A Clojure CLI version of Acromage from the Might and Magic series! I am using this project to wrap my head around functional programming, to learn Clojure, and to get some AI experience by programming enemies.
Acromage is a card based strategy game developed by 3DO (RIP) where your goal is to destroy the other player's tower, reach a certain amount of resources, or get a big enough tower. Each player has resources that allow them to use cards, namely bricks, gems, and beasts. Cards are the key to victory and allow you to do all sorts of things from getting more resources by strip mining, to reducing the enemy's resources through magic, to destroying the enemies tower and your own tower with a goblin mob.
There are 3 resources: bricks, gems, and beasts which are gained each turn based on your quarry, magic, and zoos, respectively. Each allow you to use different types of cards.
Each player has a tower and wall. The main goal is to destroy the other players tower which can only be done once the wall is destroyed (unless otherwise stated by a card).
Each player always has 5 cards in their hand.
The winning conditions are configurable, but are defaulted to destroying the enemy tower, getting your tower to 100, or getting a resource to 100.
CLIAcromage creates a terminal using lanterna to display the game state and get user input!
This project has several config files that allow you to change how the game behaves.
Currently all of the cards are defined in resources/Cards.csv and parsed with my own parser. You can load the CSV file into google sheets/excel and add or remove cards to your heart's content. For the most part, configurations are straight-forward:
name, description, discardable, and cost are all self-explanatory.
play-again is whether or not the card lets you play again.
type is the type of the card (i.e. what it costs). This is :gems :bricks or :beasts.
effects is a bit more flexible at the cost of complexity - it is allowed to have simple logic. Here is a discussion of effects.
At the beginning of the game, the user is prompted to put in what kind of game they wish to play. This is completely configurable and is done in resources/Games.csv.
Each game is defined with the following:
name is the name of the game
starting-tower is the amount of tower each player starts with
starting-wall is the amount of wall each player starts with
start-resource is the amount of bricks, gems, and beasts each player starts with
start-resource-gain is the amoutn of quarry, magic, and zoo each player starts with
max-resource is the amount of bricks, gems, or beasts required to win the game
max-tower is the amount of tower required to win the game
You can battle bots by running lein repl and calling evo/train-ai where it will run a small tournament for bots and tell you how the best bot behaves using a scoring system that you can then add into main and fight that bot yourself!