The Drunken Lizard Pub

The CRPG strikes back!

Regarding Eschalon Book I, that's what I said only I said it in fewer words: I'm looking forward to seeing how quest based experience works. It seems to solve many of the problems inherent in both kill based and use based XP. I'm well aware that no one is advocating a 'kill everything in sight to le...

I played the demo, and I'm thinking of buying Avernum 4. The thing that annoys me is the fact that once you've killed everything in a particular area it remains empty, forcing you on to the next place. Not that normally you want to hang around forever, but I needed one more kill to level up lock pic...

I think the use based experience system is certainly a lot better than the kill based experience system. I like being able to decide whether or not I want to get involved in combat at a particular time, and not feel that I've got to kill everything in sight just to level up. Worse still is the kill ...

Thanks, that's good to know. If that's the case then I'll surely get windows first and then exchange it for Linux, that means I'll be able to play Eschalon while I'm working.

What kind of game are you making Saxon?

This is one, but also has links to others.
http://www.tilemap.co.uk/mappy.php

Good question. From a straight licensing point-of-view, yes you should be required to buy a separate game for the Mac, just as you would have to buy a separate version of Photoshop for both your Windows and Mac machines. However, we are a small company and want our customers happy. We may have a ve...

I too would love to see a Linux port available. I only just started using Linux at Christmas, and Eschalon: Book I would be my first Linux game. I'm using Suse Linux.