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Wow, you just described my experience 100%.

I'm also a game developer, and I believe you will love the game I'm making:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/539400

It's a roguelike with various weapons and items like The Binding of Isaac, but has 4-player co-op, fantasy theme and different combat styles depend on the starting character you choose.

Anyway, shoot me an e-mail, I'll send you a free Steam key. The address is in my HN profile.



I've actually looked for more games like it, with varying results.

Nuclear Throne, while having an avid fan base, is too unpredictive, and leaves no room for strategy and planning. In BoI you can (mostly) see all enemies, and when hit you get a grace period. In Nuclear Throne you can get shot up off screen, and lose any amount of your HP in a second (most often 50% or more of it). I wanted to like it but couldn't.

Neurovoider I haven't tried, but the criticism I've heard mirror that I experienced with Nuclear Throne, which makes me hesitant.

Risk of Rain was fun and worked both in single-player and multi-player, but didn't have as much depth, so it didn't last as long.

The Madness of Little Emma (as the name suggests) is a very blatant try to mimic BoI, but as a sidescroller instead, and mouse aim. I couldn't get into it, but can't articulate why.

You absolutely don't have to, but I'd gladly take a key and try it out, my wife has been asking me for games we could play together, so it could be fun to try. I'll shoot you an email, thanks.


> In Nuclear Throne you can get shot up off screen, and lose any amount of your HP in a second

I have the same problem with it. I mostly play local co-op and it's even worse because you often at the edge of the screen.

From similar games I can recommend Rampage Knights, although there aren't many weapon/item synergies it's got pretty fair and fun combat.


Nice art. Since your brand is digosaur, you should add some dinosaurs to it (or make a dinosaur mod) once you're done with the main game.

And thank you for the Linux version. Added to my wishlist


Didn't thing about that. Cool idea. Thanks.




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