Lord of the Rings is a object-oriented game loosely based on JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. The user wins by dropping the One Ring into the fiery depths of Mount Doom.
Player navigates the world by moving from tile to tile on the game map. Some tiles are connected to other tiles by default and some connections can be opened after defeating bosses/visiting certain places. Tiles have cities and other places to visit.
Cities have the following:
- Inns - allow for player heal.
- Shops - allow for the purchasing of items.
- Squares - allows the user to interface with sprites.
Player can collect a vast array of items during the course of the game. Items come in five different types:
- Weapons - add to player attack.
- Armor - add to player defense. How this works: if player gets attacked for four damage and armor wields two defense, player only receives two damage.
- Potions - disposable items that allow for player heal. There are a finite number of potions in the game.
- Charms - may add bonuses to health, attack, and defense.
- General items - have novelty and sell value. For instance: Gold Chunk.
Items may be gained through a variety of means:
- Buying items in the shops contained in cities.
- Receiving items as gifts from the people contained in city squares.
- Finding items that are randomly distributed throughout the game's tiles. As each game world is instantiated, powerful items are dispursed throughout the world.
- Receiving items after the game's many battles. The is the only way to receive the game's elite unique items.
Stats work as you'd expect:
- HP - the amount of damage player can take.
- Attack - player attack.
- Experience - increasing this results in leveling up.
Bottom line: player moves from tile to tile until he ends up in the Mount Doom tile. There will be random battles and boss battles along the way.
Type "help" to see game commands.
The player's first priority should be moving east until he/she is at Rivendell. Talk to the people at the Council of Elrond for some of the early game's best items. After that, there are three ways across the Misty Mountains:
- Over High Pass (boss fight).
- Through the Mines of Moria (random battles).
- Through Isenguard (boss fight). Player should choose either of the first two choices.
The player should make levelling up a priority in the early stages of the game. After max level is reached, player may choose to visit some of the harder places in Mordor to fight such that he/she can obtain some of the game's elite unique items.
You may be able to find the three elven rings randomly distributed throughout the game map. These items are incredibly powerful and will make the game substantially easier.
Game is fully functioning but suffers from poor UI. I consider the following as next steps:
- Create a robust parser that is used to solicit user response throughout the game. The current game's parsers are non-uniform and require an exact match (for instance: "Attack" does nothing but "attack" works). Parsers are distributed across game code.
- Make the robust parser accessible when player is in cities. Right now, you have to leave the city before you can access game commands.
- Create some sort of "Emperor's Aura" ability which autodefeats remaining enemies whose attack is less than player defense given that monsters that don't fit into this category have already been defeated.
No installation necessary, except certain modules required to run tests.
To run the game, type: $ ./main.py
To test the game, type: $ ./test.py
You should see output similar to the following:
Ran 98 tests in 0.01s
OK
(The number of tests may vary.)