

"The Marsh Titan Bilalo Mafiirede Amalafidale has come! A great humanoid composed of solid salt. It has a round shell and it moves deliberately. Beware it's deadly spittle!"

Awesome this should be fun.

A Nice Dwarf Forest

Great forest and some lakes. In a few years I'll chop down all these trees, but fear not: they will grow back.

Epic Mead Hall Under Construction

A picture of my half-completed epic dining hall in Dwarf Fortress. Notice the fancy statues. This thing should be able to feed my fortress forever. Zug zug!

This hall will last forever, and so will the twitch streaming!

8 Hours of Micro Mayhem

The Dwarf Fortress non-stop stream continues today! We streamed for 6 hours yesterday and I want to break that record today.

The bridge is down, the food is short, and the drink doesn't exist. Looks like its going to be even more fun than yesterday, so come by my twitch channel and check it out.

I'm going to rock the Dwarf Fortress and the 8-Bit music all day long. 8+ hours of non-stop micro and mayhem.

We are working with over 170 Dwarfs and 8 military squads. I have to tackle to food situation first, and some design flaws are starting to manifest with more dwarfs.

It's gonna be a challenge, but so what?

Twitch.tv/Robot2600

You can watch on 8-Bit City via this plugin. Probably better to go to twitch though!

Watch live video from Robot2600 on www.twitch.tv

Dwarf Fortress "There Will Be Ghosts" Episodes 3 - 5

Not going down without a fight. The conclusion to my first Dwarf Fortress video. This was a great fortress with lots of steel, it's too bad I didn't master the art of gearing out 2 squads of Dwarfs earlier. I had the metal.

It was fun making these videos, and I hope to make more Dwarf Fortress episodes very soon.My mic is driving my crazy, I need to get a new one ASAP. At least I can turn it off when I'm not talking. I try not to talk to much.

Streaming Dwarf Fortress All Day

I'm streaming some Dwarf Fortress all day. There are at least 6-7 hours left. Check it out and follow me on twitch!

I'm not using my mic either, just blasting good NES tunes.

The picture is of the outside of my base, to see the 120 Dwarfs trying to work inside, follow the link.

www.twitch.tv/Robot2600

Tales of Maj'Eyal World Map and Walkthrough via Dungeon Order

In order to beat the game, carefully tackle the dungeons of TOME in the follow order:

Trollmire, (Derth Arena), Norgos, Heart of Gloom, Scintillating Caves, Rhaloren Camp, Kor'Pul, Old Forest/Lake Nur, Sandworm Lair, Maze, Halfling Complex, ruined Dungeon, Lumberjack Village, Golem Graveyard, Daikara, Last Hope Graveyard, Dreadfell, Reknor, Unremarkable Cave, Ardunghol, Vor Armoury, Briagh's Lair, Backup guardians, return east (of your choice), orc breeding pit, underwater dungeon, some prides, Eruan, rest of prides, slime tunnels, High Peak. 

With these two valuable tools, anyone can take it to the top. "LukeP" made the list, and "Wayist" made the map.

Streaming ToME Tonight!

I'll be streaming some Tales of Maj'Eyal tonight from (7:00-10:00 Central), come check out this awesome roguelike. I've just unlocked the Archmage class, so there should be tons of crazy adventuring. 

Don't miss it!

www.twitch.tv/Robot2600    <-twitch live="" p="" stream="" tv="">

Also, follow me on Twitch and you'll be able to see anytime I'm playing games.... which is very often. I'll be streaming plenty of roguelikes and RPGs, and anything you guys request.

FTL Live Stream -- NOW!

It's the last night before the big update to FTL. Come check out the live feed now.

Click this link for 8-Bit City's twitch:

twitch.tv/Robot2600

Let's Play FTL Vanilla

Parts 3-9 of my ongoing FTL Let's Play. These 9 parts are all I'm going to do of Vanilla.

The new expansion comes out Thursday, and I'll be doing a twitch broadcast tomorrow of my first impressions. I'll also record it for youtube if you miss the broadcast.

 I'll post when it starts tomorrow, but that will depend on how early we can download the patch.

Until then, why not waste some time?

Let's Play ToME - Part 2

This is the second video in my ToME Let's Play. In this episode, we will explore more of the ruins of Kor'pal. It is a dangerous place indeed. 

This roguelike is shaping up to be an epic adventure. Picture sort of related. Not related.