richelbilderbeek/city_of_thieves

Text adventure game, after the book 'City of Thieves' by Ian Livingstone

City Of Thieves

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City Of Thieves is a text adventure game after the English gamebook with the same name by Ian Livingstone.

• Wikipedia

Building

To build all:

make

Console

make console

Desktop

make desktop

Running

Be sure to have already build the files.

Then open the correct Qt Creator project:

• Console: Console/CityOfThievesConsole.pro
• Console (test only): Console/CityOfThievesConsoleTest.pro
• Desktop: Desktop/CityOfThievesDesktop.pro
• NDS: Nds/source/GameCityOfThievesNds.pro

Downloads

• Windows executable
• Arch Linux AUR package (Console version only for the moment)
• NDS
• Download the Singularity image:

singularity pull library://richelbilderbeek/default/city_of_thieves 

Video

• General gameplay: YouTube download (.ogv)

I want to help!

Great!

There is need for some testing and spelling corrections. Create a new Issue or email @richelbilderbeek.

What are all those files in the folder Files?

The .txt files contain the story of 'City Of Thieves'. These are converted to C++ headers and source files by the FilesToFunctions.sh scripts. This was needed, because NitroFS (as part of libnds, as part of DevKitPro) does not support a filesystem on the NDS hardware.

Contributors

• Richel Bilderbeek @richelbilderbeek: lead developer
• Jeroen Niemandal @JeroenN: added autofight
• Carmen IJsebaart @CarmenIJsebaart: testing
• Greg Fivash: testing
• Sander van Kasteel @sandervankasteel: Arch linux package maintainer, bug reporting
• Seb Doekes: bug report #16
• Jesper Doekes: bug report #16

External links

• libnds_example_1: minimal NDS example
• libnds_example_2: minimal NDS example with Madmax audio
• Richel Bilderbeek's games
• Singularity scriptlet for City of Thieves

city_of_thieves's Issues

AI: reward entering forest

From @richelbilderbeek on July 29, 2015 8:15

Mostly the AI dies when leaving the city and not having the five required option.

If it has all items, it may die in the forest to ZBs castle. Reward it for being in the forest.

Copied from original issue: richelbilderbeek/HetRoversnest#30

Show inventory items in desktop version

From @richelbilderbeek on July 26, 2015 17:1

Added them by name. Add pictures iff @modanung really likes to make these.

Copied from original issue: richelbilderbeek/HetRoversnest#26

About screen seems to be out-of-date

I just saw that you released a new version, so I decided to update the AUR package. But your about screen still says 1.7.

Qmake error when trying to build the CLI only version

I'm currently trying to get the console version of CityOfThieves wrapped up as an Arch Linux AUR package, but I'm running into some issues when I try to compile City of Thieves.

When I try to execute ./build_console I am running into two issues;

1. This is immediately the warning that popups in my console ***Unknown option -qt=qt5. I'm not really sure, if that's an error that can be ignored (because I am build the console version instead of a GUI version of it).
2. The build script seems to stop immediately with the following message make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Am I missing some dependency or do you have some tips on how to debug this ?

My complete build log can be found here: https://gist.github.com/sandervankasteel/f67295564c205c902231e6ab8ca8867f

Installation instructions

Love the project, really keen to get it on my ds, please can you add installation instructions?

Determine method(s) to answer the questions in the article

In the article there are some hypotheses that need answering. Devise a method to answer these.

Some methods:

• Analytically (just using basic maths)
• Reinforcement learning (a forward method)
• Dynamic programming (a backward method, going back from the final fight)
• Neural network (a forward method)

You are free to pick any rational method. Doing multiple is great for comparison and will impress the readers more!

Write draft article

Luck to prevent damage actually increases it

According to Seb and Jesper, when one uses luck to prevent damage (from 2 to 1), it actually increases it from 2 to 3 points.

Awesome method: AutoML-Zero

• Pre-print paper: 'AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch'
• Code

Use reinforcement learning to estimate chapter payoffs

From @richelbilderbeek on July 21, 2015 11:22

And create a nice graph that shows the path of least resistance.

Copied from original issue: richelbilderbeek/HetRoversnest#25

Put game in debian package manager

From @richelbilderbeek on July 27, 2015 9:38

I would like people to be able to do

sudo apt-get install city-of-thieves-terminal
sudo apt-get install city-of-thieves-gui

Then run with:

./city-of-thieves-terminal
./city-of-thieves-gui

Ask @hertog6 for help.

Copied from original issue: richelbilderbeek/HetRoversnest#29

Jesper claims the OR from 201.txt should be reflected in all_needed_to_slay_zanbar_bone in 156.txt (and elsewhere)

Hi! See subject.

Speed-running the game is not possible if you're required to fetch useless items. Consider making it a user-made choice instead? So the player can decide for himself whether he has enough items.

Cheers, and thanks for the game!

You bough*t* a [something]

From @richelbilderbeek on December 17, 2015 19:40

Spelling error, thanks to Jeroen Niemendal.

Copied from original issue: richelbilderbeek/HetRoversnest#45

Autofight

From @richelbilderbeek on August 2, 2015 14:35

GF suggested an autofight.

Copied from original issue: richelbilderbeek/HetRoversnest#36

Test game

From @richelbilderbeek on July 21, 2015 11:22

I tested 200K times using random input from computer.

Copied from original issue: richelbilderbeek/HetRoversnest#24

Put mention on HN somewhere

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14558808

Add timed fight

From @richelbilderbeek on July 29, 2015 14:47

Chapter 130 is still an orphan.

Copied from original issue: richelbilderbeek/HetRoversnest#32

Where is Rob?

Hey @robkruger ! We miss you at the online Thursday lessons on Discord! In case you want to join, my Discord username is richelbilderbeek#9002. Hope you do excellent and hope to see you soon, Richel

NDS version freezes

No music, no text.