Dawn

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Dawn
Dawn is a roguelike made in Lua + LÖVE. This is my very first game developed end-to-end. It was developed from scratch without any previous code. The objective was to build somewhat of a modernized Angband/DCSS hybrid (auto explore, auto fight). The RPG system is the weakest part of the design, since I ran out of time to finish it. I do plan on improving it to be more well rounded, add abilities and spells to make the classes stand out.

• Classic grid-based dungeon crawling
• Class-driven play with spells, ranged combat, and equipment
• Quality‑of‑life options like auto‑explore and auto‑fight

Controls

• Movement: numeric keypad (no vi keys, sorry)
• Rest: 5 (keypad)
• Wait: .
• Inventory: i (press item letter to use/equip)
• Auto‑explore: o
• Auto‑fight: Tab
• Swing: s (choose a direction)
• Fire mode: f
• Quiver mode: F
• View mode: x (press Enter to move to cursor)
• Stairs: > / < (in view mode, these find stairs; press Enter to navigate)
• Cast spell: z
• Spellbook: Z

Downloads

• dawn.exe = LÖVE executable + game
• dawn.zip = LÖVE DLLs + executable + game