#7drl

Change of plans, Im starting my 7 Day Roguelike challenge entry early! Streaming now, will start in about 20 minutes! Will be making a pretty standard roguelike, possibly with some mechanics about organizing an expedition.

Tune in here to watch the start of the project!

NEW FROM ME:

Glorbo the Wanderer

A traditional roguelike. Challenged myself to see how playable a Mystery Dungeon clone I could make in the span of a week for 7DRL.

Ping Bat - an echolocation bat survival game

I came up with a story for my drpg made for 7drl but didn't get it in on time. Now that it's in I'm done with this project. There's plenty of other stuff I would like to add but this was meant as a proof-of-concept and I have one more in mind before I get to my next big game.

'7DRL 2024': Challenge Yourself by Crafting a Roguelike In One Week

2024! Who's ready for a little more procedurally generated permadeath? I'm just going to go ahead and take your silence as a resounding yes and move on to 7DRL 2024 for a full week of roguelike game jamming creating chaotic craziness is almost upon us!

It’s upon us once again. I originally didn’t have a huge inspiration, but here we go yet again.

During the past year I’ve made little experiments with Elder Circle codebase and created a 3d renderer for it. The basic idea is to take the existing tileset and slap it onto procedurally generated simple shapes like boxes, planes and billboards. I use Three.js library for the WebGL rendering, an old familiar I used already back in 2014 7DRL challenge for Golem Quest.

I first developed it with first-person view and while it’s interesting and another type of game might be lurking in there, I don’t think the basic roguelike gameplay works super well in that perspective. Recently I got an idea to try an “isometric” camera which allows me have the gameplay work similarly (e.g. click to move), while still allowing me to play with the 3d gimmick.

So yesterday I started working on a new 7drl, where the idea is that you are a space pirate and you execute heists on different space ships. On top of the 3d renderer (which was partially done before the challenge, but has needed a lot of changes already), I’ve started gathering art for a more sci-fi themed tileset, and blocked out a very basic draft level generator of two spaceships meeting in space for our pirate to board the other through a short spacewalk.

I have also implemented basic ranged combat (which will probably be the major gameplay feature for this year). I already had ranged combat in 2015′s Beware the Space Bears (that used probably the first incarnation of this “engine”), but it was stripped from the code for 2016, and is/will now be a complete rewrite as well as hopefully less awkward UX-wise.

Forward is an addictive browser based roguelike dungeon crawler where you battle monsters and collect loot on your way through challenging card-based dungeons.