Castles & Wizards

Grade 11 Final Project

Table of Contents

• Castles & Wizards
  • About
    • Built With
  • Setup
    • Development
  • License

About

Castles and Wizards is a game engine that reads pre-made text files to create its enviroment. Chests, Conversations, Inventory, Maps, Character Traits are all saved this way. The game comes with a basic map editor to further develop this concept. Maps used in the game follow a ##.txt format (00.txt being the spawn) The default controls to move are WASD and SPACE as an action key to talk to shop keepers, open chests, talk to people and read signs. When creating a new character you must type in the Name of the new character and click new game, after which you can use radio buttons to pick the gender and then use the text fields to adjust player traits or skills (They must add up to 20) Health is used to boost your health (100+5p), Strength boosts the attack (20+2p), Observation is used to see hidden paths to get across the world quickly (p), and agility determens the chances of dodging an attack during a battle [(5+0.25p)/100], once this is done simply hit new Game again and the player will automaticly be taken to the game screen. To load a game simply type in the name of the character and hit load (not case sensitive) if the character can not be found the load button will revert back to its normal stanse until it is pressed again. Music is set on loop in the background (14 tracks). The games story line can only be discovered through talking to people. The more you talk to them the more the player will understand about what is going on if the player does not talk to anyone it is more than likely the player will never figure out how to the beat the game. The map does not record the players current position, it only shows the different areas, signs can be found around the world that will use the different names of the areas to help the player locate there current position. All dialog (Talking to people or reading signs) can be found in the top right box. But be aware, just like the player the character also has a bad memmory, if the game is restarted the dialog panel will be wiped clean. In the inventory screen the player can pick his characters weapons simply by clicking on the item in the items box and clicking the picture of were it can be equiped. When exploring the enviroment two areas can be walked on, first is the path, and second is off path were steps will be counted and after a random amount a battle will triger and a random eneamy will attack based on the players skill level. after defeting 3 main boss's the game will come to an end and credits will be displayed. Because of the complexity of the coding comments are not specific. They are only used to define what a block of code does. (Too many lines to explain everything) I hope you enjoy all of the work and time I have put into this, Have a great summer!

Built With

Setup

Development

Prerequisites

• Java SDK

Instructions

1. Compile source code: javac src/StartUp.java
2. Start the game: java src/StartUp

Map Editor

1. Compile source code: javac src/MapEditor.java
2. Start the game: java src/MapEditor

License

Copyright © 2023 Zakary Timson | All Rights Reserved

See the license for more information.