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At the moment I'm studying Java (for work and leisure) and developing a small-scale Roguelike project. The project is codenamed "Krool" (pronounced "cruel", reflecting the atmosphere of the game) and will feature a less-than noble adventurer trying to escape hell, fighting various evil characters willing to get out themselves such as Bowser from Super Mario, Mortimer McMire from Commander Keen and Adolf Hitler from <s>real life</s> Wolfenstein 3D. | At the moment I'm studying Java (for work and leisure) and developing a small-scale Roguelike project. The project is codenamed "Krool" (pronounced "cruel", reflecting the atmosphere of the game) and will feature a less-than noble adventurer trying to escape hell, fighting various evil characters willing to get out themselves such as Bowser from Super Mario, Mortimer McMire from Commander Keen and Adolf Hitler from <s>real life</s> Wolfenstein 3D. | ||
== The making of a Roguelike == | |||
Since I want this to be a learning experience, I have decided to keep a blog(ish) document about my game development here. Perhaps someone will find this helpful. I have used UML for modeling and Java for the actual programming. | |||
=== Friday, 2 October 2009 === | |||
I have entered the active development stage of my game (the passive development stage took nearly five years). I have prepared some class diagrams and other drawings of the target situation - a prototype with the following five features: | |||
*Run properly | |||
*Open up in a JCurses window | |||
*Print characters (symbols, not NPCs) and strings in the JCurses window, colours | |||
*Key input reading | |||
*Exit key closes the application | |||
None of these should pose a particular challenge but I have little experience when it comes to key input reading, so that is likely to be the most educational part. I have never used JCurses before, but I'm pretty sure it won't be too hard, as JCurses has JavaDoc (unfortunately it's not perfect, but it'll help a lot nonetheless). | |||
Revision as of 13:52, 2 October 2009
Speak friend and enter!
I have been interested in Roguelikes ever since I accidentaly stumbled upon NetHack in the early 2000's. After three and a half years of miserable trying (I only reached Gehennom once) I found ADOM, fell in love immediately, and played it for quite some time until it crashed unrecoverably on my magnificent dwarven priest. He was crowned and everything!
Since then I've been playing all sorts of RLs : Bands, Coffeebreak RLs (DoomRL was quite good actually), even some of those a bit more experimental ones like Fatherhood, Dwarf Fortress, Gruesome...
At the moment I'm studying Java (for work and leisure) and developing a small-scale Roguelike project. The project is codenamed "Krool" (pronounced "cruel", reflecting the atmosphere of the game) and will feature a less-than noble adventurer trying to escape hell, fighting various evil characters willing to get out themselves such as Bowser from Super Mario, Mortimer McMire from Commander Keen and Adolf Hitler from real life Wolfenstein 3D.
The making of a Roguelike
Since I want this to be a learning experience, I have decided to keep a blog(ish) document about my game development here. Perhaps someone will find this helpful. I have used UML for modeling and Java for the actual programming.
Friday, 2 October 2009
I have entered the active development stage of my game (the passive development stage took nearly five years). I have prepared some class diagrams and other drawings of the target situation - a prototype with the following five features:
- Run properly
- Open up in a JCurses window
- Print characters (symbols, not NPCs) and strings in the JCurses window, colours
- Key input reading
- Exit key closes the application
None of these should pose a particular challenge but I have little experience when it comes to key input reading, so that is likely to be the most educational part. I have never used JCurses before, but I'm pretty sure it won't be too hard, as JCurses has JavaDoc (unfortunately it's not perfect, but it'll help a lot nonetheless).