worldgrower / worldgrower

WorldGrower is a top-down rpg simulator focused on creating a detailed world, in which actions have consequences.

WorldGrower

WorldGrower is a 2D turn-based rpg simulator focused on creating a detailed world, in which actions have consequences. It focuses on skills, dialogue, economy and society.

Table of contents

• Installation
• Features
• Bugs and Feature Requests
• Documentation
• License

Installation

Binary installation using installer

• Windows 32-bit
• Windows 64-bit
• MacOS X
• Linux DEB 32-Bit (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc)
• Linux DEB 64-Bit (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc)
• Linux RPM 32-Bit (Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, Red Hat, etc)
• Linux RPM 64-Bit (Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, Red Hat, etc)
• Linux 32-Bit (Other Linux distributions)
• Linux 64-Bit (Other Linux distributions)

These installers contain the game and will install the game when executed.

Binary installation of .zip file

• Download .zip file
• Extract the .zip file on the local filesystem
• Make sure Java 8 is installed. If you're not sure, you can check your java version here.
• The easiest way to start WorldGrower is to run the .jar file by double-clicking it or to open it with java 8.

Common problems with binary installation

• 'java' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
  This means that no java version was installed.
  Make sure to download java from here.

• Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/worldgrower/gui/start/StartScreen : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
  This means an older java version is installed.
  It's best to can check your java version here.

Source installation

• If you are installing from source code, it's recommended that you clone the master branch.
• Make sure Java 8 is installed
• Run org.worldgrower.gui.start.StartScreen with resources directory in the classpath.

Features

• dynamic world that is built up from scratch
• play several roles like farmer, lumberjack, priest, etc
• extensive dialogue system
• mislead enemies with disguises and illusions
• use character skills to build up an economy from the ground up
• found organizations and use their influence to further your own goals
• spread gossip and print newspapers

Bugs and Feature Requests

Have a bug or a feature request?
Please search for existing and closed issues on the issue list.

Documentation

WorldGrower's documentation, included in this repo in the gh-pages branch.

User Manual

Developer Guide

Vision

Influences

Gameplay video

WorldGrower on Travis: []

License

WorldGrower is under GNU General Public License, see LICENSE for more information.

Follow @WorldGrower

Installer

installer created by Install4J multi-platform installer builder

worldgrower's Issues

Factory Methods

From a preliminary glance, it seems that most Factory methods could be made static.

This would remove the need to create instances of the factories.

The character doest move

The game starts it displays the main character, however the screen the character doesn't move with the arrows. I do hear the steps though. If I click esc the menu shows up but the game disappears and the desktop shows.

I ran both from the binary distro and from the source code to the same effect.
No exceptions ..

Any idea?

Audio Issue

I have no Audio driver and thus the game can't launch (resulting with this error:)

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mixer not supported: null at javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem.getMixer(Unknown Source) at org.worldgrower.gui.music.SoundOutput.getDefaultSoundOutput(SoundOutput.java:42) at org.worldgrower.gui.start.StartScreen.loadDefaultSoundOutput(StartScreen.java:178) at org.worldgrower.gui.start.StartScreen.main(StartScreen.java:103) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(LauncherEngine.java:62) at com.exe4j.runtime.WinLauncher.main(WinLauncher.java:101) at com.install4j.runtime.launcher.WinLauncher.main(WinLauncher.java:16)

If it's not too much trouble, I would love to try the game out too, thanks!

Invisible windows and inactive UI

Launching the game opens the main menu, but clicking on any option (new game, controls, credits, etc) doesn't make any visible change. Clicking New Game makes the click sound, but nothing happens. Clicking other options like controls seems to open another window that is invisible (the mouse changes to the game mouse icon hovering over the window, but nothing visible) Pressing escape goes back to the main menu.

Not a lot to go on I know, is there a way to launch the game with logging, maybe catch a stack trace?

Release 1.4.2, clean install using installer.jar

System Specs
OS: Windows 10 Home version 1703 64 bit
CPU: AMD FX 9800P
GPU: Radeon R7 integrated
8gb RAM

Java 1.8.0_151
JRE SE build 1.8.0_151-b12
Java hotspot 64bit server VM build 1.8.0_151-b12, mixed mode.