This will be a Go Implementation of the famous type of RPG, called: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Quest

See it in action here:

This will be an API which can be consumed by any client in a number of ways.

This is a very basic, semi interactive CLI front-end for this project:

GoProgressQuest Front-End

curl -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name":"awesome"}' http://localhost:8989/api/1/create
curl -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name":"awesome"}' http://localhost:8989/api/1/start

This will start adventuring for character awesome. Multiple characters can be sent adventuring. But after a while the log will be unreadable. Later, I might create a web front-end for this project which will be able to track multiple characters at once.

And once you think your character adventured enough, simply call stop.

curl -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name":"awesome"}' http://localhost:8989/api/1/stop

GoProgressQuest uses mongodb for it's back-end storage. The storage medium is interfaced, so any kind of database can be plugged in and used if you implement these three functions:

// Storage defines a storage medium. It could be anything that implements this interface.
type Storage interface {
	Save(Character) error
	Load(string) (Character, error)
	Update(Character) error
}

/api/1/*

The following end-points are available:

/

Currently returns:

{
    "message":"Welcome!"
}

# Character names don't have to be unique
/create

POST:
{
    "name":"MyAwesomeCharacterName"
}

Return:

{
    "name":"MyAwesomeCharacterName"
}

# Load a character by ID since names are not unique at the moment
/load/{ID}
/load/3da541559918a808c2402bba5012f6c60b27661c

Return:

{
    "Inventory":{"Items":[]},"Name":"MyAwesomeCharacterName","Stats":{"Str":0,"Agi":0,"In":0,"Per":0,"Chr":0,"Lck":0},"ID":"3da541559918a808c2402bba5012f6c60b27661c","Gold":0
}

# Start adventuring
/start

POST:
{
    "name":"MyAwesomeCharacterName"
}

Return:

{
    "message":"Started adventuring for character: MyAwesomeCharacterName"
}

# Stop adventuring
/stop

POST:
{
    "name":"MyAwesomeCharacterName"
}

Return:

{
    "message":"Stopped adventuring for character: MyAwesomeCharacterName"
}

go build

Currently the project is simple enough so that no Makefile is needed for this process.

This project uses Glide as its package handler. Please add vendor and glide.lock to your ignore files. The project should always work with the latest versions.