The Cartographer

A simple grid-based exploration game where you get to design your own map.

Made for Kenney Jam 2023. I wanted to get a game in on time even though I only had the last hours of the jam to work on it, and while I'm not proud of the gameplay, I learned a lot from making this one. There is no music, no tutorial, and it's poorly optimized. Needless to say, it's going to be difficult.

Controls:

Arrow Keys to Move

M opens the Map

Right Click on the Map to Place a Stamp

Left Click to drag the Map

Q and E will cycle through stamps

W to erase stamps

Enemies deal contact damage and die after.

You will need to get items from two structures and give the Key Master who is running around wildly 5 cents in order to be able to beat the game.

The Graveyard area has skeletons and a ghost that will deal 1  whole heart of damage.

The Orc Camp area has two orcs that will deal 2 whole hearts of damage.

Upon getting the key from the Key Master and the two items from these structures, you can open the Stronghold to kill the Beholder.

Tips:

You spawn in a camp that you can heal at by running into the hut, two more camps that you can heal at by running into a similar looking hut will also spawn around the map.

Use your stamps to mark camps on your map, so you'll know where the nearest place to heal at is.

Enemies will only move when you do.

Snakes deal half a heart of damage

Game Breaking Bugs:

The world generation occasionally bugs out and spawns multiple special structures on top of each other which will most likely soft-lock you.