RogueWeight [Jam Edition]
Note: The in-browser version currently hosts the initial jam submission
LATEST UPDATE [9/15/2024]
Endless floors have been added to the game (among other things). Read the details here!
ABOUT
Down in the ruins, Erith must fight against a dungeon sprawling with monstrous, giant foods. Will Erith conquer the depths, or will she perish under the weight of her meal?
"RogueWeight" is a short roguelike made for the 2024 Gain Jam, made in 2-weeks. Play as Erith, exploring randomly generated floors stuffed with everything that is... edible! You can eat almost everything in this dungeon so long as you can stomach it!
CONTROLS
[Requires mouse, keyboard optional]
- Left mouse click: Move/Interact/Fight
- Right mouse click: Eat
- Scroll wheel: Zoom
- WASD: Move
Download
Install instructions
1. Unzip the file
2. Run "RogueWeight.exe"
Development log
- [0.1.0] - The Endless Mindless Eating Update2 days ago
Comments
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I love this game how big is she gonna get
trying to find the endless floor near spawn boss room but no dice
Click to reveal
Once you reach the boss floor, eat any of the walls south of the room you spawned in. This should open up a secret room containing a hole leading to the first endless floor.
I did what you said but i don't see the endless floor door
First, check that you’re playing on the latest update (I haven’t updated the browser version yet as of writing this, sorry about that)
Next,
thanks :D
I also tried it multiple times.. so to verify:
is it the little room you spawn in?
or is it the room with the grid?
the room with all the food or the room where the boss burger spawns?
I tried exactly as you said the room where I spawned in and it shows no signs of a secret floor/hole?
I’ve posted an animated guide in the neighboring reply. Sorry about the confusion, hopefully that clears things up a bit.
If someone can get a score over 9000 I will tell them how to get a score even further beyond. (Warning: It is very time consuming) Here's my best (Not using said technique)
Phenomenal. Realizing I could eat ANYTHING except the hole to the next floor was a game changer. Yummy, yummy ice...
Issues: No resolution scaling makes playing this on anything more than 1080p resolution very difficult.
Improvements: I WANT TO GET BIGGER. Might be cool if there was a reward to killing things the old fashion way so then there'd be an actual choice between eating something or attacking/interacting with it. The limitation of needing to find a bed to digest is good, but once you find it, that just means you end up eating everything from then on.
This feels like an old arcade game, which raises the question of what its Kill Screen/Kill Score would be if it has/had one.
So much potential
I agree, I'm also Arabic btw I'm so happy cause ur the firs Arabic person I see share the same taste actually I've never share this with anyone (you know how our society is )
Thats absolutely cool !
Is there any platforms you post art / development updates on? I'd love to see more stuff from you!
I don't post art all too often, but I do have an account on Deviantart
Please make it playable for mobile.
Seriously good! the wall eating is very clever. I got stuck on the boss battle because there wasnt a pillow and I filled up on accident
really good game with potential
Great demo, my biggest hope is that you add more to it (Levels and progression) The potential for this game is insane, please don't lose the ball
Amazing gameplay loop. Satisfying to slowly increase in strength while balancing the one shot nature of eating to attacking the monsters with damage. Hoping you add more to this game
Can you add a endless mode i think it be interesting on how big youd get
An endless mode is work in progress!
very excited for that!! :D
This is soooooo good, can't wait to see what you do next, whether it's iterating on this or something new! You clearly have a very solid grasp of game design AND what is appealing to specifically me re: WG - that is, the sense of progression!
what does the white null cube thing do
this was really fun! i hope you get to add more stuff eventually!
Fun game! It seems like there's an input delay scaled with number of enemies on the level, which I'd guess is because you're checking each enemy after the player moves. There's some tricks you can do to predict where the enemy wants to move before the player acts, which would help reduce that delay.
The milk seems to infinitely add weight and the ideal strategy seems to be eating walls until almost full, then eating one enemy before sleeping. Above is my FD record.
I am very curious as too how the milk enables infinite weight generation
truthfully speaking: i forgot to uncomment a line of code
Ty for the tip, got around 2k pounds with 426 max size, really fun game. hope to see it build upon.
wait so how does this method work?
Seems fun
Very cute game! had a lot of fun playing it <3
This was pretty good I hope you make a something more out of it.
Very cool concept. Eating enemies and walls is <3
fun concept. love to see it being further developed, movement, especially diagonal movement, is a bit janky, same goes for eating walls. but otherwise. fun. also somehow there wasn't a sack on the boss floor.
for some reason, it seems to me that it was on purpose... and it was really unexpected... But otherwise it would be too easy to win
I really really like this straight forward game. Great job
Its a great game, and honestly seems like it could be expanded upon >->
Awesome addition to the Jam! Nothing like playing the game through, coming back to the description, and realizing you can eat walls.
Fingers crossed this gets expanded on!