jlr7245/castleadventure

A JavaScript rebuild of the classic 1984 DOS game by Kevin Bales.

castleadventure's Issues

Some rooms have objects

User can pick up items by running into them

Win condition

Two rooms

• The game should have at least two "rooms"
• Rooms will be objects rendered onto the page based on coordinates hard-coded into the object
• Which rooms render on the page is dependent on user interaction. The first room that renders will always be the same room but afterwards the user will choose which room will render.

Addition of context-specific actions & events (i.e. can't go to the basement without the lantern)

refactor game (maybe this will require a total rewrite)

• rewrite without HTML5 canvas

User can get information about items by typing in simple commands

Player can collide with room walls

Walls should have some kind of "solidity". Game should know when player square comes into close proximity to a wall.

A full floor of rooms (25)

Player can move between rooms

• When user reaches a wall entry/exit point they enter the room at the point in the map that connects

#1 related to this

Castle has upstairs and downstairs

12/15 Problems with switching between Room class instances

I am having trouble getting my room switcher working correctly. There are two separate issues:

• The player location from the previous room is still displaying
• It's impossible to return to a room -- says the walls are not defined.

I asked about the first on StackOverflow here and talked to Stefan about it as well. The answer worked on StackOverflow to a degree -- initially the extra player was moving together with the player in the correct position -- but it still seems I can't clear the position from the previous room.

I feel the second issue is happening probably for the same reason as the first - Room class objects aren't being cleared properly so it's reading them twice. One should be able to leave a room and then immediately return to it. Instead, the following things happen:

• The board is cleared through new instance of CanvasState class
• The Room doesn't change to a new Room -- stays the same as the previous one -- but the walls are no longer there, leaving the player in the void. (Currently there are only 3 rooms - courtyard, entry hall, and welcome hall - so if you keep going north after the entry hall you end up in the void anyway.)

This is an issue with classes, so documentation is hard to find and I'm having a rough time puzzling through ES5 documentation and trying to apply it to my situation.

Desired outcome would be the Room class recognizing the array of wall shapes it's been passed. EDIT Turns out the function doesn't recognize any connecting rooms after the first one in the array - says they're undefined.

See behavior replicated here.
Applicable code is here

I will continue to try to work through this but any help would be appreciated! 🙏 Thanks so much.

Game understands text input

Rooms have entry and exit points

• There is a system in place to see which rooms are connected and to allow the user to move between them.

Loss condition

Rooms have walls

• The rooms have walls which are visible

Informational screens (win, loss, introduction)

Addition of sounds

Addition of "room flavor" (thrones, bushes, etc.)

Addition of maze-type rooms