Axes-Armour-Ale VS rot.js

Compare Axes-Armour-Ale vs rot.js and see what are their differences.

Axes-Armour-Ale

A fantasy, ASCII dungeon crawler for Windows, Linux & OSX (by cyberfilth)

rot.js

ROguelike Toolkit in JavaScript. Cool dungeon-related stuff, interactive manual, documentation, tests! (by ondras)
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Axes-Armour-Ale rot.js
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38 2,289
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2.7 3.8
about 1 year ago 10 days ago
Pascal JavaScript
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Axes-Armour-Ale

Posts with mentions or reviews of Axes-Armour-Ale. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-24.
  • Sharing Saturday #455
    5 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 24 Feb 2023
  • Sharing Saturday #445
    2 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 17 Dec 2022
    I added another location to the map on Axes, Armour & Ale https://github.com/cyberfilth/Axes-Armour-Ale So next I'll be looking to add overworld encounters and a village / town location.
  • Sharing Saturday #439
    3 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 4 Nov 2022
  • Sharing Saturday #433
    5 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 23 Sep 2022
    This coming week I plan on procrastinating a little more with different dungeon styles. My game has several different environments so far, with more planned. So I get to play around with cellular automata, BSP and other techniques. https://github.com/cyberfilth/Axes-Armour-Ale
  • Sharing Saturday #427
    5 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 12 Aug 2022
    Released an alpha version of Axes, Armour & Ale
  • Sharing Saturday #421
    5 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 1 Jul 2022
    All code, previous releases, and a growing collection of bugs are kept at https://github.com/cyberfilth/Axes-Armour-Ale
  • Sharing Saturday #416
    7 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 27 May 2022
    This week has been a week of refactoring... not intentionally though. I'd planned to start adding multiple dungeons all over the overworld map. But every time I started to add this, I found a previously undiscovered bug in some part of my code. My save file was duplicating saved data in several places, and not reading it back correctly when reloading the game. So I've streamlined the save/load process and, touch wood (taps head), think that I'd squashed all the bugs now. https://github.com/cyberfilth/Axes-Armour-Ale
  • Sharing Saturday #414
    3 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 14 May 2022
  • Sharing Saturday #413
    4 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 6 May 2022
  • Sharing Saturday #408
    5 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 2 Apr 2022
    This week hasn't been earth-shatteringly productive, but I did (fingers crossed) manage to squash all bugs in my Throw Projectiles and Fire Bow code. Binaries for Windows and Linux are at https://github.com/cyberfilth/Axes-Armour-Ale/releases/tag/Alpha51 for testing.

rot.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of rot.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-25.
  • Introducing From Stardust (a roguelike made in JavaScript)
    3 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 25 Nov 2022
    - https://github.com/ondras/rot.js
  • Doing a ROT.js version of the libtcod tutorial. Part 0 up now.
    2 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 3 Jul 2022
    Surprising. I've not used rot.js but I haven't found Canvas too bad for a real time game I'm working on (60 fps with 50x25 onscreen tilemap on my phone). ROT also has a WebGL backend available.
  • Sharing Saturday #414
    3 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 14 May 2022
    Thanks! I am using [rot.js](https://ondras.github.io/rot.js/hp/) map generation primitives and then layering stuff on top of that. I'll probably introduce an "outside" at some point with caves and forests you can explore.
  • Loking for a 2D grid javascript library
    2 projects | /r/gamedev | 21 Dec 2021
    Mhh, right from the get go I can't recall any standalone library. What comes in my mind is something like rot.js though. It is not a grid library per se, but it specialiced in creating dungeons, layouts, has pathfinding and such stuff in it. Maybe it is sufficient for your needs? (https://github.com/ondras/rot.js) another thing that pops in my mind is honeycomb js (https://github.com/flauwekeul/honeycomb) it is for hex grids though.
  • recommendations for engine with canvas graphics + multiplayer
    2 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 14 Oct 2021
    As per those instructions, the docs are here and accessible as always. (Though anyone in touch with the ROT.js maintainer should let them know they should update the link so people can find them more easily.)
  • Sharing Saturday #362
    8 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 14 May 2021
    You probably know already, but rot.js has some great canvas rendering routines for roguelikes.
  • Building A Powerful ASCII Game Engine For The Browser
    3 projects | /r/javascript | 13 Apr 2021
    I would not call it powerful it's just basic and simple. If you want powerful ASCII game engine there is already one that exists ROT.js it have everything that the Rouge Like game should have. I've created basic game using it https://codepen.io/jcubic/pen/oMbgym?editors=0110
  • Sharing Saturday #355
    2 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 26 Mar 2021
    Otherwise I did contribute a Pull Request for rot-js I am excited to share back to the community: https://github.com/ondras/rot.js/commit/edd35590196c0e0e1a9b1b60f2d0f314fc553149
  • Advice for doing a web-playable 7DRL
    9 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 13 Feb 2021
    This isn't really a recommendation, but I'm using Rust (compiled to Wasm) and a custom backend for cursive that interfaces with a javascript wrapper to use rot.js for the rendering. This mostly only made sense because I was already using cursive for terminal rendering, but the general approach of using Rust for the game logic and some subset of the UI logic, with the actual rendering and user input handled in javascript (or I guess typescript) is perfectly viable (wasm-bindgen makes calling Rust code from javascript or vice versa pretty straightforward).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Axes-Armour-Ale and rot.js you can also consider the following projects:

mORMot2 - OpenSource RESTful ORM/SOA/MVC Framework for Delphi and FreePascal

bracket-lib - The Roguelike Toolkit (RLTK), implemented for Rust.

hUGETracker - The music composition suite for the Nintendo Game Boy

innit - A roguelike game where you play a micro organism inside a larger organism!

RogueSharp - A .NET Standard class library providing map generation, path-finding, and field-of-view utilities frequently used in roguelikes or 2D tile based games. Inspired by libtcod

boardgame.io - State Management and Multiplayer Networking for Turn-Based Games

libtcod - A collection of tools and algorithms for developing traditional roguelikes. Such as field-of-view, pathfinding, and a tile-based terminal emulator.

Island-Adventure-Prototype - Protptype of a Text based Roguelike/Exploration game.

VTerminal - A new Look-and-Feel (LaF) for Java, which allows for a grid-based display of Unicode characters with custom fore/background colors, font sizes, and pseudo-shaders. Originally designed for developing Roguelike/lite games.

LambdaHack - Haskell game engine library for roguelike dungeon crawlers; please offer feedback, e.g., after trying out the sample game with the web frontend at

moving-castles - Roguelike