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How to Play

Overview

You are an adventurer exploring a randomly generated 50×50 room dungeon. Navigate corridors, open doors, fight monsters, and collect treasure — all rendered in real-time first-person vector graphics.

Inspired by Avatar on the PLATO system (1979), one of the earliest first-person dungeon crawlers. This is the single-player version; multiplayer is coming soon.

Controls

Key	Action	Description
W	Move Forward	Step into the room ahead (if not blocked by a wall)
A	Turn Left	Rotate 90° to face left
D	Turn Right	Rotate 90° to face right
S	Turn Around	Rotate 180° to face behind you
F	Fight / Act	Attack a monster or interact with objects in front of you
M	Toggle Map	Show or hide the minimap (only shows visited rooms)
I	Inventory	Open your bag — click an item to use it
Esc	Close	Close the inventory overlay

Movement rate: You may move once per second at most. This gives the dungeon a deliberate, tense pace — just like the original PLATO games.

Items & Potions

Defeated monsters may drop items. Your bag holds up to 20 items.

• 🧪 Health Potion — restores 15 HP.
• 🧪 Greater Potion — restores 30 HP.
• ⚗️ Atk Elixir — permanently increases ATK by 2.
• 📜 Shield Scroll — permanently increases Max HP by 5.

The Dungeon

Each room is a square with four walls. Each wall can be one of:

• Solid Wall — impassable stone.
• Wall with Door — a closed door you can walk through.
• Wall with Torch — a torch-lit solid wall (decorative, impassable).
• Open — no wall at all, free passage.

The dungeon is 50×50 rooms (2,500 rooms total). It is randomly generated each game using a maze algorithm that guarantees every room is reachable.

Combat

Monsters lurk in certain rooms. When you see a creature ahead of you, press F to fight. Combat is resolved automatically — your damage depends on your level and weapon. Defeating monsters earns experience and may drop items.

Heads-Up Display

• Top bar: Your HP, level, XP, gold, weapon, and compass direction.
• Bottom bar: Messages (combat log, item pickups) and control hints.
• Minimap (press M): Shows rooms you've visited.

Tips

• Map the dungeon mentally or toggle the minimap — getting lost can be fatal.
• Doors can be walked through; solid walls cannot. Look for torches as landmarks.
• Retreat (S then W) if a fight looks dangerous.
• The dungeon is different every game — explore carefully!