GoblinWerks

This library helps to get you started writing a Roguelike game in Javascript.

Getting started

Look at the examples folder to find:

Life - Shows how to use the canvas in its most basic form
- Using the canvas.
Dungeon - Simple dungeon digging and wandering
- Digging a dungeon with different room shapes, lakes and bridges.
- FOV
- Changing maps as you use stairs
Fx - Example special effects
- Testing some of the FX shapes that can be used
Lava - A simple arcade-like game where you jump over a lava pit.
- Tiles that change as the player walks around
- Waves of lava
- jumping over lava (custom command)
Escape - A GW version of Escape from ECMA Labs
- A different way of building the map -- via prefab
- Items that you can push, pull, slide, bash.
- Bashing, opening, closing doors, shooting targets, custom bump and ai functions.
Beauty - A GW version of Sleeping Beauty
- Title screen
- Custom combat screen
- Random drops from monsters
- Random treasure generation
- Fancy dungeon generation - with round shaped levels

What inspired the project?

I was trying to do a 7DRL and was a little daunted with some of the basics that I needed to get working in order to have something reasonable -- things like a character building screen, inventory, equipment, etc... All of the basics of a complete Roguelike. I wanted to go beyond those and having to build them every time felt like I was just wasting time doing what somebody else has done over again.

It turns out that there are a lot of gotchas in these areas and a library to give me a decent version of them would help. The goal is to give you enough to do a full game without limiting you too much to add your custom spin on it. So a nice core with flexibility.
Why didn't you build on rot.js?

Good question. I love rot.js and what it has done for making casual Roguelikes. I originally built on top of rot.js, but for some reason, that code did not make this current version -- differences in canvas being one of the main reasons. I may return to this concept and add rot.js compatability/support again. I just want to get a little more of the examples that are in my head working so that I can have a fuller picture of the project before redoing that integration.