A grid-based adventure game featuring coins, chocolate and dynamite

• Collect coins
• Collect chocolate
• Collect dynamite
• Avoid bears
• Avoid dragons

• Dynamite can be used to destroy obstacles, but not in water
• Each tile requires you to eat some chocolate - more for more difficult tiles
• Dragons and fire make you lose chocolate
• Bears make you lose coins, some of which are scattered around
• You must not run out of chocolate

All settings are in CCDQuest.cfg and described there

• Terrain types are specified in map/terrain.csv

  • r,g,b: Representing color in maps' terrain images
  • destr: Destructable with dynamite
  • ignite: Probability of igniting each turn if a neighbour is burning
  • out: Probability of fire going out each turn
  • solid: Terrain is a solid block of something (e.g walls)
  • temp: Temerature, in vague degrees-C
  • trans: Transparent
  • covered: Has a roof or similar (not necessarily shown)
  • soggy/roughness: Sogginess and roughness, as percentages
  • ground/topimage: Sprite(s) to use below and above player
    • Refer to subdirectories of tiles/terrain/
    • Square PNG images are used as-is, 6:1 (W:H) images represent sets of neighbour-sensitive sprites (see wall for example)
    • Each tile's sprite is randomly selected from images in tiles/terrain//, or only from neighbour-sensitive sets if one or more is present
    • Sprites are centred on their tile and must have side length below 2x TILESIZE
    • Large tile sprites overlap in the same order as their entries in terrain.csv
    • Magenta (#FF00FF) is used for transparency

• Maps each have a directory under map/, which must contain a file .json This file is in JSON format, with the following attributes:

  • "name": Required. Name of the map as seen by players
  • "terrainfile": Required. PNG file in the map directory representing terrain types from map/terrain.csv
  • "itemfile": Required. PNG file with location of coins (#FFFF00), chocolate (#7F4000) and dynamite (#FF0000)
  • "startpos": Required. Initial position [x, y] of a player not arriving by portal.
  • "gemgos": Optional. Positions and properties of in-game objects, with optional subattributes:
    • "signs": List of positions and text of signs [[x, y], text]
    • "portals": List of positions and destination of portals [[x, y], destmap, [dx, dy]]. 'destmap' must have a portal at (dx, dy).
    • "pixies": List of initial positions and strings of pixies [[x, y], [string1, string2, stringn]]

• This is a target application for FLHerne's mapgen