ZeldaRL

ZeldaRL: The Rainbow Maiden is a roguelike fangame based on the "Legend of Zelda" videogame series.

In the game you, soon to be known as the Hero of Worlds, are called from a dream into a quest to save the dying world of Hyrule by traveling to the ancient dungeons and retrieving the magical canes. In your quest, you will find powerful items that will aid you and will get to travel to other worlds in order to save them and Hyrule.

Features

• Procedurally generated Zelda-like dungeons and overworld.
• A quest to retrieve the ancient canes from the dungeons
• Zelda stuff like hearts, rupees, enemies, prizes in the dungeons
• Zelda music
• No experience Points
• Simplified Command Set
• No permadeath

Quickstart

• Move using directional arounds and numpad
• Leave your house and find the 3 temples and their rewards
• Attack using 'a' + direction
• Use artifacts using 's'

History

• The initial version of this game (0.7DRL) was released for the 2007 7DRL programming contest
• Versions 0.71 and 0.71a were released shortly afterward with minor improvements and fixes and integrated the "Swing Console Box" mode.
• Versions 0.72 and 0.72a were released in March 2007. It is unknown what changes they included.
• Version 0.8 was released in 2022, 15 years after the initial release including the following changes:
  • Remove permadeath! the player will instead respawn in the last known safe location losing a whole Heart container.
  • Run by default using the Swing console mode.
  • Resize font when window size changes in Swing Console mode. 
  • Add support for win 64bit libjcurses.
  • Change appearance for shallow water