roguelib
Pseudo-curses ASCII game headers for use with raylib C/C++ (by leftbones)
angband
A free, single-player roguelike dungeon exploration game (by angband)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
roguelib
Posts with mentions or reviews of roguelib.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-15.
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C Roguelike Resources?
Not sure if you're familiar with Raylib, but I have a side project that is making a small roguelike header library to be used with Raylib, you can see it here: https://github.com/leftbones/roguelib
angband
Posts with mentions or reviews of angband.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-10.
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Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects
Angband - Roguelike Dungeon Crawler. C
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How I installed the Linux version of angband from the aur repository on to my steam deck.
And it worked, it downloaded and installed angband however with a font glitch that can be resolved with a command I found from ( https://github.com/angband/angband/issues/4575 )
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Working on my first procedural-level generator.
Broge, Angband, C:DDA, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, are some options.
- is this a vault? i'm confused about what vaults look like. made it down to DL29 and haven't found one yet.
- C Roguelike Resources?
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Help with pausing while traveling
Link to Angband running code, which has some of the features you're describing. It's a big chunk of C, but about halfway down there's a comment with a bunch of description which might be useful.
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my `k` key don't work on target mode (roguelike keyset)
This is a known bug in 4.2.3, it's fixed in the development releases that you can find here.
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Reading source code for learning purposes.
Angband
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People To Make Games With: A Free Resource
There is a way to get many people contributing and collaborating to a single project over extended periods, even as individual people come and go. That way is called free and open-source software. See e.g. Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, Brogue: Community Edition, Angband, Cataclysm: DDA.
- Suggestions for games that can be played on the terminal
What are some alternatives?
When comparing roguelib and angband you can also consider the following projects:
rogue - Original Rogue Game (5.4.4)
NetHack - Official NetHack Git Repository
ncurses-game
sil-q
breakhack - A casual coffee-break roguelike
crawl - Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup official repository
dungeonbash - Martin's Dungeon Bash, a roguelike game.
FAangband - First Age Angband
how-to-mod-roguelikes - A walkthrough on creating your own variants of free and open-source roguelike games
DOOM - DOOM Open Source Release
Cataclysm-DDA - Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.