PonyRL

PonyRL
Beta Project
Developer	Elthari
Theme	Equestria
Influences	Desktop Dungeons
Released	March, 2013
Updated	July 24, 2013
Licensing	Source code available
P. Language	Javascript
Platforms	in-browser
Interface	2D
Game Length	Short sessions
Official site of PonyRL

PonyRL is a coffee-break roguelike in the world of MLP franchise. It was influenced by Desktop Dungeons in many ways. PonyRL offers short (10 minutes) game sessions that lead to unlocking of new content. You act as a young pony/dragon/changeling that starts his adventure in unknown and hostile terrain. Your quest is finished when you defeat the boss of current level, though adventure maps are available. Game is written in Javascript, so it is playable in-browser. In its beta stage code is not minified or obfuscated, so it can be easily researched.

Description

Every game session starts with a hero standing in the middle of some location. Most terrain is not visible and needs to be explored - and by exploring you regenerate your health and mana. As game locations are fairly small in size (16x16 mostly) and there is no passive regeneration, fog of war becomes a resource by itself. Once terrain is fully explored no more regeneration happens.

Players goal is to defeat a champion of the land - one or more powerful mobs. To do it you have to level up several times by fighting lesser minions and buy proper amount of items. Leveling up leads to exploration while you search for mobs, so it is a possibility that player will lack in-game resources to confront the champion.

After every victory player may receive one or more achievements that unlock new classes/races/items/skills.