Tower Noire

Cow • 2015-05-31*2015-05-31 18:22* •

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Tower Noire

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Tower Noire is a 7DRL roguelike inspired by Cave Noire, Little Nemo, and Powder.

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beef • 2015-05-31*2015-05-31 23:06*

Beautiful, itty-bitty tilework <3

Johnicholas • 2015-06-01*2015-06-01 05:38*

In the code, why put almost everything inside _init?

As far as I can tell from skimming, it looks like most of it could go in the global scope?

Cow • 2015-06-01*2015-06-01 17:54*

That's a good question – no reason, really. I'll probably move it out to save a few characters. :>

Johnicholas • 2015-06-02*2015-06-02 08:51*

It seems to me like there are several places, such as falling and dying, where you want to do a whole-screen transition effect.

Do you think it might be feasible to split control flow early in _draw into "doing a transition" vs "not doing a transition"? Then you could assign to the variable controlling that split at the places where the transition starts.

function _draw()
  if falling > 0 then
    -- do the effect
    falling -= 1
  else
    -- do the non-transition stuff
  end
end

That is, what I'm trying to get at, is - what are the advantages of doing it the way you did versus at the top of _draw?

Cow • 2015-06-02*2015-06-02 11:22*

In the beginning I had all the functions as game.do() and player.do() and entity.do() since it was more sensible to me. Generally I prefer to keep the control flow in the main loop pretty simple. Once the character limit becomes more of a problem I might have to do that, though.

objelisks • 2015-06-02*2015-06-02 11:51*

re: putting stuff in _init

the code is called in order, so if you want to define a function at the bottom of your file, but use it earlier, you'd need to call it from _init since that gets called after the entire file is read.

Pizza • 2015-07-07*2015-07-07 19:13*

Wow, what a rad game is what I thought to myself when first starting this up. I didn't really stop thinking that at any point throughout, either.

dw817 • 2016-10-03*2016-10-03 13:37*

Great "ROGUE" contender. Wish I could carry more than 2-items at a time in my hands though. There's vertical space for it. :)

PixelCod • 2016-10-05*2016-10-05 15:19*

From someone that doesn't really enjoy rouge-like games like these, this is great! I really like the artwork and the controls feel very responsive and instant (due to the turn based mechanic I guess). It's interesting how it almost feels Zelda like with the pushable blocks and holes in the floor that you can fall down (Great animations and transitions on those too ;) ) which makes the game feel like an adventure instead of bombarding you with RPG stats that break immersion a bit.

This is really cool so far and I look forward to future updates on this!