Enemies/Monsters: S - A Snail G - A Grue T - A Troll A - An Alien
Notes: This would have been a compo entry, I went over the time limit. Some small bugs here and there, nothing game breaking though. Had I had more time I would have made the game more balanced (harder! >:3 >:D)
Tools: I used Love2D with lua to make the game. I used lurker.lua by rxi, you can find the github repo of that here: https://github.com/rxi/lurker
I really liked this game, and I was able to complete the entire first level! I was unable to figure out how to climb the stairs, but then the game blew up as I was trying to figure out how to use them. http://i.imgur.com/vs6iwzV.png
HJKL for movement is probably standard for some existing games, but it feels weird to me. I also keep pressing escape if I am in the wrong menu state (trying to eat and nothing to eat) and it instant quits without a prompt. I guess it tells me to press i or spacebar.
The starting monsters seem sometimes really strong and sometimes really weak, but I don't seem to lose when my health is negative, so I guess that is ok.
I also eventually experienced the same crash as josefnpat. It should be fine to fix a crash as long as you don't add new game content.
@shasharala: If you download LOVE and drag the .love file on top of love.exe, it will play.
I couldn't figure out the stairs either, roguelikes aren't really my thing but at least I cleared out the first level.
I like that the monsters flee when they're low on health, but in my game they just ran into a wall and stopped without returning my attacks. If they were cornered, I expected they would fight to the death.
That was fun for a short while. I would like to see it fleshed out more. I would like to note that I did receive the same error as josefnpat when I went to mine near the top of the level at some point. Regardless, it was interesting to be able to modify the environment like that in a rogue-like. In that aspect, it reminded me a bit of Dwarf Fortress.
Thanks everyone :D Yeah I'll investigate into the crashes in a post-compo version. I meant to get death into the game with the menu system but that was scrapped due to a lack of time and I forgot about it D:
Nevertheless, very cool!