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The day idTech died :'(

I think I'll add a hidden medal to JHC and DRL - RTFM - for winning while never moving diagonally.

Classic rogue-LIKE fans, this indie developer made a turn based title with permadeath, procedural levels and pure 90s sci-fi carnage, from the developer of DRL (f.k.a DoomRL) It's called Jupiter Hell Classic, and it's 20% OFF for the Steam Summer Sale!

Each time I finally feel autonomous AI codegen gets a W on my codebases, a few days later a basic significant oversight is revealed that I would never have done building the code myself.

Farewell Bobby Prince, your music will be with me for the rest of my life. Thank you!

Fun fact: Moria predates Rogue. But not THAT Moria. The 1970s PLATO Moria was a first-person dungeon crawler (proto-blobber?) with RANDOM LEVELS. The Moria that became Umoria->Angband was a later Rogue-inspired roguelike. This is why programmers say naming things is hard.

I always find it funny when someone who's never heard of USENET tries to explain the origin of the word "roguelike" to me.

All those "one shot game X in Fable" people don't seem to realize why game jam games can be completed in 2 days, but then the commercial version of said game can take 2 years.

JUPITER HELL DOUBLE RELEASE! Jupiter Hell 1.9 "Heavy" is out, new Heavy class, new traits, perk upgrades, buffs and more! store.steampowered.com/news/app/811... Jupiter Hell Classic 0.11 "Terminal" is out too, with the Warden, bots, terminals and Hacking! store.steampowered.com/news/app/312...

JUPITER HELL DOUBLE RELEASE! Jupiter Hell 1.9 "Heavy" is out, new Heavy class, new traits, perk upgrades, buffs and more! store.steampowered.com/news/app/811... Jupiter Hell Classic 0.11 "Terminal" is out too, with the Warden, bots, terminals and Hacking! store.steampowered.com/news/app/312...

It's finally time, we're hosting #TurnBasedThursday this week❗ DEVS 👉 Share your turn-based game here! PLAYERS 👉 See all the coolest turn-based games below! 🔁 + ❤️ to reach more players, and don't forget to use the hashtag! 🐸

Tired of that stupid tech drone not behaving the way you want it in Jupiter Hell Classic and wish it behaved more like the JH version? Well guess what...

All hands to battle stations, this is not a drill! It's the official #TurnBasedThursday on Bsky! Calling all #GameDev aces: tell us about your #IndieGame; post your project below! Tag your friends! Tag your enemies! ❤️ Players, share the love and help spread the word about your favorite games! 🔁

And how do *you* spend you yearly half-a-mil $ in tokens?

Jupiter Hell Classic 0.10 "Heavy" is out! First brand new class arrives with 5 brand new Master traits and 6 new regular ones! Also in - Guardians, Archwarlocks, unique, exotic, perk and relic buffs, spool-up, and a new particle engine! Read all about it: store.steampowered.com/news/app/312...

Following the successful psyop of bringing *that* DRL roguelike game to Steam via the guise of Jupiter Hell Classic workshop mod, we're now focusing on bringing you *that other* DRL roguelike game via mod to a new project called Mephisto. Stay tuned!

Jupiter Hell Classic 0.10 "Heavy" is out! First brand new class arrives with 5 brand new Master traits and 6 new regular ones! Also in - Guardians, Archwarlocks, unique, exotic, perk and relic buffs, spool-up, and a new particle engine! Read all about it: store.steampowered.com/news/app/312...

Another year, another 🐐GOTY OF THE YOTY🐐: jwaaaap.substack.com/p/goty-of-th...

Game development is hard. Some days everything falls apart and you're barely holding on. Other days, though, you receive fan-mail and its all worth it in the end!

Have you tried Jupiter Hell Classic, 0.9 Melee update?

Thanks for hosting! Jupiter Hell Classic is the "unfollowup" to Jupiter Hell and remake of DoomRL, the OG traditional roguelike turn-based shooter. We're in Early Access with a dynamic community and monthly updates! store.steampowered.com/app/3126530/...

We are honored to be this week's official #TurnBasedThursday host on Bsky! 🖥️Are you an #IndieDev? Reply with your stellar turn-based game! 🎸Are you a turn-based game fan? Then 💬comment, ❤️like and 🔁share all the great games inside this thread! Don't forget to add the hashtag & tag other devs!

Finished Half-Life 1. Indeed a masterpiece of its time. I especially love the environments/level design and environmental storytelling. While people point out that Deus Ex was released afterwards, I do have to point out that Dark Forces and Jedi Knight were released before!

Gave me a chuckle.

I will have to retract my fairly positive opinion about Claude and agentic code tools in general. While they do work fairly competently with the DRL mixed FreePascal/Lua codebase, against the much larger C++/Lua codebase of Jupiter Hell they're proving barely worthwhile...

Still on a break from my Elder Scrolls full playthrough, I took upon myself to fix the cardinal sin of never having played Half-Life. Started OG Half-Life 1...

To mark Polish National Cat Day, here's a classic case of artist vs cardboard art :)

Jupiter Hell Classic 0.9 "Melee" is out! New melee traits + Masters for Scouts/Techs, improved melee FX, Relics equipment slot, UI/UX upgrades, grenade + weapon tweaks, mod drop rate buff, toxic medusas, and Shattered Abyss! store.steampowered.com/news/app/312...

The only thing growing exponentially in genAI is energy consumption and the volume of executive bullshit ahead of the next funding round.

I am so honoured to officially host this week's #TurnBasedThursday on Bluesky! 🗣 INDIE DEVS! Show off your turn-based games in this thread with the hashtag! PLAYERS! Come on in & 💬comment, ❤️like, 🔁repost & ✨wishlist all the great games in the thread!

Just on time for Christmas Eve I've defeated Hircine and finished Morrowind in my quest to complete the Elder Scrolls. I'll take a breather and later head to Oblivion! Merry Christmas 🎄 :D

Jupiter Hell Classic 0.8 "Arsenal" is out now! Item perks, ADV gear with random perks, powerful Relics, clearer UI, reworked status timing, assembly cleanup, balance tweaks, and a new difficulty curve! #traditional #roguelike store.steampowered.com/news/app/312...

Elder Scrolls full playthrough status report - finished Tribunal, heading for Bloodmoon!

We promised more mechanical transparency, and we're delivering - even in the most esoteric of places! #JupiterHellClassic

Vibe coding basically gives the effect of a client constantly requesting new requirements to a project without allocating refactoring time.

The Jupiter Hell Classic equivalent of a chess puzzle: What do you do to save the loot? Does it change depending on class/traits? :P

As a few of you know I'm on a quest to finish the entirety of the main Elder Scrolls series - Morrowind has been completed, the Tribunal expansion is next!

Tenerife, Teide peak (3718m). Really needed some time off!

So yeah the third idea is the ARPG one - here the permafailure design would have to be more loose as the single character vs game length would be painful. So we keep an in-world explanation of rebirth when attempting 2-3 hour max missions. Death wipes new loot and a part of the new XP.

Other idea was an XCom-like but with permafailure. No loading previous save files, but lethality would be toned down (think Necromunda out of action + injury). Dealing with missions gone south, cutting losses, comebacks, long-term injury, etc is an untapped area in XCom-likes.

One idea I'm playing around since a long time is merging the classic Dungeon Hack-style 90-degrees rotation dungeon crawler with a traditional DCSS-style roguelike game. Care would have to be taken to make the early game smooth, but I think there's potential.

My original idea was to start with roguelikes and then bring the design ideas to other genres. I see that was done without me already :P. So which merge should I go for first - blobber dungeon crawlers? Action RPGs? Or Xcom-likes?

Jupiter Hell Classic 0.7 "Europa" update is live now, and on sale as part of #ScreamFest2025 ! Turn-based, grid-based traditional roguelike with a strong FPS lineage! store.steampowered.com/news/app/312...

Tempted to finally start that big roguelike project again.

Jupiter Hell Classic 0.6 "Callisto" update is live now! JHC is the fastest turn-based shooter roguelike out there, check it out on Steam (demo available!) Patch notes for 0.6: store.steampowered.com/news/app/312...

It's my 3rd serious playthrough through Morrowind, and only now it hit me on how much it borrows from Dune :P

Jupiter Hell Classic is now Steam Deck verified! Also, have a teaser of the upcoming 0.6 update arriving NEXT WEEK! store.steampowered.com/news/app/312...

Jupiter Hell Classic is now Steam Deck verified! Also, have a teaser of the upcoming 0.6 update arriving NEXT WEEK! store.steampowered.com/news/app/312...

Even if it's here for just a moment, it's always so lovely to see <3