Classic dungeoncrawling renderer which draws 8x8 pixel tiles to represent the view. Player movement is restricted to the grid and 4 directions.

Things that could be experimented with or added:

• Floors and ceilings.
• Sprites like trees or enemies.
• Different textures depending on grid value.
• Transitions when turning left right, or even forward backward.
• Dynamic lighting. Use different lightsources and write to a gridbased lightmap which is then used when rendering.
• Height levels.
• The perspective is a bit weird sometimes and I guess could be made better

Controls: Use arrow keys to move and x to place/remove block. Cannot move outside level bounds.

Nice.

Old games like this used to use simple transitions. That could be fun to try. Like do a left or right wipe when turning, or do a fade (change a few random tiles each frame) when moving forwards. It was fairly effective for a cheap trick.

Yes I was thinking about a left/right swipe for turning. Good suggestion with the fade, that should probably work ok! Another thing I thought of was to scale the whole screen in intervals before the new view is set, but that could perhaps be a bit tough on performance.

I'm a bit tempted go for height levels but I'd probably need to rethink everything from ground up, so maybe I'll save it for another time.