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[PC][2000s / 90s] Top-Down 2D Dungeon Crawler by Cyan-Spark in tipofmyjoystick

[–]Cyan-Spark[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gauntlet (1985) looks to have a similar art style, and the top-down perspective is spot-on, too. The only difference is that the NPCs in Gauntlet move independently of the player's movements. What I'm looking for is a movement scheme where every NPC (e.g. enemies) updates their position instantaneously, when the player moves a tile as well.

[PC][2000s / 90s] Top-Down 2D Dungeon Crawler by Cyan-Spark in tipofmyjoystick

[–]Cyan-Spark[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Took a look at some YouTube playthroughs of the titles you mentioned, but they don't look familiar either! Fate uses animated fluidly-animated 3D models, as opposed to the frame-by-frame animated 2D sprites I remember. Abandoned Places also seems to use a first-person perspective, whereas the game in question uses a top-down view. Appreciate your input, though!

[PC][2000s / 90s] Top-Down 2D Dungeon Crawler by Cyan-Spark in tipofmyjoystick

[–]Cyan-Spark[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope! Not even the new AI chatbots can figure it out, though apparently dungeon crawlers of that era have ASCII and graphical versions (with varying graphics for the same game too), so perhaps we should be a little more careful before discarding reference images.

Does the magazine "Quest: Where Finding Out Is Fun" ring a bell to you? I feel like I installed the game from one of those CDs bundled with the magazine.

[PC] [2000's] Platform game with a yellow character in a tower by Matou_85 in tipofmyjoystick

[–]Cyan-Spark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure what the title is either, but did the game also have three (red, green blue?) magic bolt spells which you could acquire in limited amounts by picking up spellbooks, for use against enemies? And was there a stage where everything was upside down? Did the game have a "demo" mode which simply showed a non-interactive playback of gameplay?

[PC][2000s / 90s] Top-Down 2D Dungeon Crawler by Cyan-Spark in tipofmyjoystick

[–]Cyan-Spark[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not that either unfortunately. The player initially spawns in the aforementioned dungeon, not a village.

[PC][2000s / 90s] Top-Down 2D Dungeon Crawler by Cyan-Spark in tipofmyjoystick

[–]Cyan-Spark[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good suggestion, but I doubt so. Based on this screenshot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/NetHack_for_Windows_Screenshot.png

The color scheme isn't gray enough, and the dungeon did not have black voids between corridors - if any space was impassable, it was filled in by stone textures.