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Amulet Raider
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About the game
"Jacin said the amulet is cursed. Having magic of my own, though, I prefer to judge for myself." That is all the introduction you get, and it is enough: somewhere in this dungeon there is a cursed amulet, and you are going to fetch it.
Amulet Raider mixes the exploration of a roguelike with a mouse-driven arcade shooter. The dungeon is a set of rooms joined by corridors, drawn from above with a big, clear bitmap look, and your adventurer follows the mouse: you steer by moving it, you shoot with the left button while you move, and a right click (or Space) drinks the potion that makes you invulnerable for a short time. The bar at the bottom shows your health as hearts, your bullets and potions, and the treasure you have collected so far, and a map is a key press away.
Because the mouse is captured while the game runs, you steer smoothly in every direction rather than in grid steps, and the monsters in the rooms are real-time too, so it plays more like an action game than a turn-based one. Treasure is scattered through the rooms, potions are there to be found (some heal, and the invulnerability one makes you untouchable for six seconds), and you begin with one of those.
Playing it here
Click Play, then click in the game to unpause it. That click locks the mouse to the game, and Esc releases it and pauses again, with the controls on screen. If your cursor feels too fast or too slow, the comma and period keys change the sensitivity. The game uses WebGL2, which any recent browser has. Nothing is saved.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| mouse | move |
| left button | shoot while moving |
| right button or Space | drink the invulnerability potion |
| Esc | pause and release the mouse |
| R | try again |
| M | show the map |
| , and . | lower and raise the mouse sensitivity |
A few things worth knowing
Shoot while moving. The left button fires as you steer, so you do not have to stop.
Save the potion. You start with a single invulnerability potion, and it lasts only six seconds, so keep it for the moment that really needs it.
Use the map. Pressing M shows the dungeon, so look at it before you pick a direction.
Credits and licence
Amulet Raider was made by James McNeill for the 2022 7-Day Roguelike Challenge, with special thanks to Mendi Carroll in the credits. It is released under the MIT licence and uses the gl-matrix library (MIT). The licence texts are linked from this page.