Dragon Forks

A long time ago, when I was young and wanted to learn how to code, I discovered a small PHP game, Dragon Knight by renderse7en. It was a little game inspired on a game I never played (Dragon Warrior for the NES), and it was a fun little text-based RPG game. It had a small community that created mods, variant of the game, etc. It wasn't open-source, but it helped a lot of us to learn.

He has since turned it to the open-source community under the MIT licence, and I decided to do a fork in order to try revive the engine ! It's a fun little side-project, so it might not evolve very fast, it'll depend of my motivation.

The aim of this fork is to :

• Make it work with PHP 8
• Make it more secure (modern database practice, better encryption of password, of cookies, etc)
• Use a more modern code structure
• Use more modern librairies to handle some functionnalities (templating for instance with twig)
• Implement the functionnalities of the most popular mods and of dragon-scourge

I'm inspired by other forks of dragon knight and scourge that tried the same things several years ago. I'm starting with knight, because it's a simpler engine to begin with and modernize.

System Requirements

• PHP (8.1 and higher)
• MySQL
• zlib compression enabled on your server (optional)

Installation Instructions

1. Clone this repo or download the zip.
2. Create a new database for Dragon Knight to use, if you don't already have one set up.
3. Edit config.php to include the correct values for your database setup.
4. Upload the contents of the Dragon Knight folder to your site.
5. In your browser, run install.php and follow the instructions.
6. After completing installation, delete install.php from your Dragon Knight directory for security.
7. Enjoy the game.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 renderse7en

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