goqui{,xote}

goqui (aka goquixote) is a small experiment I made for fun. Basically it's an engine to use Neo4J as the backend of your old school text adventure games.

In the folder examples/ you will find some games (just one for now TBH) that you can import to your Neo4J to test this code.

How does it look like?

This is a demo of goqui, I think that for now you should just move north :)
You see: nothing.
Your possible moves?:
- north

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But the most important bit, how does it look in Neo4J?

Use this under your own responsability, I just created it for fun and the code is ugly and untested. Probably you are not going to break anything serious, but I wouldn't run this using my production DBs. Also if you want to learn some Go or Neo4J you should pick some other project out there :)

Quick start

1. Run Neo4J with Docker's help:

    docker run -i -t -d --name neo4j --cap-add=SYS_RESOURCE -p 7474:7474 agonzalezro/neo4j
   

2. Go to your docker host, port 7474 and import one of the examples.

3. If you want to see how it looks:

    MATCH (n)
    OPTIONAL MATCH (n)-[r]-()
    RETURN n, r
   

4. Get goqui if you didn't yet:

    go get github.com/agonzalezro/goqui
   

5. Run the program against your Neo4J:

    goqui -neo4j http://neo4j:password@b2d:7474/db/data"
   

Playing

Sadly, the CLI is very dumb for now. The action that you can perform are:

• move direction
• pick object
• use object with object
• inventory
• talk
• describe

Please, remember that you need to write those commands as they are, don't forget the articles or prepositions!

Developing

I am using the Go 1.5 vendor experiment, so remember to set GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT to 1.

TODO

• Explain how to create new adventures.
• Lots of duplications everywhere.
• Implement a Go-interface to easily change the game-interface.
• Provide binaries.
• The CLI should be hundred time more clever.
• All the queries should be case insensitive
• Return the message of MOVE_WITH_CONDITION when you can not move, for example: "you need to open the door before moving".
• Tests? Yeah, this code was made just for fun but it should have some.
• End the game if it's the final room.