Raycasting Maze Plugin for RPG Maker MV

This JavaScript plugin for RPG Maker MV implements 3D mazes using a raycasting engine.

Plugin features

This plugin allows to create an explorable 3D maze:

Mazes can be generated from existing maps (with walls large 1x1 tile):

...or automatically, by specifying only the maze size:

Gameplay

Mazes can be played either with a keyboard/joypad or a mouse/touchpad.

The controls are simple:

• Pause menu: escape key or right mouse click,
• Strafing: shift key,
• Keyboard movement: -up and down arrow keys move the player forward or backward,
  • left and right keys rotate (when shift is not pressed) the player or make it move sideways (when shift is pressed),
  • ok (enter or space) key triggers the event in front of the player;
• Mouse movement:
  • left mouse click near the center of the screen triggers the event in front of the player,
  • left mouse click near the border of the screen moves the player in the pointed direction.

Some events on map can attract the player's compass, making exploration easier (if the pull comes from the actual destination) or harder (if other events pull the compass).

A maze can be either a different representation of a game map or a minigame. In minigame mode the objective is to trigger an event which will call the command Maze success, while avoiding the accidental triggering of events with the Maze fail command. After a minigame ends, its results can be used to award prizes, advance the plot, etc.

Remarks

The engine is already CPU-intensive, floors and ceilings require a quasi-raytracing approach (demanding many more computations than drawing walls), so they are not drawn.

Additional resources

A demo can be downloaded in the release section, or can be played online here.

The internal JSDoc documentation is available here.