README.md

roguelike

Play at http://www.torrobinson.com/roguelike/build/game.html

This is an experiment to familiarize myself with game mechanics, TypeScript, and Pixi.js

It is a procedurally generated rogulike-esque game with armor, a gui, monsters, and fake "lighting".

The game "engine" is written entirely from scratch, with the exception of a pathfinder (for resolving paths) and Pixi for drawing images and shapes to the screen.

To Play:

• Install Node.js
  • This should include NPM
• In your project directory root, run npm install to install required packages
• Run gulp to build
• Run the built./build/game.html

Instructions

• Up, Down, Left, Right keys move
• I opens the inventory
• Esc pauses the game
• Moving into an enemy performs an attack
• With a ranged weapon equipped, use [ and ] to cycle through enemies and press | to fire the ranged weapon
• Missed arrow shots can be picked up again
• Clicking the "Random Dungeon" button generate a random dungeon for debugging purposes

Attribution

Art provided by

• https://opengameart.org/content/roguelike-monsters
• Joe Williamson
  • https://opengameart.org/content/roguelike-dungeonworld-tiles
• https://opengameart.org/content/roguelikerpg-items
• DiegoJP
  • https://opengameart.org/content/castledungeon-tileset

Tools

• Pixi.js
• Pathfinding by imor

Lessons Learned

• Start off using TypeScript, don't try to convert later (ugh)
• Abstract everything
• Separate gameclock from frameclock - game should be playable blind without a renderer attached
• Finding sprite assets and mapping them to actors is hard