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Introduction

The links to the left will walk you through creating a rougelike game using version 3 of the RougeSharp library.

Running tutorial game

Complete Code

The complete tutorial project is already finished and the source code is available on Github:

Goals

The RogueSharp V3 Tutorial project was created with the following goals in mind:

  • An inventory system for the player
    • Equipment slots for head, body, hands and feet
    • Item slots for consumables like potions, wands and scrolls
      • Items have a number of charges before they used up
  • A robust example set of abilities that the player can learn
    • Targeted attacks like Magic Missiles that can affect single monsters at range
    • Area attacks like Fireballs that hit all monsters in an area
    • Line attacks like a Lightning bolt that can be fired through monsters
    • Healing abilities
    • Map revealing abilities
    • Melee special attacks like a whirlwind attack that hits all adjacent enemies
  • An interesting set of enemies with differing AI
    • Goblins that can pick up and equip items they find
    • Enemies that flee when wounded and alert other groups of monsters to the player’s presence
    • Oozes that split into multiple copies when struck
  • A unique combat system
    • Percentage based
    • Opposing rolls
  • A scheduling system
    • No more I-Go / You-Go
    • Player speed changes based on the items equipped
    • Monster can vary wildly
  • A messaging system
    • Show detailed combat messages in a log
  • Systems for generating random levels
    • Distribution of loot and monsters based on level depth
    • Map features such as rooms, hallways, doors and stairs that can be interacted with by both the player and monsters

Additional Resources

Also, don’t forget about the upcoming seven day roguelike. If you are interested in C# I’d love for you to try out RougeSharp this year and give me any feedback you have. If you aren’t interested in C# there are lots of other great libraries and languages out there. Whether you pick an existing one or roll your own I think you’ll have a lot of fun.