Felines
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux
You, the youngest member of a farmer's family, exactly 17 years and one month old, liked life as a farmer.
But you are special.
You always tried to conceal your magic abilities, but recently, the mages of the "wizards' village", as your family refers to that strange walled conglomeration of towers on the hill some miles away, must have found something out.
Yesterday they came and got you. You see no chance of escape from their walls, so you'll have to deal with them.
Perhaps you could become their new leader and open their village for information exchange and trade, for thebenefit of all mages of the world?
Good luck!
This is a relatively small roguelike, where combat is performed in one of two ways: Magic or a board game duel. Any similarity to board games that are called like typical pets (forwards or backwards) are intended!
This is my first 7DRL entry. It might be hard to get where to start - try the green mages :) !
Missing features that might be added later:
- More duel maps
- Fights among four players, in teams
- More cards
- Directly challenging other mages, if you have tame cats
- Some difference between cat species
- More possibilities for acquiring tame cats
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Install instructions
You can download the Windows or Linux binary or the BASIC source code.
The source code runs in Microsoft QBasic 1.1 or can be compiled with FreeBasic, if you include the FelineFB.bi and compile with error handling. Simply use the provided build scripts. This is how I created the binaries. Use FelinesX.bas under Un*x systems, as the X-less version uses special IBM characters that lead to display problems.
Note: Around March 11, 20:50 I fixed the savegame bug. It was a double CLOSE #1, which QBasic accepts, but FreeBasic does not. Due to line endings ("Ctrl-M's", as IOCCC people say), you cannot move savegames from Linux to Windows. The other way round seems to work.
Note 2: Another bug has been fixed around March 11, 21:15. It made other mages be stuck in their doors.
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Hello..... , I was looking for games made with FreeBASIC on Itch.io. Finally, I could only find under 10 games made with FreeBASIC on Itch.io. Yes, less than 10. However, I still saw the real potential of FreeBASIC!
Oh, your game is an entry for a challenge. You may be interested in other game contests. The following game jam is a BASIC jam. I am not sure but you may be interested. Bye....
https://itch.io/jam/jam-for-all-basic-dialects
I'm sorry, I will not get around to participating :( . I would have loved, but I currently do not have the time. I hope that there will be a JfaBD #2!
Hello,
Ok....no problem.
Besides, #2 may be organised several months later.
Hi, long time no see. I remember that you wrote a lot of very valuable comments on entries of the first Jam for All BASIC Dialects. The 2nd jam will start soon. If you have time, you are very welcome to come back to write comments on games of the 2nd Jam later. Sure!
Thanks for the notification! I might even find the time to participate, especially if the jam time spans the first week of March, or Easter.
Is there already a jam page here on itch.io? If so, it would be nice if you linked it on the old jam page, so we all can find it.
Hello,
"I might even find the time to participate, especially if the jam time spans the first week of March, or Easter." <--- Oh, the second jam will start six days later(Feb). I hope that you will have time to develop a creative entry for the jam.
"Is there already a jam page here on itch.io?" <--- https://itch.io/jam/jam-for-all-basic-dialects-2
"If so, it would be nice if you linked it on the old jam page, so we all can find it." <--- Don't worry, I have put the URL here( https://rcbasicfans.itch.io/ ) so that visitors are able to find the webpages of all the jams easily. In fact, all the six entrants of the first jam have joined the second jam, yeah. I hope that they will submit ideal entries finally!
I figured out how to move and read people's spells, and charm cows and chickens, but I can't figure out how to get any cats or fight.
I charmed a bull and teleported it inside the walls, which didn't seem to do anything.
Well ... that's probably my fault (or the 7 days'). Try some magic on the green guy(s)!