Deep Down Into The Darkness

Are you brave enough? To descent? To descent deep down into the darkness and claim the legendary treasure? Yes? Let's see about that ...

Hero's name:

Version: ENGINE:
Prototype LIB:
MAZE:

Instructions:

Survival guide:

'Train' your hero to adapt to his environmental challenges.

Running away is always a possibility.

Game will save a checkpoint whenever you descend the stairs to a new level for the first time.

KEYS:

Use cursor keys to move.

CTRL ... cast magic.

H ... use healing potion

M ... use mana potion

A, D ... move scroll selection cursor

TAB ... level up

ENTER ... cast selected scroll

F4 ... pause/resume game

SCROLLS:

Magic lamp: inreased range of map revealing dungeon

Drain Mana: drains mana from all creatures in the area. Also yours!

Increase the damage of your weapon for certain duration.

Increase your armor for certain duration.

Decrease your opponent's armor in the certain range.

Decrease the damage of your opponent's weapons in the certain range.

Cripple: Decrease speed of the nearby monsters.

Invisibility: I will let you figure this one by yourself ...

Magic Boost: boost your magic abilities for a while

Petrify: petrifies all enemies in a certain range

Hero's luck is temporarily increased. One of the game's mysteries.

Monster's life energy in the certain range is halved.

About:

'Deep Down Into the Darkness' is a nostalgic nod to the 1983 Commodore 64 classic Sword of Fargoal, which borrowed a page or two from the legendary 1980 Unix game Rogue. This game takes "old school" to new depths, literally and figuratively!

Not only does the game feature cutting-edge pathfinding technologies like Dijkstra's and A* algorithms, but it also introduces my own secret sauce — an algorithm for procedural dungeon generation that ensures every plunge into the abyss is as unsettling as it is unique. So, grab your virtual torches, folks —l et's see how deep the rabbit hole really goes!

LaughingSkull

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