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"Yet Another Dungeon Master Java Clone" is an unfinished Java clone of the famous RPG game "Dungeon Master"

yadmjc

"Yet Another Dungeon Master Java Clone" is Java clone of the famous RPG game "Dungeon Master".

Contrary to existing clones, I didn't write this project to fully reimplement the original game, Alan Berfield successfully did that (in Java) some years ago. I've always wanted to develop a video game (being myself a hard core gamer, an old fan of Dungeon Master and a J2EE developer in my professional career).

In 2003, I downloaded the source files for the "Dungeon Master for Java" clone by Alan Berfield and was quite disappointed by the source code. The source was a perfect example of how NOT to develop in Java (Alan was aware of that fact when he released the source files for he wrote a comment reading (in my own words) "Don't bug me with the source quality, I know it's far from being perfect, at the time I was learning Java, etc").

Then I saw the opportunity to reimplement the game "the right way" to improve my OO modeling skills. Short story long, I now realize that reimplementing the whole game is out of my grasp, I simply don't have enough free time and there are way too many features / rules inside the games that aren't documented (Note: No, I don't want to retro-engineer Paul Stevens' Chaos Strikes Back for Windows C/C++ code) to complete this project.

Since I've implemented a decent amount of the game rules, I post the source files on GitHub for anyone interested in it and also to improve my skills on Git :)

How to build

This project needs Gradle 1.8 to build. It's preconfigured to use the "Gradle wrapper", a nice feature that will automatically install Gradle for you.

To build the project, simply issue a "gradlew clean build" (Unix / OSX) or a "gradlew.bat clean build" (Windows).

To mount the project in Eclipse, first generate the Eclipse files (.project, .classpath and .settings) with "gradlew eclipse" then import the projects into Eclipse.

Credits

Credits go to Nerthing for his Dungeon Master Guide and Christophe Fontanel for his technical documentation about Dungeon Master.

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