zombie (r)evolution environment

the zombie (r)evolution environment simulator (i just call it zre) is kind of... uhm...yeah. that's still the problem. i dunno what it really is. once, in a lazy night i got to get away from my work. i thought about a tiny "world" written in bash and randomization of events which could happen in the world.

i am briefly talking about a tiny bash script, which generates his own tiny story of a world and the battle of two "sides". so i wrote up the zre to let humans fight against zombies. that's it.

who's gonna win? its $RANDOM's decision.

playing with zombies

usage is simple. get it and run zre.bash.

$ git clone git://github.com/noqqe/zombie-revolution-environment.git
$ cd zombie-revolution-environment
$ ./zre.bash

see zre.example for gameplay.

the environment and it's events

there's a handful of events in zre.

• born: a new member gets born. no matter which side.

• die: the title already faced it. a member dies.

• info: prints some informations about a random side.

• attack: one side decides to attack the other.

• support: a side gets support. usually a random number of existing members.

• stats: upgrade of standard stats (100|100) to (112|100) for example

• nature: prints some informations about weather and sometimes a vulcano explodes or something.

• building: the humans build a rocket station or something. Seven steps to make the rocket ready!

attack rules

both sides got strength and defense skills. skills are around 100 points. each human/zombie got 100 skillpoints in defense and strength.

lets' have a look at the example: humans attack zombies.

strength example: 50 humans * 100 strength-points = 5000 strength-points
defense example: 50 zombies * 80 defense-points = 4000 defense-points
fight: humans 5000 strength vs. zombies 4000 defense
result: humans win.

basic stats for humans:

humans_off=100
humans_deff=100

basic stats for zombies.

zombies_off=120
zombies_deff=80

create new events by yourself

zre is using bash functions to create a event. it's very easy to add own events to zre.

• create a function in events/
• you can use the template in doc/
• define your special stuff in there
• run zre.bash

daemon mode

there is a little --daemon gaming mode to print the output in a defined file. see conf/zre.conf for output file.

since zre is used for web on zombies.n0q.org, there is a little debian init script in doc/ to use it on servers easily. this script is not nessecary for normal use.

./zre-init start|stop|restart

attention: do not use the init script without understanding/modificating it!

sql statistics module

the sql statistics module could be enabled by

$ vim conf/sql.conf
# turn sqlmodule on or off
sqlmodule=on

this module is very additional. it is just used for additional informations for long time game environment, like in zombies.n0q.org. I'm gonna track some informations in a local mysql database. It's just because i love statistics.

If you want to turn it on, fill in the following informations

# turn sqlmodule on or off
sqlmodule=on

# sql database host
sqlhost=localhost

# sql database user
sqluser=dbuser

# sql database password
sqlpw=dbpassword

# sql database
sqldb=sqldatabase

and at least, create the database and its structure:

$ mysql -u root -p -e "create database DBNAME;"
$ mysql -u root -p DBNAME < doc/zre_database.sql 

there is a little module in lib/sqlzre.library.bash. it is taking all the informations and send it automatically to the sql server. see the bash script for further details.

lib/sqlzre.library.bash

the module is turned off by default

bugs and ideas

please report it! would be great if anyone of you got further ideas.