botany

by Jake Funke - jifunks@gmail.com - tilde.town/~curiouser - http://jakefunke.online/

A command line, realtime, community plant buddy.

You've been given a seed that will grow into a beautiful plant. Check in and water your plant every 24h to keep it growing. 5 days without water = death. Your plant depends on you to live!

(work in progress)

getting started

botany is designed for unix-based systems. Clone into a local directory using $ git clone https://github.com/jifunks/botany.git.

Run with $ python botany.py.

Note - botany.py must initially be run by the user who cloned/unzipped botany.py - this initalizes the shared data file permissions.

Water your seed to get started. You can come and go as you please and your plant continues to grow.

Make sure to come back and water every 24 hours or your plant won't grow.

If your plant goes 5 days without water, it will die!

features

• Curses-based menu system, optimized for 80x24 terminal
• ASCII art display of plant
• Persistent aging system that allows your plant to grow even when app is closed
• SQLite Community Garden of other users' plants (for shared unix servers)
• Data file is created in the user's home (~) directory, along with a JSON file that can be used in other apps.

{
"description":"common singing blue seed-bearing poppy",
"file_name":"/Users/jakefunke/.botany/jakefunke_plant.dat",
"age":"0d:2h:3m:16s",
"score":1730,
"owner":"jakefunke",
"is_dead":false,
"last_watered":1489113197
}

testing features

• ASCII art only shows first few stages of growth - more coming soon!

to-dos

• Finish garden feature
• Allows you to water neighbor's plants
• Harvest plant at end of life (gather seeds)
• Create harvest file with a log of all previous plants
• Plant pollination - cross-breed with neighbor plants to unlock second-gen plants
• Share seeds with other users
• Global events
• Server API to have rain storms, heat waves, insects
• Name your plant
• Reward for keeping plant alive
  • Hybridization, multiple generations, lineage tracking

requirements

• Unix-based OS (Mac, Linux)
• Python 2.x
• Recommended: 80x24 minimum terminal, fixed-width font

credits

• thank you tilde.town for inspiration!
• Thank you @etkirsch for this gist - python curses can be nightmarish!