Backronym: Strategic Logic Operator for Games
Slog is a general purpose platform for embedding a player-created or player-selected strategy into an idle game. The player's avatar operates a virtual machine which controls it's actions via game-defined callbacks; its knowledge of the game environment is captured in a state vector.
The design of the VM is simple and asserts limits on strategies. The only data type is signed 16-bit integers (or vectors of them). Memory size is limited as determined by the embedding game.
Currently the game implmented for use with Slog (and it's raison d'etre) is Progress Quest Slog: Chinbreak Island, located, along with supporting documentation, at http://slog.progressquest.com/.
Supporting documentation, and indeed the game itself, are to be found at .
We use XP.css styling. You need to:
npm install xp.css
Strategies can develped and tested in the primitive web-based IDE, which will be somewhere like http://slog.progressquest.com/ide.html
Alternatively, there are command line tools:
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compile.js: Compiles Slog sources into strategies, and other byproducts
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vm.js: Assemble Slog assembly, and/or run strategies in games
Pass '--help' to these tools for usage information.
These, and all the code, are located at https://github.com/grumdrig/slog.
Supporting files, and tests, are generated with the build tool Loopy. Install
and run loo.py to generate everything needed.
https://github.com/grumdrig/loopy
Or run a few commands implied by what's listed in Loopfile.