]baud: An 80's Hacker Culture Tribute

Devlog

• ]baud alpha 7 (rev 2)
  October 23, 2021 by Baud BBS Games

  This build fixes a number of important issues present in the Roguelike Celebration build from last weekend. There was an issue in the Permadeath sequence that could cause crashes The level 3 map would... Continue reading
• Updates throughout the day
  October 16, 2021 by Baud BBS Games

  Throughout the day there will be new build revs. What better way to spend the time listenting the Roguelike Celebration conference and fixing some bugs and making some minor enhancements to the game... Continue reading
• Special Roguelike Celebration Alpha Release
  October 16, 2021 by Baud BBS Games

  In honor of the Roguelike Celebration this weekend, I decided to drop a build of the new Standalone version of ]baud. This is a very early release, but I welcome the feedback (and the bug reports) as... Continue reading
• Retiring the old marketing material
  October 03, 2021 by Baud BBS Games

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  Putting it in this post for posterity and remembrance of the journey of this game. ]baud: An 80's Hacker Culture Tribute twitter | discord ]baud is a cyberpunk-roguelike set in the 1980's, a homage to... Continue reading
• Prerelease 6
  September 04, 2021 by Baud BBS Games

  You can try the game out on a Bulletin Board System (BBS) New Features and Enhancements End game sequence is now fully in-place including victory screen Smooth scrolling map on the Mainframe CPU battl... Continue reading

  
• ]baud release 5
  July 26, 2021 by Baud BBS Games

  New Features and Enhancements Mainframe has an all new Console (CLI - Command Line Interface) that even in MOVE mode will emit commands giving the game that more authentic 1980's feel. Fully compatibl... Continue reading

  
• ]baud release 4
  July 04, 2021 by Baud BBS Games#Release Updates

  New Features and Enhancements When ICE is hacking the player terminal on a Mainframe and is corrupted (total corruption > max corruption), it will allow the player to access the Program Access menu to... Continue reading
• ]baud release 3
  June 29, 2021 by Baud BBS Games

  I am moving to a new numbering system for releases and this is the first version of that (or release in new parlance). Release 3 This is a minor release that fixes an issue with a crash. *fixed* - whe... Continue reading
• Version 0.02i Updates
  June 26, 2021 by Baud BBS Games

  This release primarily focuses on bug fixes. Bug Fixes: FreeMemory was not correctly removing corrupt memory from the Deck... Continue reading
• Version 0.02h Updates
  June 16, 2021 by Baud BBS Games

  This release focuses on building out the hack functions that the player has available. Added Functions - Recursion, RNG (Random Number Generator), Clone New scrolling console in both main Deck and Asc... Continue reading
• Version 0.02g Updates
  May 06, 2021 by Baud BBS Games

  This new release enables the end game screen. It used to be there until the rewrite of the game over the winter and I am pleased to say that it is back and function. It is called the "Kernel". One hin... Continue reading
• ​Version 0.02f Updates
  April 17, 2021 by Baud BBS Games

  This latest release adds some significant improvements to the game with the addition of Daemons (random utilities that can help or hinder your goals). Latest Enhancements Added Daemons which house uti... Continue reading
• Version 0.02e Updates
  April 01, 2021 by Baud BBS Games

  This latest release adds some significant improvements to the game with additional NPC's, Loot and most importantly the first version with inline procedural generated NPC's in the level. It is also mo... Continue reading

  
• ]baud 2020 year in review
  March 21, 2021 by Baud BBS Games#reddit

  Here is a link to the full restrospective of the first (half) year of development. 2021 is an exciting time with the game planned for release this year. It will continue development as there is an inf... Continue reading
• For posterity... the old baud introduction
  March 21, 2021 by Baud BBS Games

  As with all games, they evolve over time. ]baud has really taken a decidedly 1980's era slant and instead of trying to fit it into an artificial future narrative, it has made sense to lean fully into... Continue reading
• Version 0.02d
  January 30, 2021 by Baud BBS Games#Version Update

  New Features NPC's can now attack each other. The outcomes will show up in the Message log. This will be restricted down to certain types of NPC's attacking each other when the "virus" entity shows up... Continue reading

  
• Hacking - V0.3
  November 18, 2020 by Baud BBS Games

  This game is a cyberpunk'ish 80's hacker tribute roguelike called Baud. It is a team (multiplayer) game where you protect your mainframe (think: tower defense) while trying to bring down the other tea... Continue reading
• November 10th Release - 0.01C
  November 14, 2020 by Baud BBS Games#Release Updates

  Significant new features added this past week including the addition of locks and keys into the game. The final screen is half-way done in this drop and should be completed next week. There are some n... Continue reading
• General Update - Sharing Saturday - 10/31
  October 31, 2020 by Baud BBS Games

  I just put up a new Sharing Saturday post with all of the things that are being worked on in the game. There is a LOT of active development going on at the moment. If you want to read about all of th... Continue reading
• Version 0.01B - 10/27 Build Updates
  October 27, 2020 by Baud BBS Games

  0.01B - 10/27 Build Fixed: If an ATTACK, TAKE or DELETE took place adjacent to a wall (black, amber or red) bytes, a crash would occur. Fixed: Adjacency check for adding bytes to attack and detect s... Continue reading
• Version 0.01B - 10/26 Build Updates
  October 26, 2020 by Baud BBS Games#Release Updates

  0.01B - 10/26 build Updated level 1 to a cellular automata map (more interesting than the maze) Fixed: Ability for the user to return to the previous level of the core Fixed: Entry to L2-Slug map cras... Continue reading