Usborne Dungeons of Doom RL
This is my adaption of Dungeons of Doom (for Commodore 64) from Usborne's wonderful Write Your Own Fantasy Games book from circa 1985.
Goal: get to the end, and pick up the Idol.
Major deviations from the original in the book:
- merged the separate character creation program into the main game
- replaced the separate dungeon generator program with a procedurally generated dungeon
- made the game turn based rather than real time
- compiled the game with Blitz Basic
Minor changes:
- added a stats screen which shows available spells & items
- changed movement to use the IJKM keys or arrow keys, rather than turn left/right and move forward/back
- fixed some bugs, including the omission of flail and shield in combat calculations
- optimised for speed where ever possible
- more messaging
How to play:
Character Creation:
If you skip character creation, you will use the last character created, or the pre-generated one on the d64.
Class is determined by stats, so shuffle your stats around until you get the desired class.
Keys:
A/Z/up/down : move cursor up and down
+/-/left/right : increase/decrease quantities
Space : next page
Main game keys:
IJKM / Arrows : move
A : attack nearest monster
C : cast
G : get item standing on
P : drink a potion
R : reveal (requires a torch)
Z : stats
Symbols/tiles:
Spell & Numbers:
The Necronomicon grants access to spells 1 to 3, while the scrolls give access to spells 4 to 6, both of which must be purchased during character creation.
When casting a spell, you will be asked to consult the lore, so consult the following:
- Superzap: instantly kills active monster
- Sancturary: creates a safe place where the character is standing
- Teleport: teleports character to random position, but only works when that location is vacant
- Powersurge: gives a huge temporary boost to strength and vitality
- Metamorphosis: transforms whatever is in the current location to some other object
- Healing: restores strength and vitality to original values
Attached files:
- .d64 with the compiled game, a pre-rolled barbarian & BASIC source for use with your favourite emulator or real Commodore 64
- .zip with CBM PRG Studio files - I have many annotations in the source which you may be interested in
Todo:
- sound is not optimised for compilation and probably plays fast
- only one monster can be active at a time. One improvement I didn't get around to is if you step on a monster then activate that and sleep any others.
- in one rare instance one generated map couldn't be fully navigated, though pains have been made to avoid that happening again
- there is no error checking if the HERO character file is not present
Link to the book:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTel93SThEYkJkZHc/view?resourcekey=0-...
More Usborne books:
https://usborne.com/au/books/computer-and-coding-books
Embedding c64 programs in the browser:
https://lvllvl.com/c64/
Status | In development |
Platforms | HTML5 |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
Author | eggmceye |
Genre | Role Playing |
Tags | Commodore 64, Roguelike |
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