




For NaNoWADMo this year, I wanted to do something a bit different and experiment to see if I could get a dungeon crawler style movement engine working in GZDoom. Then it snowballed until I'd accidentally written a whole JRPG style game in it. This was a great way to finally dive into ZScript and see what it could do

So venture through the caves, tunnels and labs underneath Tharotia as you try to eradicate the demons! This copy has five and a half levels of dungeons, and lets you try out the cycle of the game, fighting monsters in FPS battles and scavenging materials and treasures. As the name suggests, it's heavily inspired by Etrian Odyssey, the series of W/JRPG hybrids that managed to revive first person dungeon crawling without it being coma-inducingly boring.
I'd love to work this up into a full game some day because I wrote a ton of stuff that I didn't even use, like being able to apply special effects and elements to weapons - perhaps I will revisit it if enough people enjoy it!
http://files.teamouse.net/doom/wads/pho ... ydemo2.pk3
Runs on GZDoom with DOOM2.WAD or equivalent, and I recommend Xaser's DamNums to complete the JRPG mood

Thanks to
Scwiba/Ryath for NaNoWADMo
Ezo, Ginji, LikoClave and Boomer Spacely for the use of their characters
Temiree, LikoClave, Jan, Licographics and OhMyRichard for the portrait artwork
Ukiro for OTEX
James Paddock as usual for the music
JPBreton for the amazing Mr Friendly, from which I borrowed a significant amount of code
Everyone on the GZDoom Discord for their guidance as I found my way in ZScript!