Welcome to the documentation for Curse of the Blind (CotB)!
Curse of the Blind is a project started in 2018 by Preston Bridgers. The project began as an idea for an old-school style ASCII game. However, the project is now being pivoted to development as an ASCII game engine.
- A linux machine or virtual machine
Dependencies (install these first using your package manager of choice):
- libncurses-dev
Note
Package names may change depending on the distribution of linux you are running. Currently nCurses, the only dependency, is extremely common and widely used. The above package name is taken from Debian/Ubuntu/Mint repositories.
The project can be cloned from its gitlab page using the following command:
git clone https://www.gitlab.com/prestonbridgers/curse-of-the-blind/
The following is the boilerplate /src/main.c file that comes with the project :ref:`download <dl>`.
#include "cotb.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ncurses.h>
void event_handle(GAME *g, char input);
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
// vars
GAME *game;
// Verifying arguments have been passed
if (argc < 2)
{
printf("Usage:\n\t./curse {./map/path}\n");
exit(1);
}
// Initializing CotB
game = cotb_init(argv[1]);
// GAME LOOP
char in;
do
{
map_show(game->map_win);
in = getch();
/*
* This function is also in the
* /src/main.c file, but has been
* excluded from this example
* because it is too long.
*/
event_handle(game, in);
if (game->plr->hp <= 0)
game->is_running = 0;
} while (game->is_running);
// Cleanup
map_destroy(game->map_win);
endwin();
return 0;
}After modifying the source code however you like, compile and run the game by running the run.sh script located at /src/run.sh
./run.sh name_of_map.txt
This section will be updated with frequently asked questions from both users and developers. See the :any:`support` section below for issues not in this section.
For support of any kind, contact me at:
Developers feel free to clone the repo and submit a pull request with changes and additions. Please update the documentation to reflect any proposed changes. No coding style guidelines are in place as of now.
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2020 Preston C. Bridgers
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