A compact Japanese variant with a wilderness, several towns and dungeons.

• About the game
• Keyboard controls
• Saving your game
• Tips
• New player's guide
• Playing in the browser

About the game

TinyAngband is a small Japanese variant. Instead of one town and one endless dungeon, you get an open wilderness with several towns and many small dungeons, each with its own theme and a boss at the bottom. It is shorter than Angband and plays like a compact adventure.

• A world map you travel across, with safe terrain (roads, plains) and dangerous terrain (sea, lava).
• Dungeons you finish, rather than one bottomless pit.
• Pets you can command with p.

Keyboard controls

Essential keys

Saving your game

• Saving is automatic. Every save goes straight into this browser's storage (IndexedDB). The game saves on every level change, every two minutes while it waits for your next command, and whenever you switch to another tab or window.
• Ctrl+S saves and keeps playing. Ctrl+X saves and quits; reload the page (or press Play again) to continue.
• Reloading or closing the tab loses at most the last couple of minutes. The browser asks before you leave a running game.
• Each browser keeps one character. New character deletes it and starts over.
• Export save downloads your savefile; Import save loads one. Use them to keep a backup or to move a character to another browser or computer.
• Your window layout, zoom levels and window titles are stored with the savegame, in the same browser storage, and survive a new character.
• Private/incognito windows and "clear site data" delete the stored game. Export first if the character matters.

Tips

• Press < in the wilderness to switch to the world map, and > to drop back in at your destination.
• Stay on roads and plains while travelling. Avoid seas and lava fields early on.
• Carry plenty of food and fuel: journeys are long.
• Auto-explore (`) works inside dungeons only. It stops when a monster comes into view and never picks locks.
• The shortcut opens five windows: the main game; Inventory and Visible (every monster and item in view) on the right; Messages and Recall along the bottom. Positions and fonts are set in ~/Games/tinyangband/play.sh.
• Switch back to the smaller tiles by removing lib/xtra/graf/16x16.bmp. The game then falls back to its own 24x24 tiles.

New player's guide

Your first steps

1. You start in the town of Outpost. Stock up on food, torches or oil, and healing potions.
2. Go to the Yeek cave right next to Outpost. It's the recommended first dungeon and fairly safe, apart from the King of Yeeks at the very bottom.
3. Once you have cleared it, you are ready to travel to other towns and dungeons.

Finding your way

• In the wilderness, < switches to the world map and > drops you back in where you are. Travel on the world map, walk normally in towns and dungeons.
• Good next dungeons are the orc caves and the Labyrinth.
• The final dungeon, Angband, lies north-east of the town of Morivant, near the middle of the map. The Serpent of Chaos waits at the bottom.
• Inside dungeons, ` auto-explores the level for you.

Things to try

• Visit every town: their shops and buildings differ.
• Make a pet and bring it along.
• Try the game with tiles (the default here) and in plain text mode, and see which you prefer.

Staying alive

• Carry lots of food and light: journeys between towns are long.
• Stay on roads and plains while travelling. Keep away from seas and lava fields early on.
• If a dungeon feels too hard, leave and come back later. Nothing forces you to finish it now.

Playing in the browser

• Windows: the map fills the big window; Inventory and Visible (monsters and items in view) are on the right; Messages and Recall along the bottom.
• Resize windows by dragging the gaps between them. The windows always fill the screen and never overlap; the game redraws them at their new size. Reset windows puts everything back.
• Zoom: A− / A+ on the Map title bar (shown on hover) change the size of the map tiles. Hover over a small window's title to show its A− / A+ buttons, which change its text size.
• Rename a window by clicking its title, typing a new name and pressing Enter (Esc cancels, an empty name restores the default).
• Keys: arrow keys, the numeric keypad or 1–9 move you; Shift + direction runs. You can also click on the map to walk there.
• Browsers keep a few shortcuts for themselves (Ctrl+W, Ctrl+T, Ctrl+N, and Cmd shortcuts on a Mac), so those never reach the game.
• If the game ever crashes, a message appears at the top; reload the page to continue from your last save.

About this version

• Based on TinyAngband 1.0.1.
• Original source: iks3/tinyangband, commit d221733
• Our changes (port, auto-explore, command menu, web build): memmaker/tinyangband