RogueAbyss81

Minimalistic “Roguish” - like game in 10 sentences/commands of ZX81 BASIC (yes only 10 sentences aka 10 lines also).

The player is descending into the Abyss81 (yes there are 80 at least, maybe more).

The screen scrolls automatically, you can control your player left and right only (Use O and P keys).

You need to pick food to increase health, pick coins and fight the nasty Orks!

But there’s more; the Abyss walls are rotted, you can crumble but it will poison you.

In your descent you will find:

1. The Abyss 81 (only photo ever): 

           

Forgotten, deep, stinky... (we are still talking about the abyss…mind you) Random, build in sections (not many) (like your self-steem)

1. The hero, the player character… you!   
   '0'  yep that’s you a zero, you’re not fat. Also you can only move left or right, while you descend…
2. The Ork, the enemy, a lonely creature that only wants a hug, nope just to kill you ? 'X'  you can fight if you step over it, the years, the food, make it very slow… In fact It cannot move at all (I have only ten lines, what do you want?) When you kill him you will gain more experience points, how many? Nobody knows… Don’t you dare to look into the code…
3. Food, why in the middle of the Abyss? Also nobody knows.  
   '+'  It would help you heal, because… food will nourish you. But there’s a twist: if you eat too much, you can die… just like aunt Elsa. (Vars are only 8bits so once you step into the 255 boundary… it resets)
4. Coins, why? Because reasons…  
   '$'  Imagine a game without coins… exactly. The same applies to them,  if you have too many, your bag will break and you will lose it all, you greedy bastard!
5. Free tiles,  
   ' . '   you can walk safely here, most of the time.
6. Rotten walls.   
7.  You can destroy them, they would crumble and also they would poison you…

The abyss would autoscroll forever, when you feel trapped in some corners, you can “walk diagonally” most of the time.

But remember the ZX81, our beloved zeddy is a temperamental machine (at best), sometimes everything crashes… not pretty.

I heard you say: “It's slow!” gravity works differently in the abyss, patience. Also most of your cpu time is used to draw your screen, it's like an iGPU without the GPU part.

I heard you say “it's not a Rogue like!”, well lets check the Berlin Interpretation (2008) of a Rogue-like:

• Procedural generation: CHECK!
• Permadeath: CHECK!
• Turn-based gameplay:  (with the zx81 it feels like) CHECK!
• Grid-based movement: CHECK!
• Non-modal gameplay (everything happens in the same mode): CHECK!
• Resource management: CHECK!
• Fantasy setting: CHECK!
• Dungeon crawling: CHECK!
• Monsters: CHECK!

Is it fun?  No, just go play Noita…

Sometimes the game will tell you things…  (just like your brain)

Healed : You pick food you’re getting better.

Poisoned : You destroy the wrong wall.

Ork Killed : You know what you did Game Over : Or more like let's start over…