Fatherhood

Fatherhood is a Seven Day Roguelike written by Jeff Lait.

You can get the most recent version here.

This provides a windows and linux executable versions along with the source for those brave enough to try and build it from scratch. It also provides a linux and windows curses version for those allergic to graphics.

As the name suggests, in Fatherhood you play the role of a father who has an important task to perform. That task is the stopping of the flood waters (or on some maps, the fires) that threaten to wash away his homeland. The tension is that you have another implicity task: to be a good father. Your three children are also in the world, running about, either helping or hindering as is their whim.

The features of Fatherhood are:

• Combat free roguelike. All conflict is with the environment.
• Battle raging fires and flooding rivers by carrying rocks and pushing boulders.
• Children run their own AI causing them, like real children, to not always do what you want.
• Randomly generated levels can be saved to try and master the level later.
• Starting levels are saved in plain ASCII, allowing people to share challenging games or easily create new challenging scenarios.

If you are looking for a more traditional roguelike, I can't help but recommend POWDER.

Have fun!

Fatherhood was a finalist in the 2008 IndieCade Festival of Independent Games!

Version History

A 7DRL is supposed to be completely done at the end of the seven days. However, this should not mean one does not make small fixes.

002 Release
April 29th, 2008

Very minor changes. I had accidentally set the plains on fire on the valley map, there was only supposed to be flooding there. I had also made the obvious typo of dam->damn in the firestorm map which was reported by TeamQuiggan.

The 002 version can be found here.

7DRL release
March 15th, 2008

The original 7DRL version can be found here.

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