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@@ -12,30 +12,32 @@ 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
-shortest-path-wise nearest enemy. If no enemy is found in their surroundings,
-they just wait.
+shortest-path-wise nearest enemy (any animate being of a different species)
+visible to them. If they see no enemy, they just wait.
-Diagonal movement is possible, but takes (40%) longer than orthogonal movement.
-
-Once you start a new world, every move of yours is recorded in a file called
-"record". Once you re-start the game, all of your previous moves are replayed
-automatically up to the point wherere you left the game. To start over in a new
-world, simply delete this file.
+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.
-Do the following steps:
+(It may also work on other Unix-like systems with ncurses, who knows.) Do the
+following steps:
$ git clone https://github.com/plomlompom/plomrogue
$ cd plomrogue
-$ make
+$ ./redo
$ ./roguelike
-(It may also work on other Unix-like systems with ncurses, who knows.)
+(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.)
-Make generates two executables ./roguelike-server and ./roguelike-client.
+./redo 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 can also ignore the script and start
the two by hand.
@@ -47,8 +49,8 @@ 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
+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
@@ -69,33 +71,24 @@ in-client window management.
Replay game recording
---------------------
-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 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.
+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.
Hacking / server internals and configuration
--------------------------------------------
-The movements/actions available to the player and the enemies are defined and
-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 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/map_objects. 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 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, the sixth defines if the object is consumable
-(it is if it is non-zero) and how many hitpoints are gained if it is. Finally,
-the same delimiter as for the map object action definitions file follows.
+The game world is set up and made subject to player commands by
+./roguelike-server. It's controlled by commands explained in the file â¦
+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.
All source files are thoroughly documented to explain more details of
plomrogue's internals. The ./roguelike-server executable can be run with a -v