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Hey, another raycaster! Looks awesome.

In other words, I'm not trying to directly emulate classic RPGs/dungeon crawlers, but rather thinking to myself: "what if we had a game with the retro RPG look but with modern game design sensibilities?"

I'm about 500 away from the limit but have a few changes in mind to save more.

The game's story will hopefully be more nuanced. It's heavily inspired by classic RPGs/dungeon crawlers, but I'm going for something that will also have a little more depth than those old games did :)

Yea and Arena :)

my game that I'm currently making :)

I have waited a decade for this.

It's most certainly a love letter of sorts to old CRPGs.

It's where I drew inspiration from :)

Definitely possible! I had also thought about adding a Search action for objects in the world to get random loot.

Correct!

You will be well prepared for this game when it comes out :)

Feel like I should add this is non-trivial to do when walls must exist on grid boundaries for efficiency reasons.