Interactive Fiction Gaming Engine

A framework for Web based games in the spirit of MUD’s, Interactive Fiction, and Choose Your Own Adventure games.

PROGRESS

This is a glorified chatroom right now. See NOTES for a list of hopes and dreams.

DEPENDENCIES

See the go.mod for the GOLANG version used during development and any dependencies. The goal is to keep
dependencies to a minimum.

DEVELOPMENT

See the build and run sections to the get the game servers running. The Game Frontend is available in your browser
at localhost:8080 by default.

Visual Studio Code

A launch.json configuration is provided that will allow you to run the project with a debugger using the Start Debug (F5 shortcut by default) and Start without Debugging menu items.

CLI

From the project root:

go run .

BUILD

./bin/build.sh

The bin/build.sh script can take two arguments, operating system and architecture, for cross compiling. The binary will be named with the os and architecture.

Example:

./bin/build.sh windows 386
jake@devbox:~/iff$ ls bin/
build.sh  iff-game-server iff-game-server-windows-386

OR

Manually build the binary:

go build -o bin/iff-game-server .

RUN

./bin/iff-game-server

NOTES

Mission

• Web Server
  • Serves the client (Frontend) for the game
• Generic Game Client
  • Web-based
  • Text heavy (duh)
  • Controlled with text commands & links
  • Customizable GUI elements that map to commands
  • Web socket communication with Game Server
• Game Server
  • Authorative
  • Supports Single & Multiplayer Game Worlds
  • Persistence
  • Web socket communication with Game Client
• Web Based Authoring Tools for creating and extending the game
• Embedded scripting language for most (all?) game logic that can be hot loaded/reloaded during runtime