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.
+hitpoints, depending on their species. Dead enemies become dirt, skeletons, or
+food to consume (each turn reduces one's "satiation", and the lower it is, the
+stronger the chance of suffering from hunger and thereby losing hitpoints). Note
+that different kinds of movements/actions take different numbers of turns to
+finish.
-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.
+Enemies' AI is very dumb so far: Each turn, they look out for actors of
+different species to flee from (if their type starts out with more hitpoints
+than they have) or (if the opposite is the case) move towards for purposes of
+attack. If they see no enemy, they search for and consume "magic meat".
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
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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:
+(It may also work on other Unix-like systems with ncurses, who knows. See
+<https://github.com/plomlompom/plomrogue/issues/2#issuecomment-50972436> for OS
+X compatibility.) Do the following steps:
$ git clone https://github.com/plomlompom/plomrogue
$ cd plomrogue
Client's keybindings and window management
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-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.
+Multiple windows may fill the screen. One of these will be selected as "active"
+– identified by dollar signs enclosing its title. Active windows may come with
+window-specific keybindings. Furthermore, global keybindings are available no
+matter what window is selected.
+
+Hit "W" (per default global 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 sports (and allows changing its) window-specific keybindings. (One
+further "W" will return the window to its default, "normal" view.) The global
+keybindings are visible (and can be changed) in the "Set global keys" window,
+those of the window geometry configuration in the "Set window geometry keys"
+window, and those of the window-specific keybindings configuration in the "Set
+window keybinding keys" window; by default, the latter two are not visible, but
+may be turned on by (per default keybindings) hitting the keys "F6" and "F7".
Keybindings and default window selection / visibilities / geometries are read
from the textfile ./confclient/interface_conf by default, or by another one
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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 …
-The server usually reads these from the files ./server/in (written to by
-./roguelike-client), ./confserver/world, ./record and ./savefile. See the file
-./SERVER_COMMANDS for details.
+./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
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