Dungeon Mercenary

Dungeon Mercenary
Beta Project
Developer	smelC
Theme	Traditional
Influences	Brogue, Sil
Released	Jan 19, 2016
Updated	December 14, 2016
Licensing	Proprietary
P. Language	Java
Platforms	HTML5, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux
Interface	Full color ASCII/Unicode
Game Length	Approximately an half hour
Official site of Dungeon Mercenary

Dungeon Mercenary is a modern ASCII art roguelike with influences from brogue and Sil.

From brogue, it takes the runics system but extend it: you can put the (multiple) runics you find on armors/weapons/shields. This allows to "craft" your items. From Sil, it takes the combat versatility: you can wield two weapons if you're an offensive player, or wield a defensive blade (i.e. a weapon with a parry bonus) and a shield if you're a defensive player.

It features both entirely generated levels, and hand written levels. Generated levels may contain special areas, such as cemeteries, throne rooms, "red carpet" areas, etc.

You can play with the mouse or the keyboard. It is available both as HTML5 (embedded in a browser) and as a desktop application (Windows, Mac, Linux). It is designed to work well on different screen sizes (use +/- to resize).

Links

• The game's webpage, where you can play directly in your browser
• The development blog receives posts about the development
• The developer's twitter account

Dungeon Mercenary relies on two libraries:

• libGDX
• SquidLib

Status

Game is complete, but there are only 14 levels for now. Content will be added with next releases.

Videos

• 1 minute of gameplay, in a hand written level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PywmmHuuB_Q
• 2 minutes of gameplay, in a generated level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsL5S6cC7KA

Screenshots