Cartomancer

(This game was originally created as part of the 7DRL Challenge 2021.)

You've been accepted to the illustrious Papyrus Academy, but while studying in the library, you inadvertently break the seal on The Deck of Power, whose mystical cards contain spirits of immeasurable power. They have escaped, and begun to wreak havoc on the school.

In this deck-building roguelike, you must use your magical abilities to defeat the spirits and return them to their card-form. You can then harness these cards on your quest to restore The Deck.

How to win: 

Clear a floor of enemies and cards to win. 

Enemies each embody a magical card, which they drop when defeated. Collecting this adds it to your deck.

Cards will modify your abilities, put status effects on enemies or provide new attack capabilities.

If you run out of cards in your deck and hand, use the "commune" action to reshuffle your discard into your deck and draw a new hand.

(7DRL version only) You gain mana by moving. You need at least 1 mana to attack or play a card. "Commune" costs 5 mana.

Controls

• WASD and Arrow Keys: Movement (4-way)
• R to rest.
• Bump to attack and pick up items.
  
• Left-click to play a card from hand.
• Right-click or shift-click to view card details.
  
• C to "commune", or click the "Commune" button by the discard pile.
  
• Confirm menu options: Enter/Space
• Inspect/Target Selection Mode
  • Press tab to enter inspect mode
  • Keep pressing tab to cycle between all entities on screen
  • View the status of each entity.
  • You can also hover your mouse over entity to view its info.
  • Press Escape to leave this mode.
• Press "l" (lowercase L) to toggle the log open and closed.

Stats

Cartomancer has a simple combat system. Entities in the game have the following statistics:

• HP: Total number of hitpoints. Entities perish at 0 or less.
• ATK: How much damage a direct attack does.
• DEF: How much damage is subtracted from each attack.
• SPI: How powerful the user is at magic (This is reflected primarily in ranged magic attacks)

Acknowledgements

This project builds on the open and free resources of others, recognised here:

• Initial tile, condition icons and enemy graphics are from this tileset by Jerom 
• Pathfinding implementation is drawn from this article by redblobgames
• Autotiling systems are based on this article
• Color palette is EDG32, by ENDESGA
• Fonts are m5x7 and Quiver SF