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Show HN: I Built a Retro Survival RPG in Vanilla JavaScript

2•jasonkester•1h ago
I'm working on the Survival Crafting RPG that you would have played on your Apple II back in the '80s. You can think of it as Valheim's gameplay crammed into the tile-based UI of the old Ultima games.

It has a procedurally-generated open world with towns and NPCs to talk to, all the resource gathering, mining, crafting stuff you'd expect in a modern survival game, and some good old fashioned dungeon crawling to boot.

I've been working on it off and on for the last several months. It's complete up through the Bronze Age (in Valheim terms). Let me know what you think!

https://stravaeger.com/

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blinkbat•37m ago
Very cool, you did the art?
jasonkester•16m ago
Thanks! Yeah, all the tiles are hand drawn, though I took a lot of inspiration from the original Ultima graphics.

Early on, I actually used a bunch of tiles that I had lifted straight from Ultima V, but I swapped them all out for my own work once it looked like the game was fun and I might want to actually show it in public one day.

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Show HN: I Built a Retro Survival RPG in Vanilla JavaScript

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