RogueLike Toolkit in Love

Bringing rot.js functionality to Love2D. The only modules that require Love2D are the display modules.

See this page for a quick and dirty run down of all the functionality provided.

Included:

• Display - via rlLove, only supports cp437 emulation rather than full font support.
• TextDisplay - Text based display, accepts supplied fonts
• RNG - via RandomLua. Multiply With Carry, Linear congruential generator, and Mersenne Twister. Extended with set/getState methods.
• StringGenerator - Direct Port from rot.js
• Map - Arena, Divided/Icey/Eller Maze, Digger/Uniform/Rogue* Dungeons. Ported from rot.js.
• Noise Generator - Simplex Noise
• FOV - Bresenham Line based Ray Casting, Precise Shadow Casting
• Color - 147 Predefined colors; generate valid colors from string; add, multiply, or interpolate colors; generate a random color from a reference and set of standard deviations. (straight port from rot.js)
• Path Finding - Dijkstra and AStar pathfinding ported from rot.js.
• Lighting - compute light emission and blending, ported from rot.js.
• Dice - Roguelike based dice module ported from RL-Dice.

Getting started

git clone git://github.com/paulofmandown/rotLove.git

Add the contents of the src directory to lib/rotLove in your project and require the rot file.

ROT=require 'lib/rotLove/rot'
function love.load()
    f=ROT.Display()
    f:writeCenter('You did it!', math.floor(f:getHeight()/2))
end
function love.draw() f:draw() end

Examples

rotLove has a number of demo projects in examples/ that you can use to get a feel for each API. To see a demo in action, run

    love . my-demo

from your shell.