I Built a Retro Survival RPG in Vanilla JavaScript
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I'm working on the Survival Crafting RPG that you would have played on your Apple II back in the '80s. You can think of it as Valheim's gameplay crammed into the tile-based UI of the old Ultima games. It has a procedurally-generated open world with towns and NPCs to talk to, all the resource gathering, mining, crafting stuff you'd expect in a modern survival game, and some good old fashioned dungeon crawling to boot.I've been working on it off and on for the last several months. It's complete up through the Bronze Age (in Valheim terms). Let me know what you think!https://stravaeger.com/
HN · launched May 9, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: browser-based video games · 380 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -28% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A 2D tile-based retro survival RPG in vanilla JavaScript using HTML5 Canvas can be created step-by-step with an AI coding assistant.
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