Rogue 9+

I figured out how to move around, but it wasn’t obvious to me at first. I was thinking it was relative to the @ but it turns out to be more about specific spots on the screen: left, right, top, bottom, and then the corners (for diagonal moves). I guess I solved that puzzle!

It would be nice if moves could be more responsive and quicker.

On a side note, panning around is possible while pinch-zooming. (I’d prefer being able to do this by one-finger dragging.)

Again, it would be neat if the controls could look more retro/ascii in monochrome mode.

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Original reaction:

This is like trying to get a cat to go where you want to go. 80% of the time, it just stubbornly stays put. Sometimes it does move, but not where you mean to go. Other times, it just goes all the way to the opposite wall when you just wanted to move a little bit.

If the movement itself is meant to be a puzzle in its own right, good job—it’s a challenging one.

I have no idea about the actual game itself because I’m too distracted trying to get something, anything, to happen on purpose.

And I actually paid for this...?!

On another note, it would be nice if the entire UI could be retro/ascii in monochrome mode.

So happy to have my beloved Rogue in my pocket! But sad because this implementation is buggy and has major usability problems. It’s subject to random crashes, clearly a bug, and it has weirdness about player names and saved games which also seems like a bug but could be a design problem. As for usability, there seems to be no rhyme or reason about which features are on which supplemental menu. And one constant minor annoyance: why must a double-tap in a tunnel stop at every corner, instead of running to the next fork or doorway as in some other implementations? With no keyboard, saving those unnecessary taps would make a big improvement in playability...

Liked rogue and want to like this but every time I select a wand to use app crashes and must restart!