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Chitinous Crooks

By Matt Walsh (GitHub: walsh9) · 2015

Play:

Touch: Swipe left/right/up/down on the game canvas to move or attack. Tap 'Show Touch Controls' to reveal a D-pad, wait button, help buttons, and nine numbered ability buttons — all confirmed working via real touch testing. The keyboard-only 'look around' command has no touch equivalent. · Keyboard: Arrow keys/hjkl/wasd to move, 1-9 for blessings, space or . to wait, ; to look, ? for help.

About:

Made in seven days for the 2015 7-Day Roguelike Challenge: infiltrate the Sunken Citadel across seven procedurally generated floors, using up to three randomly drawn god-granted "blessings" per level in place of items or experience. Five enemy types and twelve blessings keep a full run short, but the touch implementation stands out — swipe-to-move and a full on-screen button layer for every ability slot are wired into the same input handler the keyboard uses, with no platform gate switching them off.

Credits:

Made by Matt Walsh (GitHub: walsh9), 2015. Published here with credit to its author, who stated no licence for it. Source code.

Phone check: 2026-09-07

No licence stated. Matt Walsh (GitHub: walsh9) published this game without saying how it may be reused, so it is hosted here on the strength of credit alone: their name, a link to their own release, and nothing altered but what it took to run. If you are the author and would rather it were not here, get in touch and it comes down the same day.

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