Yoko City Fire Rush

===7DRL 2023 entry===

Pinned Notes:

• You can pull up the help page in-game with "?" if you missed it at the beginning.
• I forgot to add <enter> key for skill activation when doing the wasd keys, so right now it only works with <numpad enter> key.  sorry!
• If any judges are having trouble running the game, please contact me at renlawrence AT gmail.com with your OS version and I can try and get a build for you ASAP!

Made by rentonl and Finch

A turn-based rogue-like where you must descend the floors of a burning office building while attempting to rescue as many civilians as possible. Made with python+pygame.

Notable features:

• Dynamic building damage and recursive floor collapses. Damage and collapses can even happen on floors you currently aren't on!
  
• Entities on all floors step and perform regardless of whether or not you are on that floor.
• Actionable entities are similar to player. NPC firefighters can use some of the same skills as you.
  
• Mostly all sprites are uniquely made by Finch. The rest are from oryx design labs https://www.oryxdesignlab.com/
• Particle effects for fire and dust.
• Final grade based on an assortment of scoring criteria.
• Unique UI features showing relative damage of all floors as well as mini-maps of the floors above and below you. Watch out for those collapsing ceiling tiles!

Berlin Interpretation checklist:

• Random environment generation: Floors and entity placement are randomly placed. Albeit poorly.
• Permadeath: You only get one shot.
• Turn-based: Game actions are turn-based. Effects are real-time.
• Grid-based: Entities confined to bounds of floor grid.
• Non-modal: Partial. Game includes menus. Other than that the game is in one state.
• Complexity: Lots of complexity in dynamic building damage and floor collapses.
• Resource management: Need to manage hp and skill cooldowns.
• Hack'n'slash: Requirement not met
• Exploration and Discovery: Must explore multiple floors to find the civilians to rescue.
• Single player character: Requirement met.
• Monsters are similar to players: Partial. All actionable entities are based off of the same parent class. There are a few custom methods of derived classes not worked into base classes. However, for the most part the requirement is fulfilled. For example, all unit entities share similar behaviour and methods. A few hacky attributes were stuck on specific entity types at the end for the sake of speed of devlelopment.
  
• Tactical challenge: Hopefully the case with more balance tweaking.
• ASCII display: Requirement not met
• Dungeons: Randomly generated floors.
• Numbers: Requirment not met. Most numbers are hidden from the player

This game utilises my existing WIP engine called RLEngine. Some of the features my engine provided before the jam:

• Input management
• Complex turn-based game state management
• Complex entity state management
• Entity cache and index management for collisions and positions
• Map management
• Animated entities
  
• Pre-made widgets
• Inventory and Skill management
• Random map generation with biomes and biome rooms (sorta)
• Entity and targeting systems (sorta)