Kai Chronicles

November 2021: Kai Chronicles app is no longer published

Kai Chronicles is a game player for Lone Wolf game books. Only books 1 - 13 are playable. The game player can run as a website or Android app. You can play it at https://www.projectaon.org/staff/toni or download the app from Google Play.

This repository does not contain game books data. Data must be downloaded from the Project Aon web site. REMEMBER that game books data is under the Project Aon license, so:

• You cannot put this application on a public web server (only on your local machine, for your own use). The only place where this game can be published is on the Project Aon web site
• You cannot redistribute the game books data in any way

The Android older supported version is 5.1 (API 22). The web is tested with the latest version of Chrome and Firefox. Other browsers or/and older versions may don't work.

Setup

Compile Typescript

npm install
npm run ts    # This compiles for node.js, generates code in src/js
npm run build # This compiles for browser, generates code in www/js

Download the Project Aon game data:

npm run downloaddata

This will require Node.js (any recent version), zip command and the SVN client on your path

Setup web site

npm run serve

Open your browser on http://localhost:5000.

Setup Android app

Install Cordova 9.0 Android requeriments. Then:

npm run cordova-prepare
npm run cordova-build

This will generate a file src/platforms/android/build/outputs/apk/android-debug.apk with the Android app.

You can test the app with the emulator. Open it with Android Studio and then:

npm run cordova-run

Cordova is installed as NPM requirement, so any other command is available from node_modules. Example:

node_modules/cordova/bin/cordova plugin list

By default, this app will download the books from the Project Aon web. If you need to download the books from your private web server, you can change it in BookDownloadState.ts, method "downloadAsync".

Setup a Docker image

Optional method for running a local website only to play the game

• Download and install Docker and make sure it's is in your PATH environment variable
• Using a terminal (Linux or iOS) or PowerShell (Windows 10) navigate to the project's directory
• Type docker build -t kai:1.0 .
• Type docker run -p 8080:8080 kai:1.0
• Open http://localhost:8080

More information about this method here

Developing

Game rules for each book are located at www/data. "mechanics-X" are the game rules for the book X. "objects.xml" are the game objects

There is (unfished) documentation for rules, object formats and save game file format.

The game rules implementation are at src/ts/controller/mechanics and www/controller/mechanics.

If you add "?debug=true" to the game URL, some debug tools will appear. You also can use the browser Developer Tools to prepare the Action Chart to test individual sections. For example, in the console you can execute things like:

kai.actionChartController.pick('axe')
kai.actionChartController.increaseMoney(-10)

There are some scripts for development:

npm run downloaddata [booknumber] # Download books data from the Project Aon. Specify "booknumber" to download a single book
npm run lint          # Runs tslint over the Typescript code
npm run prepareversion [ -- [--debug] [KEYSTOREPASSWORD] ] # Prepare a version to upload on "dist" dir.
npm run cleandist     # Delete the "dist" dir
npm run ts            # Compile Typescript code for execution with node.js
npm run build         # Compile and pack Typescript code for execution with browser
npm run cleants       # Remove all code generated by the Typescript compiler
npm run reviewchanges BOOKNUMBER LANGUAGE # Compare the currently publised app book version with the latest version on the PAON SVN
npm run test          # Run tests

"npm run prepareversion" will generate a version to upload to the Google Play and the Project Aon website on the "dist" directory. Then "KEYSTOREPASSWORD" is the password for the keystore. If it's not specified, an unsigned .apk will be generated. I suspect it's not a good idea to publish keystores on github. Option "--debug" will generate a debuggable version

"npm run reviewchanges" is useful to check book changes from the last app publised version. It requires commands iconv, dwdiff, and less on your path.

A "guide" to develop new books can be found at doc/README-developing.md

Tests

Tests are run with Selenium Web Driver and Jest. Currently tests will run only with Chrome, and Selenium will need a "browser driver". See https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/en/webdriver/driver_requirements for installation instructions. Tests are located at src/ts/tests. Be sure Typescript for node.js is compiled before running tests:

npm run ts
npm run test

License

MIT. This application uses the following third-party code / resources:

• The HTML rendering, books XML processing and Project Aon license HTML contains code taken from Lone Wolf Adventures, by Liquid State Limited
• The Lone Wolf logo and splashes are taken directly, or adapted, from the Spanish Project Aon
• Button icons are create by Delapouite, Lorc and Willdabeast, and distributed from http://game-icons.net/ (CC License)
• Bootstrap (MIT)
• Toastr (MIT)
• FileSaver.js (MIT)
• jQuery (jQuery license)
• Apache Cordova (Apache license)
• xml.js, code taken from http://syssgx.github.io/xml.js/ (CC License)
• cordova-plugin-zip (License)
• cordova-plugin-zeep (Apache License 2.0)
• cordova-filechooser (Apache License 2.0)
• cordova-plugin-copytodownload (MIT)
• cordova-plugin-document-contract (MIT)

Thanks to LSI for letting us use its Google Play account for this app.