Description
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-See <http://www.plomlompom.de/PlomRogue/plomwiki.php?title=7DRL2015Day2>
-and <http://www.plomlompom.de/PlomRogue/plomwiki.php?title=7DRL2015Day3>.
+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 …
+
+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>
+
System requirements / installation / running the game
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D - drop item selected in inventory
u - use item selected in inventory
-UP - navigate upwards in Inventory
-DOWN - navigate downwards 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
-Replay game recording
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+Save files, replay game recording, starting over
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-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.
+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
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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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