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An interview with MaeL about his thoughts on dungeon crawler mechanics

2020-10-24 12:29:14

MaeL, known for this LP's on YouTube and current WR holder in EOB speedrun, gave a short interview with one of his viewers in the comment section under his Black Crypt stream video.

There are five sections of Q&A. The first part is about dungeon crawler game mechanics in general. The second part is more focused about Black Crypt.

Eye of the Beholder C64

2020-10-21 19:19:21

If you haven't been living under a rock the past couple years you should already know this, so I'll just leave this one here for all the rest of you. In a not so distant future (or so we hope) all the gridder loving people with C64's will be able to crawl an amazing port of the uberclassic Eye of the Beholder. For a while now Andreas Larsson and his team of artists have been working hard on the port which currently looks fantastic and appears to play equally well!

2020-10-19 10:36:28

If you ever watched some Let's play videos of gridders on YouTube then you are probably already familiar with MaeL. He's done a bunch of them in the past. Now he's gone and done one better - he's set a new world record in Eye of the Beholder speedrun and it's a staggering 5m 58s! It blows my mind that this gem of a game can be completed in that short amount of time!

2020-10-17 21:18:09

Just a quick update:

I changed the game listing so that it's now showing the complete game list in a brief style with alphabet link shortcuts.
Moved "Years" to a sub display of the game listing.
Added a theme chooser for those of you who prefer a brighter version of the site :)

We now have a Discord server!

2020-10-14 19:22:56

Great news! There is now a Discord server for dungeoncrawlers.org for those of you who wish to stay updated and contribute to making the website even better and to grow the content!

If you want to contribute with ideas, suggest games or (game projects) or simply just hang out and chat about gridders then come on over :)

The Fall of the Black Mage for VIC-20 (PREVIEW)

2020-10-08 21:43:06

On the off-chance that you don't already know this; let me tell you about a very talented Finnish guy called Petri Häkkinen (@petrih3 on Twitter). Petri is developing a dungeon crawler for the VIC-20 (yes that's correct!) called The Fall of the Black Mage. What I have seen so far looks very promising and this game might turn in to something really special.

2020-10-06 23:37:51

We're back, in black! (..and some grey and orange :D) Puh, it's been a long time coming and it's been bugging me for a while. The old site ran on Wordpress which means that the back-end and code bloat was strong and the performance not so much. It got to a point where it was a struggle to maintain the site and to add new games. Furthermore it was annoyingly convoluted to add custom features and functionality. This led me to the decision to roll my own from scratch. It took me a while but here it is! I hope you still like it :) Oh, and it's now even mobile-friendly :D

I plan to add a "Resources" section which will contain stuff useful for dungeon crawler game developers. There will be links to asset creation tools, various asset types (textures, models, sounds), source codes on how to implement dungeon renderings, combat mechanisms/formulas etc, links to various WIP dungeon crawlers and tutorials.

I am devoted to keeping this site updated going forward and will add games regularly. Additionally, watch this space for game news, developer interviews, game and WIP previews and reviews and more.

May the crawl be with you!

zooperdan

I finally did it, I released a dungeon crawler!

2020-10-06 00:30:03

For as long as I can remember I've loved playing dungeon crawlers games. For an equal amount of time I've wanted to make my own, and I did, numerous times. If I had a dollar for every proof-of-concept, tech demo or unfinished game project then.. well.. I wouldn't be rich but I'd have a substantial chunk of cash :) On April this year it finally happened! I finished a game! The game is called The Ogre King and albeit small in scope, I finished it and I released it. This makes me an official game developer, and it only took like 35 years, lol!