2022 7DRL: Amulet Raider

I'm excited to share my latest 7DRL creation: Amulet Raider!

Amulet Raider mashes together the setting of Rogue (procedural dungeon, amulet, etc.) with the game mechanics of XQuest. XQuest (and its predecessor Crystal Quest) use an unusual control scheme, with mouse movement translating directly into velocity adjustment. Shot projectiles go in the movement direction at double the player's speed. It takes some getting used to but it has a high skill ceiling.

This year's big pushes for me were using pure Javascript with WebGL; and getting a good ending into a game. I haven't done a ton of shader programming before so this was really fun! Writing shaders directly makes some interesting things easy to do. This factors into the game ending, which I want to leave as a surprise.

The game is playable in a browser and requires a good mouse.