norendren / roguewars

Roguelike themed reimagining of the game Drug Wars (originally on the TI-83 calculator)

RogueWars (final name TBD)

Start time: 9:00 a.m. 3/1/2020

End time: 9:00 a.m. 3/8/2020

Introduction

RogueWars is a submission for the 7 Day Roguelike Challenge 2020 (7DRL). It is essentially a fully reskinned version of the classic Drug Wars/Dope Wars game made popular on the TI-83+ calculators.

In RogueWars, you take on the roll of a Roguelike merchant. However, this roguelike merchant has been granted the ability to travel between different roguelike games, in pursuit of buying high and selling low to unsuspecting roguelike adventurers!

The ability to travel between roguelikes comes at a terrible cost (literally), because if you aren't able to purchase the Yendorian Wallet of Immortality within 30 arbitrary units of time then the EVIL_BOSS_MAN will turn you into a useless food merchant, hardly ever useful to even the newest of roguelike players.

Gameplay

You are given a scant offering of goods to start out your journey. Make the most of them, as they will become your starting capital!

Throughout your playthrough, you will be wheeling and dealing in a variety of good, but for simplicity's sake they fall into the the 6 categories below. Their prices will range from the lowest documented price, up to the highest, as well as a rare chance for any given category to be significantly above or below even that!

Item	Lowest Normal Price	Highest Normal Price
YWI*	200,000	200,000
Artifacts	1500	3000
Wands	500	1400
Armor	100	450
Weapons	30	90
Scrolls	7	25
Potions	1	6

*Yendorian Wallet of Immortality

Prices fluxuate greatly over the natural course of an adventurers lifetime in a roguelike dungeon....even more so with the chance for further chaos as you teleport through time and space to visit them!

Locations available

1. Golden Krone Hotel
2. Cogmind
3. Nethack
4. Brogue
5. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup?
6. ADOM?

Possible features

• Interdimensional roguelike stash for excess goods
• Special theme-appropriate encounters randomly at each location
  • Set encounters available, specific to each location
• Drinking from your own supply of health potions costs a ton perhaps
• Negative encounters
  • Gelatinous cube that wants your stuff
  • Goblins, gremlins, etc that do damage
  • Wiz of yendor
  • "Boss" of each stage, maybe triggered if you enter with certain conditions being true
• You start the game with a cursed bag of holding and it can be uncursed blessed and super blessed

roguewars's Issues

Static price set for testing core gameplay loop

Implement and display a static price set for items.

Reference actual game here

Ability to move a selector hand/square around the screen to (6) set areas

Player needs to be able to use arrow keys to navigate to the 6 different sections of the main part of the screen

Sprites for items in selling menu

Draw out the sprites for the 4-8 items that will be bought/sold throughout the game

Game screen and borders/rectancles

Implement the initial draft for the structure of the game screen

Random chance for single/set of items to be at drastically higher/lower prices

When changing locations, implement a chance and funny reason for items to have a much higher or lower price than normal

Intro Screen and title with prints

Create the first draft title screen using print statements