Text-based dungeon crawler with tracking/hunting system and D&D-inspired combat.

python game.py

• Track down and eliminate the terror in the Dark Forest.
• You start with a knife, search your surroundings for things that will help.

• 'look' - Look around. Lists items you can pick up and their item IDs.
• 'n', 'e', 's', 'w', etc. - Move out to another area in that direction
• 'map' - Draw the map
• 'attack' - Attack the enemy once you see it
• 'time' - Tell the time of day
• 'wait' - Wait for 1 hour
• 'rest' - Rest for 3 hours (heals hp)
• 'sleep' - Sleep for 8 hours (heals hp)
• 'pray' - Pray to Elbereth (takes 1 hour - does nothing currently)
• 'stats' - Print character stats
• 'inventory' - Print inventory and item ID
• 'equip' - Print equipped items
• 'equip ' - Equip item specified by ID
• 'unequip ' - Unequip item from equipment slot
• 'examine ' - Examine item in inventory (specify item ID)
• 'search' - Search the scene for loot (takes 1 hour)
• 'take ' - Take an item from the area (specify item ID)
• 'drop ' - Drop an item from inventory into the scene
• 'help' - Show all available commands

• 'stats' - Print character stats
• 'inventory' - Print inventory and item ID
• 'run' - Run from the fight to a random adjacent area
• 'help' - Print all available commands
• Attack command (varies depending on weapon, e.g. 'pierce' w/ dagger)

• Search discarded item piles, you might get lucky!
• It might take a few tries to get something from your search, but there's always something there
• Follow clues, recent clues will be "fresh"
• There's a chance that the boss will attack you when encountered
• 'run' from combat and 'rest' or 'sleep' if you are low on HP
• The boss heals naturally outside of battle
• Certain commands take time to perform, the enemy might sneak up on you
• Game commands have shortened forms, use the 'help' command in-game to see.

• Fantasy setting inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien and other authors
• On the night of the new moon, the guardian of the dark forest, corrupted and driven mad by an unknown evil, ravages the surrounding countryside.
• You are a youth, armed with only a hunting knife, on a mission to stop this from happening again, before the next new moon.

1. Map

• Procedurally generated topography
• 24-hour game clock with day/night cycle
• Explore and find better equipment

2. Characters

• One Player character and one Boss character
• Randomly generated character attributes

3. Items

• Weapon and armor available to be found as treasure
• Certain items require base stats of a certain level to be equipped
• Equipping items gives stat bonuses
• Equip different weapons to use different attacks

3. Tracking

• Agent-based tracking: the boss moves across the map as an individual entity
• Boss leaves clues as it moves

3. Combat

• Loosely based on D&D 3.5e
• Boss has a chance of initiating combat if encountered
• Boss has a chance to run from combat at low HP
• Player can run from combat (incur extra enemy attack)
• One action per character per turn, alternating turns

2. Gameplay

• More coherent behaviour model for the boss based on its backstory
• Environmental features have bigger impact on gameplay

4. Map/Environment

• Time limit to story mode
• Phases of the moon and weather
• More coherent environment generation (rivers connect across scenes, etc.)
• More environments (currently only mixed forest)

1. Flavour text (descriptions)

• Extract all flavour text into own file
• Expand on descriptions

2. Items

• Consummables

1. Character Update

• Character classes
• More boss types

4. Interface

• Graphical (ASCII-based) game interface

• Core gameplay update: boss movement behavior update