Doing something a wee bit different for this week’s Mini Code Adventure. This time we’re looking at a small Roguelike game I’ve been making in Unity3d. It took me a lot longer than 5 minutes to get this far, but I thought it might be interesting to show a longer “fun and interesting” project.
I think Roguelikes might be the only type of game that is more fun to make than it is to play, and there are a ton of great tutorials and libraries for whatever language you are interested in. Here are a few that I used for my project (Although RogueSharp is probably the best place to start in C#.
Libraries used:
- ShadowCaster for calculating Field of View
- Karcero Dungeon Generator for Generating the maps
- AStarNavigator for enemy pathfinding
More fun to program than it is to play?
The game based heavily on the Unity Tutorial, that you can find here: 2D Roguelike Tutorial
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Here are a couple of my favorite, more modern, roguelikes:
