Comment by sandoze
20 hours ago
No credit for the art direction and inspiration? Brogue?
Or did I miss the attribution?
* Edit: I’m not looking for the downvotes or to stir things up. I’m simply calling out that this is a small niche community we notice these things, we’re very free with our code, and copy is a compliment, but so is attribution.
The author wasn’t so much inspired the by Brogue style, but copied it directly down to the animations and ASCII.
> No credit for the art direction and inspiration? Brogue?
In the age of LLMs the "author" might not even know where the art direction and inspiration came from!
I know, this is intentional :)
I took things I like from Brogue and added my own spin on it.
yeah, this is a Brogue-like. I love Brogue and have been inspired by it. XsofY is not an exact clone but I've studied Brogue C source heavily when making this.
I'll link to Brogue in the README :)
Amazing and great work!
Calling it rogue-like is basically attribution since Brogue is just the follow-up to Rogue which invented the genre
I’ll be sure to keep that in mind with my next plumber platformer
No one calls them plumber platformer though…
If you call it “Mario-like” then I would say most people would understand where the inspiration comes from.
most people would name hack (1984) or the fork nethack (1987) as the successor to rogue (1980). brogue (2018) i never heard of till now but probably i aged out by then (aged out of spending many mindless i.e. repetitive hours of fun)
Brogue was released in 2009 for what it’s worth.
I'm a little confused. There were some differences, but this stuff is straight out angband/moria lineage stuff. https://angband.readthedocs.io/en/latest/version.html#previo...
the lighting effects are very brogue and like nothing I've seen in angband, which is very very barebones ASCII by comparison. brogue-likes push into ANSI art territory with their abuse of terminal formatting.
Some of the many variants did expand on the ASCII graphics a bit, but yeah, I see what you mean.
While I can see perhaps a claim of "inspiration", when I put Brogue & this side-by-side, while artistically there is similarity, I wouldn't say "copied".
Brouge isn't the only rouge-like with LoS mechanics.
Brogue is insanely well balanced and ingeniously designed. XsofY is a mere tribute ;)
Sounds like its close to red.
Wouldn't the credit go to ... rogue?
The genre of course. But this is almost a 1-1 copy of the Brogue style. Right down to the colors, animation, and ASCII
are you not familiar with the actual game rogue, or nethack?
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