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Scoundrel
This is a terminal port of the rogue-lite card game Scoundrel. I got really into Balatro for a week and immediately started wanting to code a game. I stumbled upon a youtube video for a rogue-lite card game you can play with just a deck of cards and decided to port it to the terminal as a preliminary exercise before I begin to write a new game (which may never happen, I have 5 other pressing projects that take priority over game development).
Installation
You must have python installed on your machine...
- clone the repository
- cd into the repository and create a virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv - activate the virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate - install requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt - run the game
python3 main.py
Rules
1. INTRODUCTION:
Welcome to Scoundrel! The solo rogue-lite dungeon crawler card game! This is the unneccessary terminal port of the game by Dominic DiTaranto. If you enjoy this port, check out my website for other cool stuff https://www.domdit.com
Table Of Contents:
- INTRODUCTION
- CONTROLS
- RULES
2. CONTROLS
Arrow Keys - Select a Card
Enter Button - Engage with a Card
s - Skip a Room
b - Fight Barehanded
p - Pause/Unpause
h - See High Scores (from start menu)
u - Change User Name (from start menu)
Esc - Exit Game
? - Takes you to this help page.
3.a RULES - Setup and Rules
You are a dungeon explorer making your way through a series of rooms. A room is made up of 4 cards.
In each room you may encounter:
- Equippable Weapons (Diamond Suit Cards)
- Health Potions (Heart Suit Cards)
- Enemies (Spade and Club Suit Cards)
- Merchants (Joker Cards) [Not Yet Implemented]
Your goal is to traverse the rooms until the deck runs out of cards.
3.b RULES - Selecting a Card
When you enter a room, select a card by navigating to it with the arrow keys and pressing Enter.
If the card is a weapon, you equip that weapon. Each weapon does as much damage as its value. Picking up a weapon will automatically discard your currently equipped weapon.
If the card is a health potion, you will gain life equal to the value of the card. Your life may not exceed 20.
You can skip a room by pressing s, but you cannot skip two rooms in a row. the room that you skip gets moved to the bottom of the deck to be traversed through later.
3.c RULES - Combat
If you select an enemy, you enter the combat phase.
If you do not have a weapon equipped you will take damage to your life points equal to the value of the enemy card. This is called barehanded combat.
If you have an equipped weapon and the value of the weapon is greater than the enemy value You do not take any damage to your health. Your weapon becomes damaged and you can only attack enemies with a value lower than the previous enemy's value. This is the weapons damage rating.
If you attack an enemy with a weapon that has a value lower than the enemy's value, you take damage equal to the enemy value - the weapon value. Example: if your weapon is a 5 and the enemy is an 8, you will take 3 damage.
3.d RULES - Combat Continued
If you attack an enemy with a value higher than the weapon's damage rating, you take all of that damage as if it were barehanded. You will lose life equal to the value of the enemy.
You should only attack enemies with a weapon that has a damage rating above or equal to the enemy's value. There will be situations where you have no choice but to take the barehanded damage combat. This is part of the strategy element.
Your Weapon's damage rating is shown in the brackets next to the weapon.
When a room only has 1 card left, you move on to the next room. That card follows you into the next room
3.e RULES - Scoring
If you die, the remaining monster's values are subtracted from your score. The negative value is your score.
If you beat the whole dungeon, your score is your positive life points.
Future Updates
- Endless mode: reshuffle the deck and keep playing
- Jokers as Merchants: Add jokers back to the deck and have them either buff you or hurt you based on RNG.