Star Rangers: A Dungeon Crawler for the MSX2
The objective of this project is to learn some programming for MSX2 computers while having some fun creating an old school Dungeon Crawler.
My primary references are games like The Eye of the Beholder, Shining in the Darkness, and Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei.
It's being created in GRAPHIC 4, SCREEN 5 mode (resolution: 256 x 212 pixels, 16 colours per pixel). It allows 4 pages of VRAM.
How video memory is organized during dungeon gameplay:
- The first and second page are being used for the front/back buffer. The active page (the one being visible on screen) is constantly swapped between the two.
- The third page contains the bitmap font, dungeon background and sprites (player avatar, enemies, etc).
- The fourth page contains the dungeon walls.
Things done
- Dungeon rendering/movement.
- Dungeon generation.
- Bitmap font rendering with color support.
- Music support.
- Intro.
- Start screen.
- Minimap (Debug mode).
- Show current palette (Debug mode).
To-Do List
- Menu navegation.
- Character creation.
- Hub City.
- Dungeon progression.
- Enemies/Combat.
- Treasure generation.
- Gadgets/Streams.
- Sound effects.
- Save/Load game.
Third party resources:
Fusion-C Library 1.2
Author: Eric Boez & Fernando Garcia
http://www.repro-factory.com/ https://github.com/ericb59/Fusion-C-v1.2
Palette based on DB16 - DawnBringer's 16 Col Palette v1.0
Author: DawnBringer
http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12795
First Person Dungeon Crawl Art Pack
Author: Clint Bellanger
https://opengameart.org/content/first-person-dungeon-crawl-art-pack
Cyberpunk Street Environment
Author: ansimuz
https://opengameart.org/content/cyberpunk-street-environment
Scifi creature tileset
Author: Stephen Challener (Redshrike[T3h Luggage])
https://opengameart.org/content/scifi-creature-tileset-mini-32x32-scifi-creature-icons
More RPG enemies
Author: Redshrike