hey I stumbled upon this game totally by accident and I have to say its really fun and I am really impressed how you actually wrote most of the game in the language you created!
Here is some feedback on some things that could have been improved:
TL;DR of these points is that gold generation is too slow and the increase isn't always justified with change in complexity.
- need to get much more gold for adding new rooms. Adding the first room makes it MUCH harder. Should be significant increase. Like doubled or even tripled gold or something. Otherwise you are incentivized to just run with 1 room and rack up a bunch of gold.
- same with random stairs, should be larger increase.
- same with enemies. Should add more gold then what it does.
- as you know, technically once you know how to write the code you don't have to unlock in future games. Not a big issue, but perhaps if you had more time you could have language features actually locked out.
The pathfinding and search functions basically mean that all of the code written for earlier in the game can go away. Its a bit sad and also means that the hardest part of the game is the beginning. I think if you were going to continue on this game some more thought would be needed on how to make the play arc more enjoyable. Like unlocking the function is great, it feels powerful... but then all of the hard work you spent on implementing similar things before isn't needed anymore. If anything, I could see a case that having access to that function earlier in the game would be better and in the late game you lose access to it so are forced to re-implement it or something.
Anyways, great job!