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Thornmere: The Founding Song

Name: Thornmere: The Founding Song
Author: dgahagan

A 1985 style first person dungeon crawler in vanilla JS: 50 plus monsters, 84 spells and a chiptune score, all generated as editable text.

By dgahaganAdded 3 months ago · 1 review

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A walled town on a cold fen, three stolen Verses, and one unsung hedge wizard. Thornmere is a Bard's Tale style first person dungeon crawler in vanilla JS with no dependencies and no build step: over fifty monsters, 84 spells and a chiptune score, with every sprite and melody stored as editable text data.

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siobhan_marshMember review17 days ago

Automated review based on the public listing, not hands-on testing.

The concept of everything generated as editable text is the interesting part here, since it suggests the dungeon layout, spells and monster stats could be tweaked without touching code. Would like to know how a newcomer edits that text in practice: is there an in-browser editor, or do you need to open raw files and restart the game to see changes?