Unlit

Explore a world where light is sparse and darkness consumes the poor souls who are trapped within it. Scavenge the surface for lootblocks and fight with monsters... or stay inside a little bunker messing with the stock market and the government.

The goal of this project is to create a game with a small file size but a good amount of features.

Implemented

Controls

AUX1 is reserved for offhanding, you can only offhand lanterns.

Spells

LMB to shoot the spell
RMB to cast the spell on yourself

Basics

Dying will cost you $500 and take one of your lives away. When you die without any lives left, your items will be put into a gravestone where you died.
The darkness will hurt you if you stay in it for too long.

Basic Magic

Runes

These runes can be used to make spells:

• (Support) Health instantly heals the subject
• (Support) Regeneration gives the subject the regenerating status effect
• (Movement) Teleportation teleports the user
• (Movement) Launching launches the subject into the air
• (Movement) Levitation gives the subject the levitating status effect
• (Attack) Fireball deals damage to the subject and gives them the burning status effect
• (Attack) Poison gives the subject the poisoned status effect
• (Attack) Vampirism takes health from the subject and gives health to the user

These runes are used for enchanting clothing/weapons

• (Support) Defense defense bonus when worn. cannot be used on weapons
• (Support) Iridescence stealth bonus at the cost of defense when worn. cannot be used on weapons
• (Offense) Darkness weapons enchanted with this will do more damage in the dark
• (Offense) Light weapons enchanted with this will do more damage and heal the user. defense bonus when worn, stealth debuff when worn, makes wearer weaker to the darkness
• (Offense) Blood weapons enchanted with this will do a lot of damage but also damage the user. does not work if user is not wearing any clothing with this enchantment. defense debuff when worn
• (Special) Moon weapons enchanted with this will do a lot of damage but also damage the user. defense debuff when worn, also protects against the darkness when worn
• (Special) Sun weapons enchanted with this will do more damage. defense bonus when worn, stealth debuff when worn, also protects against the darkness when worn

Totems/Rings/Cloaks

Rings can be made using 3 super ore and 1 magic crystal, they can then be enchanted with any given rune to give the following improvements when worn:

• Health increases the health gained
• Regeneration increases the duration of regeneration
• Teleportation increases the range of portals
• Launching !!! no effect !!!
• Levitation increases the duration of levitation
• Fireball increases the damage dealt
• Poison increases the duration of poisoning
• Vampirism increases the amount of health gained/damage dealt

Cloaks can be found in lootblocks or bought through the tradeinator, they give a small defense bonus and 2 rune levels in comparison to rings which give no defense bonus and only give 1 level. Totems can be found in dungeons and can be enchanted with a rune to give 1 level to every player.

Monsters & Animals

A list of monsters will not be included because it's funny to see people's first reaction to some of them.

Animals

Currently, the following animals are implemented:

• 'Gull tameable, weak and slow, does not attack
• Magic 'Gull tameable, indestructable, does not attack, right click to get a magic shard
• Raging 'Gull tameable, kills any monster whether or not the monster is tamed

Spawning

• Surface (above y0): weaker monsters, only place to find Regular 'Gulls
• Caves (y0): monsters are still rather weak but are more abundant, Raging 'Gulls likely
• Deep Caves (y-100): stronger monsters, weaker monsters less likely, Raging 'Gulls and Magic 'Gulls likey
• Deeper Caves (y-200): very strong monsters likely, Raging 'Gulls and Magic 'Gulls very likely

To Do

Finished

Features that are no longer on the todo list because they have been implemented.

• Crafting guide and/or custom crafting system
• Balancing
  • Make darkness more forgiving
  • Weapons are no longer spammable
• More sophisticated magic system
  • Applying runes to weapons
  • Cloaks, special stat bonuses
• Diversify gameplay to allow more viable play styles
  • Runes which can change the dynamics of combat
  • Functioning economy

Planned Features

Features you can expect to see in upcoming updates.

• More dialogue for NPCs
• More triggerable events
• More tower related features
  • Shrines or "sub-towers" which can change the dynamics of gameplay
  • More monsters that only show up after certain tower milestones are reached
  • Possibly unique events that can only be triggered once

Maybe Features

Features that I want to implement but might be scrapped depending on the direction this project takes.

• Bossfight(s)
• Give some kind of use to souls
• Optimize economy simulation
• Make economy menues more responsive

Hopes & Dreams

Features I'd love to see in Unlit, but are probably never gonna happen cuz I'm lazy.

• Gigantic bosses
• Omniscient trolling algorithm that adapts to the way the players play the game
• Custom mapgen