Node CLI game example

About the project

There is a 4x4 map laid out with with each tile unexplored, players are required to explore the map and encounter beasts, friends, bosses and blockages.

The concept is called "Finding Ciri", where you are Geralt of Rivia, Ciri has ran away and you have to find her! You can also play this with Gwent cards.

Basic Rules

• Main objective is to find Ciri 'tile'.
• You can move 1 step per turn and you have 15 POWER
• The map is laid out randomly based on the cards in the lib folder, player can move in a given direction at once.
• When you move to a tile, it could be a monster, boss, weather/special or a friend, based on that you will enter the interaction screen.
• When in a fight, the winner is decided by taking your power into consideration, more power = more chance of winning.
  • take your POWER and the monster/boss POWER
  • Chance formula of you winning the fight is : YOUR-POWER/(MOSTER/BOSS-POWER + YOUR-POWER)%
    • Example, you encounter 4 POWER monster, so your chance of winning would be (15/4+15)% that is 79%, so take a random number generator, and hit the generate button, if the number is lower than or equal to 79 then you win, else the monster wins.
• When a friend joins your party, thier POWER is added to your power for next fights.
• If you encounter a boss, you fight them in a set of best of 3. After defating the boss you may gain a reward or complete an objective.

How to run?

Before you run, make sure you have node.js (includes NPM).

1. clone repo
2. npm install
3. npm run serve or node src/app.js

About the development

This is a hobby project inspired by Gwent cards and was supposed to be played using those until I decided to make this CLI game. I will add more info here as the development continues. Currently the game does have some on going bugs e.g. player indicator on the map not in sync, game closes on move when character is not in sync with map display, etc. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ However, it still gives a good idea on how to make a CLI application.

• lib/ : Contains data about all the cards and player.
• battle-engine.js : Mainly responsible for battle stages.
• app.js : entry point of the game, does everything possible cause why not.
• config.js : Used for default values and map size initalization.
• debug.js : Used for pretty printing stuff on the console.
• map-engine.js : Mainly responsible for drawing map array, movement, etc.

Debugging (using VSCode)

• Go to preferences and search for node debug
• Set auto attach to on
• Toggle a breakpoint
• On terminal you can run node --inspect src/app.js

License

GNU GPLv3

Note: Only the names have been referenced from The Witcher Universe. I don't own any of the characters, this project is not releated in any way to CD Projekt Red or The Witcher Universe.