Freedroid RPG
is an Open Source Role-Playing Game in the style of Fallout or Diablo. In it, Tux the Penguin fights off an army of crazed robots with weapons such as bare flippers, wrenches, swords, lightsabers and "The Exterminator". The game is based on Paradroid, borrowing from it both the robots and the ability to take control of one's foes. The game is currently in beta, but the current release is remarkably filled out (and stable).
This game provides examples of:
- AI Is A Crap Shoot: The entire point. Filled with Killer Robots.
- Awesome, but Impractical: The Super Exterminator!!! (with exclamation points). One shot is able to take down most of the robots, however requires 5 seconds to reload, requires to be repaired after about ten shots and may damage you if you're standing too close.
- BFG: Aforementoned The Super Exterminator!!! and Barret M82.
- Bilingual Bonus: Engel Fleischer (Angel Butcher) and his brother Geist (Ghost)
- Cast from Hit Points: The "spellcasting" system. You cast spells by running "programs", which heats up Tux's brain. If you get hot enough, you begin to take damage. Continue to cast spells, and Tux will go into sleep mode for a while, with no means of protection.
- Cast from Money: Equipment enhancement consumes Valuable Circuits, commonly used as currency, by the hundreds.
- Crapsack World: The Red Guard taxes and oppresses the population into oblivion, the only food is carcinogenic MREs (despite the presence of a trained chef, whose cooking apparatus was used as fuel by the Guard), and of course, there are the hordes of killer robots.
- Critical Existence Failure: Quite dramatically.
- Design-It-Yourself Equipment
- Socketed Equipment: You can use bits of your enemies to upgrade your equipment.
- Escort Mission: Tania who you have to escort from her underground fortress to the town, past many extremely deadly robots.
- Experience Booster: "Brain stimulator".
- Fan Remake: Of Paradroid and, to some extent, Fallout.
- Game Within a Game: Several. There is the Hacking mini-game, several betting games, a pseudo-NetHack game, and even a version of Progress Quest (the shareware version).
- Glass Cannon: 420 "Coward"
- Gratuitous German: Engel sometimes uses some German words, and Geist uses only German.
- Grey Goo: Doc mentions this when explaining why the best health potion uses short-lived nanobots instead of long-living ones. They evolved into some kind of grey goo cancer, that devoured everything and made several planets uninhabitable.
- Hive Queen: The singularity is basically this, in that it has many component parts, but you only can talk to one of them. Somewhat inverted as it is a robot.
- Hero-Tracking Failure: 139's plasma bullets, which will hit you only if you stand still or run straight towards it. May also happen with you while wielding a plasma weapon.
- Hollywood Hacking: It's Paradroid.
- Human Aliens: Averted. The "Linarians" are penguins, one of which is the main character.
- Karl Marx Hates Your Guts: Venders pay you 30% of what the item is worth, but charge at least 100%...
- Kill It with Fire: "Plasma Discharge", as well as purchasable grenades.
- Last of His Kind: It's implied that the player character is the only alive Linarian.
- Made of Explodium: The player character.
- Marathon Level: Hell Factory
- Manipulative Bastard: Dvorak.
- MegaCorp: MegaSys, which has logos on nearly everything.
- Money Spider: Droids drop "circuits" which conveniently happen to be the currency used, as well as other items.
- No Hero Discount: Well, you do seem to be their only customer. Even if you save Stone's shop you are charged full price.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: The Red Guard are a Disturbingly extreme example of this.
- Only Six Faces: Most of the characters look exactly the same. Averted by Ewald and Stone, justified by Red Guards and Dixon, because of constantly wearing uniform.
- Overheating: Casting too much spells may end with this.
- Practical Currency: The game uses Valuable Circuits as currency, which also turns all droids into Money Spiders.
- Plot Coupon: Used in many places, such as the dilithium crystals which must be retrieved from an abandoned mine.
- Rare Candy: The Strength, Dexterity and Code pills act like this, permanently increasing your stat by 1 when consumed.
- Through a sidequest you can get a Brain Enhancement pill which is an inversion, permanently reducing your stats to 5.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: Averted; the only android you meet fools Tux for a while, but quickly blows up. All other robots, while looking vaguely humanoid, are quite obviously not in any way human.
- Robo Speak: All droids deliver a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner before attacking, not from sound files but from an actual voice synth built into the game. Notable are "First Law Disabled", "Slice, Slice, Slice", and "Redmond, we have a problem".
- Shout-Out: Lots of them.
- The main character is Tux, the Linux mascot.
- The game contains a few references to NetHack. It even includes a quasi-NetHack game.
- Richard, *nix admin living in town mentions Pandora, an open-source handheld, currently in development.
- Some citizens are represented by guys in red hats, a Shout-Out to Red Hat Linux.
- After being told that the arena bot makes sandwiches, the PC asks him for one. When denied because of insufficient rank, he tries "sudo make me a sandwich".
- Slept Through the Apocalypse
- Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Somewhat literally; as in Paradroid, stronger robots have higher ID numbers. You find higher-level droids as you venture farther from town. 296 is a notable exception - despite being a 2xx type, it's harder to beat than some 4xx robots because of loads of HP AND powerful melee attacks.
- Thriving Ghost Town: Very odd and extreme. The only town currently in the game has a population of about ten, but has enough space to hold maybe fifty. An NPC claims it contains a population around 250, and that there isn't any food. Huh.
- Undefeatable Little Village: Lampshaded.
- We Buy Anything: You can sell everything. Even guns, which are forbidden (then again, most buying NPCs wouldn't be that keen to report you to the Red Guard).
