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7YRL lives!

7YRL lives!

7YRL: The Seven Year Roguelike

16x16 graphics, custom room templates, High DPI support, revamped menus, and more...

7YRL updated with sound effects, ranged skills, and skill animations

7YRL updated with sound effects, ranged skills, and skill animations

7YRL: The Seven Year Roguelike

This update adds sound effects, ranged skills, skill animations, and doors.

Persistence beyond death: Skills

Persistence beyond death: Skills

7YRL: The Seven Year Roguelike 2 comments

Big updates in 7yrl, including the first example of progression-through-death: Skills.

7YRL: Dungeons Deep - major update and mobile UI refactoring

7YRL: Dungeons Deep - major update and mobile UI refactoring

7YRL: The Seven Year Roguelike 2 comments

Tons of work over the last few weeks with mobile-optimized UI, a far better character info pane, dual wield support, and lots more

7YRL: Dungeons Deep - update: Ranged attacks and dungeon editor

7YRL: Dungeons Deep - update: Ranged attacks and dungeon editor

7YRL: The Seven Year Roguelike

This update adds ranged attacks and animations for bows and crossbows, and introduces the dungeon editor which will allow me to test and tweak the dungeon...

7YRL Update: Maps, Minimaps, and More

7YRL Update: Maps, Minimaps, and More

7YRL: The Seven Year Roguelike

7YRL edges closer to the completion of Phase 3 and being a complete roguelike. The new Map and Minimap help bridge the old and new worlds, and the Contextual...

Tons of updates to 7YRL

Tons of updates to 7YRL

7YRL: The Seven Year Roguelike 1 comment

New game UI, particle effects, tooling, gibs, potions, scrolls, tooltips, and more.

New features: Vaults, torches, demos, and more

New features: Vaults, torches, demos, and more

7YRL: The Seven Year Roguelike

This update adds Vaults, Mac and Windows demos, Light as a gameplay resource, tons of bug fixes, and more.

New features: Skills in the Skill select UI, and Death

New features: Skills in the Skill select UI, and Death

7YRL: The Seven Year Roguelike

The Skill selector UI now shows the character's actual skills and is interactive, Death is more obvious now, and a Mac demo is in the wings...

New features: health bars, rogue/mage/hunter tiles, resting, and tons of bug fix

New features: health bars, rogue/mage/hunter tiles, resting, and tons of bug fix

7YRL: The Seven Year Roguelike 4 comments

Paid down some technical debt last night but also got to implement some fun new features and graphics.

 What’s new: Attack/Defend flow, Actor Emotes, and Monster AI

What’s new: Attack/Defend flow, Actor Emotes, and Monster AI

7YRL: The Seven Year Roguelike 1 comment

Great progress today with full attack/defend flow (dodge/parry/block) now in, actor emotes, Monster AI, starting equipment, and more!

Item Powers, Player classes, and data driven player skills

Item Powers, Player classes, and data driven player skills

7YRL: The Seven Year Roguelike

Good progress these last few days, adding on-equip item powers, data-drive player classes and skills, damage modifiers, and more

Hello ModDB!

Hello ModDB!

7YRL: The Seven Year Roguelike 4 comments

Hello ModDB and first WIP video posted for your enjoyment.