pirate-wars

A pirate-themed roguelike, written in Go.

NOTE: This is a hobby project, a work in progress.

Overview

You are a pirate, sailing the seas.

Currently there are NPC ships (⏏) which have basic pathfinding capabilities. They travel from one town to another (a "trade route").

Towns are also generated throughout the map, with the red (⩎) characters.

You currently cannot interaction with the towns or ships.

Keybindings

Navigation

 q w e        y k u
 a   d  -or-  l   h
 z x c        b j n

(or arrow keys)

Commands

• ctrl-q: Quit
• m: Mini-map
• x: Examine something on the map
• i: View your info
• ?: Help screen

Developer Commands

• p: View heat-map for town 0 (debug purposes)

Features

• Move around in your boat
• Explore the map
• Visit towns (currently you cannot enter them)
• View mini-map of entire world, with towns listed (m)
• NPC boats with basic pathfinding AI
• View NPC ship details

Towns

• Towns don't spawn towns in small land-locked areas, however larger inaccessible can form with the terrain generation.

Todo

Towns

• Enter towns
• Make towns look better
• Buy/sell goods
• Found your own town? (Pirate hideaway?)

Travel

• Engage with NPCs
• Improved NPC AI
• Hire/Dig channels pathways?
• Land defenses/fortifications
• Don't allow overlap of ships (collision detection)
• Wind direction determines ease of travel (consume more food when going against wind)

Ships

• Fire from boat
• Upgrade
• Repair
• Buy/capture
• Name your ship(s)
• Maintain a fleet
• Appoint Captains?

Misc

• Lipgloss adaptive colors, for highlighting entities
• Bubbles loading spinner
• Bubbles help hints on bottom of screen