Dungeon of Lorz

Dungeon of Lorz is a minimalistic 64x64 hack-n-slash game originally built for lowrezjam 2021, where Lorz = low rez 🙂. Collect coins in the dungeon, upgrade, and delve into the dungeon again!

Written in TypeScript, powered by my own WebGL library: https://github.com/andykswong/mugl . The (very hacky) source code is here: https://github.com/andykswong/lowrezjam2021

Game is playable in with keyboard, gamepad, or touchscreen!

Keyboard Controls:

• WASD or arrow keys to move / select upgrades
• E or Enter to attack / start / restart game
• Q to block / buy / equip upgrades

Click/Touch Controls:

• Touch the arrows / text to navigate the shop menu / start
• Touch and drag on the left half of screen to move
• Touch and hold on the right half of screen to block / attack. This touch area is further split into 2 regions - touch the left side to block and right side to attack
• Touch to go back to menu after dead

Gamepad Controls (only Xbox controller is tested):

• Left stick to move / select upgrades
• A to attack / start / restart game
• B to block / buy / equip upgrades

Features:

• Fight against 16 enemy types and 4 miniboss encounters.
• Spend coins to unlock additional characters and upgrades.
  • Knight: You start with the good old knight. Can wield shield. Can upgrade to better weapon and armor.
    
  • Rogue: Move and hit fast, but weaker. Can wield a bow.
  • Mage: Low HP but high damage. Starts with a fire staff. Unlock the ice staff to freeze enemies. The priest mode gives you a short-ranged, high damage holy spell attack, with faster HP recovery.
• Upgrades requires the character to be unlocked. The knight's steel shield also requires wooden shield to be unlocked first.

Lowrezjam Authenticity:

• To meet the 64x64 resolution requirement of lowrezjam 2021, the game is rendered using WebGL with a 64x64 drawing buffer and antialias set to false. The canvas is then upscaled to 320x320 using CSS, with style: image-rendering: crisp-edges; image-rendering: pixelated;

Credits:

• All game arts are created by my own
• Sound effects generated by jsfxr
• Music:
  • Background music by nene: https://opengameart.org/content/boss-battle-3-8-bit-re-upload
  • Game over music by Cleyton Kauffman - https://opengameart.org/content/game-over-theme