PokéRogue is a browser based Pokémon fangame heavily inspired by the roguelite genre. Battle endlessly while gathering stacking items, exploring many different biomes, fighting trainers, bosses, and more!

Contributing

🛠️ Development

If you have the motivation and experience with Typescript/Javascript (or are willing to learn) please feel free to fork the repository and make pull requests with contributions. If you don't know what to work on but want to help, reference the below To-Do section or the #feature-vote channel in the discord.

💻 Environment Setup

Prerequisites

• node: 20.13.1
• npm: how to install

Running Locally

1. Clone the repo and in the root directory run npm install
   • if you run into any errors, reach out in the #dev-corner channel in discord
2. Run npm run start:dev to locally run the project in localhost:8000

Linting

We're using ESLint as our common linter and formatter. It will run automatically during the pre-commit hook but if you would like to manually run it, use the npm run eslint script. To view the complete rules, check out the eslint.config.js file.

📚 Documentation

You can find the auto-generated documentation here. For information on enemy AI, check out the enemy-ai.md file. For detailed guidelines on documenting your code, refer to the comments.md file.

❔ FAQ

How do I test a new _______?

• In the src/overrides.ts file there are overrides for most values you'll need to change for testing

How do I retrieve the translations?

• The translations were moved to the dedicated translation repository and are now applied as a submodule in this project.
• The command to retrieve the translations is git submodule update --init --recursive. If you still struggle to get it working, please reach out to #dev-corner channel in Discord.

🪧 To Do

Check out Github Issues to see how can you help us!

📝 Credits

If this project contains assets you have produced and you do not see your name, please reach out, either here on GitHub or via Discord.

Thank you to all the wonderful people that have contributed to the PokéRogue project! You can find the credits here.