🧙 Terminal Roguelike Game in C 🧙

A simple yet powerful roguelike game built from scratch in C using ncurses.
Explore procedurally generated dungeons, navigate through rooms, and move your character in a terminal-based game world.

🚀 Features

• 🧭 Procedural dungeon generation

  • Rooms and corridors created randomly at each run.
  • Smooth connections between rooms.

• 🎮 Player movement

  • Navigate using W A S D keys.
  • Real-time updates with field of view (FOV).

• 🔦 Line of sight + Fog of War + Field Of View

  • Only nearby tiles are visible.
  • Previously seen tiles are dimmed (exploration-style).

• 📺 Ncurses-based terminal rendering

  • Fast, minimal graphics in the terminal.
  • Works on any Linux/macOS terminal with ncurses support.

🎮 Controls

W             Move Up
A             Move Left
S             Move Down
D             Move Right
Q             Quit Game

📁 Code Base Structure

roguelike_game/
|--- include/
|       |--- rogue.h
|--- src/
|       |--- main.c
|       |--- draw.c
|       |--- engine.c
|       |--- player.c
|       |--- map.c
|       |--- room.c
|       |--- fov.c
|--- makefile

🧰 Requirements

• GCC (or any C compiler)
• ncurses library

🛠️ Build Instructions

git clone https://github.com/28anmol/roguelike_game.git

cd roguelike_game

make

📌 Key Concepts

• Manual memory management using calloc
• Procedural generation of dungeon rooms
• Terminal UI with ncurses library
• 2D arrays for tile based maps
• Use of pointers
• Visibility algorithms (field of view and line of sight)

📸 Screenshots & GIFs

💖 Credits

Ignacio Oyarzabal
Followed the tutorial: Visit Tutorial
Please feel free to contribute, fork or use it as a learning project.