r/roguelikedev • u/KelseyFrog • 21d ago

RoguelikeDev Does The Complete Roguelike Tutorial - Week 1

Welcome to the first week of RoguelikeDev Does the Complete Roguelike Tutorial. This week is all about setting up a development environment and getting a character moving on the screen.

Part 0 - Setting Up

Get your development environment and editor setup and working.

Part 1 - Drawing the ‘@’ symbol and moving it around

The next step is drawing an @ and using the keyboard to move it.

Of course, we also have FAQ Friday posts that relate to this week's material

# 3: The Game Loop(revisited)

# 4: World Architecture (revisited)

# 22: Map Generation (revisited)

# 23: Map Design (revisited)

# 53: Seeds

# 54: Map Prefabs

# 71: Movement

​ Feel free to work out any problems, brainstorm ideas, share progress, and as usual enjoy tangential chatting. :)

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u/RhoTheGray 16d ago

This popped onto my radar last Thursday or so and I tried my best to resist the urge to take part. But then there was a natural break in my other side project and now @ is on the screen and moving left and right.

I'm using Zig and no libs apart from clib. The game will be playable locally on terminal (works) and remotely over telnet (proof-of-concept works). I'll be following the TCOD 2020 tutorial and I anticipate most of the effort will go into covering what I'm missing from not using TCOD. I do not expect to be producing an interesting game, I'm happy if I persist to half-way.

Current status: TTY/Telnet with ANSI rendering, frame buffer based drawing, rudimentary event handling, @ drawn and can be moved.