Princess Mystery Dungeon by philomory

made by philomory for LD20 (COMPO)

Princess Mystery Dungeon combines zelda-esque gameplay with roguelike procedurally generated dungeons.

Arrow keys move, Z attacks with your sword, X uses your wall-breaking secondary item, if you've acquired it. During a text-message, press enter or return to clear the message and get on with things.

Click-and-run packages for Windows and OS X are now available.

To run from source, you need:

ruby (developed on 1.9.1)
gosu (developed with 0.7.29)
chingu (developed with 0.8.1)

Having acquired those things, run ruby LD20.rb

Enjoy!

Windows	https://bitbucket.org/philomory/ld20/downloads/PrincessMysteryDungeon-ld48-win32.zip
OS X	https://bitbucket.org/philomory/ld20/downloads/PrincessMysteryDungeon-ld48-macosx.zip
Source	https://bitbucket.org/philomory/ld20/get/ld48.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-20/?action=preview&uid=1112

Ratings

Coolness	3%	156
Overall	2.60	189

Community	2.64	147
Fun	2.73	153
Graphics	2.67	190
Humor	2.00	206
Innovation	2.00	257
Theme	2.43	190

Feedback

Orangy Tang

02. May 2011 · 10:35 UTC

I had fun exploring the dungeon, you've done a good job of getting the non-linear zelda dungeon design working, especially with the limited dungeon objects you had.

I think it needs a bit more variety (more monsters types would really have helped), and I think it needs more contrast between the walls and floors (I almost didn't spot a coule of doors). Does it use the theme or did I miss it?

Also, it just quit when I got to the end room. Which was a shame. I had fun playing it though!

🎤 philomory

02. May 2011 · 16:36 UTC

Actually, a file was missing from the OS X packaged version. It should be playable all the way through the end of the game now, instead of crashing when you get to the boss!

Thanks for your comments!

mpc174

03. May 2011 · 14:32 UTC

It seems stable, and the fact that the dungeons are procedurally generated was a nice twist. Did not find a connection to the theme. The graphics often overlapped a bit. Without knowing the gameplay tropes taught in the first Zelda game (e.g. kill all monsters in a room to get the key), you'd get stuck fairly early. That the design is procedural and the levels still work shows some skill.

Grungi Ankhfire

03. May 2011 · 20:54 UTC

Argh, no chingu package for Archlinux... I may try to install it manually, because that would be a shame, having installed all the other dependencies :D Will get back to you with a rating and some comments if I do it!

🎤 philomory

04. May 2011 · 03:52 UTC

Chingu is pure ruby and should be pretty easy to install by hand if you need to. If you have git, you can get it pretty easily from github, just make sure you use 0.8.1 rather than HEAD. (For that matter, even if you don't have git you can still download a tarball from github, https://github.com/ippa/chingu/archives/v0.8.1 for the correct version)

🎤 philomory

04. May 2011 · 03:55 UTC

(I should note also that some of chingu's dependencies are not really necessary for my game; chingu includes functionality for online high scores and the like which I am not using. If you're the kind of person who would rather edit source files than install dependencies you don't actually need, have a blast ;) )

stigrv

05. May 2011 · 16:14 UTC

I killed the last boss, and nothing happened. It was a good ride up to that point though.

Dark Acre Jack

06. May 2011 · 15:06 UTC

Great Zelda clone here, probably the most accurate dungeon one I've come across.

Some of the doors in the dungeons wouldn't open, was pushing the blocks supposed to unlock them?

Great work, congrats on entering the LD48!

Switchbreak

08. May 2011 · 17:28 UTC

Played the windows version up until the boss, then it crashed. Fun! Could have used some audio, but a good quick Zelda-style dungeon game nonetheless.

erik

08. May 2011 · 22:07 UTC

This is a nice little game. More variety would be good, and the movement and attacks could use a little polish. Perhaps designed dungeons would have been better than the procedural ones? I really like that you included a boss fight, and I enjoyed the twist on the theme. Is there any sort of win state? Nothing happened for me after I killed the boss.