The Oregon Trail

This is a relative remake of the 1990s version of The Oregon Trail by MECC rewritten in Java with a terminal based UI. This was made for a Computer Science project at Bridgewater State University. I got bored and recreated an actual game.

Dependencies

• Google's lanterna library - used for the terminal based UI
• Google's GSON library - used for save serialization / deserialization

Platform Support

• Any platform that supports JDK 23 and Windowing

Prerequisites

• OpenJDK 23 or any other Java fork that has support for language level 23
  • Download OpenJDK
  • Verify installation:

    java -version
• Apache Maven
  • Download Maven
  • Verify installation:

    mvn -version

Building the project

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/hlpdev/OregonTrail.git
cd OregonTrail

Compile and package:

mvn clean compile assembly:single

The output JAR will be in target/

ls target/

Running the application

java -jar TheOregonTrail.jar

Dependency Management

Maven will automatically resolve dependencies, but if needed:

mvn dependency:resolve