A rogue-like murder mystery game in Python.
Documentation can be found in the doc/ sub-directory. A complete index sorted by module can be found in doc/index.rst, while per-module documentation can be found in doc/<module>.rst.
You can access the documentation for trunk on-line via github's wonderful rst2html conversion:
Nota bene: Due to limitations of github, anchors are suppressed, therefore internal hyperlink sare non-functioning. You can view the complete but possibly outdated documentation at the MurderRL page on github pages.
MurderRL is a rogue-like in the vein of the seminal Rogue, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, and NetHack. Unlike these it is not a role-playing game; instead, it is a "whodunnit" in the style of Agatha Christie many "country house" mysteries, the Gosford Park, and so on.
Like the aforementioned rogue-likes, the plot of the game, the characters, the setting and the location will be completely randomised1. This means that the game is infinitely replayable.
The game will feature varying difficulty levels and a large pool of random information. While you may encounter similarly named characters or find a clue that you've seen before, you can know for certain that their role in previous games is unrelated to the current one.
Run:
git clone git://github.com/jmcb/murderrl
cd murderrl
python game.pyWhere relevant, MurderRL is licensed under the terms of the following MIT license:
Copyright (c) 2010 Jon McManus, Johanna Ploog
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