7DRL Challenge 2015: Deathdealer

My entry into the 2015 Seven-Day Roguelike Challenge is complete! Deathdealer, an arena combat roguelike with trading card game mechanics, is finished and available for you to play.

Features:

• Survive as long as possible against endless waves of fiendishly difficult enemies
• Mix and match three schools of magic
• Customize your character’s deck from 69 different cards
• Vanquish 32 types of enemies, including 6 absurdly lethal boss monsters
• Unlock new cards every 5 waves to expand your capabilities
• Simple controls make the game easy to play
• Advanced ASCII graphics technology for a modern user experience

Controls:

• WASD, arrow keys, or vi-keys to move or use menus
• 1-7 to cast spells from your hand
• Tab to view enemy information
• Spacebar or period to wait one turn, to make selections in menus, or to exit the deck builder
• + and – to add or remove cards from your deck
• Escape to quit

Known Bugs:

• Enemy pathfinding is rather weak.
• Minimum deck size of 20 cards is not enforced, and issues may occur with decks of 7 or fewer cards; please make your decks contain at least 20 cards.
• No in-game help is available.
• Completely untested on any platforms other than Mac OS X.

Download Deathdealer for Mac OS X here, or the python source (for any platform with Python) here.