Blast Tactics

About

Blast Tactics is an indie science-fiction roguelike game that attempts to modernize and transform the turn-based RPG genre. The game is written in Common Lisp and works on Windows, Macintosh, and GNU/Linux. Blast Tactics is also free software.

Screenshots

Videos

at the dto1138 youtube channel

Status

Blast Tactics is currently in a very playable alpha. Beta release criteria are currently being defined.

Play it

Linux users have two options:

Download a precompiled Linux binary of the game from the RLX downloads page. Make sure to read the file BINARY-README before playing!
Use git to track the development version. See http://github.com/dto/rlx/tree/master/INSTALL for details.

Either way, you must have the libsdl, libsdl-image, libsdl-mixer, and libsdl-gfx libraries installed.

TODO Installation instructions for SDL on different platforms

The game also works on Macintosh OSX and Microsoft Windows, however there are no precompiled binaries for these systems yet. You are encouraged to join the IRC channel and/or the mailing list (see links below) if you want to try to get the game working on OSX or Win32, or especially if you would like to help us make binaries for these platforms.

TODO Mac/windows binaries

Links

lispgamesdev blog
public development mailing list
developer's guide for RLX, the engine underlying Blast Tactics.
contact me at dto1138@gmail.com
via Internet Relay Chat, irc.freenode.net, channel #lispgames for discussion and socializing