retr05041 / explore

Sequal/Rendition of my original text based adventure game "Escape"

Explore

An over-engineered JSON parser for a niche group of indivduals

What is it?

Explore is a player-first text based adventure game

JSON files make up the map and meta data used to save player progress withing that game

How to run?

Building from source:

Dependancies: - Go - Make

To run (without compiling): make

Compile to executable: make build

explore's Issues

Load rooms through a JSON stream intro a struct

This is to save RAM space (not loading entire JSON file), and allows rooms to be accessed through structs for ease of reading.

This will also help begin solidifying our json map structure...

Make a right panel for current room info

TUI Upgrades and Fixes

A small overhaul of the TUI:

• Make a cutting function that takes messages and depending on the width of the viewport will cut messages up to that amount and append them individually
• Inventory needs to reload every time a new item is added
• Make inventory look better (make it full size for the box it's in, remove help text (move it to bottom?), squish it to be thinner
• Change colours a bit - have constant white borders for the inventory and room info models. Need to brainstorm colour scheme...
• Make the text area have a border?
• Remove q / ctrl+c quit functionality - I want you to have to type "quit" into the text area or some other variation (to stop restricting us from the use of the letter "q")
• Scale-able to window width and height?
• Remove J + K moving within viewport
• Centralize sizes
• escape command to leave an ending room (end game)

Custom database 'playerhandler' sqlite api

Needs to be able to:

• Load a .db file
• Determine if the db file exists or if it needs to make a new one
• Use metadata from the map to determine the scheme of the player table
• Load a player from the database and return a struct pointer for use within the game
• Save the player data given a struct