Timodeus_Maximus
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I've been playing King Dugan's Dungeon Lite and I just completed the 8th floor, I have also recently bought the entire DROD collection and I'm not particular to the idea of replaying the entire dungeon just to get there again. Is there anyway I can skip to floor 9? Port my savefile from lite? Any workaround so I can keep playing?

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disoriented
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I believe that KDD (DROD) and KDD Lite are separate apps (and the hold data is different anyway) so there is no way to import progress from one to the other.

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averagemoe
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Lite actually has smaller rooms than the original, and everything in KDD had to be rebuilt to fit. So solving those rooms can't really be said to count as credit for the originals.

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Xindaris
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Yes, "Lite" and "true" King Dugan's Dungeon are actually different games featuring different puzzles in many places...

That said, the "real" KDD does have some

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skell
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I'd go against the grain a little and say that while KDD Lite and KDD are different holds the intention was for it to be a faithful port* of KDD. The puzzles are shrunk but the spirit of the actual problem stayed the same, at least for most puzzles. This often means they are slightly easier.

So what I am saying is - if you want to skip levels do it. And being the creator of the project I can use my authority to grant you pardon for your sinful thoughts.

So you have some options:
* A packaged, downloadable version of KDDL is available on my site - https://evidentlycube.com/. Just start from EP 3 which I believe starts on floor 9.
* Play the Javascript port that's getting close to being finished someday. Actually I just realized after I changed hosting it's no longer available so you can't play that at the moment.


* - the intention was for it to be port but depending on how you define demake it can be more of a demake. My definition for demake was always "make it faithful but smaller in scope/functionality because it moves to a less powerful hardware" which is basically what KDDL was.

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Dischorran
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speaking of demake, ascii drod when? if the roguelikes can do it, so can drod

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Kalin
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Someone did that in the troll contest:
http://forum.caravelgames.com/viewtopic.php?TopicID=41000&page=0#405296

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