This year I’m participating in the Seven Day Roguelike Competition, a contest to make a game in the roguelike genre in a week. (For those not familiar with it, roguelikes tend to be dungeon-crawlers with procedurally generated words, permanent character death, and often old-school graphics. There are frequently some variations from this rough description.)
I’m making a game known as ‘Trinkets’ until I think of a better name. It is a game in which a wizard strapped for cash loots a pocket dimension, and everything goes horribly wrong. It will experiment with a nontraditional power progression; you become weaker, then strong again, rather than a constant power level or steady increase. There will be a plot and randomly generated Trinkets.
My time will be somewhat limited, as I am currently a college student, but after spending most of today programming I produced the following:
Taste the power, troll scum!
I’ve used some code from some past projects, specifically most of the data structures and UI code. I’m using python, with the libtcod library.
Current features:
- Move around…
- …on a procedurally generated map…
- …and hit things…
- …which hit you back, and can kill you if you’re not careful.
- Look for trinkets…
- …which have magic powers…
- …which are simply not as powerful (at least for now) as your spells.
- Speaking of spells, you have five (and will have six), which in combination make you nearly unstoppable…
- …at least until I implement the ‘everything goes horribly wrong’ part.
Tags: 7DRL, programming, Roguelike
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