Technical things

Modding

simpleRPG has no modding api or enigne at the moment, it is planned to change in future. has a modloader, and modding it IS REALLY EASY trust me...
You can check out official modrepo for reference on how to do stuff.
But be careful! modloader is in really early stage of development!

Files and Explanation

There are some files in this repository, here is list of them and explanation! (for main branch)

• battletest.py

  • The 'launcher' for this game,
  • It launches battle with 2 specified arguments in battle()
  • The first argument specifies player entity, and the second - enemy.

• lib/libbattle.py

  • Library for creating battles!
  • Depends on:
    • lib/libdraw.py
    • lib/libmagic.py
    • lib/libinput.py
    • lib/randomthings.py
    • assets/items.py
    • entitylogic/silvermonster (temporary)
  • How to create custom battle:
    • import libbattle using from lib.libbattle import *
    • import libentity, and other dependencies for entities
    • call battle(player, enemy)
    • The battle should being!

• lib/libdraw.py

  • Library for drawing things.
  • Functions:
    • drawBasicMenu(player, enemy, rounds) - draw basic battle menu
    • drawBattleMenu() - draw battle menu options
    • drawSpellMenu(player) - draw spell menu
    • bar(iteration, total, prefix, suffix) - draw bar, (value, max value, custom prefix, custom suffix

• lib/libentity.py

  • Entities

• lib/libinput.py

  • Functions:
    • getUserInput() - gets user input using Getch, and returns, q = 0, w = 1, e = 2, r = 4 and X or Z exits

• lib/libinventory.py

  • Deprecated, will be removed soon
  • Used to translate item ids into spell names, and mana costs ( check libmagic.py for classes )

• lib/libmagic.py

  • Contains all Spells!
  • Spell Types:
    • damage - deals value damage.
    • heal - heals value hp.
    • curse - makes posion-like effect, first hit deals (2*``value-5), and for next duration``` - 1 rounds, deals ```value``` damage per round.

• lib/randomthings.py

  • Random functions for random things.
  • Functions:
    • notImplemented( str ) ( from branch villagetest) - says that thing is not implemented and returns after 1 second
    • clearConsole() - clears console for unix and nt based operating systems
    • isStable() returns 'stable' or 'unstable', based in game() class
  • Has game() class that you can get version or other things of current build