Adventure TUI is a text adventure game, where you can explore different world right from you terminal.
You can add your own adventures too, see below to learn how.
I have spent so many nights on text-based adventure games, this is my tribute to Will Crowther's original "Adventure" from early 1970s.
Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:
- You have installed the latest version of
java
To get adventure-tui, follow these steps:
git clone https://github.com/2kabhishek/adventure-tui
cd adventure-tuiAfter cloning you can use VS Code (with Java extentsions), or any other editor/IDE to run this.
For running it from the command line, follow these steps
cd src/
# Compile Adventure.java
javac Adventure.java
# Run Adventure.java
java Adventure
Once you run the game you will be asked to choose an adventure, You can choose between Crowther, Small or a custom adventure you added.
If you see errors while running from the Terminal, you can edit the DATA_PATH variable in src/Adventure.java
You can add your own adventures by adding <AdventureName>Rooms.txt, <AdventureName>Objects.txt and <AdventureName>Synonyms.txt to the data folder.
The Rooms, Objects and Synonyms follow a particular syntax, follow these to add your own adventures!
Everything after # is a comment, note that the data files themselves do not support comments
Rooms data file contains information about all the rooms or areas part of your adventure game.
It also contains something called a motion table that defines the different rooms you can go from there.
1 # Room number
Outside building # Room name
This is outside a building. # Room description
There are gates on all four sides # Can be multi line too
----- # Room description and motion table separator
WEST 2 # Direction Destination Room Number
EAST 3 # DIRECTION should be in caps
NORTH 4/KEYS # If any room has / and <ObjectName> appended to it, that means this room is locked and you need to have the <ObjectName> in your inventory in order to proceed
# Mandatory empty line
2 # New Room starts
Dark Abyss
A dark abyss
-----
FORCED 0 # If direction is forced, the game will forcefully take you to the destination room
1
Outside building
You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick
building. A small stream flows out of the building and
down a gully to the south. A road runs up a small hill
to the west.
-----
WEST 2
UP 2
NORTH 3
IN 3
SOUTH 4
DOWN 4
2
End of road
You are at the end of a road at the top of a small hill.
You can see a small building in the valley to the east.
-----
EAST 1
DOWN 1
Objects data file contains info about all the objects in the game and their initial location.
KEYS # Object Name
Shining metal keys # Object description
3 # Initial room location
# Empty line
LAMP
A bright lamp
8
KEYS
a set of keys
3
LAMP
a brightly shining brass lamp
8
ROD
a black rod with a rusty star
12
Synonyms data file is used for creating mappings or shortcuts for Actions/Directons/Objects in the game.
So something like BAG OF GOLD COINS can be called COINS or GOLD
GOLD=BAG OF COLD COINS
COINS=BAG OF GOLD COINS
IN=INSIDE
Q=QUIT
adventure-tui was built using java and lots of imagination!
- Building out the Abstractions was challenging
- Breaking the problem into smaller pieces was daunting in the begining
While building adventure-tui I learned about
- How to build abstractions using OOP
- Efficient use of txt files for data storage
- Building Text adventure games is fun!
Maybe add a new game, just have to add a new rooms and objects file!
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