GloomKeep

☠ TEN FLOORS · TEN GUARDIANS · ONE WAY OUT ☠

You wake at the foot of a pentagram seal, a sputtering torch in one hand and a leather jerkin between you and the dark. The keep hungers. Ten floors of stone corridors lie below, each one a freshly-rolled dungeon of crawling foes, hidden traps, and a stair guardian who would rather you stayed forever.

Take the portal down. Fell the guardians one by one. Tear the Idol of Orcus from his lifeless grip and escape — if thou canst.

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⚔ FEATURES

• ◆ 10 procedurally-generated floors, freshly rolled every run
• ◆ 100 hand-drawn monster glyphs, themed by depth.
• 💀 Stair guardians announce themselves with a themed taunt, a PCM beast roar, and a screen-shaking border strobe
• 🕯 Torch-fuel-driven light radius (R4 → R1) — your sight is your life. Run out and you're crawling blind through the dark
• ⛧ Pentagram sacrifices: 20 gold for a full heal + overheal buff
• ◆ Hidden traps reveal themselves only on the first painful step — remember where they lie or pay again
• 🔥 Holy water, healing wards, riddling wanderers, scaling damage by depth, and an EXP bonus that grows with every kill
• 🎵 Original multi-track SID engine with odd/even-floor mood themes
• ☠ PCM digi-samples

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☠ BESTIARY

Each floor draws from a themed 10-monster pool plus a unique stair guardian. A taste:

Floor	Archetype	Sample foe	Stair guardian
L1	🐀 VERMIN	RAT	👑 RAT KING
L2	🧟 UNDEAD	ZOMBIE	👑 WIGHT LORD
L3	⚔ HUMANOID	ORC	👑 WARCHIEF
L4	😈 CORRUPT	IMP	👑 STONE LORD
L5	🪓 BEASTS	OGRE	👑 DIRE LYCAN
L6	👻 SHADOWS	WRAITH	👑 WAIL QUEEN
L7	⛰ GIANTS	HILL GIANT	👑 STORM LORD
L8	❄ PLANAR	FROST GIANT	👑 MIND LORD
L9	🧛 ANCIENT	VAMPIRE	👑 ELDER WYRM
L10	🔥 APEX	PIT FIEND	💀 ORCUS

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CONTROLS

• ◆ Joystick port 2 — movement + FIRE to swing
• ◆ M / N / B — step forward / turn right / turn left
• ◆ Run/Stop — level skip (when enabled)
• ◆ P — toggle music
• ◆ SPACE / FIRE — navigate menus and dismiss text

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TECHNICAL

• ◆ Commodore 64 (NTSC/PAL), single-file .PRG (~50 KB)
• ◆ Pure 6502 assembly · custom chargen · hi-res title bitmap
• ◆ Multi-track SID music engine + PCM digi-samples
• ◆ Tested on VICE and real hardware
• ◆ Best on 6581 SID (required for full PCM playback); 8580 will run but the digi-samples will be quieter

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                   “THE GLOOM CLAIMS THEE.”