Story Teller.

Story teller is a game that I developed in a modular way in rust. While it is a rudimentary text based adventure game, the way we do things is through modules and in a top down tree structure in relation to defining rooms and conversations.

The only core rule here is that core/ can not depend on any other module and must be clean.

Getting Started:

• clone the project
• cargo build
• cargo run

Why?

I wanted to learn rust and I was also inspired by Halt and Catch Fire to create an old school text adventure game in a new language that was Similar to C which I have always been fascinated by and even attempted to learn. How ever managing my own memory - with out the prompts of rust - seemed harder to do and more complicated in C. Something a little higher then C.

Is there a Story?

Story teller is a collection of stories that all tell a story I have been writing called: The Child and The Poet. Each game in the collection will have its own story, for example here is the current iteration of the entry for Dark Harvest:

==== [Dark Harvest] ===

Introduction:

    Welcome to Dark Harvest. This is the first chapter in the story of: The Child and The Poet, a dark story
    revolving around love, loss and other worlds. While inspired by DND, Dark Harvest doesn't follow any rule books
    closely. Only as a reference.

Story:

You awaken in the middle of a field. Covered in blood, you have no idea how you got here. As you stand and adjust your eyes to the blinding sun, you feel your body for wounds, to find the source of the bleeding. No wounds present them selves.
The wind kicks up and a voice is heard, like a whisper moving through the shadows, "Who are you?"


Adventure Difficulty: Easy
Adventure Length:      Medium
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Modules

• core/ - Contains all the core logic of the game. Used across multiple modules.
• game/ - Contains all the core game logic from executing actions and moving around rooms.
• character/ - Contains all the logic for a character.
• adventure/ - Contains the modules of each adventure in this game.
• src/ - The actual game.

Actions in Game:

Actions are done through nouns. For example: walk north.

• Upper case and capitalization's are converted to lowercase.

Action	what you type	Accepted Arguments	Example
Look (when in an adventure)	look	N/A	> look
Movement (when in an adventure)	go/walk	n(orth), s(outh),e(ast),w(est), back	> walk north, > go s, >go back
Explore (when in an adventure)	explore	N/A	> explore
Talk (when in adventure)	converse, talk	N/A	> talk or > converse
Quit (at any time)	q, quit, exit	N/A	type: quit or q or exit
Accept (only in character creation)	accept	N/A	> accept
Re-roll (only in character stat creation)	re-roll	N/A	> re-roll
Help (when in an adventure)	help	N/A	> help

Current Adventures:

Currently the game contains one adventure: Dark Harvest.

Adventures:

All adventures in the game are made of a world object that then contains rooms in a top down fashion where the exits allow the player to branch off into different rooms.

What this looks like is:

   base room definition (Entry)
          |
         Exit
          |
        /   \
      Room  Room
       |     |
      Exit  Exit

         ...

Conversations are done the same way:

 Conversation
      | - Line the player sees
    Choices
    | - Responses for each choice
Conversation
    | - Line the player sees
    Choices
    | - Responses for each choice
    ...

Conversations can branch the same rooms do and much like rooms they are recursive from the top down. At any point a player can leave a conversation, how ever you cannot go backwards in conversations like you could (Depending on room definition) with rooms.