The Legend of the Green Dragon

Legend of the Green Dragon is a text-based RPG originally developed by Eric Stevens and JT Traub as a remake of and homage to the classic BBS Door game, Legend of the Red Dragon, by Seth Able Robinson. You can play it at numerous sites, including http://www.lotgd.net/.

After checking out the developer forums at http://dragonprime.net, it seemed that development had stalled, and specifically, any movement toward more modern technologies and decoupling the game from its web UI was non-existent.

This package aims to offer a modern implementation of the original game ideas. It incorporates elements from Daenerys originally authored by AustenMC and Basilius Sauter, but reduces the very ambigious scope for now.

Requirements

• PHP 8.4 or later
• composer and symfony binaries available
• yarn or npm available
• MariaDB or MySQL with user and database already existing

Installation

First, make a new directory clone this repository into it:

mkdir lotgd2
cd lotgd2
git clone https://github.com/lotgd/lotgd.git .

Then, either create a local environment file with the basic configuration, or add the environment variables to the virtual environment:

touch .env.local
php -r "print 'APP_SECRET=' . bin2hex(random_bytes(26)) . \"\n\";" >> .env.local
echo APP_ENV=dev >> .env.local

Then, we need to configure the database connection. Adjust the URL to your needs. We recommend to use MariaDB - compatibility with other database types is not guaranteed right now.

echo DATABASE_URL="mysql://{username}:{password}@127.0.0.1:3306/{lotgd}?serverVersion=10.6.18-MariaDB&charset=utf8mb4" >> .env.local

Then, install the dependencies with composer and yarn (or npm) and build the javascript files:

composer install
yarn install
yarn run build

While developing, you can also run yarn run watch to directly compile the changes.

Finally, we initialize the database by running all migrations and loading the fixtures:

php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate first --quiet --no-interaction
php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate --quiet --no-interaction
php bin/console doctrine:fixtures:load --quiet --no-interaction

Finally, you can run a test server with:

symfony server:start

And access the webserver on localhost:8000.

Either build