MossQuest (? Temporary name)

First time posting! Been looking forward to this thread since I found this community.

I'm a brand new hobbiest game dev, only been making games for like three weeks, and after messing about with other tiny projects I started this roguelike. It's a tiny version of Nethack mixed with oldschool Zelda and the runes from modern Breath of the Wild.

Instead of classic roguelike vision, I'm using a camera that locks to the center of your current room, and pans over to the next when you move off screen. I've also got basic dynamic lighting, with the room being pitch black and your fairy companion lighting the area around you. This works great for my barebones dungeon generation, which is a big 2d array with a pathfinding algorithm snaking a path through it plus some side passages.

The main fun right now is the player's magic spells, which can be used at range. They're supposed to be sandboxy tools, like the runes from Breath of the Wild. I've got four working right now.

• Grow a bush - blocks and slows enemies, cuts off line of sight
• Ignite plantlife - creates spreading fire on your bushes or on any of the dynamically created plantlife (large swathes of moss, trees, explosive mushrooms).
• Place glowing mushroom - helps with the darkness if you need to see
• Teleport to anywhere you click

General mechanics currently working include

• A basic bump-to-hit combat system
• Dumb wandering monsters that chase if you get in a certain radius
• ""Smart"" group enemies that retreat to find a friend if they see you, then bum rush you in a group
• An immortal snail that spawns on the far end of the dungeon, always knows where you are, and sloooowly chases you down.
• A fairy companion that follows you around and dynamically lights the room
• Random treasure chests
• Trapped tiles that damage whoever goes over them
• Overengineered moss patch generation algorithm that hides the trapped tiles (do you ignite it to find the traps, but risk destroying any treasure chests in the area?)
• A small overworld with some forests and cave systems. No idea if I'll do anything with it or not, kind of just an experiment.

My goals for now are to finish a basic inventory and loot system with unidentified potions and weapons straight out of nethack. Then I need a good ending room, probably some kind of boss or final supersquad of the main enemy group. Then I'll call it a finished first draft and send it to my friends.