This is my entry for the 7DRL - 7 Day RogueLike - 2016 competition. It's a fun filled gamejam, where the overall "goal" is to build a roguelike game in 7 days.

The land is in turmoil.

The Queen is the Head of State of lands and territories that are little more then fractured geo-political areas governed by leaders that at one time were interested in mutual cooperation. After years of concessions, the Queen has no substantial army of her own and must appeal to the government for troops and other war donations.

One particular source of the instability, is the recent rise of a brutal cult known as "Infinity Sect". After many months on the case, the Queen's spies have tracked down the leader back to his lair deep within the "Temple of Anguish".

Rather then going through "regular" channels, the Queen assigns the assassination to you: a loyal officer of her Royal Guard.

You've navigated through the countryside crossing several dangerous territories, until you've finally reached the last reported hideout of the Infinity Sect.

Will you discover the identity of the elusive leader?

• original start date: March 6th, 2016
• original delivery date: March 13th, 2016

Because of it's magestic awesomeness, I based most of the keyboard input to match that of UltimaIV. If your memory is as crappy as mine (thanks to kids), here's the Player Reference Card.

• left-arrow : move left
• right-arrow : move right
• up-arrow : move up
• down-arrow : move down
• i : open inventory
• d : open drop screen
• u : use food (eg. eat it)
• e : equip weapons
• w : wear armor
• g : get whatever it is you're standing on

This game is a JavaScript based project, depending on JQuery, ROT.js for generating the console text and map generation. Howler.js is used for playing the audio as the background track.

This was my first roguelike, and so I went through the excellent tutorial series over at CodingCookies.com and worked on adding some tweaks to the process.

I wanted to use this project both as a way to create a roguelike, and also to test the viability of using Electron for creating a cross-platform desktop binary for distribution.

• npm install

To get this to work, I created a seperate package.json in the root folder called package.electron.json. During the grunt build process, this file is copied and renamed as build/package.json.

Once Electron does it's magic, it will use the file defined in the main attribute as the startup file. In our case it's main.js.

• grunt build:mac - to create the Mac build in the dist folder
• grunt build:win32 - to create the Windows build in the dist folder
• grunt or grunt serve - creates a local web server to debug any game features
• grunt test - can be used to run karma (or your favorite js test suite). Empty at the moment.

Avoiding the R word during a gamejam is probably essential and good for your sanity. Given my web development background, I would like to go back and tackle this codebase using either Angular.js, Backbone and/or React.

• I would love to see more of the story. Naturally some things took longer then others, which meant I couldn't get around to tackling actual story integration during the initial 7DRL period.
• setup and configure Webpack
• work on reducing the size of the final game binaries
• I prefer combat to be a little more turn-based / interactive then what it is now
• write an updated tutorial series
• record a video or two

• jquery
• jsrogue
• ROT.js
• Howler.js

• v0.8.0 - updated electron and some other dependencies. removed single background music track
• v0.5.0 - updated build infrastructure
• v0.4.1 - minor update to help screen
• v0.4.0 - initial release

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Erik Yuzwa

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