Also known as libtcod, the Doryen Library is the function library built for the Chronicles of Doryen.

It is an uncomplicated library for roguelike developers.

Features :

• windowed or full screen console with true color support
• support for custom character sets using bitmap fonts and colored tiles
• Mersenne twister and Complementary Multiply With Carry random number generator
• inbuilt support for dice (string parsing, rolling)
• Bresenham line drawing toolkit
• Perlin, Simplex and Wavelet noise generator
• field of view toolkit with 5 different algorithms
• image toolkit with support for rotation/stretching and subcell resolution blitting
• support for turn by turn and real time games
• mouse support
• advanced configuration file parser
• fast generic container with array/list/stack interfaces
• bsp toolkit
• heightmap toolkit
• pathfinding toolkit (A* and Dijkstra)
• compression toolkit
• antialiased and unicode font support
• custom/dynamic font characters mapping
• PNG images support
• customizable name generator with 20 predefined syllable sets
  It currently has bindings for C, C++ and python languages.