Pokémon Battle System

I thought I'd build a silly project.

I want to replicate a turn based monster fighting system, the back and forth, type based advantage, status effects, etc.

I'll probably go with gen 1 - 3, since that's what I played, and I'm not trying to accuratley simulate anything.

THIS IS A FUNNY PROJECT. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!

Requirements

I need static pokemon data like base stats species id etc, move list, and a learn set per pokemon.

I'm still debating having static pokemon data in csv files, or in a sqlite db along with user instance data?

But I also need user instance pokemon data, which ones are in the party, what level, what moves, status effects, etc. Also need user data for a bag/inventory system eventually.

sqlite might be the easiest solution, idk if it's the best but it works.

For the actual battles, I want to implement strategy pattern in C, but I'm not sure how yet. Probably higher order functions and function pointers, oi. I'm still learning the nitty-gritty of C, so we'll see how this evolves.

• Python scripts to fetch pokemon data
• Stash Pokemon data into sqlite
• C sqlite setup?
  • C db object setup
  • (need to think about creating everything in C?)
  • How to query in C sqlite?
  • How to insert, update (upsert possible?) in C sqlite?
• C sqlite library
• Load Pokedex
• Check for and load user save
  • If not save, prompt user to make one
  • Party selection menu
• ?What about Enemy and Their party?
• Strategy pattern in C, for the battle system
• C unit testing

Lol, slight detore accured. It took my like a week or 2 to scrap the pokeapi, create schemas and relationships that make sense for a simple cli app. Nothing fancy, and just the basics for a gen 1 pokemon battle.

No held items, no abilities, no stage advantages, none of that later gen stuff.

I then had to learn the BASICS of the C lanugage to do anything semi-productive, like query the pokedex from sqlite, and stash that into a struct list.

Data

Using https://pokeapi.co and python to fetch and transform data from json to sqlite. Still in progress.

OpenAPI Schema file on github: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PokeAPI/pokeapi/master/openapi.yml

Gotchas

1. Add -lsqlite3 to CC, to link sqlite3 library. Otherwise it won't compile.
2. Poke API data has so much damn data, it took me a week to write scripts to fetch the data and etl it into a sqlite db ... I'm tired bouss ...