Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC

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marcingas•about 1 hour ago

Author here! Thanks for posting! This game is written in a Clojure-like programming language I've made. So this is a (B)rogue-like in a Clojure-like :)

What I think is interesting Old man shuts the You must retrieve You kill the rat! (sneak attack!) The rat squeals and dies! You wait. (x10) ᚢ You kill the rat! (sneak attack!) The rat squeals and dies! You hear muttering. You hear muttering. You hear muttering. You hear a distant creak. The runestone crumbles You hear a distant creak. The goblin misses you. (x3) The goblin hits you for 4. The goblin hits you for 3. The goblin hits you for 4. The goblin hits you for 3. The goblin misses you. The goblin hits you for 4. The goblin hits you for 2. The goblin hits you for 4. The goblin misses you. The goblin hits you for 2. The goblin misses you. (x2) The goblin hits you for 2. The goblin kills you! You die... Note how there were no is that this game computes the entire world state each tick and does so efficiently thanks to persistent data structures.

To anyone who dared to fire it up: thank you for playing, I'm curious what you think!

jackpirate•about 1 hour ago

The name let-go of your programming language is awesome!

marcingas•about 1 hour ago

Thanks! Please check it out and leave me a star if you like it :)

Jeremy1026•about 2 hours ago

Gets stuck in a redirect loop with the message:

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> Deploy coi-serviceworker-js alongside this file.

in Safari on 26.4

pgt•44 minutes ago

Not a Rogue-like specialist, it's hard – I haven't made it out of level 1 yet.

Parcival•about 2 hours ago

Pretty fun! I keep getting instantly killed by things though and I'm not sure why, possibly a bug.

andai•about 2 hours ago

I see you haven't played Noita!

marcingas•about 1 hour ago

Noita was another inspiartion when making this - the inverted power curve is real! Start squishy, become a god, die anyway.

CyberShadow•about 1 hour ago

No, I think I'm seeing the same bug. Time seems to sometimes subjectively freeze:

    ─── Messages ─── gate behind you. You hear him mutter "every time, I swear..." the Amulet of Lost Semicolons.

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ᛖ                                                     ᛃ as you touch it. You learn: ᛟ means "ice"!                                               ᛚ

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user action messages during the time the goblin was attacking.

marcingas•about 1 hour ago

Definitely a bug. I'll look into this at some point. Please note that this is not a finished game by any means. If anyone asked I'd call it a tech demo at this point :)

fhn•about 1 hour ago

yeah. something is wrong. You don't even get to fight back.

devindotcom•about 2 hours ago

that's actually a beloved feature of "true" roguelikes

Razengan•about 3 hours ago

Noun of Noun

gchamonlive•about 3 hours ago

Reminds me a lot of NetHack, good times

sandoze•about 3 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.

bayarearefugee•about 3 hours ago

> 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!

marcingas•about 1 hour ago

I know, this is intentional :)I took things I like from Brogue and added my own spin on it.

marcingas•about 1 hour ago

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 :)

sandoze•about 1 hour ago

Amazing and great work!

somewhatgoated•about 3 hours ago

Calling it rogue-like is basically attribution since Brogue is just the follow-up to Rogue which invented the genre

sandoze•about 3 hours ago

I’ll be sure to keep that in mind with my next plumber platformer

somewhatgoated•about 1 hour ago

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.

deathanatos•about 1 hour ago

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.

marcingas•about 1 hour ago

Brogue is insanely well balanced and ingeniously designed. XsofY is a mere tribute ;)

BeetleB•about 3 hours ago

Wouldn't the credit go to ... rogue?

sandoze•about 3 hours ago

The genre of course. But this is almost a 1-1 copy of the Brogue style. Right down to the colors, animation, and ASCII

devindotcom•about 2 hours ago

are you not familiar with the actual game rogue, or nethack?

otikik•about 2 hours ago

Found it a bit annoying having to press 'i' at the start in order to equip the dagger and armor that were on my backpack, but well done.

fhn•about 1 hour ago

yep. should be equipped from the start.

marcingas•about 1 hour ago

Agree, will patch this.

bennettpompi1•about 3 hours ago

fun project!

binary0010•22 minutes ago

Isn't this the kind of thing you can essentially fully offload to Claude code these days? Don't really get the point of these tiny primarily llm generated game clones tbh.

marcingas•14 minutes ago

I see your point but I like to think it's not as sloppy as you'd expect. This one is written in a programming language I've been making since 2021 and it's not a direct Brogue clone despite its looks.

frakt0x90•16 minutes ago

Is this a troll comment? I don't see where the author used AI to generate the code and if you don't see the point of experimenting with technology, you're on the wrong website.