Earlier this year Laughing Jackal revealed Flame Over for the Vita, a fire fighting roguelike, which has randomly generated levels. They all have one thing in common in that all the levels are on fire, and your job is to put it out while rescuing anyone trapped in the building. The protagonist is Blaze Carruthers and in Flame Over he must battle the fires that erupt in the company offices of Infernal Industries.
As you go through the levels and save the trapped, you earn money to buy upgrades including water bombs. This is the first 3D title coming from Laughing Jackal and it is expected to launch at some point in Q4 2014.
Source: PS Blog
Lieutenant Fatman
Looks very Nintendo-esque doesn’t it? Could be fun.
Bodachi
Looks fun and Roguelike games are perfect for the Vita so I’ll be getting it.
bunimomike
“Rogue-like”? I keep seeing this crop up from time-to-time but don’t seem to be able to get a handle on the definition.
Forrest_01
I’m with you on this one – Seeing it a lot, understanding it never, ignoring it often.
bunimomike
Perhaps it just means “women”.
Forrest_01
Haha, yes – Amazing how easily that applies!
Stefan L
At it’s most base description, roguelike just means that it’s procedurally or randomly generated levels and there’s permadeath, so that when you die it sends you right back to the start to try again.
It all comes from a game called Rogue, funnily enough.
fyckfaco
Rouge was a randomly generated ASCII game with RPG elements. Rouge’likes tend to be games that borrow this idea :) Pretty vague but there you have it :D