teach-me-engineering

Lexicon Duel — Starter Project

Minimal but runnable Godot 4.3 scaffold for the capstone. Open project.godot in Godot and hit Play — you should see “Lexicon Duel scaffold loaded” with some debug output in the bottom panel.

What’s here

• scripts/ — autoloads (Global, Events, SFX, SceneTransition), base classes (Combatant, CardData, CardEffect, StatusEffect), DuelController
• scenes/Main.tscn — the starter scene (points at scripts/main.gd)
• data/ — where your CardData and EnemyData .tres resources live
• assets/ — audio and art
• CLAUDE.md — project context for Claude Code sessions (reads automatically)

What’s NOT here yet

Everything that makes it a game. The scaffold is scaffolding — the curriculum’s module exercises turn it into Lexicon Duel. Expect to:

1. Add a Hand scene (Module 2 exercise) — tap tiles to select
2. Wire WordValidator with ENABLE dictionary (Module 4 exercise)
3. Hook the DuelController to a real Main scene with Player + Enemy nodes
4. Add enemies via EnemyData resources (Module 5 exercise)
5. Polish pass (Module 6)
6. Export to phone (Module 7)
7. Add PixelLab-generated art (Module 8)

Running the project

# From this directory (after installing Godot 4.3)
godot --path . --headless  # runs once, prints output, exits

Or open project.godot in the Godot editor.

Exporting to Android

See learn-godot/module-07-mobile-export/lesson-01-android-setup.html. Once configured, the one-liner is:

godot --headless --export-debug "Android Debug" build/lexicon-duel-debug.apk

Or use the deploy.sh script from Module 7 Exercise 1.