https://github.com/daelsepara/blood-sword-redux
A working in progress SDL implementation of the revised Blood Sword gamebook (2014)
https://github.com/daelsepara/blood-sword-redux
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A working in progress SDL implementation of the revised Blood Sword gamebook (2014)
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/daelsepara/blood-sword-redux
- Owner: daelsepara
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2022-07-18T15:13:56.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-02-17T06:57:00.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-17T07:33:11.364Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: blood-sword, blood-sword-gamebooks, gamebook, gamebook-series, gamebooks, sdl2
- Language: C++
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- Size: 3.55 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Blood Sword Redux
[](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0)
An SDL implementation of the revised Blood Sword gamebook (2014)
# Planned Features
- Moddable/Configurable (**IN PROGRESS**)
- New texture rendering and animation engine (**DONE**)
- Keyboard friendly with mouse and gamepad support (**DONE**)
- Fully digitized gameplay (**IN PROGRESS**)
- Quality of life improvements to record keeping (**IN PROGRESS**)
- Load / Save game at any point (**TO DO**)
- Sound (**TO DO**)
- Multiplatform Linux/Windows/OSX (**PARTIAL**)
## What happened to the previous attempt?
There has been a previous [attempt](https://www.github.com/daelsepara/blood-sword) to implement Blood Sword. Unfortunately, several technical roadblocks were encountered. Due to poor early design decisions, further features can only be implemented at great difficulty and increased code entropy.
With a view to making the game highly configurable as well as to ease the integration of the other books in the series, it has been decided to scrap the current effort and work towards a "better" engine from the ground up. Hopefully, severe breaking changes will be minimal as more books are integrated.
Futhermore, because of the improved system in the revised edition of the gamebook, to continue working with the old engine meant that inherent bugs from the early editions may be carried over into the code base.
## Will it still be completed?
After the implementation of the first book is completed in the new engine, it is certainly possible to revisit the previous attempt. Improvements from the new engine can then be incorporated, creating a kind of **classic** edition of the game.
## Progress and Pace
A slower, more methodical pace is being adopted to bring the new engine to fruition. This allows for more opportunities to do unit tests in the core systems. As expected, due to numerous real lifetm and third world concerns among the software engineers involved in the project, progress in this endeavour takes a lower priority.
## Tests
**Scroll**
**Character Stats**
**Pathfinding**
**Battle Order**
**Battle/Combat**
## Fight/Shoot
## Deal fight/shot damage
## Combat Spells (Call to Mind/Cast) **IN PROGRESS**
# Copyright Information
```
Originally published 1987 by Knight Books
This Edition published 2014 by Fabled Lands Publishing
an imprint of Fabled Lands LLP
[FLP logo]
www.sparkfurnace.com
Text copyright (c) 1987, 2014 Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson
Maps and illustrations copyright (c) 1987, 2014 Russ Nicholson
Cover art by Sébastien Brunet with thanks to Mikaël Louys
Thanks to Tim Savin for playtesting and rules suggestions and to
Matt Hill for logo and cover design
The rights of Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson to be identified as
the authors of this work have been asserted by them in
accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN-13: 978-1-909905-16-0
ISBN-10: 1-909905-16-X
```
**NOTE: This computer game implementation is not official nor is it endorsed by the gamebook's creators**
# Bugs
Feel free to report any bugs, issues, and/or suggestions. Thanks!
# Other Gamebooks implemented with SDL
- [Blood Sword (Classic)](https://www.github.com/daelsepara/blood-sword)
- [Necklace of Skulls](https://www.github.com/daelsepara/sdl-skulls)
- [Heart of Ice](https://www.github.com/daelsepara/sdl-heart)
- [Down Among the Dead Men](https://www.github.com/daelsepara/sdl-dead)
- [Green Blood](https://www.github.com/daelsepara/sdl-green)
- [Once Upon a Time in Arabia](https://www.github.com/daelsepara/sdl-arabia)
- [The Coils of Hate](https://www.github.com/daelsepara/sdl-coils)
- [Legendary Kingdoms: Valley of Bones](https://www.github.com/daelsepara/legendary-kingdoms)