surrounded

A java game where you have to escape the pursuit

Pre-requsites

• JDK 8
• Apache Maven
• Some hands and terminal (optional)

Overview

The game consists of field and randomly placed walls. Player must reach randomly placed escape cell while avoiding enemies. Player and enemies start at random location. Each turn player must choose direction to move after which enemies will take turn in response. Player loses when enemy can reach player on next move (in other words, enemy must be one square away in vertical or horizontal direction).

If player hits the wall while trying to move then nothing happens and one can go another way in order to avoid pursuit.

Quickstart

Just mvn compile package and there should appear executable .jar file in target directory. Run it with

java -jar path/to/jar --wallsCount=10 --enemiesCount=2 --size=10 --profile=production

Where:

• wallsCount - number of walls on the field
• enemiesCount - number of enemies on the field
• size - field size (NxN square)
• profile - game configuration (see below)

This archive is pretty self contained, so it should run basically from any directory

Profiles

Game supports custom options (also called as "profiles"). These options can be configured via configuration files located in config directory. Initially there is only dev and producion profiles, but you can add your own by creating application-%PROFILE%.properties file in config directory. These files may have following contents:

• char.%OBJECT% - sets corresponding object's render symbol
• color.%OBJECT% - sets corresponding object's render color. Supports all ANSI colors.
• key.%KEY% - binds key to specified action. Action list:
  • move_up/move_down/move_right/move_left - move in direction
  • exit - exit game
  • accept - equivalent to "yes"
  • decline - equivalent to "no"
  • fortfeit - fortfeits the game
• clearFrame - specifies whether terminal should be clear after every move.