jsrl

JavaScript Roguelike Template - The basics to start building your own

What is this?

In this repo you will find a bare-bones roguelike with a character-based display, and tools to bundle it for the web.

Check out the online demo at: https://slashie.net/jsrl

What is this good for? the idea is you take this simple game and start adding what makes your roguelike unique!

Features

• Player can walk around
• Raycasting Field of View algorithm
• Player can move between persistent levels
• Enemies move around chasing the player
• Player can pick up, drop and use items (including using items on a given direction)
• Player remember visited maps
• A simple Being class based on Races definitions, with random and follow player intents
• A simple Item class based on Item Type definitions
• Infrastructure for Level Generation
• Line wrap text boxes

How to use

• git clone [email protected]:slashman/jsrl.git
• cd jsrl
• rm -rf .git (Delete .git folder)
• Create awesoem gaem

Local Development Server

• yarn install or npm install
• yarn start or npm start
• Open your browser to http://localhost:1234

Building Distribution

• yarn run build or npm run build
• Directory dist will contain the web directory you can serve

Credits

Uses unicodetiles for IO - http://tapiov.net/unicodetiles.js/