Brogue is characteristic in that it doesn't have classic leveling and stats increase like most other roguelikes. The purpose of it is to get rid of grinding for experience points and thus make the game more balanced. Instead, what you have are strength potions and enchant scrolls. With strength potions you increase your strength which allows you to wear more heavy armor and wield bigger weapons without penalty. With enchant scrolls you can lower required strength for weapons and armor, but can also use them on rings, wands, staves and charms to make them more powerful and/or recharge faster.

OK, i have to say, i am more a big fan of this stats leveling stuff. But sometimes other concepts are another kind of fun! And what we have here is a lot of fun!

I found out the german combination for the tig-key. It is a little strange cause i have to press shift and 6 and the game doesnt like it so much. So here comes another sugestion:
Could you bring in some kind of mapping file where you can alter some keys?

I also found a little problem. I cant use scrolls of identify so well. The drop down menu to select the item doesnt work exactly.

And i got another question:
I found a lot of white potions and picked them up. I am not sure, but i only had one. Can you only cary one potion or scroll of a kind?

One last general question:
Are you familiar with other sourcecodes of those games?
I absolutely would donate for other accessibilityfeatures. And i think some of us in the community would do the same!

Hi Niklas!
Oh yes! Sometimes you will find Monsters wich will follow you. For example, i found a monkey. But, what a pitty, i burned him by mistake with a scroll or potion, haha.

Yes, in the next release there will be file called "keymap.txt" in which you can remap keys. In this file I already included additional mapping for back-tick key function, so full description for selected or targeted items and monsters can beside the back-tick key also be called up with right square bracket key, with backslash key, and with slash key.

Yes, I noticed this bug few hours ago and am fixing it right now.

You are able to carry multiple potions and other items, unless your inventory is full. When you inventory is full and you try to pick up an item you will hear distinct warning sound so you will know your inventory is full.

I do not accept donations, I only work for free. If a game is open source I might be able to make some small changes and additions to make it more accessible, but I'm afraid nothing extensive like this what I can do with this game.

Wow! That all sounds absolutely great! I cant wait to check the new update!

OK, i got another general question about the speed. Does the speech interrupt the gameplay? I noticed i have to wait till the battletexts are completely spoken before i can do my next attack. Would it be possible to stop the speech when you press the key for the next attack? I only ask cause sometimes you need more time to defeat an easy monster cause of the speech. I know this is a little tricky.

It's a bit tricky because combat messages are mixed with all other kind of messages, and I had to make them play in full before the next message so you don't miss a message. I'll try to find some better solution.

Hi zub0! The levels are allways generated randomly. Thats the fun with this kind of games. Each new game is a new game cause you allways encounter other stuff like items, mosnters and so on.
And yes, there will be a key for selecting doors. I mentioned it before.

Hi, is there any chance that this for windows could use something like the Tolk library? Some people don't tend to like ESpeak that much and I don't see a way to adjust speech rate/voice variant so its kind of slow right now. This project is awesome so far though.
[edit]Just saw that was added, thanks. Is there a hotkey list somewhere?[/edit]

So I've played this a bit more and have some suggestions.
Is it possible to add some feature that announces when openings around you change? Like if you were following a wall north of you, when the wall was no longer there it would list the things around you such as "tunic 5 north, wooden wall 3 east", etc. Also keys to scan in the 8 directions would be cool.
Speech rate currently doesn't save.
Is there a chance a volume setting for ESpeak could be added?
Speech for browsing the main menu and for loading saved games I think is a required addition (for anyone unaware, the o key is open save, shift s saves.)
I think there really needs to be a hotkey list also.
Is there a way to read all of the display information such as gold/str/etc?

I'm also wondering how closely the speech branch is tied into the rest of the game. I don't see a branch for it on the main github project page.

I have also encountered a bug. If I use an enchant scroll and can't enchant anything, I get stuck in the menu. Escape just brings me back to press space/you can't enchant that.

I'm afraid not. What's the problem with eSpeak?

See the first post to install the latest update, then you will be able to adjust the speed with F1 and F2 keys.

Press ENTER and then use arrow keys or numpad keys to examine tiles around the character. Press SPACE to exit cursor mode so you can again move the character with arrow keys or numpad keys. To move you can also use x key to activate auto-explore.

Nothing is wrong with ESpeak, just people prefer screenreader output if possible. I'll play it either way. the game is very accessible right now, the navigation features I suggested would be really useful.