Show HN: My Python text-based dungeon crawler game engine

3 ruscoe 0 4/25/2025, 3:35:33 AM

I've been recovering from surgery and made use of my downtime by attempting to create a Python dungeon crawler engine.

You can find it on GitHub: https://github.com/ruscoe/dans-dungeon

Game worlds are defined in JSON, which provides all the rooms, loot, and monsters to fight.

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Show HN: My Python text-based dungeon crawler game engine

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