Follower RL

monster taming

You are weak, your allies are not. Hopefully 😅

TAME creatures
SURVIVE the dungeon with up to four creatures following you in each cardinal direction (north, east, south, west).
They ATTACK automatically, based on the move they have in that direction

You are summoned to a very foreign dungeon in another world. Lucky for you, you have a very powerful cheat: you can buy food from our world. Each monster in the dungeon seem to love at least one of our dishes.

Installation

None.

Playable in the browser. Upon request, I can make a build for your OS, just let me know.

Gameplay

In the dungeon, you cannot attack, but you will have to rely on the creatures you have tamed. You can always gift them a variety of dishes from our world!

Controls

MOVE with WASD keys
ROTATE followers with Q and E

SHOP with F
BOND with a creature (or attempt to) with R
Click on a creature for more info on what dishes it likes, their moves, abilities and more!
Click on a dish (bottom left) or press I to give the currently selected item to a creature. Be careful, your followers can receive gifts too, until they have 5 red hearts.

Notes

there are 2 special abilities: the ability to show you the stairs down at the beginning of a level, and the ability to show you the initial position of all creatures in the current level
heart rating goes from 5 black hearts to 5 red hearts (think -5 to 5)
this was a submission for the 7DRL 2023

Acknowledgements

Art

Franuka's Fantasy RPG Monster Pack and other packs
Henry's Pixel Effects
Gghostpixxells's Free Pixel Food

Code

rot.js for a great engine
React for the UI and mantine for the components
My own base game template
Feeder RL (old 7DRL submission) for some small utilities

Special

The anime Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill
My dog for being awesome!
YOU for playing this game

Thanks for playing! Leave feedback of any kind here.

More information

Status	In development
Platforms	HTML5
Author	ldd
Genre	Role Playing
Tags	Seven Day Roguelike Challenge, Perma Death, pokemon, Roguelike

Comments

DFuxaPlays1 year ago(+1)

Did a gameplay video for your game.

xyncht1 year ago

Notes:

Use F to open the shop menu/inventory. There is no actual farm; you use the money from slaying monsters to buy more food. There is no way to re-order your inventory (that I can tell), but it's fine to leave it empty until you want to feed a monster, then just buy that food and it will go to the front of the queue.

Use R or T to *recruit* new monsters that like you enough. It does not rotate followers, and it doesn't work if your party is full (4 monsters max, no way to release them).

Use Q or E to *actually* rotate your party.

Click monsters to cause a pop-up showing their stats and their feelings about food (plus/minus hearts). Health and mana are top right, relationship hearts are top left. Black relationship hearts are negative. Pink hearts are positive ones.

Click the turn number to see how much money you get per kill and how many hearts you need to tame monsters on the current floor. Both change every floor.

No idea how to get your monsters to attack, but they certainly need to be next to or inside of the enemy and you can tell if its working or not by the presence or absence of animations for attack or magic there. Magic in my experience does not do enough damage to be worthwhile, and also your followers will attack you with it constantly which can be annoying (but luckily not very threatening).

There's no end, as far as I have found. And all monsters can be converted easily given your plentiful resources. Also the displacer beast can solo most enemies no problems.

xyncht1 year ago

The game is a neat idea and it would be cool to see it made into more of a finished work!

ldd1 year ago

Oh, you can change the current item by pressing Z and C, but yeah, it was hard just fitting all that UI work in 7 days xD

ldd1 year ago (1 edit)

yes, sorry, the readme is from day 2 of the 7DRL and I just had time to update it now. xD

Thanks for playing!