Roguelike Library For Java

Official site of Roguelike Library for Java

Developer - datta_sid

Released - 2007 Dec 15

Updated - 2013 May 02

This is a modular easy to use Java library for developing Roguelike Games.

Introduction

The purpose of this library will be to provide functions like Line of Sight, Field of View, Pathfinding, Dungeon generation, etc that you will need for writing your Roguelike, but the code that is either hard to find or hard to separate out from existing projects.

Features

Currently this library provides the following :

Field of View
- Precise Permissive Field of View
- Shadow casting.
Cone Field of Vision
- Precise Permissive Field of View
- Shadow casting.
Line of Sight
- Bresenham
- Symmetric Bresenham
- Opportunistic Bresenham
- Precise Permissive Field of View
- Shadow casting.
Projection
- Bresenham
- Symmetric Bresenham
- Opportunistic Bresenham
- Precise Permissive Field of View
- Shadow casting

Examples

Some examples of this library in action :

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