Well, I decided to release this based on my work this year on Monster Trainer Roguelike; one of my first mistakes was spending time during the 7DRL to build a simple generic roguelike engine as a basis for the game… the question is, I never released it in such simple form! I decided to release it as I think it may be helpful for devs to use as a starting point for their roguelike or character based games!

It’s now in github at https://github.com/slashman/jsrl, you can also check the online demo here

If you are curious what kind of games can be created from it, check Monster Trainer Roguelike

What is this about

A very bare bones roguelike with a character based display

Features

• Player can walk around
• Raycasting Field of View algorithm
• Player can move between persistent levels
• Enemies move around chasing the player
• Player can pick up, drop and use items (including using items on a given direction)
• Player remembers visited maps
• A simple Being class based on Races definitions, with “random” and “follow player” intents
• A simple Item class based on Item Type definitions
• Infrastructure for Level Generation
• Line wrap text boxes

How to use

• Clone the repo
• Delete .git
• Create awesoem gaem

Credits

Uses unicodetiles for IO – http://tapiov.net/unicodetiles.js/