Overall I'm very happy with this. It was a lot of work in 7 days. I created a basic engine in C++17 libtcod 1.24 SDL2 beforehand to prepare. Granted, most of it needed rewriting day 1! I used Lua with Sol2 to make it easier for me to add items and mobs. Realised afterwards that adding Lua might enable light moddability! (untested).

Features:

• Old school terminal code page 437 ascii graphics.
• Turn-based combat and tile-based movement.
• Game log window.
• Stats and health.
• Items auto equip into item slots and increase stats.
• Map generates a tower with rooms, in the shape of a pizza, with random amounts of enemies per room.
• Maps increase in difficulty as you progress.
• Lack of healing other than getting item upgrades results in having to pick your fights carefully, if you hope to beat the Lich!
• NPC’s with dialogue choices and optional rewards that can act as a difficulty slider if you decline rewards (will need some to beat the Lich).
• Monsters randomly wander and chatter in audible range, and will attack friendly characters in detection range.

Known issues: 

• Console window may open, just minimise or ignore it. I couldn't get cmake to play ball with release.
• Rebooting the game is required for a new run!
• Maps look more similar than i’d like due to a mapgen issue, but you still spawn in different segments and random numbers of mobs & positions per segments, harder mobs appear as you progress.
  

Things I wanted to add but ran out of time:

• spiders poison effect
• food
• cooking
• monster drops
• more maps
• world outside of the tower
• proper death/win/new run screens

Pain points:

• This is my first C++ project, so of course the hat goes to learning pointers and cmake, oh and the dozen SEGFAULT errors! :D