Herculeum 0.1 documentation

Intro

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Intro

Background

Herculeum is a dungeon adventuring game in a spirit of Rogue and Nethack. Player assumes the role of adventurer who has made perilous journey through jungles of Thynian and finally reached ruins of Herculeum. His tasks is to descent into deep caverns found underneath of the ruins and gather as much loot as possible before returning back to the surface. Rumours are that there is an ancient artifact hidden somewhere in the ruins and the adventurer wishes to posses it.

Installing the game

Dependencies

  • Python 2.6.1
  • PyGame 1.9.2
  • PGU 0.18
  • pyDoubles 1.4 (only needed for running test cases)
  • pyHamcrest 1.6 (only needed for running test cases)
  • Sphinx 1.1.2 (only needed for generating documentation)

Installing dependencies

Install python 2.7 from Python.

Install setuptools, by following instructions at: setuptools.

Rest of the dependencies can be automatically located and installed by following steps:

Install PyGame by typing:

easy_install -U pygame

Install PGU by typing:

easy_install -U pgu

If you want to be able to run test cases, install pyDoubles and pyHamcrest:

easy_install -U pydoubles
easy_install -U pyhamcrest

If you want to generate html manual and programmers guide, install Sphinx:

easy_install -U Sphinx

Last step is to extract installation package to suitable folder.

Running the game

Run game by double clicking pyherc.bat or pyherc.sh in installation folder.

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