Topic: Exploring The Bleak is a Graphical Roguelike videogame for Windows

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Exploring The Bleak is a Graphical Roguelike videogame for Windows

Exploring The Bleak is a Graphical Roguelike videogame created by Nathaniel Inman of The Other Experiment Studio. ETB was released on September 19th 2010 for ARRP, or the Annual Roguelike Release Party. The project was originally released as closed source, but is now available in open source.


Features

• Current
• • Randomly Generated Dungeons (4 Presets : Ruins, Dungeons, Tunnels, Ordinal Tunnels)
  • 10 Dungeon Graphical Tilesets
  • 10 Simple Creatures
  • 100+ Randomly Generated Items
  • 20+ Unique Skills
  • Top Scores List
  • A Very Simple, Beatable Game.

Storyline

Under the land of Sedia lies a world entirely it's own, untouched by civilized hands and mysterious in origins. You are an average under-paid soldier sent on a suicide quest like many before you to investigate and retrieve the last remnant shard of the Everspark, a relic of magic said to have enough power to bring the world to it's knees in destruction and end quickly the Age of Man. Maybe you'll get a raise.


How To Play

Delve into the depths of the dungeons to retrieve the Everspark. In order to level up you kill enemies by walking into them. Strength makes your regular attacks stronger. Dexterity gives you the chance to dodge attacks. Constitution gives you damage reduction on all attacks. Wisdom gives you more points when you level to increase stats. Intelligence increases your skill damage. Luck increases the amount of loot that you find. Charisma increases the chance to cause enemies to flee.


Controls

In order to level up you kill enemies by walking into them. use the num pad or arrow keys to move. Numpad keys 7,9,3, and 1 move diagonally.

• 'p' or 't' picks up items.
• 'i' shows your inventory. 
• '?' or 'h' shows and hides this help.
• '5' on the num pad waits a turn and allows you to heal 1HP/1WP.
• '1' is your primary skill
• '2' is your secondary skill
• '3' is your support skill
• '<' goes up stairs.
• '>' goes down stairs.
• 'f1' shows the high scores.
• 'f2' shows your character stats.
• 'f3' shows or hides the activity log.
• 'f4' exits game and restarts character creation.
• 'f5' enables graphical mode.
• 'f6' enables ascii mode.
• 'f7' turns on image filtering.
• 'f8' turns off image filtering.

http://code.google.com/p/exploringthebleak/#ETB

http://www.plainsofsedia.com/Downloads.html#ExploringTheBleak