After using the Unity engine for hobby game development for a few years I decided that I wanted to try my hand at coding my own game using a built from scratch game engine so that I could learn from the ground up how games are made.

This game is written in C++ and uses the libtcod library which provides the rendering features needed for the game.

#Play the game! The current version of the game can be found here

Game Controls: Use the arrow keys to move around You will attack by moving into the same square as an enemy

i-open inventory

Choose the item you would like to use by pressing the correspong letter, esc to cancel

o-open chest when standing over a chest

g-grab an item on the ground beneath you

d-select an item to drop on the ground

< or > - move up or down stairs to a new level in the dungeon

#Screenshots:

Main Menu

Fighting some Orcs!

Opening a chest and finding a spell!

Tasks: [x] Allow for multiple persistent levels of the dungeon

[x] Add chests that can contain multiple items

[ ] Add a minimap

[ ] Add a special overworld level which allows the player to travel between multiple dungeons

[ ] Improve monster ai

[ ] Add light intensity around the player (the map gets darker further away from the player, simulating a torch)