ALEX (Artificial Life EXperiment)

A game I designed for my Commodore 128 back in the day, but I didn't really have enough experience back then to make it work. Now I'm finishing it in Python with some basic terminal graphics, at least for now until I can get the play mechanics where I want them.

Prerequisites

• At a command prompt in the project directory, type make install to set up the project

To run the tests

• At a command prompt in the project directory, type make test.

To run the game

• At a command prompt in the project directory, type make run.

Game instructions

• Click anywhere on the map with the mouse to move the player to that location.
• Hit the q key to quit the game.
• Yes, it's a prototype.

Notes for Visual Studio Code users

• I've included some extension recommendations that can make your development easier.
  • Run On Save
  • Make support and task provider
• These recommendations will pop up when opening the project inside VSCode.
• Installing both extensions will
  • Use the code in settings.json to run make format on each File:Save.
  • Display available Make targets within the Makefile Tasks sidebar pane and allow them to be run with a mouse click.

To do

• Switch over to the Pyxel game engine instead of keeping it on the console.
• Start developing the gameplay