Translation of the news, done by me:
Roguecraft DX is now out for Mega65, Game Boy Color and Amiga.
The Norwegian studio Badger Punch Games experienced great success when they released Roguecraft for the Amiga back in 2024. That roguelike game became one of the great favorites in the retrogaming space, and even won the prize for best retrogame at the Debug Game Awards. They were very happy when Retrogamingpappa interviewed them as below:
– The reception of Roguecraft took both us, the publisher and the distributor by surprise. It had an overwhelmingly positive feedback, and an unbelievably good coverage of the game both in the retrogaming space and press, and also in usual gaming press. It is commented about in countless videos on YouTube, and people streaming the game live. It is incredibly motivational to make a game to such a retro-system when you get such feedback, and people for a fact play and enjoy the games we make.
In the interview, they also revealed that Roguecraft would be released on more platforms, and throughout the last year, an updated version would come for the retro-inspired console Evercade. When they took another trip back to the Amiga version (to update the engine this time), they also released it to the Game Boy Color and the reasonably exclusive Mega65 platform.
Image: a new region in Roguecraft DX
A dungeon with monsters inside
As with the standard version, the objective is to come though a series of dungeons, which you explore in a turn-based mode, room after room. The DX version has 15 regions (including a region of wilderness outside the dungeons), with 80 new room configurations and a list of adjusts and additions. New monsters are also added, as expected.
The Amiga version also got new musics from Jogeir Liljedahl, while the other versions got musics from Proton (Mega65) and SloopyGoop (GBC). The version for the Game Boy Color, known as Roguecraft GB to differentiate from the others, also uses a top-down perspective in place of the isometric view from the other versions.
Multiple versions of the game are on the way, including one for the Mega Drive and one for Steam. So it will it will not be the last we hear from the game. Here are a few trailers:
Roguecraft DX - Amiga Launch Trailer
Thank you… Freaking awesome, and ineffably magnificent… no words… 💫