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TextEngine

Python program that generates text based games from text files written in a simple scripting language

What is it?

Currently, Text Engine is in early early alpha stages, at present it simply is just the framework of a text based game that pulls its data from dictionary based datasets. Despite its lack of any usefulness or interesting code in its present state, there is a clear plan for what it should do in future.

What will it be?

Text Engine is going to be a game engine that generates text based RPGs using a quick and easy scripting language or potentially GUI editor, allowing people to flesh out ideas for text based games quickly and easily.

How do we get there?

There is a bit of a plan for what will be done next, both in long term and short term, it might take a while and its a lot to develop.

Short term

• Item and Inventory System
• Magic stuff (?)
• Quest system
• Shop system
• Stats and leveling system
• Combat system (probably turn based)
• Intergrate all the systems together
• Probably some other stuff too

At this point users will be theoretically able to write their own text based games using the dictionary system, but I want to make it a bit easier than that.

Long term

• Tool to autogen dictionary datastructures from simple text files
• graphical tool to generate the text files and visualise the maps and whatnot
• guide on how to use the tool

After these things are done, Textengine will be pretty much what I would consider a "finished" state

Other things I want to add or potentially do

• A map system
• option to use Ascii art
• Port over to ncurses so it looks a bit nicer

All these things I might add after the game is at what I would consider a "finished" state