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LAN fan:
We could also make it a real-time 2D - oh, wait.  :-)

I'd like to hear what Kornel thinks is possible and what's not.

Personally, I reckon it's workable, and the only reason we don't have cooperative roguelikes is because nobody's taken the effort to make one.  Everybody thinks it won't work, so nobody bothers.  But even if the first model doesn't work, at least it's a start...how many models did the Wright brothers go through before the fateful day at Kitty Hawk?  :-)

Turgor:
Quoting: ObscilleskThats a pretty cool method actually, I'd never considered that before, I think that'd work out pretty well.

I know of a few games that use such a method (well, a bit more advanced, but my post seems to sum up the major aspects of determining when somebody can do something), the best of which is mangband, a version of angband. i heard rumors about other games like it that are being developed now (i heard that maybe JADE, the 2nd version of ADOM, will have a multiplayer option).

and outside of the RL genre, think about games like the early ultima series.. they used a similar system, except it is not multiplayer. come to think of it, real time roguelikes would resemble ultima a lot actually 0.o

vdeogmer:
How about making both players be on the same turn(actions that take more time would take extra turns), so that as soon as both people are moved, they can both move again.

The problem is that it'd destroy the speed system.

And I severely disliked mangband, maybe it was just the speed at which it went, but it felt wholly uncomfortable to me. You ought to have some time to think about your move.

Turgor:
well, speed can be tweaked.. and real time adds some more challenges like not being able to think too long ;)

but like i said before, it needs a completely new game engine, so it's not likely to happen for DoomRL.. at least not in the forseeable future.

Kornel Kisielewicz:
DoomRL 2.0 maybe ^_^

But honestly - this is a feature that would require a serious engine overhaul. This could be considered if I were to add a PayPal like donation system to my site. Unfortunately tough:

a) I don't think anyone would want to donate
b) PayPal doesn't support sending money to Poland

:-(

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