I really liked the simplicity of this. That the download size is only 4MB is a rare sight nowadays.

My only complains are that you only support the cursor keys for movement input and the perspective is a bit off. I often thought that the items on the ground where one tile away but was not.

Overall a solid entry and a bonus point for the small download size.

Good job!

Unfortunately kept running into the following error:

Error

play.lua:827: attempt to index a nil value

Traceback

[love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler'

play.lua:827: in function 'determine_browsing_options'

play.lua:484: in function 'player_action'

play.lua:86: in function 'play_update'

main.lua:38: in function 'update'

[love "callbacks.lua"]:162: in function <[love "callbacks.lua"]:144>

[C]: in function 'xpcall'

This was very well executed and quite addictive. The procgen seemed to work fine for the most part, but item placement could be improved a bit (others have mentioned this). I liked that you get a little bit of the story with each floor you go down and I also liked the variety of items that you get, from curatives to gear to one time utility stuff. Difficulty could be balanced a bit, but it's fine for a jam game and some sounds would be great. Overall, very enjoyable! Well done!

Neat game. I liked the simplicity in it and the combat was easy and understandable. Inventory worked well, had some issues moving and using items, but got the hang over it after a while. Sometimes the enemies hit very hard and sometimes not, unsure why this is.

I got the error screen. I thought I was using a flower but it could have been the enter pressed after that.

Nice entry!

I descended into the unfathomable dark.

I almost died around 10th floor then I got plenty of good items in a row and caught up.

A soon as I saw the font in the main menu I knew it was a going to be a game for me (the font and the other things like the small window by default, the game reeks DOS sharewares, the good ones), and 10 seconds into the actual game confirmed this. 

I love the controls and art, and the narrative was actually pretty atmospheric. Instant gameplay which goes as fast as you press the buttons is so much my thing. and this fully resource management-based gameplay is too. The roster of items is pretty great too, I won't list the items as you know them. Finally the challenge is appropriate to my taste, the game is not easy but it's not insane, in fact I think I won one of my first runs where I did not crash for clicking on an empty spot.

Oh yes there's a bug when you press Enter on an empty spot but I'm sure you're aware by now, I won't say I didn't care at all for this one as it killed me a couple of times ;) . 

The game is among the highlights of the jam to me, thanks for sharing.

Rather impressive, that you got the procedural stuff working in this short time frame. While battles seem a bit basic, there is enough meat around the equipment and items to make it more interesting. I also like the story bits between the levels. But the game is HARD! Jeez, tone it down a notch ;)

Oh and Löve...always nice to see some love for Löve :)

Hey! I played your entry, and unfortunately couldn't get very far; for some reason I had a lot of stability issues where the game would crash after using the tablet items. Here's one of the error messages, if you think it helps.

But the experience I had while trying to play was decent, so here's some impressions I have had! The random generation is impressive but needs a bit of rebalancing regarding enemy placements, I think. One run spawned an enemy on the starting tile, and another put me at one end of a long hallway that had three enemies in a row before I could get into the dungeon proper to begin with. 

The simple greyscale aesthetic works very well and the menu  tips are incredibly helpful! The controls would have been very confusing for me was it not for that, so really good job on the interface design.

Overall, this is pretty hard but quite fun. There's an early phase where you are figuring out what all these mysterious items do, which is something I enjoy, and you definitely don't feel like a combatant. It took me a while, and I did run into one crash (while bandaging away some bleeding), but I did complete the game. You really have to manage your resources and pick and choose your battles based on what healing items you have and what damage types the monsters do.

I will say that I think equipment loot drops could use with a little tweaking, to reduce how often you run into something you already have or that is strictly inferior (the 1 ward and 3 ward necklaces, for instance, appear to coexist in some floors.) It would be nice if the healing items were more consistent, as well - so that you aren't wondering if your 5 flowers will heal 25 Will or just 5.

Also, I just assumed the gold collar was doing something - I'm kinda curious if it actually does anything?

Full playthrough here:

Hey,

quite nice entry you got there. I liked the strategic touch very much. Avoiding the enemies. Deciding weither to go down or look for more loot. But it is just to much randomness. I came till 7 but the WillEater just eat me up without a chance. No Flowers anywhere. :( And I was really nicely equipped. Also sound for more feedback on the interactions would have improved the experience by a lot for me.

But nevertheless it is just one week and I liked playing it. Would be a game I would play more given more balance. Nice Timekiller. Good Job.

Game crashes when you press enter on an empty inventory slot. Just FYI.

Props for using LOVE. There aren't many games that do(another one that I found is Spell Tower)

Idea is good. Played a lot, hoping for a better start. I think furthest I managed to get was floor 6 or 7... Its quite brutal, since most of the runs I launch would end in floor 1 due to unlucky streak of the mob/loot spawn. Had run with 8 teleporter stones (didn't help me much!), had run where I got everything for physical heal and stuff, but got blocked by that mental mobs that I had no protection or cure from.

Would be MUCH better if you would do less floors for victory for a jam, since balancing that wouldn't be possible in that time frame. At least it would be more likely to get that victory screen... 13 floors of randomness is a lot of luck to get through!

What strange is that quite often if i would find hat on the level - it will be full of hats. In general felt like one item would be spammed on the same floor... or it just my luck...