Survival in Erlang!

Erlang implementation of an old Task Force game called Survival

The player is an explorer who has crashed on an alien planet, and must cross a dangerous landscape to reach safe haven in a research station.

Game rules/details/inspiration

• Atari PC game and manual scan: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-survival_5201.html
• Board Game http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3042/survival-the-barbarian

Completed

• Rebar setup of application
• Record structures and data in header file
• Eunit tests for current functions and start/stop of FSM/App
• Basic map data structure and validity tests
• Status, Map and Map Legend displays
• Simple interface client for playing from the shell
• All combat, movement and turn mechanics

TODO

• Initial weapon loadout choosing
• Multi-player server and client
• App/Super hierarchy
• Event handler for tracking errors
• Graphics
• Advanced game modes
• Options
• Procedural map generation
• color command line client
• ANSI colors for map, legend
• Web client
• AI clients for MP testing

Roadmap

• 0.1.0 Current work
• 0.2.0 Basic game completely implemented with simple client
• 0.3.0 Advanced game options implemented
• 0.4.0 Advanced scenarios implemented
• 1.0.0 Multiplayer with simple client
• 1.2.0 Random map generation

Getting Started

1. Get rebar, build it and replace the rebar that's in the repo
2. Command line build and test: make clean compile eunit
3. In the Erlang shell: cd("path/to/repo/directory/survival").
4. code:add_path("ebin").
5. Game = simple_client:start().
6. simple_client:choose_direction(Game, 4).
7. simple_client:quit(Game).