The big problem with making a KODP-like game would be the enormeous amount of game content required. Hundreds of scenes (most of them with individual graphics) with multiple outcomes, a number of which feed into latter scenes = many hundreds, if not thousands of man-hours of work. That kind of effort is beyond the reach of most competent amateur programmers.
The incompetents are off busy trying to build an MMORPG or whatever is the current favorite of the game development world. ;-)
Roguelikes generally have the benefit that almost all their data is generated.
Regards,
Michael A.
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>> Not as far as I know. I too have scoured the gaming world for similar games, even if just in taste or spirit. But it seems to me that, sadly, KoDP is truly one of a kind.
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>> I'd love to be shown wrong, though.
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> The fact there was never a KoDP2 speaks volumes: in commercial terms, I think it was just too much work for too little reward.
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> I am just a bit suprised there are no amateurish half completed attempts out there - at least none I have ever found. Compared to, say, "Roguelikes", of which there are literally hundreds of corpses littering the internet. I guess the main difference is that to make something even superficially like KoDP requires a scripting system, which is a big hurdle for an amateur programmer to get over.
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