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Legend of Dungeon expands the legend to Steam
Legend of Dungeon, the roguelike dungeon crawler beat-em-up that fuses old-school pixel art with modern, dynamic lighting, is now available on PC, Mac, and Linux via Steam for $9.99. You may remember Legend of Dungeon developers Robot Loves Kitty as the husband-and-wife team who lived in a self-built treehouse in the mountains of Vermont during the game's production. Legend of Dungeon tells a simple story: while hanging out in a tavern, you hear of a legendary treasure hidden away at the bottom of the basement, 26 floors down. As RPG heroes are prone to do, you steal everything and hurry off, seeking the treasure. You can embark on this suicide mission solo, or bring along up to three friends with local co-op. This is Robot Loves Kitty's first Steam release, and to celebrate, they've shared a new, live-action trailer that warns players to "expect anything, die anyway." Sorry, 80s and 90s kids: looks like knowledge isn't power.
Legend of Dungeon pre-orders get another life on Steam, beta access
Legend of Dungeon, the pretty multiplayer roguelike from indie duo Robot Loves Kitty, is available now for pre-order on Steam for $10, including instant beta access. Legend of Dungeon launches on September 13 for PC, Mac and Linux, following a successful campaign on Steam Greenlight – not to mention an IGF nomination for technical excellence, an over-funded Kickstarter campaign and living in a tree for a while. The developers lived in a tree, that is. Pre-order Legend of Dungeon on the Robot Loves Kitty site or through Steam for that instant beta access. The game features single-player and local multiplayer modes, full controller support, along with RPG, beat-em-up and roguelike elements, all set to a dynamic soundtrack.
Steam Greenlight round 6: Legend of Dungeon, Shovel Knight, Faceless
Steam Greenlight has let loose the sixth round of community-chosen projects, with 20 new games and two new software titles. Freshly Greenlit games include Legend of Dungeon, the roguelike crawler from husband and wife development duo Robot Loves Kitty, Shovel Knight from Yacht Club Games' successful Kickstarter campaign, and Faceless, the horror game that's been at the top of the Greenlight pile since day one, but ran into legal problems with the Slender Man franchise.Other games include Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey, Agarest: Generations of War, Pinball Arcade, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures, Death Inc. and more. Check out the entire list below. The two Greenlit software titles are game capture program PlayClaw and strategy planner GamePlan.
Legend of Dungeon devs' secret to saving money: Live in a tree
As a husband and wife development team, Alix Stolzer and Calvin Goble worked out a system that saw them through the first few years of crafting games: Calvin made their first two titles, Tiny Plumbers and IGF nominee Neverdaunt: 8Bit, while Alix worked a 9-5 job and provided input in her spare time. The situation was satisfactory, but eventually, Alix wanted more."While money was coming in from our games, it really wasn't enough to pay the bills," Alix told me. "We decided we'd rather reduce living costs and rough it, instead of one of us working a 'real' job. The opportunity came quickly."A friend offered them the opportunity to be his "mountain neighbor" in Vermont – meaning they would live in a mountainside forest, in a home they'd craft themselves out of trees and tarp. There, they could survive on $150 a month, plus food. Alix and Calvin seized the moment."We sold our house and used as little money as possible to build a small house-tent thing eight feet off the ground, on a platform our friend had made out of four trees," Alix said. "We spent maybe $1,000 on it, really using thrifty things like greenhouse plastic, and making our own solar panels, etc. It's an awesome adventure, but the downside is it slows down game development."The mountain, miraculously, hosted a strong cellular internet signal, and on sunny days Alix and Calvin were able to charge their laptops, one at a time, using the homemade solar panels. Cafes and the college campus in town, a half hour walk away, provided power and internet on cloudy days. Everything – food, heat, power, water – took extra time in the mountain home, Alix said, including video game programming and design.But the tree house didn't stop their game development. As the studio Robot Loves Kitty, Calvin (the Robot) and Alix (Kitty) brought their latest game, Legend of Dungeon, to PAX East, using not a lot of money and earning wild success.
Kickstarter overachiever Legend of Dungeon out now for PC, Mac, Linux
Don't expect to survive in Legend of Dungeon – at least, that's what the creepy announcer in the above video warns. From developer Robot Loves Kitty, Legend of Dungeon is a roguelike action RPG beat-em-up with dynamic lighting and soundtrack systems, featuring more than 240 responsive music tracks. Legend of Dungeon is available now for PC, Mac and Linux in "nearly beta," for $10.The game features a single-player mode and up to four-player local co-op, an online leaderboard and absolutely no DRM. It's up for a bid on Steam via Greenlight.Robot Loves Kitty was nominated for an IGF 2011 award in Technical Excellence for Neverdaunt:8bit, alongside nominees Minecraft and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The team also won a coveted Ouya dev kit and saw success with Legend of Dungeon on Kickstarter, raising $33,000 of a $5,000 goal in December.Robot Loves Kitty will be sequestered in booth 191 at PAX East from March 22 - 24, with a playable demo of Legend of Dungeon.
10 indies to receive free Ouya dev kits
The first Ouya dev consoles are set to ship later this month and 10 lucky indie developers have been chosen to receive free Ouya dev kits through a Twitter promotion. Over the past 10 days, Ouya picked a different hopeful Ouya developer each day, the list of which is presented below along with links to more information about each's respective game: Day 1: Fist of Awesome (Nicoll Hunt) Day 2: MechKnight Chronicles (Dinosaur Entertainment) Day 3: Syder Arcade (Studio Evil) Day 4: KidElectro (Seantron) Day 5: Space Runner (Hypercane Studios) Day 6: Legend of Dungeon (RobotLovesKitty) Day 7: iMech Online (Mobula Games) Day 8: DustyRevenge (PD Design Studio) Day 9: HolyShield! (Dogbox Studio) Day 10: Starbound (Chucklefish)This doesn't mean each of these games is a lock for Ouya, we should note. These 10 individuals aren't getting final retail Ouya boxes – those don't ship until March 2013 – but rather free special limited-edition developer versions of Ouya, valued at $800 a pop. And while these initial shipments vary slightly from the retail Ouya units coming next year, we're compelled to note all Ouya consoles will allow for software development.
