Egg of the Beholder

This is a classic 10KB 1st person 3d dungeon crawler made during the Dungeon Crawler Jam 2025 in a time span of 9 days. Targeted for the Commodore Amiga.

"But why?" Because, only Amiga makes it possible!

Post-Jam version

After the jam was over, I managed to reduce the size of the Amiga executable even further. It is now about 10KB in total size. It is kind of amazing that you can squeeze an game into something that small.

The challenge

In the spirit of a game jam I wanted to do something new and hence came up with the idea of developing this minimalistic dungeon crawler for the Commodore Amiga.

My goal is to keep the crawler below  (completely  64 10kilobytes in total size.

Therefore there won't be fancy graphics,  audio or anything else that is just bloat.

Combat will be done by turn based auto-battles.

Story

Two Heros find themselves inside a dungeon accompanied by a rather strange looking chicken. Turns out the chicken lost almost all of its feathers in a battle and it is up to you to find them and face the fierce wrong doer.

Tips 

 The map is divided into zones. The green zone is the easiest and you may find some common spec gear. The yellow zone is more dangerous but awards more XP and rare weapons. The red zone is the deadliest but is reported to contain epic gear. You do not need to find all secrets as feathers can also be obtained through combat, but you may miss out on better gear and potions.

Jam theme

Since I am dealing with limited resources and had to (re)learn all the Amiga related caveats. I had to cut things short. It's a treasure hunt with a hopefully funny story.

Requirements

Developed using an Amiga 1200 Emulator with 2MB Chip & 4MB Fast running Kickstart 3.1

It should run even on an Stock A500 as long as it uses Kickstart 2.0+ but this is untested. Let me know if you tried it!

When you are using an Emulator and want to use the numberpad you must make sure that there is no joystick emulation using the numberpad keys 8, 6, 4, 2 (WinUAE does that by default).

Downloads

There are two variants to download, the raw Amiga executable that you can run directly run on real hardware or an emulator friendly packaged .adf file.

As far as emulation goes, this should work nicely with any emulator. I am currently targeting an Amiga 1200 but it should run fine even on an Stock A500 as long as it has Kickstart 2.0 or better. 

Unfortunately I do not own real hardware anymore but it should run just fine on real hardware because I not doing anything fancy. If you have it running on your hardware please let me know the config  and if there are any issues! 

The jam version was succesfully tested on real hardware!

Movement

Key	Primary	Alternative	Cursor Keys
Forward	W	Numpad 8	Up
Backward	S	Numpad 5	Down
Strafe left	A	Numpad 4	Left
Strafe right	D	Numpad 6	Right
Turn left 90°	Q	Numpad 7	DEL
Turn right 90°	E	Numpad 9	PageDown (HELP)
Rest party	R
Character inspect	C

Credits

Copyright 2025 by Lutz Grosshennig written in plain C using the fine VS Code extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JOB.amiga-debug-job that is a fork of the Bartman/Abyss extension.

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