alexellis/adventureinc

Back to basics with simple text adventure game in C

AdventureInC

Description

This is a text-based adventure game written in C as a learning exercise.

Changelog

• Library added and separate Makefile for parsing code
• Makefile added
• Aliases added for player commands
• Separation of parsing and executing commands
• Loading and parsing a room text file
• Added start.txt and upper_vantage.txt rooms.

Build and running

If you have a gcc toolchain, it should be as simple as:

make
./game

Room format

Rooms are of the format:

[name]
Short name max length: 150 chars
[desc]
Multi-line is
OK, but max length is 160*3 chars.
[extra]
item1,alias1=item1 description
item2=item2 description
[exits]
direction=file_name_without_extension

[desc]

Multi-line is OK.

[extra]

Not implemented

[exit]

Alias on left, do not include .txt on right-hand side.

Then enter your player name and have a look around.

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Alex Ellis 2016