7DRL Success: Mutant Aliens!

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MUTANT ALIENS!

Download: https://github.com/downloads/essarrdee/mutantaliens/mutantaliens.zip

Source: https://github.com/essarrdee/mutantaliens/

Screenshots: http://7drl.org/tag/mutant-aliens/

The objective is to destroy the radio transmitter that's fooling your
spaceship's docking system, then get back into the ship and fly away.
Simple enough, right?

There are lots of features I wanted that aren’t in it. But it’s
playable, it’s very coffeebreaky, it can be very challenging, and it’s
very prone to killing you just when you think you’ve won. Don’t let
them get too close. Run away often. Use your explosives wisely.

I guess it turns out a worthwhile roguelike doesn’t have to have
remote controlled brain slices.

Comments, feedback, bug reports, particularly along the lines of “Add
in-game help as a bugfix or I refuse to play” can be posted here, or
sent to quendus at google’s email domain.

README reproduced here:

To run on Windows, run mutantaliens.exe
To build and run on UNIX-like systems, type:
		make
		./mutantaliens
If it complains, try:
		make esc_ok
		./mutantaliens

If there is a crash or some unpleasant behaviour, please email me
about it, preferably with a screenshot and/or a way to reproduce it.

0 is the lowest difficulty, and is a bit too easy. 9 is the hardest
difficulty, and it might be winnable! 4 or 5 is supposed to be the
standard difficulty.

Tiles:
Green . is soil. Walking on this is quietest.
Green t is a small tree. Walking through this is slightly louder.
Green T is a large tree. You can't see through them!
White # is the wall (or the inert control panel of your ship).
White . is a solid floor. Walking on these is quite noisy.
White + is a door. These are transparent, but walking through them is
rather noisy.

Commands which currently have a useful effect:
hjklyubn or numpad to move. arrow keys work for orthogonal movement.
r to check radio signal strength (a fraction of letters from the
transmission will be *ed out). This tells you how close the goal is,
but you'll have to figure out the direction yourself.
R to start or stop running (actually this makes you do everything
faster). As your stamina(**********) decreases, your running speed
decreases to your walking speed. Monsters can do this too!
f to enter fire mode, hjklyubn or numpad/arrow keys to target, f to
fire, i to inspect targeted square, tab to autotarget visible
monsters.
t to enter throwing mode, hjklyubn or numpad/arrow keys to target, t
to confirm location, hjklabcdef to select device. 0-9 to set timer (0
activates/explodes on impact, others wait that number of turns at your
walking speed).
i to view some information about the contents of a targetted tile, in
fire mode or throw mode.
tab to autotarget visible monsters, in fire mode (but not throw mode).
X,Y,Z to wield pistol, assault rifle, or plasma cannon. Their fire
power is in that order. The plasma cannon does splash damage, try not
to shoot it at adjacent enemies. You autowield the rifle. It takes a
turn to switch.
Which one you are wielding is indicated by a line above the weapon in
use.

The memory display shows all observed information about a species. It
may show species symbol, species size, species walk speed (relative to
your walk), species max run speed (relative to your max run speed),
species damage (absolute), and species health (absolute).
The species health descriptions are not very helpful at the moment -
monsters marked frail will die very *very* easily, but many monsters
marked "tough" will also die easily. You'll have to observe species
health yourself.
Counts of ammo/devices in your inventory, and loudest sound heard this
turn are also displayed. The direction the sound came from will
sometimes disagree with what you see - thats because you can't hear
very well.
You and monsters will also tend to be deaf for quite a long time after
using explosives.

Try to use your radio to find the radio transmitter, destroy it using
explosives (or cannon), and get back into the ship, without getting
killed or letting an alien come with you alive.

The devices you have are:
(a) low explosive: radius 2, good damage (more than a cannon shot)
(b) high explosive: radius 4, high damage (unless you're on a hard
difficulty setting, a direct hit should kill anything that's not you)
(c) hologram projector: projects a hologram, which will distract
monsters from you if you're lucky.
(d) noise generator: either emits sounds which will attract aliens and
distract them from you, or plays harsh noise at deafening volumes,
repelling monsters. Unfortunately, you don't choose which.
(e) scent generator: emits a scent identical to your own, distracting
monsters.
(f) brain slice: some aliens don't need vision, scent, or sound to
find you, they just tchyuuuune into your brahahahaaaaain waaaaaves.
This device distracts such creatures.

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