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/