Foog and the Scarpeners

'Foog and the Scarpeners' (FoogRL) is a squad-based turn-based rogue-like game. 

You control a party of 3 to complete the 7 trials of Foog, the dark God of chaos.

Features

• Pick your party size 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6!
• 21 characters to choose from - find the best party combinations
• Survive waves of baddies and after each wave either 
  • level-up
  • get equipment
  • heal your team 
• Perma-death
• Entire game takes place in a single-screen randomly generated dungeon
• Kill enemies or just run to the goal!
• One of three end-game bosses randomly selected each run
• Each wave of monsters picked randomly
• Environment interactions:
  • Hide in grass
  • Slow enemies down by luring them across mud
  • Open and close doors with carefully timed movements

Technology

Windows PC only. Developed in C# WinForms with OpenGL for the graphics. 

Development

Single person dev team and I began development back in Feb 2015! There was, however, a 2 year break from development but starting back up again end of 2020. I only spend 2 or 3 hours on the project a week (due to kids and work), which is why it's taking so long 😸

Using a ⚔ legendary ⚔ Oryx tile-set https://www.oryxdesignlab.com/products/ultimate-roguelike-tileset

Roadmap

• v0.6 - Initial beta publish (Q4 - 2021/Q1 - 2022):
  • 13 playable characters
  • One game mode: 7 trials of Foog, the dark God of chaos
  • Only one artifact equipable per character
• v0.7 :
  • 8 remaining playable characters (taking full roster up to 21 playable characters)
• v0.8:
  • New game mode: Challenge, including random challenges and daily challenge
• v0.9:
  • Allow characters to equip multiple artifacts
• v1.0 - Release publish:
  • Final balance pass
  • Missing animations

Price

If purchased during beta FoogRL will be around £3.50 and around £4.50 if bought from v1 (release publish) onwards.