At the Front Stage, from the Fateful Dream Endless saga: The Outermaze Book of Rhapsodies'

BACKDOOR ROUTE

Backdoor Route is a card-collecting deck-building rogue-like cyberpunk computer game developed in partnership with project:v. Abandoned in a colossal planet-ship traveling across the rifts of the multiverse, the survivors of a long-forgotten tragedy must venture through the ruins of a dead and hopeless world in search of the Fruits of Vanth while drifting towards what they believe to be their salvation. Play the role of one of these interdimensional immigrants in a game that closely follows the format of classic rogue-likes save for one particularity: your actions, your items, your skills, and even your character progression are all represented by cards you assemble in decks while you crawl, hack and slash your way through the world the Gods have left behind.

Running the project

On Unix systems (Linux and MacOS)

Dependencies:

• git
• CMake
• Make
• löve
• wget
• luajit (dev package)

If all the above are properly installed, the command

$ make

Should be enough to download, setup, and run the game.

On Windows (experimental)

After cloning the repository, download these archives into the project folder:

1. Patched LÖVE 11.3 for windows x86
2. Game libraries

Then, do the following:

1. Extract love-11.3-win32-patched.zip
2. Create a shortcut for the love.exe inside the extracted folder
3. Move the shortcut to the root folder of the project
4. Extract libs.zip (IMPORTANT: do it exactly where you downloaded it, i.e., the root project folder)
5. Drag and drop the game folder onto the shortcut to run the game

After this initial setup, you can simply use step 5 to run the game whenever you want. If an error occurs because of the libraries, it's likely because the download links are outdated - ask one of the unix developers to update them.