Today comes a new platformer for the TI-84 Plus CE, "Crystann or the Diamond Dungeon".
Once again, it's an adaptation of a 1985 game, this time by Loriciels, and it has been built using the TI-Planet online C compiler.
With walls which can disappear, ladders, suspended ropes anf fiends, it may look like a Lode Runner.
But it is much more than that with treasures, traps, secrets and magic items... a dungeon-scale adventure !
So you're called
Crystann and have decided to become the greatest mage of the kingdom. Thus, you must enter the
Diamond Dungeon to steal the valuable
Jade Statue which contains the
Ultimate Incantation.
The dungeon is so big that you may have to make a plan of the rooms you visit. The
Great Portal where you start is particularly important, and you'll have to come back to it many times...
The dungeon is inhabited by two venomous monsters, the awful
Red Medusoids. They can teleport in all the rooms where they wove their network of
Spiroids, to pursue you and try to kill you. If they touch you, you lose some of your life force... And without it, you'll eventually perish.
Fortunately, you'll be safe on suspended ropes, as the
Medusoids won't be able to cling to them despite their powerful tentacles.
In the dungeon you will find number of traps, but also secrets and magical items :
- Try to pick up many giant springs. Each of them will allow you to jump twice. You can thus reach the highest ledges and sometimes avoid the Medusoids.
To initiate a jump with a spring, press 
. You can then direct your jump with the arrows for a short time.
- You won't hurt yourself just by falling back, but never touch the torches or bloody peaks as you would not survive them.
- Incidentally, beware of disguised traps. They have the appearance of normal rocks, but disappear as soon as you step on them... and ciao bye bye!
- You will discover five Energy Fountains. By touching a fountain you instantly regain all your vital force needed to confront the Medusoids.
- The Enchanted Vial contains an inexhaustible elixir. A single drop is enough to remove a block of stone where the rock is as clear and tender. But beware as the stone blocks reappear quickly: try not to let yourself be locked !
By cons, you can lock these foul Medusoids!
To use it, press 
or 
to clear the ground to the left or right.
- Some rooms of the dungeon are crossed by an underground river whose water is bubbling. Do not dive all-in-on ! Only the Blue Buoy you'll have to find will let you swim in it. Then you will discover new passages and will be safe as the Medusoids will perish if they fall into the water.
- Find the Magic Bulb. It will light the room where there is no torch. Attention traps await you !
- You will have to also find Silver Key. It will let you open gates to shortcuts and especially to the cave where is the Jade Statue.
To help you in your quest, a great sage once engraved valuable insights into the dungeon portal :
- One hundred-five diamonds, you will gather.
- Old parchment, you will find.
- Secret Passage, it will open.
- Jade statuette, you will bring back.
- The great portal, you will touch.
Last hint, here is a small playthrough of how to pass the left tower of the dungeon, up to the point of the game where you'll have to choose your way forward :
Download : https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_voir.php?id=353827Online demo : https://tiplanet.org/hosted/crystann/Source : https://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=192414#p192414
