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!
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.
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.
You can use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.
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.
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:
- Produce a well coded, idiomatic, game in Indigo to serve as a reference for other budding game builders.
- To take a game as far to the point of completion as I can, and drive out engine and ecosystem issues.
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. 🙂