jtanderson / TextAdventure

TextAdventure

A text-based RPG meant to experiment with code abstraction and procedural content generation

High level design notes:

• Use pushdown-automata model for game loop
• user input handled by current game state
  • state takes ownership of player and state stack

Class hierarchy:

• GameState (gamestate.h) - abstract
  • CombatState (combatstate.h, combatstate.cpp)
  • TravelState (travelstate.h, travelstate.cpp)
  • IdleState (idlestate.h, idlestate.cpp)
• Entity (entity.h)
  • LivingEntity (livingentity.h, livingentity.cpp)
    • Player (player.h, player.cpp)
    • Npc (npc.h, npc.cpp)
• WorldLocation (worldlocation.h)
  • RoadLocation (roadlocation.h)
  • WildernessLocation (wildernesslocation.h)

TODO

• use ncurses library for user interface
  • http://www.cs.ukzn.ac.za/~hughm/os/notes/ncurses.html
  • add some sort of map component
  • add some sort of inventory/equipment/stat visualization
• More detailed map locations (road, landmarks, etc.)
• richer text/storytelling components
  • break combat messages up into individual particpants' turns
• better world generation
  • See http://www.github.com/jtanderson/MapGen for some experimental efforts
• data structure to store/access world
• better, more detailed, npc system
• saving/loading
• friendly npc's
• towns/villages/etc.
• items
• player inventory
• combat looting
• quests?
• dungeons/buildings
• special items/abilities
• player death, game ending
• logging system