{"id":264,"date":"2010-03-15T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2011-06-02T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T12:33:46","slug":"what-is-desktop-dungeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"What is Desktop Dungeons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>setTimeout('window.location=\"http:\/\/www.desktopdungeons.net\/\"', 0);<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>** <strong>We won the award for <a href=\"http:\/\/igf.com\/02finalists.html\" target=\"_blank\">Excellence in Design at the IGF<\/a>!<\/strong> <strong>We also revealed the Unity version in public for the first time and got some great feedback. <\/strong>**<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fight your way through a fantasy dungeon in 10 minutes or less<\/li>\n<li>Classic roguelike play re-imagined as a single-screen puzzle game<\/li>\n<li>Unlock loads of classes, races and challenge dungeons for awesome replayability<\/li>\n<li>Online leaderboard allows you to compare yourself against other players<\/li>\n<li>Deep, challenging, randomly-generated gameplay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Desktop Dungeons<\/em> offers an unquestionably unique approach to roguelike games by taking compactness to the extreme. It distills the entire genre to a few core ideas which pay homage to the greats while forging new ground with gameplay similar to that of <em>Oasis<\/em> or <em>Tower of the Sorcerer<\/em>. It also features emergent complexity that rewards truly skilled and thoughtful players.<\/p>\n<p>With an extensive character unlock system and an average play length of about ten minutes, <em>Desktop Dungeons<\/em> is a great coffee-break game for just about any player.<\/p>\n<p>Downloads:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/Files\/DesktopDungeons\/DesktopDungeons_v015.zip\">Desktop Dungeons v0.151<\/a> (Windows, 4.3MB)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/Files\/DesktopDungeons\/DesktopDungeons_v015_Mac.zip\" target=\"_self\">Desktop Dungeons v0.151<\/a> (Mac, 12MB)<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve got the game and have questions on strategies and the like, hit up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/wiki\/DesktopDungeons\/index.php\">DD Wiki<\/a> for enlightenment, or visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nag.co.za\/forums\/showthread.php?t=13014\">DD discussion thread<\/a> on the NAG forums to interact with other community members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** We won the award for Excellence in Design at the IGF! We also revealed the Unity version in public for the first time and got some great feedback. ** Fight your way through a fantasy dungeon in 10 minutes or less Classic roguelike play re-imagined as a single-screen puzzle game Unlock loads of classes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[19,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qcfdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}