Rogue Declan (Amiga) (AmiGameJam Winner)
A downloadable game
WINNER - AMIGAMEJAM 2022!
Highest Community Score and Highest Judges Score
A challenging, procedurally generated, roguelite twin-stick shooter for the Classic Amiga platform!
"an absolute beast of a game ... frightfully addictive and taxingly torturous" - 92% SIZZLER - ZZAP! Amiga 13
"fantastically tricky, polished and varied gameplay ... frantic but immensely fun and rewarding experience which I thoroughly enjoyed from start to finish" - 90% - Amiga Addict 24
"I love it!" - 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast
"It's bloody excellent!"
The wizards have been up to their tricks again, and this time they've accidentally opened Hell Portals under the castle! Now it's up to you, brave, brave Sir Declan, to delve into each procedurally generated castle dungeon and find enough magical shards to access and close its portal.
Armed with an enchanted Caster Sword, potions you find, and perhaps the occasional legendary charm, Sir Declan must fight demons, avoid traps, and collect treasures to trade for battle enhancements, before finally facing the portals themselves.
Brave, brave Sir Declan, how deep can you go?
Features
- 50fps 2D hell-blasting action
- Forty billion procedurally generated dungeons
- Six play modes and two difficulty levels
- Multiple control schemes, including the Dual Stick Retro
- Many enemies to defeat and traps to avoid
- Upgrades to unlock as you progress
- Legendary magical artifacts to recover
- Hapless villagers to save
- Secrets to find
- Online high score table for the Roguest Declans
- WINNER of the AmiGameJam 2022
Minimum System Requirements
Classic Amiga OCS
Kickstart 1.3+
512Kb Chip RAM
512Kb Other RAM
Widely compatible with 68k Amiga systems and emulators.
Credits
Design & Programming - John Girvin
Audio - DJ METUNE, H0ffman
Graphics - Toni Galvez, 0x72
Audio Mixer - Jeroen Knoester
Music Player - Frank Wille
QA & Testing - CoffeeCupArcade, DDNI, Girolamo, Troupe, Retro32, JW
Press & Further Information
Please direct all enquiries to hello@nivrig.com
Access the Press Kit
Rogue Declan Zero, Rogue Declan © John Girvin. All Rights Reserved. Downloads may not be resdistributed in any form without prior explicit permission.
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $7.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
- Rogue Declan 1.3.1 and DEMOJul 30, 2024
- Rogue Declan - Physical Edition Pre-Orders OpenDec 05, 2023
- Rogue Declan 1.2.0Nov 01, 2023
- Rogue Declan - Post-Jam Update Released!Oct 15, 2023
- Rogue Declan Zero - AmiGameJam 2022 WINNEROct 02, 2023
- Rogue Declan Zero - Amiga Addict EditionOct 02, 2023
- Rogue Declan Zero - Play GuideAug 01, 2023
Comments
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Hey, I hope you don't mind, but I placed Rogue Declan in the top 100 Amiga homebrew games of all time.
Wow! Thanks!
My pleasure :)
Is this game HAM mode ?
No, it's around 20 colours on screen from a 16 colour mode with a few extra from sprites.
How to type in the levelcode. Don´t want to start everytime from Level 1 !
There is no code to skip levels. The game is a rougelite - all runs start from level 1 and are randomly generated so the play is different every time. If you find the start of the game too slow select HARD difficulty in the options, or try one of the other play modes.
Amazing and wonderful game. Well deserved award. Congrats!
<3 Glad you like it!
Excellent game with great music, thank you. I also added it to my new "Gameplay of New Amiga Games from July 2024" video.
Thanks!
Update: Patch 1 for the WHDLoad archive has been uploaded. The game is unchanged but the loader has been updated to avoid an access fault warning reported on some systems.
Is there a WHDLoad version for the update?
Update: WHDLoad 1.3.1 is now available!
Thanks
Quick question do the purchasers of the limited edition get the update? Would I need to contact Polyplay
The updates from v1.3.1 are already present in the physical editions, apart from two cosmetic issues that do not affect gameplay. The physical editions are v1.3.0.
I just got this game a few days ago. Perfect bite-size dungeons ready to pick up any time and play a few or as many as you want. That's important for me.
i won a competition of the game
congratulations!!!
Awesome fun game 🤘🏻love the music 🤘🏻
What do the different game modes change?
Check out the Post-Jam Version Update for details :)
https://nivrig.itch.io/rogue-declan-zero/devlog/613617/rogue-declan-post-jam-update-released
Great title.
is there any chance you'd consider adding keyboard support for the controller selection?
You couldn't do separate movement and firing on the keyboard is the thing as the hardware can't detect enough simultaneous keypresses. One of the single joystick modes could probably be implemented though.
It is possible, I would do this with a heads-up text to put some on the modifier keys and the rest where not more than two rows/columns overlap. All keyboard players know this problem since 8-bit and PC; n-key rollover became popular in 2014-ish and these keyboards could be connected to the Amiga with a supportive adapter. Or they already know some good setups.
Yes, I understand the problems. Keyboard control is, of course possible, but with too many issues.
This looks really cool. I don't have a Gotek unfortunately, I'll have to wait until a WHDLoad version exists!
WHDLoad now available :)
Thanks. I like it, this breathes quality throughout. One suggestion would be about the font used for the passcode on the dungeon load screen, it's not super readable. I have a hard time differentiating B and 8, L and 1 :-)
Unfortunately, I cannot open version 1.1.3 via the Wb (3.2.2.1).
That is correct. The ADF is NDOS and does not run from Workbench, only autoboot.
A WHDLoad version will follow soon. That can be started from Workbench as normal.
WHDLoad now available :)
Good news :)
now only a CD32 version with 2 player simultaneous ;)
I have to leave something for the sequel ;)
Finally got around to picking this up today, great game and well worthy of your AmigaGameJam success! Congratulations and thank you for contributing a great game for the Amiga!
Awesome game!
Congratulations on winning the AmiGameJam!!! Well deserved!!
Great game!! Feels like an NES quality game!
The game plays so smooth, tunes are excellent and game is really addictive!! Difficulty advances smoothly!
You have really cracked the code on the gameplay..
Can see some good gameplay mechanics applied!
I can see some elements of Turbo Tomato in it too (throwing shards etc.)!
PS. Can you enable the gift option for this upon purchase? I want to gift to a friend!
PS2. I added a configuration for Dual-Stick support on AmigaLive so you can use any Dual Stick controller through emulation.
PS3. Not sure if open to apply a minor tweak but I will ask anyway.
Is it possible to slightly increase the speed while stuck and pushing walls to go around corners? in other games I'm used to pushing on a wall near corner exits and character manages to go through almost at same speed as normal and this feels natural to me.. but in this game it feels the speed is reduced a bit too much during the same process and enemies catch up with you quickly.. this is not a problem with early levels but on higher levels slowing down too much can be unforgiving..
PS4. Another minor issue I had was while holding fire button, whenever a dialogues appears it quickly disappeared before I could release the fire button to read it. This happens only while using a single joystick controller but not with the Dual Stick controller.
Thank for the kind words, and putting the game on AmigaLive.
I think the gift option isn't available as the game is PWYW.
I will look at the wall slide speed for the upcoming update. The update also fixes the message box cancel timing. Stay tuned!
Great game, and not just because it's a great game made on Amiga, it's just fun and addictive! Congratulations! I bought it here on Itch.io, but a proper boxed edition would be great to collect!
Nothing definite yet, but wheels have been set in motion...
I'm currently gauging interest in a limited run boxed edition of Rogue Declan Zero...
*waves*
Very nice action shooter with cute graphics! Our German-language review can be found in our recorded livestream starting at 02:18:17. Automatic subtitles should be available soon (switch on, if necessary). Subscription to our YouTube or Twitch channel is welcome. 🙂
Danke!
Love this game! Making so much fun! :-) One day I will go into all 40 billion dungeons. ;-) And of course I paid the developers!
A wonderful game! I am working on a video review of it right now. One thing that is needed is "Button Two" needs to have a keyboard alternative (Like Gauntlet II) - I often play with single button joysticks, and not having access to bombs is a bummer. Space for bombs would be useful.
Did you try pressing space? :)
Sorry. Space has almost no weight at all. It's mostly a vacuum... ;)
Amiga Space, has a nice ring to it! but you can't hear that ring :-(
Today I demoed this game at VCF West using a Unijoysticle + DualShock4 controller in Twin Stick mode, and works great! (both joysticks controlled from the DualShock4 controller)
Great game. Congratz!
Thanks for demoing! Glad you enjoyed it :)
I'm taking two Unijoysticle2's and PS4 controllers to Amiga Ireland in January for a Rogue Declan competition. They work really well!
Oh, super cool!
There was an Amiga convention in Sacramento, California (USA) a few weeks ago.
I also did a demo of Rogue Declan + Unijoysticle there :)
Would you please consider providing a standard LhA-archive on Aminet for easy access, too?
Sorry, but the only place to download the game from will be this page.
Why? What's wrong with Aminet? What's wrong with LhA?
It’s nothing against Aminet, it’s that the game is not freely distributable (which is different from free to download from here). I’d consider uploading a demo version to Aminet but not the full game
As for lha, the game isn’t file based so a lha version wouldn’t really be useful.
Oh, BTW, may I send you a few suggestions ?
- is it possible to have some kind of visual feedback when the XP limit per screen is reached ? (or even better, to visualize the limit) Because otherwise I keep staring at the XP count which is kinda distracting :-)
- regarding the weakest enemy : would it be possible to tweak them a little bit ? Because they look like a Pi symbol and not an enemy to me ;-)
- could the game remember the last control mode selected ? (in my case : it is detected as CD32 but actually I have 2 CD32 to arcade interfaces in an arcade cabinet so I have to switch to 2 sticks :-)
Again : congrats, super game !!!!!
Why would I want to make getting a high score easier? :)
Adding saving of any kind would be complex, prone to problems, and complicate the WHDLoad, so I'm afraid I'll leave that out too.
Woohoo ! It's here ! Great accomplishment, super enjoyable game ! Love it ! And it supports my twin-sticks setup !!!
BTW, I'm not sure what the weakest enemies are supposed to be ? They look like Pis ! Hehe ! :)
Really looking forward to playing the finished game tonight!
Love this type of game!!!
On every level, I can see a text, is this a level password?
That is the level seed. It's really only useful if you encounter a weird or broken dungeon as I can use the seed to recreate it and see what is going on. Press F1 in game to display the seed again.
I thought there was a password system :-)
I will if something goes wrong and report it.
Thank you.
Totally classic! Love the game and the way it can be controlled with 2 pads or joysticks. Thanks :)
First run and I already LOVE it! Great game, buddy!
The game is really great. A beautiful implementation and the graphic style has a modern design. A 2 player mode would have been nice but you can't have everything.
The CD32 control also worked without problems with the gamepad on the Amiga 1200.
Will there be a CD32 version?
Thanks :)
2P mode isn't impossible but would be a lot of work to add.
It should work fine on a CD32. Perhaps when the jam ends and uploads are enabled again I can make an ISO for the next release.
Great to get hold of this - brilliant work @nivrig! Hoping to get something respectable on the score board soon. Not sure if anyone's managed to get CD32 pad mode working with The A500 Mini Gamepad, tried a few launch options but the buttons don't shoot (at least, not in the desired direction ;) - single button locked mode works well.
Did you set the ports to CD32 mode in the Game Settings menu?
Yeah I tried that, both for the ADF and WHD - if that should work I'll keep trying some combinations (which ports etc) and report back.
Got it working. Here's what I did:
1. Plug the game pad into the 3rd USB socket and unplug USB 1 (which had an empty USB hub attached), USB 2 is the memory stick.
2. Set joystick port 1 to Mouse and joystick port 2 to CD32 Pad.
3. Set memory to 2MB chip, 4MB fast (was maxed out) and Blitter to Normal (was on Wait).
Not sure if it was just one of those things. But it's working 👍
Thanks for the information, and I'm happy you got it working. I suspect the key would be setting port 2 to CD32 mode.
me esta gustando mucho,gracias por este buen juego
Well done mate!
Awesome game!
It's HEEEEEEEEEERE!!!!!!
Not long now 😁