/age-of-empires

Simple console game

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Overview

  • We have a village having 1000 peasants.

  • Peasants can move left, right, up, down

  • Peasants can be promoted to:

    • Food gatherers (10pcs / 15 seconds)
    • Wood gatherers (8pcs / 15 seconds)
    • Gold gatherers (3pcs / 15 seconds)
    • Iron gatherers (5pcs / 15 seconds)

  • An X gatherer can switch to any of the other types (food, wood, gold, iron).

Demo

Game Demo

Features

  • 1000 peasants created on first run (with names assigned P1-P1000).
  • Move command for peasants (P1 move up/down/left/right).
  • Gather command to promote peasant into a gatherer (P1 gather food/wood/gold/iron).
  • Stats command to print:
    • Total number of active peasants.
    • Total active of every type of gatherer.
    • Total number of people that have moved (peasants move when commanded to, gatherers move once every 15 seconds).
  • Inventory command to print the available resources of the village.
  • Commands are case insensitive.
  • State is persisted in a JSON file and loaded upon game restart.

Note: The search button is decorative. Search is performed automatically during typing.

Installation

  1. Download and install the latest LTS version of Node.js.
  2. When finished run node ./main.js in the root directory to start the game.

Notes

  1. When a peasant get promoted to a gatherer, by typing i.e. P1 gather food, you can switch his specialty by typing G1 gather food. The "P" gets replaced by "G".