Footprint Game

Python based Pokémon Footprint game! This game is based on the Sentry Duty guild job present in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time and Darkness games. However, this is extended up to Generation VIII (8). This project has no affiliation with Nintendo or the Pokémon Company; Pokémon and Pokémon character names are trademarks of Nintendo, and Pokémon sprites within are Copyright (c) The Pokémon Company.

Requirements

Requirement	Version
Python	≥ 3.7.16
setuptools	≥ 65.6.3
pygame	≥ 2.1.2
requests	≥ 2.28.2
Cython (optional)	≥ 0.29.33

Installation

This is developed in Python 3.9.16, though theoretically it can work with any version of Python greater than 3.7, given there are no clashes for the dependencies. For this reason I recommend using a virtual environment, for instance through conda, to install this and avoid dependency clashing. However, if dependencies (see Requirements) are already met, this can be skipped.

• To begin, create a conda environment - conda create -n myenv python=3.9 replacing 'myenv' with the desired name of the environment. Clone or fork this repository, and cd to the location of the directory. Note, if Cython is not installed on the system, a working C compiler such as gcc must be installed. Simply use conda install Cython if this causes issues.
• From this directory, activate the environment created with conda activate myenv
• Run python setup.py build_ext --inplace install. This uses the setup.py and requirements.txt file to pip install the (missing) requirements and compile the Cython / C code to an importable Python module. A log file is printed to catch errors if necessary.

Usage

Launch the game through python src/game.py.

Acknowledgements

Developer

KierranFalloon 💻

This is me! I use this project to learn and develop skills while making something fun - if you would like to support the project, see Contributing.

Below is a list of sources from which I acquired some assets for the game.

Asset	Location
Gen. I-V footprint sprites	Veekun
Gen. VI - VIII footprint sprites	Wolf Pokecommunity member
Pokémon names Pokémon sprites	PokeAPI (© The Pokémon Company)