openHyperspace is a single-player, multi-user dungeon-like (or MUD-like).
- Platform Neutral. The game use .NET 10 to deliver a text-forward experience through a desktop app.
- .NET 10+ Based. The dotnet is prebundled with is required to build and/or run the app. A precompiled version is in the /terminalHyperspace/bin/Release/net10.0
- Avalonia UI Uses the Avalonia UI framework, which is licensed under the MIT License Framework. See AvaloniaUI.net for details
- Conflict resolution using D6 + pip pools, i.e. 1D, 1D+1, 1D+2, 2D, etc.
- Attribute and Skill systems, including Skill checks based on select locations or talk with NPCs, themed and flavored.
- Inventory including consumables, items, and armors.
- Combat and Non-Combat Encounters in land and space
- Locations with random encounter tables and percentile odds of encounter
- Vendors for both equipment and vehicles, with the ability to sell at a percentile of the original value based on Persuade Skill
- Save and Load system using TXT files stored as .SAV extension
- Vehicles including land and space vehicles
- Hyperspace Jump to systems, using a numerical menu, sorted by Territory and Sector
- Mission and Journal System These are longer than combat encounters and skill checks, involving moving to another location (or "room" in MUD terminology). There are four flavors for now: delivery, sabotage, recon, and escort missions. As these are longer missions, there are higher credits on completion.
- Map Automapper keeps track of Locations you've visited and connected Locations you've explored. Other sites on each planet are available in a "Disconnected Rooms" list below the automapper -- along with up or down vertical locations for entering orbit from docking bays or enter underworld locations. The map uses a canvas overlay instead of ASCII art. It's easier to read this way.
- Command Panel In addition to entering text commands, users can now use the command panel to enter Commands to the parser. You can quickly view all commands from a scrollable, stacked list.
- Expand introductory desert world. Lot of sand everywhere while it's under construction. Use a model for additional worlds.
- Theming. Many defaults
It's inspired by the West End Games d6 system and the world's most popular Space Fantasy movie series, using the Hyperspace d6 rules created by Matthew Click. This is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International game due to these reasons, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ for full details. This is strictly non-commercial in use and for educational purposes to learn a new programming language.
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