⚗️ Alchemy - game of crafting and logic

If you don't know how to waste time - just try to combine elephant and shell

📖 Game description and rules

In the original game Alchemy player was need to union different items to get new one; And the main goal was to open all of such items (elements). The difficulty was in huge listing of options of these items; The tips were just in some kind of logic of authors of recipes.

This version of game repeats all ideas of parent and gives some opportunities to authors to make recipes of different kinds and different sizes (in original each recipe can contain only 2 elements).

At the beginning player has several basic components that he can use. When he found right combination of them, he gets new one... and this process repeats until all elements of loaded pack are opened.

💮 For example:

• player has water and fire in inventory;
• there is a recipe: steam = fire + water

... so when player put on table water and fire, he would craft a steam

The main rule of this game is not to hack a recipes because the feature of this game is in long searching of right combination of items in unlogic recipes 🤓

🔨 How make it works

This game is written on Java and compatible with any popular platforms (event tested on Windows, Ubuntu and Debian)

If you don't want to change something in sources then you even can download build jar file from releases.

Game can be runned in several modes:

• Console - will not use graphics at all. All interaction with user will be through terminal. Player would be needed to type commands to see the inventory and place items on table. This mode is enabled by default (but it also can be enabled with flag -m console)
• Graphics - game will be displayed in as pretty window as possible (author is not a designer). Controll of process in this mode is more efficient (all necessary information will be organized in window). For rendering this mode uses JavaFX and can be enabled with flag -m graphics

The simplest way to run game:

javaw -jar game.alchemy-[version].jar -m [mode]

🔮 In case of you want to build it by yourself _{(good luck)} you will need to do some extra actions:

Necessary dependencies (exept one) are declared in pom.xml and can be easily installed by update of maven project in IDE.

And also your IDE shoud support Lobok project annotations processor.

Now just add all of these things to project and SUCESS

🔍 Format of file with recipes

All such files must be placed in resources directory of project (in src/main/resources). Recommended to place them to data directory in resources.

The name of file has to end with .recipes and with UTF-8 encoding.

The first non-emplty line of file declares items that will be available at the beginning (basic elements). Items should separated with , (comma) character.

Example:

fire, water, earth, wind
...

The next lines describes recipes in format result = item [+ item]*.

Example:

...
steam = fire + water
ice = water + wind + wind
chaos = fire + wind + earth + water

To make this pack available for choosing in the game also necessary to add it in enum RecipesPack in described there format. Fast link to file.

🚑 How to contribute

If you have built project succesfully, please, put a ⭐ to this repository

Branch master is closed for directed push (even for collaborators), so fork this project, make changes and don't forget to send pull request to this repository.

If you have questions or have ideas how to improve this project: create issue.