walsh9 / 7drl2016

❇⚡ Bisby's Escape - A turn-based digdug-like where you drop mystery crates on enemies.

#Bisby's Escape

A 7-day roguelike about digging tunnels and dropping crates.

Made for the 2106 7-day Roguelike Challenge.

#Play Now

http://walsh9.github.io/7drl2016/

#Description

Control Bisby with arrow keys, hjkl, or number pad. You can clear levels in two different ways:

• Collect all the yellow energy units and open the yellow gate.
• Crush enemies with crates, collect their blue datachips, and open the blue gate.

Guide Bisby safely through 7 levels to reach the surface.

#Tips

• You can push crates from the sides, even through dirt.
• Even dangerous crates have uses.
• It's turn-based. Enemies only move after you move. Take your time!

#Changelog

v1.3.0

• Add 2 exciting new crate types
• Add random obstacle walls
• Remove the crate with the down arrow that just digs down if it hits dirt
• Bug fixes

v1.2.2

• Bug fixes

v1.2.1

• Press space to restart instead of any key
• Bug fixes

v1.2.0

• Animated motion between tiles
• Sound effects! Toggle with 'S'.
• Crate turn order changed. Crates always go after enemies take their turns.
• Bug fixes

v1.1

• Bug fixes

v7DRL

Seven-day version features:

• Random tunnels
• Random crates
• Enemies
• 7 levels
• 2 ways to pass levels
• Losing
• Winning
• Victory screen

#Inspirations

• Dig Dug
• Mr. Do!
• Digger
• Bomberman

#License

© Matt Walsh 2016, released under the MIT License

7drl2016's Issues

Turn order is confusing...

Everything takes turns in order and sometimes this causes inconsistencies.

Example: One crate explodes and clears dirt from beneath another crate. Does that crate fall this turn? Right now it depends on whether the crate already took its 'action' this turn or not.

Similar but less obvious issues with enemies.

Possible fix:

• Separate actions into phases? e.g. crate falling phase (maybe gravity gets its own turn?), crate breaking phase, etc...?

Is this really a big deal?...

Add touch controls

The only actions are four directions. It should be easy to add swipe moves and / or some onscreen tap buttons

When you start on a pickup you don't pick it up

Either automatically pick it up
OR
Don't generate maps where you start on a pickup (better)

Add sounds

Sounds cues for

• level start
• player death
• enemy death (crushed by crate)
• crate break
• crate explosion
• decoy death
• gate unlock

Maybe

• pickup get
• decoy created
• enemy mode change

Too easy to accidentally restart

What about 'space' to restart instead of any key?

Add license

Forgot to add a license.

Gotta update that readme

More details! Screenshots. Version information.

Cooler crates

Crate that digs through ground below it (:arrow_down:) seems like kind of a dud.
A crate that creates walls could be good (have to make sure it's not easy to make level unwinnable with this though)
Think of some other ideas. More variety!

When you get 'stuck' in one of the top corners, you shouldn't lose if the door is open

Normally you automatically lose if you get trapped and can't move to a new square. But if you get cornered by an open exit door, the game should let you use it.

Game ends after level 6.

There should be 7 levels. Level 'B2' should not open onto the surface.

Add a Title Screen

A title screen would be nice

When the page loads the wrong font shows for a second

If the first screen renders before the google font downloads the status section shows the default font instead of the cool font.

This can be fixed by loading the font with Web Font Loader before starting the game.

Inter-tile animation

Some things would be more clear with smooth inter tile animation. It would also look cool.

Enemies can skip movement in certain situations

When enemies fall back to the randomWalk action, it only tries one direction before giving up.

It should try them all, so enemies don't skip a move when they have an available move.

(The player can't wait, so it's not great consistency if enemies wait)

You can get trapped in a corner by enemies and become stuck

I usually like that you can't walk into enemies to accidentally kill yourself, but the game should probably detect this checkmate situation and let you die.

Add UI to mute/unmute sound.

#4 will need some sort of UI.

At the very minimum mute, a mute/unmute key and some sort of onscreen indicator for mute status.

Remove Pixi dependency

We only use it to preload assets and draw tiles (with fancy color tints and indexed with a fancy json file but still).
I don't think we need all of Pixi just for that.

Improved level generation

Possibilities

• Place impassable walls during generation.
• Sometimes, use symmetry to create pretty levels.
• Sometimes, place prefab terrain shapes.