Model and Conquer

A domain architecture to model text-based adventure games inspired by the classic "Zork" game.

Features

• Create text-based adventure/ dungeon crawler games using a domain-specific language
• Game elements
  • Areas (Rooms with connections, entities, items)
  • Connections (🚪🔒 Doors, passages)
  • Entities (👤 Player, 🧌 monsters, 🏺 destroyable objects)
  • Items (📿 Collectible objects, ⚔️ weapons, 🔑 keys)
  • Effects (❤️💀Health, 🛡️ Stats, ✨🧌 Summon, 🏁 End Game) (at least most of the time)

Technologies:

• Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)
• Encore (metamodel and model definition)
• Xtend (Transformation language)
• Java (Runtime, Platform)

Meta Model

Static Semantics

• Game must have an end game effect
• Each area must have at least one connection
• Each name must not contain a preposition like "with" or "on"
• OnSpawnEffect must not be a SpawnEffect (recursion is bad)

How to run the project

Pre-requisites

• Install Eclipse Modeling Framework
• Install Xtend Plugin
• Clone repository
• Import project into Eclipse

Create a new model

• Open the ModelAndConquer.editor project in Eclipse
• Run the project as an Eclipse Application
• Create a new .modelandconquer model using the provided editor

Generate the game

• Right-click on the root game element in the model editor
• Select Start Generator

Run the game

• Copy the generated source code located in src-gen to ModelAndConquer.editor/src/models/generated
• Run the game by executing the main method in ModelAndConquer.editor/src/models/_static/Game.java