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DRG RPG

Create an RPG using WordPress. Functional but still a prototype.

by David Green · github.com/davidrgreen/drg-rpg

★ 3stars

Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/davidrgreen/drg-rpg/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/davidrgreen/drg-rpg ↗

DRG RPG (David R Green Role-Playing Game) allows you to easily setup a RPG using WordPress. Explore a world (fantasy, science fiction, or whatever you want), fight enemies, join guilds, earn achievements, and more.

Play the demo where there is a game world built around people and businesses in the WordPress community, both praising and teasing them. Read the wiki for info on personalizing the game through WP hooks, CSS, and a JavaScript hook and translation system I built into the plugin.

It began as (and still is) the testing/demonstrating of my PHP and JS skills to get a full-time job and stop freelancing. If you have any job openings for front or back end developers, please visit my personal site.

Warning: This plugin is still a prototype. Do not use it on a production website. At this point there will be breaking changing in between versions.

Contribution Guidelines

Feel free to fork the plugin, but I'm not accepting pull requests currently. I have a fairly concrete plan for the next few phases of this project and am wanting to do them myself. Once the plugin hits phase 6 then I will open it to pull requests. If you find a bug, however, please open an issue.

Phases of Development

  1. [DONE] Create the plugin with whatever base functionality can be done in 5 weeks.

  2. Refactoring and Quality Check

    • Probably move player data out of user meta into a custom database table.
    • Reevaluate class structure to reduce duplicate code.
    • Audit SQL queries and general performance improvements.
    • Eliminate screen flicker during combat on mobile by manipulating styles instead of overwriting document nodes.
    • Test browser compatibility.

  3. Continue adding features:

    • Player levels & ability to increase stats.
    • Settings page for changing character info.
    • Usable items.
    • Item crafting and modifying.
    • Pets
    • More types of skills( target multiple monsters, inflict negative status, boost stats, recover HP)
    • Battle types (boss, reinforcements entering mid-battle).
    • Monster abilities.
    • Create game patch system.
    • Ability to trigger fights via room object and a special award given at the end of the battle.

  4. Release version 1. Post optional jump start XML import files so game admins can modify a basic existing game's content instead of starting from scratch.

  5. Add player-to-player interactions such as giving items and player-vs-player combat.

  6. Begin accepting pull requests.