Simple Guide

This is a guide to make this game more playable and less confusing and less exasperating.

Where to download?

I publish all the releases through github releases. Simply go there to download:

If you want to find the 7DRL version, then: v7drl-b is your way to go.

If you want to find a less bugged, more fun version, then you should download the latest version.

Windows and OS X builds are avaliable.

For linux, you need to run from source. Thus you have to

• clone this repo
• install ruby (> 1.9 is recommended)
• install gosu
• go to the root directory of the game and run ruby Main.rb

Basic Controls

• [vi-keys or numpad] movement
• [f] primary shot
• [q,w,e,r] corresponds to the four skills you have
• [< or ,] ascend to next floor (at stairs)
• [d] use the current card (see the Deck section for more info)
• [s] shift to the next card

ASCII Legends (Only contains those alien to typical rogue-likes)

• * (in various colors) bullet (graze them)
• ● another kind of bullet

Abnormality

When you start a game (after class selection), the screen will be empty, simply press any direction key to normally start the game.

When you ascend to next floor, the screen will not update, you can also just press any direction key to update the screen.

Mechanics

• Your hp should be more than zero to survive.
• Auto gameover if time reaches 5:00 AM.

• Killing Kaguya at floor 15 entails winning.

• Your primary shot [f] costs 5 mp.

• All of your skills [q,w,e,r] costs 10 mp.

• Every turn you regenerate 1 mp.

• Time starts at 2:00AM .

• Time flows (at a quite slow rate).
• The more np (night point) you have, the slower time flows.
• Night points decrease rapidly (1 point per turn) when no enemies are around.

• Night points decrease slowly when enemies are near.

• Point items (blue "p") increase your score and increase your np by 5 points.

• Power items (red "p") heals you for a small amount.
• Night items (red "n") increase you np by 20 points.

• Card items (purple "c") draws a card from a deck.

• There is no way to save your game

• Permadeath

Bullets

Bullets don't behave like actual bullets (as in the shooter games), for they are not for you to actually dodge. Rather they are only there for forcing you to move (or in fighter game jargons, they are there for zoning purposes), you can graze bullets (destroy them) by moving thru them, that means: as long as you keep moving, these bullets cannot hit you.

Nonetheless, sometimes bullet spamming enemies will be paired up with melee-centered enemies, and that is the real problem.

Deck & Profile

The only way to upgrade your ability is thru your decks. Every time you pick up a "c" item, you draw one card from you deck. When a game starts, your profile ("~/EienteiRL/profile.rb" on unix and "%userprofile%/EienteiRL/profile.rb" on windows) is loaded. Pressing d uses the current card, which will provide you with either an upgrade in skill, or an upgrade to your mhp or mmp.

Skills can have a max level of four, and you can bring more than four cards for the same skill (though it would be a waste of card), you should only bring skills for your own class (that means you can bring other classes' skills as well, but it would be considered cheating). Only bring 10 cards per deck.

Skills Info

Note: this was meant to be in game description (currently not because I ran out of time)

Classes

Gardener

Time Maid

Magician

Doll Manipulator

Others

:mhp and :mmp could be used in decks to indicate an upgrade to your max hp and max mp.