text_rpg

A game engine for creating text-based rpgs.

This repo is basically done, it will read an adventure from the user and play out the whole thing, until the user either quits or the adventure ends.

Format of adventure files

An adventure file is basically just a sequence of rooms, with room names, descriptions, options, and rooms that go along with those options. The first room in a file will be the room that the player starts off in the adventure, and the order of the rest of the rooms dont matter. To make a room an endpoint, just leave the options and adjacent fields blank.

Actual format of room

$(Room Name) {
    description: (Description of room enclosed in double quotes)
    options: (List of options enclosed in double quotes)
    adjacent: (List of room names corresponding to options)
}

Example

$room_1 {
    description: "Room 1"
    options: "Go to room 2" "Go to room 3"
    adjacent: room_2 room_3
}

$room_2 {
    description: "Room 2" 
    options: "Go to room 1" "Go to room 3"
    adjacent: room_1 room_3
}

$room_3 {
    description: "Room 3" 
    options: "Go to room 1" "Go to room 2"
    adjacent: room_1 room_2
}