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plomlompom tries to build his own roguelike. It doesn't do much yet (although
-there are insanely ambitious long-term plans).
+plomlompom has insanely ambitious long-term plans).
-You can move around a player on an island and meet a number of different
-enemies. You have 5 hitpoints to lose before death; they start with different
-amounts of hitpoints, depending on their species. Your score grows by killing
-enemies, to the amount of hitpoints each killed enemy started with. 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 can move around a player on an island and meet different enemies. You have 5
+hitpoints to lose before death; they start with different amounts of hitpoints,
+depending on their species. Your score grows by killing enemies, to the amount
+of hitpoints each killed enemy started with. 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.
Enemies' AI is very dumb so far: Each turn, they try to move towards their
path-wise nearest enemy. If no enemy is found in their surroundings, they just
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The game is expected to run on Linux systems that contain the ncurses library.
-Perform the following steps:
+Do the following steps:
$ git clone https://github.com/plomlompom/plomrogue
$ cd plomrogue
$ make
$ ./roguelike
-(It might also work on other Unix-like systems with ncurses, who knows.)
+(It may also work on other Unix-like systems with ncurses, who knows.)
Note that make generates 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 may also
+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
-currently selected as active.
+selected as active.
Hit "w" (per default keybindings) to switch the "active" window to a view that
-allows changing its geometry. One further hit on "w" switches the window to a
-view that allows changing its window-specific keybindings. The global
-keybindings may be changed in the "Global keys" window, those of the window
-geometry configuration in the "Window geometry keys" window, and those of the
+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.
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 may be managed by one's
+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.
Run "./roguelike -s" to watch a recording of the current game 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 performed 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.
+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.
Hacking / server internals and configuration
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can be changed in ./confserver/map_object_actions. Each entry consists of a
first line of a numerical ID used internally to uniquely identify and manage the
action, a second line of the number of turns the action takes, and a third line
-of a string that maps the action to the game logic to perform when it is called.
+of a string that maps the action to the game logic to do when it is called.
Finally, a delimiter line of "%%" ends the entry.
The different map object types, i.e. species (including the player's human one)
and item types, can be edited in ./confserver/defs. Here the first value is a
numerical ID that represents the object type, the second one describes what type
this object decomposes to when it gets destroyed/killed, the third value is the
-character used to represent the object visually on the map, the fourth value is
-the number of hitpoints the object starts with (items are dead and start with
-zero hitpoints, anything else moves), the fifth is the string that names the
-object in the game log. Finally, the same delimiter as for the map object action
-definitions file follows. Note that the only valid item use so far, consuming
-"magic meat" to gain hitpoints, is so far hard-coded (this should change in the
-future).
+ASCII character used to represent the object visually on the map, the fourth
+value is the number of hitpoints the object starts with (items are dead and
+start with zero hitpoints, anything else moves), the fifth is the string that
+names the object in the game log. Finally, the same delimiter as for the map
+object action definitions file follows. Note that the only valid item use so
+far, consuming "magic meat" to gain hitpoints, is so far hard-coded (this should
+change in the future).
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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