To engage in hand to hand combat simply move into a monster. You can also throw darts and javelins, or zap wands from a distance. Try using key x  to engage auto-explore, it will automatically fight and pick up items. But on deeper levels you don't want auto-explore to do fighting for you because it becomes more and more important who will get to strike first. If a monster is only two tiles away, that is one tile in between, don't move towards it, but instead rest one turn by pressing z key and the monster will come to you in the next turn, and then you will get to strike first. Be careful of jackals though, they are fast and move two tiles in a single turn, for them you need slightly different tactics.

Hey hey!
Thanks for the very useful links!
I planed to check it all out in some hours.

Point with NVDA is, that it is allready running when you start the game and some of us are a little better experienced in the handling and the ... talkingstyle. Another point is, that it maybe would be easier for you to create more accessible windows for example for the Stats or the itemexplanations. Also NVDA would automaticly work in the prefered way of speed and so on.
Hope i could make it clear. Sorry, english is not my native language.

Best wishes and keep on this good work!

OK, i checked this new link but i think this version doesnt work for us. When i run the LNK it gave me the information to resize my screen-options. I couldnt read out anything.

It seems you did manage to read that you need to resize the terminal window. The shortcut was supposed to resize it automatically and I don't know why it didn't. What Windows are you using?

In any case, until I figure out what's the problem you can try to resize it yourself, here are instructions:

1. Start the game like you did.

2. Open terminal window properties by clicking with the right mouse button on the window title-bar.

3. In that properties window there is a tab called "Layout", you need to select it. In this layout tab you can adjust screen buffer width and height, and also window width and height.

4. By default width is set to 80 and height to 25, but Brogue needs width 100 and height 34. Therefore change screen buffer width to 100 as well as window width to 100, and screen buffer height to 34 as well as window height to 34.

5. Once you change that and press OK button to confirm the changes you will be asked to apply the properties to current window only, or to save properties for future windows with the same title. Select the second option, to save the properties for future, and finally press OK button once again.

OK!!! I managed to run this version! It was very very helpful to see how the game is working in normal! I learned a lot! So i can say, dont stop your first way of developing! We only have to make some little fixes. For example: It would be good to have something like a key with wich you can read out the stats of a selected target. And some keys to check the different abilities of items. And last: some kind of historywindow where you can scroll through all the happenings. Thats all i think.

One general question: I explored the first floor. And now i have to find the stairs to the next one. Could you add something like a map-search-funkction where you can enter for example the word stairs so you can travel back to it? HMM, or maybe a simple map where you can select items and stairs by pressing tab?

Oh and by the way! You did a great job with the sounds! They are speeding up the game for us a lot! Cause we dont have to follow all the messages all the time.

Best wishes!

Aaah, no, i thought this only works if you are on the wright place.

Wow! Tats all very interesting!
I am looking forward to the next update:
One thing i forgot: Could you bring in something like a configuration file where you can set speech and audio volume?

And now excuse me please, there is a stair i have to climb!:xd

TAB function already sorts the monsters from near to far. And also, it first goes through monsters then items. If you already cycled through several monsters, press SPACE to reset target cursor then press TAB again to target the closest monster.

No, but perhaps I should add doors to be targeted with TAB function along with monsters, items, stairs, mechanisms and traps.

zkline, perhaps you should add the full game install links and the latest update links to your first post so people don't have to jump to reddit for the full install or go through this whole thread to find the latest update.

Thanks for the reminder. Those links should be in the first post. Sorry I didn't think of that myself.

Thank you. Just a small correction. Linux executable file is called brogue-SPEAK and is located in bin folder, so that's the one to be replaced with the update. The file called brogue in the main folder is just a script that initializes libraries and then executes brogue-SPEAK from bin folder.

If we could have a way to lower Espeak's volume that'd be nice, as with the last update it's clipping on every S word.