Roguelike Library For Java

Roguelike Library for Java
Beta Project
Developer	datta_sid
Theme	SciFi/Fantasy/Anything you can imagine
Influences	Roguelikes
Released	2007 Dec 15
Updated
Licensing	Open Source
P. Language	Java
Platforms	All
Interface	ASCII, Tiles, Keyboard, Mouse
Game Length
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This is a modular easy to use Java library for developing Roguelike Games.

Introduction

The purpose of this library will be to provide functions like Line of Sight, Field of View, Pathfinding, Dungeon generation, etc that you will need for writing your Roguelike, but the code that is either hard to find or hard to separate out from existing projects.

Features

Currently this library provides the following :

• Field of View
  • Precise Permissive Field of View
  • Shadow casting.
• Cone Field of Vision
  • Precise Permissive Field of View
  • Shadow casting.
• Line of Sight
  • Bresenham
  • Symmetric Bresenham
  • Opportunistic Bresenham
  • Precise Permissive Field of View
  • Shadow casting.
• Projection
  • Bresenham
  • Symmetric Bresenham
  • Opportunistic Bresenham
  • Precise Permissive Field of View
  • Shadow casting

Examples

Some examples of this library in action :

Field of Vision

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Field of Vision in a cone
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Line of Sight/Projectile path
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