RogueMelee, A Fantasy RPG

~Narrative Exploration Combat Adventure  ~

Page Under Construction, Subject To Change

~Live Developed on Twitch~

Social Links - Get The Latest, Live!

@HagermanHour - Twitch

@HagermanHour - YouTube

Discord - Quickest Way for Inquiry, Bugs

Discord Server - Click Me!

~Current Goals~

• (01) Publish an exclusive vertical slice
  
  • to Ring 0 Testers (Complete)
• (02) Publish a vertical slice for Windows Platform for
  • Ring 1 Community Members
    
  • (- Join the Discord to learn more - )
    
• (03) Publish a vertical slice for 
  • Windows Platform for wide-release.
• (04) Iterate on feedback from (01-02 until 03 is published).
• (05) Reassess, iterate, and make a continually better game for everyone.
  

~~[Stretch Goals]~~

• (TO REVIEW) - Many are scattered throughout the description of this page - they are living ideas and concepts at this stage as the foundation of the scope of the project is being laid.
• Publish for: Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, Android, IOS, Switch
• Integrate support for other hardware.
• Accessibility hardware support, UI support.
• Localization  - (Written, Dialog)

~~~~[Features]~~~~

• Windows, with Gamepad Supported
• [PH]Fight with your fists against enemy AI, weapon variants in progress
• [PH]Explore the world, but beware of falling to your death, teleport at key locations, interact with fantastical contraptions, avoid traps that are both magical and human in design. Uncover the nature of the world, the story of what came before, and what may come next!
• [WIP] AAA graphic settings - change between ultra low end (mobile-like) to modern era console graphics 
  • Intense shadows, awe inspiring atmospheric effects, post processing with cinematic layers, and more. Includes windowed or full screen, v sync, select widescreen resolutions.

~~~~[Misc Controls]~~~~

• Use F1 to QUIT. (Builds 2_3_4 and later)
• Use F2 to RESPAWN. (Builds 2_7_3 and later)
• Use F3 to Toggle Multi-Jump. (Builds 2_9_1)
  • Note this is a Development/Debug Feature, may not persist in release.
  • Can be increased to 100 Multi-Jumps for testing purposes.
• Use O to Save current player data. (Builds 3_0_0)
• Use L to Load current player data. (Builds 3_0_0)
• Use Left/Right Shift + F11 to Activate Health & Stamina Cheats.
  
  • (Builds 2_9_1)
  • Note this is a Development/Debug Feature, may not persist in release.
• Toggle Run/Walk with Caps Lock (KB+M Only)
  
• Includes Enemy AI (Build 2_8 and later)
• Has Gamepad Support
  

• Platforms: 
  • Windows (Required)
  • Android (Under secondary development; will have _Android suffix to the file structure).

~~~~[Known Issues]~~~~

• (00001) No build available for download.
  • (Working As Intended) Current access is available to individual access keys to a select number of participants on an individual basis. If you would like to enter access to the next ring of exclusive participants, you may provide your contact information and request a key - understanding that this is with the intent of your desire to aid in participating in the community in a positive and productive manner.

• (00002) This page is missing <x>, seems incomplete, has an error...
  • Thank you - please contact us! The page is under construction in a "live" manner but trails significantly behind the "live development" of the game - the best most recent status of the project will be available on Discord and Twitch, with plans to rollout moderate informational development updates on YouTube.
• (00003) What is the Licenses file included in the project?
  • The Licenses file is included with every packaged build as required by the resources that have been used in the project. This includes information about certain assets and their authorship - probably only interesting if you like legal or are a developer that is also interested in those resources.

• (00004) Not Listed
  • Please get in contact!

~~~[Development & Project History]~~~

• Project in its earliest iteration started in Spring 2017.
• The project has had multiple "living migrations" from older engine versions to newer versions, currently locked with Unity's 2021 LTS (Long Term Service).
  • Note, there exists a stretch goal of migration to Unity's 2022 LTS. 
    • Unfortunately the scope and growth of the project has made this more challenging, with a moderate risk of existing asset packages needing additional tweaking to provide migrated support. Bottom line is that this provides large amounts of invisible value to the player aside from visual package features, but great development value internally, with larger production value for the life of the production studio.
    • The additional features that Unity has continued to showcase remains exceptionally compelling and attractive and as such would be a fantastic value addition to the project and experience.
  • This has included an entire rendering edition upgrade which took nearly half a month of development to migrate all existing assets and bring to parity the initial project's vertical slice in project quality and visual fidelity. 
  • Ultimately, this was worth the change as it has included multiple modern additional rendering techniques that are found in traditional AAA titles.
• The project has had multiple tangential research lines that did not contribute to the existing project as-is. This includes:
  • ~18 Months of Production Time Investigating Asset Packages or Tools that did not appropriately have a relevant place or a uniquely valuable addition to the workflow, or bottom line value proposition to the player.  
    • This includes learning and prototyping amazing tools that are just simply not being leveraged for RogueMelee's current workflow, but may be reintroduced if the production team size increases.
  • Note: All links below open in a new tab

    
    

    • An experimental Xbox One build via the Microsoft UWP Xbox DevKit
    • An experimental controller implementation via Leap Motion (V2)
    • An experimental controller implementation via Oculus Rift's RiftTouch controllers.
    • Feasibility study of Logitech's Lightsync (abandoned when hardware entered disrepair)

  
  

  • Note: All links above in this section are for reference and curiosity only, we are not making any declaration of official support for any of the hardware or platforms below, although we reserve the potential for additional stretch goals to materialize these experiments as published features/platforms.

    
    

    • If you are familiar with, or a representative of, any of the following and would like to connect about a wider range of platform support, please do!
    • We have a great desire to publish across all available platforms, for the largest amount of accessibility, and with the stretch goal intent of supporting alternative hardware for unique experiences. This also includes Localization (multiple language support).