mush

What is mush?

mush is a software implementation of the Musha Shugyo tabletop game by Luca De Marini, providing tools to stress-test the combat system in the game, effective AIs that play the game, and a command-line interface to play the game in interactive mode.

Musha Shugyo is a game in Italian also available in English. The website however is in Italian: www.acchiappasogni.org/msrpg

The mush interactive interface is entirely in English.

Who develops mush?

mush is being developed by me, Dario Domizioli. Credit for the design of the game system goes to Luca De Marini.

What are the requirements of mush?

Operating System

• Linux or MacOSX

Technically, I think any UNIX-like system is suitable as an operating system in which to build mush. However, I have only tested Linux (Ubuntu and SuSE) and MacOSX 10.

Compiler

• GCC 4.8 (or later), or Clang 3.4 (or later)
• A C++ standard library that supports the C++11 standard

The build system will prefer Clang if both compilers are available. If none is found, it will use whatever is defined in $CC, $CXX and $LD, however these might not be compatible with the Clang or GCC flags.

Tools

• GNU Make 3.81 or later
• Python 2.7
• [optional] Git
• [optional] Doxygen 1.8.x or later, for generating documentation

I think Python 3.x should be OK too, but I have not tested it.

... and that's it.

How to compile and build the suite of tools

First of all get a clone of mush through either Git or a tarfile.

Then, make everything will build all projects and will create a product subdirectory containing a release of the final product.

Note that the build runs a "stress test" of the Musha Shugyo system and AIs, and the stress test may take a long time on slow computers.

Um... can you tell me what to do step by step?

When cloning from Git:

cd a_path_with_NO_spaces_in_it
git clone https://github.com/hhexo/mush.git mush
cd mush
make everything

When getting a tar or zip file:

# Extract the archive file into a directory with NO spaces in it
cd where_you_have_extracted_it
make everything

Known issues

Since I have had several reports of this... Be aware that currently the build system for mush does not allow you to have spaces in the path leading to the directory you have extracted mush in.

This is a limitation of any UNIX Make tool (including GNU Make) since the tool was born. It's a design choice that Make separates variables and items by white space: if you have spaces in your path Make will consider it as multiple paths.

I am trying to find a workaround but technically the issue cannot be fixed within this build system. For now, just put mush in a path containing no spaces.