dr-mrsthemonarch / pq-cli

Progress Quest: the CLI edition

Relive the great adventure… this time in the terminal realm!

• Progress Quest site: http://progressquest.com/
• Online version: http://progressquest.com/play/
• Original version: https://bitbucket.org/grumdrig/pq

Features

• Faithful port of the game logic
• Saves (with backups) to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pqcli/save.dat
• Terminal interface that comes in 2 flavors:
  • Rich and colorful (--curses, default)
  • Minimal, suitable for raw grind (--basic)
• Ideal to run on your server

How it looks like

Curses interface:

Basic interface:

How to install

If you have Python 3.7, just run pip install --user pqcli and you're good to go! Then type pqcli to run the game.

In case if you want to use the git version, the process is just a bit more complex:

$ git clone https://github.com/rr-/pq-cli.git
$ cd pq-cli
$ pip install --user .

Contributing

# Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/rr-/pqcli.git
cd pqcli

# Install to a local venv:
poetry install

# Install pre-commit hooks:
poetry run pre-commit install

# Enter the venv:
poetry shell

This project uses poetry for packaging. Install instructions are available at poetry#installation.

Troubleshooting

_curses.error: init_pair() returned ERR

If running on Linux and you get the error _curses.error: init_pair() returned ERR, try making sure that your $TERM variable is set to a value which supports 256 colors, such as via the following:

TERM=xterm-256color pqcli