-plomrogue
-=========
+7DRL 2015 project: Please the Island God
+========================================
-plomlompom tries to build his own roguelike. It doesn't do much yet (although
-plomlompom has insanely ambitious long-term plans).
+Description
+-----------
-You can move around a player on an island and meet different enemies. You have 5
-hitpoints to lose before death. Enemies start with different amounts of
-hitpoints, depending on their species. Dead enemies become dirt, skeletons or
-"magic meat" -- such objects can be collected, and "magic meat" can be consumed
-to gain hitpoints. Note that different kinds of movements/actions take different
-numbers of turns to finish.
+You're stranded on an island.
+To leave, you must please the God that rules it.
+This God sees the island's animals and plants as its children.
+So mere hacking and slashing through the wildlife won't do …
-Enemies' AI is very dumb so far: Each turn, they try to move towards their
-shortest-path-wise nearest enemy (any animate being of a different species)
-visible to them. If they see no enemy, they just wait.
+See also:
+<http://www.plomlompom.de/PlomRogue/plomwiki.php?title=7DRL2015Day1>
+<http://www.plomlompom.de/PlomRogue/plomwiki.php?title=7DRL2015Day2>
+<http://www.plomlompom.de/PlomRogue/plomwiki.php?title=7DRL2015Day3>
+<http://www.plomlompom.de/PlomRogue/plomwiki.php?title=7DRL2015Day4>
+<http://www.plomlompom.de/PlomRogue/plomwiki.php?title=7DRL2015Day5>
+<http://www.plomlompom.de/PlomRogue/plomwiki.php?title=7DRL2015Day6>
+<http://www.plomlompom.de/PlomRogue/plomwiki.php?title=7DRL2015Day7>
-Every move of yours re-writes a file "savefile" that describes the new state of
-dthe world, if more than 15 seconds have passed since its last writing. Once you
-re-start the game, the game state is recreated from the "savefile" file. To
-start over in a new world, simply delete this file.
System requirements / installation / running the game
-----------------------------------------------------
-The game is expected to run on Linux systems that contain the ncurses library.
-(It may also work on other Unix-like systems with ncurses, who knows.) Do the
-following steps:
+The game is expected to run:
+- on Unix systems with a vt100-like terminal environment (xterm will do)
+- that contain the ncurses library
+- and Python3 (version >= 3.2.3).
+
+To build it, this is furthermore necessary:
+- gcc (version >= 4.7.2); some llvm masked as gcc was tested successfully on OSX
+- libc library headers (libc6-dev?)
+- ncurses library headers (libncurses5-dev?)
+
+To build and start, do the following steps:
-$ git clone https://github.com/plomlompom/plomrogue
-$ cd plomrogue
$ ./redo
$ ./roguelike
-(If you got a redo build system installed and in your $PATH, you could also do a
-simple "redo" instead of "./redo". The ./redo script calls a simple partial
-shell script implementation of redo stored below build/redo_scripts/, written by
-Nils Dagsson Moskopp a.k.a. erlehmann.)
+(If you got a version of djb's redo build system installed and in your $PATH,
+you could also do a simple "redo" instead of "./redo". The ./redo script calls a
+simple partial shell script implementation of redo stored below
+./build/redo_scripts/, written by Nils Dagsson Moskopp a.k.a. erlehmann.)
-./redo generates two executables ./roguelike-server and ./roguelike-client.
+There are two executables ./roguelike-server and ./roguelike-client.
./roguelike is a pre-existing shell script that merely executes both of them,
with the server as a background job. You can also ignore the script and start
-the two by hand.
-
-Client's keybindings and window management
-------------------------------------------
-
-In the client's default window configuration, the window appearing on the left
-sports a list of keybindings available globally, and additionally via the window
-selected as active.
-
-Hit "W" (per default keybindings) to switch the "active" window to a view that
-allows changing its geometry. One more hit on "W" switches the window to a view
-that allows changing its window-specific keybindings. The global keybindings can
-be changed in the "Global keys" window, those of the window geometry
-configuration in the "Window geometry keys" window, and those of the
-window-specific keybindings configuration in the "Window keybinding keys"
-window; by default, these three windows are not visible, but may be turned on by
-(per default keybindings) hitting the "F6", "F7" and "F8" keys.
-
-Keybindings and default window selection / visibilities / geometries are read
-from the textfile ./confclient/interface_conf by default, or by another one
-named by the -i command line option of the client. Some other default window
-configurations are stored below ./confclient/single_windows/: "map", "info",
-"inventory" and "log". Each of these opens up only a single window into the
-client, filling up the entire terminal. This may be useful for running multiple
-clients in parallel in multiple terminal windows that can be managed by one's
-own window manager choice, instead of relying on plomrogue-client's bizarre
-in-client window management.
-
-Replay game recording
----------------------
-
-Once you start a new world, every move of yours is recorded in a file called
-"record". It gets overwritten when a new game world is started after deletion
-of the "savefile" file. Run "./roguelike -s" to watch the current game's
-recording from the beginning. Hit any player action key to increment turns (they
-will not trigger the actions usually mapped to them, only repeat the actions
-done at that point in the game as defined in the "record" file). Keys to manage
-windows, scroll on the map and quit the program do their usual thing. Append a
-number to the -s option (like "-s100") to start the recording at the respective
-turn number.
+any of the two by hand.
+
+Keybindings
+-----------
+
+a - let AI decide move
+
+w - move north-west
+e - move north-east
+s - move west
+d - move east
+x - move south-west
+c - move south-east
+
+w - wait one turn
+
+l - toggle "look" mode, investigate map cells by moving a cursor over the map
+ instead of the player avatar
+
+p - pick up item
+D - drop item selected in inventory
+u - use item selected in inventory
+
+Up - navigate upwards in inventory
+Down - navigate downwards in inventory
+
+PgUp - scroll upwards in "Things here" window
+PgDn - scroll downwards in "Things here" window
+
+Save files, replay game recording, starting over
+------------------------------------------------
+
+Short version: To start over, quit ./roguelike, delete the files "save" (it's
+also a good idea to delete the file "record_save"), and re-start ./roguelike.
+
+By default, the game state is saved in the file ./save, and read from there on
+(server) restart. Another file name to use can be given with the -l option (i.e.
+start the game with "./roguelike -l alternate_savefile"). To start over in a new
+world, remove ./save, or use the -l option with the name of a file that does not
+exist yet.
+
+Once you start a new world, every game action of yours is appended to a file
+called "record_" plus the save file name. Run "./roguelike -s" to watch the
+current game's recording from the beginning. Hit any player action key to
+increment turns (they will not trigger the actions usually mapped to them, only
+repeat the actions done at that point in the game as defined in the record
+file). Keys to manage windows, scroll on the map and quit the program do their
+usual thing. Append a number to the -s option (like "-s100") to start the
+recording playback at the respective turn number. (Don't forget to delete /
+empty a game's record file when deleting its save file, or different game's
+moves will get mixed up in one record file.)
Hacking / server internals and configuration
--------------------------------------------
The game world is set up and made subject to player commands by
./roguelike-server. It's controlled by commands explained in the file
./SERVER_COMMANDS. The server usually reads these from the files ./server/in
-(written to by ./roguelike-client), ./confserver/world, ./record and ./savefile.
-
-All source files are thoroughly documented to explain more details of
-plomrogue's internals. The ./roguelike-server executable can be run with a -v
-option for helpful debugging info (mostly: what messages the client sends to the
-server). Server and client communicate via files in the ./server/ directory
-(generated when the server is first run). The ./server/in file is read by the
-server for newline-delimited commands. The ./server/out file contains server
-messages to be read by clients. The ./server/worldstate file contains a
+(written to by ./roguelike-client), ./confserver/world, ./record_save and
+./save.
+
+All source files are thoroughly documented to explain more details of the
+PlomRogue engine's internals. The ./roguelike-server executable can be run with
+a -v option for helpful debugging info (mostly: what messages the client sends
+to the server). Server and client communicate via files in the ./server/
+directory (generated when the server is first run). The ./server/in file is read
+by the server for newline-delimited commands. The ./server/out file contains
+server messages to be read by clients. The ./server/worldstate file contains a
serialized representation of the game world's data as it is to be visible to
the player / the player's client.
+
+See ./README_engine for more stuff.
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