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DeeMer's 16x16 tileset.

DeeMer — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:09:56 GMT

Instead of piggybacking on Magi's sets, I'll just put this here. I've changed a few more since the first time. Sometimes I redraw the image from scratch, and sometimes I just trace over the compressed image for clarity. This version also has colored scrolls, but I haven't finished the symbols yet. It's an ongoing process. Since this is a PNG32 file, the Glass Golem has some alpha modification to it. I plan on playing with transparencies in other tiles, but I'd like to ask ...

New winner

Curseman — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:33:50 GMT

Hey! Long time no see! I was playing through the newest version after being away from the game for a while, and I managed to get through it in one shot. Here's my character dump: Character Dump for MageGuild version 1.2.0.0 Selene - Level 14 - Winner! Final Score: 7397 Turns: 11561 HP: 36/36 MP: 104/104 Schools: Elemental, Light Spells: Lightning Bolt Fire Wall Fireball Armor Heal ...

First Impressions

jim — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:00:32 GMT

I'm Jim, and I'm a roguelike addict. (Hi Jim!) It's been ten minutes since I last played a roguelike. I tried MageGuild and I was really impressed. It has a lot of polish and it's aesthetically pleasing, the latter being really important to me in an ascii game. Everything was clear and the colors were bright. I enjoyed the sense of personality that came with the choice between archmage patrons. Overall, I felt steeped in a sense of atmosphere from the very getgo, and that's a defining ...

Call for Beta Testers

Nahjor — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:29:36 GMT

We're ready to begin the beta for the MageGuild level editor. Anyone interested in participating should drop a post here letting me know.

Dragoon's tileswaps

Dragoon — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:18:30 GMT

First of all, Ello', since I just joined, I'm Magi's brother, He got me interested in mage guild by his pokemon tileswap/his tileswaps. Screenshot of it in-game My first tile swap(Which I'm still working on) is custom tiles, Which are all in the style I use for different projects of Magi's when he doesn't do too well on it himself, except the people, which are all in his style of people. Some other tile swaps I'm planning on include dragon, which is switching the dragon sprite ...

Magi's Tileswaps

Magi — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:48:11 GMT

I made this for my brother, and I guess some other people would be interested in it, so here it is! It should work perfectly with v1.1.1 and v1.2.

Have fun, and keep an eye out for future tilewaps by me!

Mage names

Zixinus — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:27:20 GMT

So, I'm a little confused what kind of language is used for naming the various character types? Well, I've fired up my old latin dictionary and found no meaning whatsoever. Then I noticed that the word "xeno" in "xenomancer", which is greek for stranger. So, I tried google and found this handy little thing: http://www.babylon.com/define/105/ Mancer = ? Helio = (greek) sun, referring to Helios the god of Sun Quote:n. (Greek Mythology) god of the ...

MageGuild Version 1.1 Released!

Nahjor — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:56:45 GMT

There's a full changelist on the MageGuild page and in the archive, but the gist of it is, I fixed a ton of bugs, spruced up the UI a little, and tweaked a couple of balance concerns. Check it out and, as always, let me know any bugs/issues/what-have-you that you find.

Thanks!

I'm back . . .

winter_mute — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:12:10 GMT

So about two months ago my computer overheated and burnt itself to a fiery crisp and I haven't had a chance to play mage guild or anything else in quite some time. At relatives for thanksgiving and trying to actually ascend in the game this night, I've gotten damn close before (to the level right before the mage level but haven't quite cut it. I'm going to be playing a summoner and trying out the new targetable armor buff. thank you so very much for that by the way. My play time ...

holy crap what happened to the encounter rate?

winter_mute — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:23:13 GMT

there are like three times more monsters and the game generates far larger groups now...at random seemingly. I just fought 12 Dryads over three rooms along with 3 green slimes that mauled my immobalized body to death.

Which is AWESOME and I totally approve of but...jesus...

Sometimes there are two sets of stairs

Pure — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:04:57 GMT

Is there ever any difference between stairs? Sometimes I find two on a level. Since you can't travel back up, it seems unlikely that there's branching. They taunt me so. What possibilities lie behind that set of stairs I'll never climb?

MageGuild 1.1.1 Released!

Nahjor — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:18:00 GMT

Chipped out a quick patch for 1.1; it should correct the crashes that people were having. As always, shoot me any issues, problems, what-have-you.

help with luxuno dungeon depth 16

icebreader — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:22:53 GMT

i m stuck in luxuno dungeon depth 16, it seems to be a dead end, have tried different set of stairs in depth 15, still the same dead end in depth 16.... help

MageGuild 1.1 Finalizing

Nahjor — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:27:58 GMT

Ok, guys; MG 1.1 is wrapping up, as far as I can tell. If you have any other bugs or pressing balance issues that you think would be good for this release, now would be a very good time to let me know. 2.0 is the next planned milestone, and it will probably be a while. Here's a to-date changelist: #### 1.1 *New stuff: -updated LRLLib to Phasma -added optional auto-center -removed screen size cap -added full-screen mode -added escape menu to access options and save mid-game -removed ...

full screen

wader2k — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:55:13 GMT

Hey folks! Just d/l'ed this new roguelike and so far it looks GOOD!! One question that is very frustrating for me though....I have a 24" widescreen monitor running at 1920x1024.....using Windows XP home.....I want to run this game full screen. For example, when I play ADOM( another roguelike) I can hit + and the DOS window expands to full screen if I remember correctly. Is there any way to get this game to play in full screen mode? Thanks! Wade

game rules question - frozen status

winter_mute — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:16:37 GMT

Does the Frozen status do anything besides swapping water tiles for ice tile? I have never lost any actions or movement because of it as far as I know. Is this currently something that is unimplemented like water attack secondary effects?

MageGuild Version 1.0 Released

Nahjor — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:49:39 GMT

MageGuild is finally out of beta! Go snag the first non-beta release now, at http://glistenimages.com/Lukos/lukosMageGuild.htm. I can't thank everyone who participated in the beta testing, both open and closed, enough; without your help, this project would not only not be where it is, it probably wouldn't be at all. As always, send me your bugs, ideas, and general feedback. Thanks!

Forum Restructuring

Nahjor — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:12:32 GMT

For those of you who've been around a while, with the impending release of MageGuild 1.0, a non-beta, I've taken the liberty of rearranging things a bit. The beta forum should still be viewable, and if there's anything you would like me to pull back out of cryo, let me know. You'll also notice that your ranks have been adjusted a bit; the "Beta Tester" rank has been given out to anyone who was posting here before 1.0, as an (admittedly tiny) thank-you for helping me get MageGuild ...