Diabaig

Back when tigers used to smoke, the Great Halls of Diabaig were home to a thriving civilisation. However, few records survived the ensuing fires when a dragon moved in. Descend to the depths of Diabaig, carefully navigate the twisting corridors and dangerous creatures and return with a tooth from the dragon's jaws.

Diabaig is a traditional turn-based ASCII roguelike where you are never more than a few mistakes away from death. Choose a starting class, find powerful items, and learn new spells and techniques to face increasingly dangerous adversity. You will discover many floors with rooms filled with unique creatures, magic scrolls, unknown potions and mighty weapons. Use everything at your disposal to survive as long as possible and defeat the dragon, but remember to keep enough spare for the return journey.

Basic Controls

• Move and attack with arrows/NUMPAD/hjkl (diagonals "yubn")
• (e) Eat food
• (r) Read scroll
• (d) Drink potion
• (t) Throw item
• (f) Fire bow
• (w) Weild weapon/armour/ring
• (a) Apply a potion to your weapon
• (s) Search your environment
• (1,2,3) Cast spell
• (i) Show inventory
• (>,<) Descend or Ascend stairway

For a full explanation of all commands, tips and stats, press (?)

Graphics

All graphics in the game are ASCII. They are output in colour into the terminal/command line with the libncurses library. As such, the exact look of the game depends on your terminal preferences. On some Windows systems, the "bright" lit tiles are hard to distinguish from "dim" unlit tiles, which has gameplay implications. Note, that not all terminals support all the visual effects output by the game. Check the visual output screen in the help menu (?)

Disclaimer

I will be the first to admit that Diabaig has flaws and some of the game's systems are badly conveyed to the user. This game is my first complete "larger scale" roguelike, during which I learnt a lot and have come up with many ideas for the next one. I do not intend to expand the game but will fix any emerging bugs.

A Note To Windows Players

I have had a couple of reports of the font being too small in the window, and getting a note for "resize terminal". Both of these issues are resolved by changing the font on the menu at the top left, not by dragging the window around. Apologies for the inconvenience, this is a result of porting the game to the windows platform.