davesmith00000 / roguelike

My Generic Roguelike

My Generic Roguelike

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Browser compatibility:

Browser	Status	Comments
Chrome	✅	Please use Chrome!!
Firefox	🐢	Works, slower than Chrome
Safari	⚠️	Dude... where's my mini-map?
Opera	✅	Seems... fine?
Edge / Other	👽	Unknown...

Check out the project board to see what I'm working on!

Controls

Keyboard

The key controls are somewhat in flux, but current key bindings are listed in the game at the top right of the screen or in the key-mappings data file.

Mouse

Moving and attacking

You can click on the map to move in that direction. As long as there are no enemies visible on the screen the player will keep moving towards the square you clicked on, otherwise only one move will be performed. Note that the path finding is currently rather ...unintelligent, and will get stuck up against large walls that are in the way.

Zooming

You can use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.

What is this?

This is a reworking of the Indigo Roguelike-Tutorials I produced in the summer of 2021.

Current status: Working, but ugly and unbalanced.

The plan is to take the game made by following the roguelike tutorials at face value, because that allows me to remove many game design considerations like: Premise, names of things, theme, purpose, core mechanics, and so on.

This is: My Generic Roguelike!

That said, the plan is to ultimately polish up as much as possible. The ASCII terminal has already been replaced with placeholder graphics, some rudimentary animations have been added, there is a camera. Time will reveal how far I get.

Eating my own dog food

Although I had a wonderful time producing that repository and was greatly satisfied to have completed the tutorials, the more I looked at the end result, the more I realised that the solution was ...poor. There was lots of interesting stuff in there, but it didn't serve as a good example of how to write games in Indigo, or of what Indigo can do.

This version is a work in progress I'm producing in public, that has two goals:

1. Produce a well coded, idiomatic, game in Indigo to serve as a reference for other budding game builders.
2. To take a game as far to the point of completion as I can, and drive out engine and ecosystem issues.

Local build

The game is a completely ordinary and largely self-contained Scala project, with one exception:

You will need to do a local publish of the roguelike-starterkit. Instructions in the README, it is not difficult. 🙂

roguelike's Issues

Clicking on the player, who is standing on an item, should pick it up

GPU Process ended unexpectly

On my trusty ancient MacBook Pro, the level generation takes so long that the GPU process.. quits?

Add attack animations

Sort NPCs + Player by depth to avoid incorrect overlap

Consider switching zoom from using layer magnification to camera zoom function, and do a smooth zoom in and out.

Add new graphics and animations to main game

Blob enemy ref points need to move up a little

So they're stilling in the square, not at the bottom of it.

Add a short log to the game screen

Currently you can't see when there's an error message, like 'cannot drop here'.

Swap Camera.Fixed for Camera.LookAt

Look around is totally broken!

However, this is a hangover from the original implementation. Maybe just remove it as is and put in camera movement controls to move around and re-center?

Consuming inventory items should not close the window

BUG: Clicking to attack builds up move actions, which are all executed at once when hostile dies.

Pretty up the menu screen

Bug: Pick up item should not play attack anim

Maybe a little hop on the spot?

Fix broken tests

I think I broken them when I was messing about with the actor position code.

Window close buttons don't work, what's that about?

Add CI

Save games totally broken, fix or remove.

Get some sound from somewhere

Dead bad guys need a different graphic

On damage - tint red / show damage animation

Hostile path finding:

If you can't get to the player, move to somewhere strategically useful.

Render the mini-map with 1/4 the data.

Or in four sections that make up the total.

Or reduce the map size from: 80*50=4000 to sqrt(1024) = 32*32. Increasing to 64 x 64 and rendering the minimap in four equal quarters could be straightforward...?

(This is the get around the Safari data limit of 1024.)

Using fireball scroll should close inventory window

Replace menus / windows with Rogue UI

Upgrade Scala, Scala.js, anything else?